2009-09-23 Census Worker Hanged

2009-09-23 \Devlin Barrett\Jeffrey McMurray Huffington Post \US census\violence\anti-government http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/23/census-worker-hanged-with_n_297114.html Census Worker Hanged: Bill Sparkman Found With "Fed" On Body Census Worker Hanged  Original source may be the Associated Press, although they do not seem to be credited. The FBI is investigating the hanging death of a U.S. Census worker near a Kentucky cemetery, and a law enforcement official told The Associated Press the word 'fed' was scrawled on the dead man's chest.

The body of Bill Sparkman, a 51-year-old part-time Census field worker and occasional teacher, was found Sept. 12 in a remote patch of the Daniel Boone National Forest in rural southeast Kentucky. The Census has suspended door-to-door interviews in rural Clay County, where the body was found, pending the outcome of the investigation.

Investigators are still trying to determine whether the death was a killing or a suicide, and if a killing, whether the motive was related to his government job or to anti-government sentiment. More:
 * 2009-09-24 Feds probe US Census worker hanging in Kentucky (same authors, credited as "Associated Press writers")
 * commentary: En Tequila Es Verdad (short)

&ldquo;The FBI is investigating the hanging death of a U.S. Census worker near a Kentucky cemetery, and a law enforcement official told The Associated Press the word 'fed' was scrawled on the dead man's chest.&rdquo;   