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Witness: Census worker's hanging body naked, bound
Associated Press ^ | Sept. 25, 2009 | ROGER ALFORD and JEFFREY McMURRAY

Posted on 09/25/2009 5:23:09 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY

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To: BunnySlippers

Rural areas are actually best for a meth lab. A while back I read a story about a realtor finding the remains of a meth lab in a house she was selling. Apparently empty homes are ideal for one time use meth labs.


21 posted on 09/25/2009 5:38:35 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Seniors, the new shovel ready project under socialized medicine.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

They never did take kindly to “Revenuers” in the KY & TN hills.


22 posted on 09/25/2009 5:39:03 PM PDT by lightman (Adjutorium nostrum (+) in nomine Domini.)
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To: BunnySlippers

Gosh....how tragic. :(


23 posted on 09/25/2009 5:39:11 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (“They're drinking the juice.” ~ Barack H. Obama)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

I would guess that folks down there thought he was snooping for reasons other than the census.

Drugs are grown in that forest from what I have heard.

Whenever drugs are involved unspeakable crimes happen.


24 posted on 09/25/2009 5:39:42 PM PDT by dforest (Who is the real Jim Thompson? I am.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

I’m guessing he stumbled on a meth lab and “saw to much” or on a Mexican drug / illegal alien smuggling gang hideout, who then decided to make an example out of a lone unarmed “gringo” federale, Mexican style.


25 posted on 09/25/2009 5:40:40 PM PDT by apillar
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To: BunnySlippers

I don’t think so. I think they tied him up and suffocated him with a plastic bag. then hung the corpse as a message.


26 posted on 09/25/2009 5:41:00 PM PDT by mamelukesabre (Si Vis Pacem Para Bellum (If you want peace prepare for war))
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To: Clintonfatigued

The police said yesterday that they hadn’t ruled out suicide. If all this was true, they would have ruled it out?


27 posted on 09/25/2009 5:41:28 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear

It was very sad. I still hope for justice.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/06/08/oklahoma.girls.mystery/index.html


28 posted on 09/25/2009 5:41:53 PM PDT by BunnySlippers (I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
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To: omega4179
Sounds like an erotic scene gone wrong like Carradine.

Not if the hands and feet were bound, it's not. Also, the person who found him said his census ID was taped to his shoulder.

29 posted on 09/25/2009 5:41:58 PM PDT by sometime lurker
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To: Boogieman
How long do you think it will take the media to try and pin this on “right wing extremist antigovernment teabaggers”?

They have already pinned this on "anti-government" types as they also throw in "too early to know for sure". There have been several articles.

30 posted on 09/25/2009 5:42:26 PM PDT by Dianna
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To: mamelukesabre

That’s interesting. But how do you draw from that that it is not drug related?

Thanks.


31 posted on 09/25/2009 5:43:01 PM PDT by BunnySlippers (I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
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To: yarddog

I don’t believe for a second this was done by an organized group of drug producers. They would know the wrath of God would be poured out on them over this. This was done by an individual (or 2 at most). Most likely a serial murderer type. Organized drug producers would have made the guy just disappear. The last thing they want is federal law enforcement snooping around. This was done by somebody who wanted the body to be found. Not in some attempt to scare others away, but simply to make themselves feel powerful by making the “ants” (normal people) scurry around looking for an answer. In the mean time, look for the media to use this as to attack conservatives.


32 posted on 09/25/2009 5:43:12 PM PDT by TruthBeforeAll (Fear is used by evil people to empower themselves when they have no other talents.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
... worker found hanging in a rural Kentucky cemetery was naked, gagged and had his hands and feet bound with duct tape ... Rudzinsky said investigators hadn't yet determined whether the death was a homicide, suicide or accidental.

Are they being obtuse, or are there so many laws and rules now on what we can say and how we can say it that the only safe thing to say is the stupidest possible thing?

Anyway, I doubt this is drug related ... if there was a pot farm or meth lab in the area the last thing they would want is for cops to be swarming the place.

33 posted on 09/25/2009 5:43:45 PM PDT by spodefly (This is my tag line. There are many like it, but this one is mine.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

It a very bizarre crime.


35 posted on 09/25/2009 5:44:42 PM PDT by GeronL (Are you one of those "individual responsibility" people?)
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To: BunnySlippers

I don’t.

I only meant this was NOT a plain old lynching. They weren’t attempting a vigilante style justice. They were attempting scare tactics and thuggery. They made a sign out of his corpse. Plain and simple.

there will be more of this kind of thing.


36 posted on 09/25/2009 5:46:01 PM PDT by mamelukesabre (Si Vis Pacem Para Bellum (If you want peace prepare for war))
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Now the revenue man wanted Grandaddy bad
He headed up the holler with everything he had
It's before my time but I've been told
He never came back from Copperhead Road

~snip~

I learned a thing or two from ol’ Charlie don’t you know
You better stay away from Copperhead Road

Copperhead Road (Steve Earle)

37 posted on 09/25/2009 5:48:17 PM PDT by GBA
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To: TruthBeforeAll

I think you give these drug dealers way too much credit for intelligence. I remember quite a few years ago a bunch of teenagers happened on a group of drug smugglers near Panama City, FL.

The smartest thing they could have done was just scare them off and get out of the area. Instead they murdered them all and eventually got caught. It did take a long time tho.


38 posted on 09/25/2009 5:48:38 PM PDT by yarddog
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To: BunnySlippers

Apparently there are a lot of drug operations in the area.
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So?...When I hear the term “drug operations”, what do I think of first? Liberal? or Conservative?


39 posted on 09/25/2009 5:50:10 PM PDT by wintertime (People are not stupid! Good ideas win!)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

I wonder if he stumbled across a still or a meth lab. Mountain people don’t like “revenoors” anyway, and it’s a pretty broad classification.


40 posted on 09/25/2009 5:52:49 PM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER (THE SECOND AMENDMENT, A MATTER OF FACT, NOT A MATTER OF OPINION)
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