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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

BIG CREEK, Ky. (AP) - A part-time census worker found hanging in a rural Kentucky cemetery was naked, gagged and had his hands and feet bound with duct tape, said an Ohio man who discovered the body two weeks ago.

Jerry Weaver of Fairfield, Ohio, told The Associated Press on Friday that he was among a group of relatives who discovered the body of 51-year-old Bill Sparkman on Sept. 12.

"The only thing he had on was a pair of socks," Weaver said. "And they had duct-taped his hands, his wrists. He had duct tape over his eyes, and they gagged him with a red rag or something.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Kentucky
KEYWORDS: billsparkman; census; hanging; naked
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To: Free ThinkerNY

This incident could very well have nothing to do wuth the fact the victim was a census taker. Maybe he was a government informant (against druggies, thugs, terrorists, what have you), and the fact he had “fed” scrawled on his body could refer to that association.


41 posted on 09/25/2009 5:52:58 PM PDT by ought-six ( Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Weaver said the body was about 50 years from a 2003 Chevrolet ...

^^^
Sloppy writing.


42 posted on 09/25/2009 5:53:05 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Palin/Hunter 2012)
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To: mamelukesabre

Point taken.


43 posted on 09/25/2009 5:53:37 PM PDT by BunnySlippers (I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
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To: nickcarraway

The fact that he was blindfolded and had his hands tied behind his back makes suicide very unlikely.


45 posted on 09/25/2009 5:54:06 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued (Liberal sacred cows make great hamburger)
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To: BunnySlippers
It's a BIG problem in rural areas--and a dangerous one. Here in southern Oregon, there have been a report of a lot of meth labs over the last 10 yars or so.

Of Fortunately, once they made the sale of Sudafed and the other cold and flu drugs that have the stuff meth heads want in them, the problem has gotten a little better. Except now the drug cartels are growing pot in the National Forests that abound here and in northen California.

Goes to show that the back-woods can have some pretty scary predators in them--and they aren't the four-legged variety.

46 posted on 09/25/2009 5:55:35 PM PDT by milagro
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Is this the first we’ve heard about the duct tape over his hands and feet and eyes? I didn’t pick up those details before.


47 posted on 09/25/2009 5:56:06 PM PDT by uncitizen
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To: yarddog

Perhaps he came upon a meth lab, and drug dealers thought he was a narcotics detective just pretending to be a census taker... Scary stuff. Some people are just evil.


49 posted on 09/25/2009 5:56:47 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Palin/Hunter 2012)
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To: GBA

I always liked that song. When I was a kid, my parents had a cabin in the ozarks in the middle of the woods. It was on a hill. the locals called the hill “copperhead hill”. The locals acted like the characters in that song.


50 posted on 09/25/2009 5:57:39 PM PDT by mamelukesabre (Si Vis Pacem Para Bellum (If you want peace prepare for war))
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To: Clintonfatigued

I’m questioning if that’s true. Why would the police have announce they hadn’t ruled out suicide if it was.


51 posted on 09/25/2009 5:57:44 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: omega4179

Duct tape Fetish?


52 posted on 09/25/2009 5:57:57 PM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom ;))
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To: Free ThinkerNY
What was the victim doinng in rural Clay County, kentucky. Was that part of his census beat?

It seeems that itmust have been because he had his Census ID on?

I am puzzled about the motive for this murder.Did the victim stumble onto something , and overreach for information, under color of being a census worker?

Or was it a purely random killing involving the victim stumbling on a scene of illegal activity?

We will have to stay tuned.

53 posted on 09/25/2009 5:58:29 PM PDT by Candor7 (The effective weapons against Fascism are ridicule, derision, and truth (Member NRA)
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To: Morgana

You sure it was rednecks?


54 posted on 09/25/2009 5:58:44 PM PDT by mamelukesabre (Si Vis Pacem Para Bellum (If you want peace prepare for war))
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To: nickcarraway

The police said yesterday that they hadn’t ruled out suicide.

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How do you duct tape your own hands and then hang yourself? What am I missing here? Also, the ID taped to the neck does not seem to fit with suicide.


55 posted on 09/25/2009 6:00:07 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Palin/Hunter 2012)
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To: SWAMPSNIPER
Agent Provacateurs? (Did I spell that right?)

I.e., could it be like those cases when someone claims "hate crime" when they were the ones who scrawled the nasty words themselves?

Or, some Marxist trying to make those who are concerned about the direction of government look bad.

It's something quite evil, nevertheless.

Wait, are we allowed to call something evil anymore?

56 posted on 09/25/2009 6:00:10 PM PDT by elk
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Rudzinsky said investigators hadn't yet determined whether the death was a homicide, suicide or accidental.

They really said that?

57 posted on 09/25/2009 6:00:19 PM PDT by Glenn (Free Venezuela!)
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To: Morgana

Why assume it was a ‘redneck?’

It was someone who didn’t like census takers. That’s why “fed” was on him and his census id was taped on him.


58 posted on 09/25/2009 6:01:52 PM PDT by Marie2 (The second mouse gets the cheese.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

How long until Rush Limbaugh or Glen Beck is blamed?


59 posted on 09/25/2009 6:02:23 PM PDT by FightThePower! (Fight the powers that be!)
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To: Bigg Red

Maybe those facts aren’t true.


60 posted on 09/25/2009 6:03:00 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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