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Census Worker Hanged, With “Fed” Scrawled On His Chest

by @ 6:51 am on September 24, 2009. Filed under In The News

There’s no evidence that it’s true, but this certainly seems like something committed by a person with an anti-government bone to pick:

WASHINGTON — 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.

Investigators have said little about the case. The law enforcement official, who was not authorized to discuss the case and requested anonymity, said Wednesday the man was found hanging from a tree and the word “fed” was written on the dead man’s chest. The official did not say what type of instrument was used to write the word.

Like I said, no reason to jump to conclusions yet, but if it turns out that this was the work of some nut whose spent a lot of time reading World Net Daily and listening to Alex Jones, I wouldn’t be shocked at all.

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One Response to “Census Worker Hanged, With “Fed” Scrawled On His Chest”

  1. Katharine says:

    My parents are federal employees. One of them has worked for the Census Bureau for 30 years. I am a full-time university student, so I depend on them for a lot still.

    This is chilling.

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