Police: Ky. census worker had told of suicide plan

[The Northerner]

Source: Associated Press

FRANKFORT, Ky. – Police who investigated the death of an eastern Kentucky census worker found naked, bound and hanging from a tree learned that he told a friend he intended to kill himself and that he had chosen the time, place and method to do it.

Police records about the death of Bill Sparkman were released Friday to The Associated Press.

Sparkman was found near a rural cemetery in September with the word "fed" scrawled on his chest. It triggered a state and federal investigation that ultimately found he had committed suicide.

The records show that Sparkman's friend, Lowell Adams, who had worked for Sparkman as a part-time security guard since 2007, told investigators that the dead federal employee wanted his suicide to look like a murder.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100115/ap_on_re_us/us_census_worker_hanged

[timeforpeace]

1. Couldn't they have said that before everyone went off on loony conspiracy theories and looked like

idiots?

[toopers]

3. Loony conspiracy theorists will always look like idiots . . .

it goes hand in hand.

[CBGLuthier]

9. Yes, just see below, they still can't let it go

I know that part of the world very well. I have probably 250 to 500 relatives within 20 miles of that county and my mother was born there. I have spent a lot of time near there.

it was pretty obvious it was a suicide. Some of the people there think they are clever and can pull off a con.

A lot of them are very clever. They have to be to just make ends meet as it is a very poor part of this country. Of course the elite DU will dismiss them as rednecks and such but there are some fiercely intelligent folk in those hills and hollers.

[hlthe2b]

2. Has the son accepted this version of events?

:shrug:

[JackInGreen]

4. I'm sorry,

it took so long for this to come out, after so many questions, I have a VERY hard time accepting any story that comes out of the "good old boys club" of the local Ky police.

[TheWraith]

6. Bingo. The local police have been pushing suicide since day one.

Aggressively avoiding any possibility that he was murdered. Sorry, but this doesn't wash.

[unabelladonna]

8. i cannot believe anyone

wo uld choose such a humiliating way to commit suicide.

[DumpDavisHogg]

5. I still don't believe it

This was a murder. Unfortunately, the truth may never come out, thanks to the media's stonewalling.

[mistertrickster]

7. He staged it so that it would LOOK like a murder. Yeah, that makes sense.

Except that it doesn't.

On edit: The police come out with this brilliant observation--

He was touching the ground almost to his knees. To survive, "all Mr. Sparkman had to do at any time was stand up," Capt. Lisa Rudzinksi of the Kentucky State Police said.

Really? So he was hanging there choking, and he passed out. But his limp legs pushing against the ground did not provide enough force to allow him to breathe. Really?

Also, it's probably mere coincidence that a suicide ruling means that nobody has to dig into the violent hate groups that might have done it, if they even exist in Kentucky, and the police have no comment on that. :sarcasm:

[CBGLuthier]

10. What doesn't make sense about it? He wanted to collect insurance.

He was still under the typical two year exclusion for suicide. Actually no, there aren't really that much in the way of hate groups down there. Perhaps you are thinking of Michigan?

[daleo]

11. It still seems fishy

Why would a guy go to all this trouble to defraud insurance, yet blab every detail of the plan to his pal?