The word "fed" was scrawled across his chest?
The slain Census worker, William E. Sparkman Jr., was a 51-year-old single father who once battled Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma. Sparkman, from London, Kentucky, worked two jobs while supporting his family. The part-time Census field worker and teacher was found Sept. 12 in a remote patch of the Daniel Boone National Forest in rural southeast Kentucky.
Sparkman’s mother says the following about why he was hung:“I have my own ideas, but I can’t say them out loud. Not at this point. Right now, what I’m doing, I’m just waiting on the FBI to come to some conclusion.”
The Census suspended door-to-door interviews in the rural area while investigators tried to determine whether the death was a killing or a suicide, and if a killing, whether the motive was anti-government sentiment.
"My immediate curiosity is whether this had something to do with a moonshine or drug operation," said Robert Stacy McCain in The Other McCain, "rather than 'anti-government sentiment.'" Drug dealers don't like to have people snooping around -- and that's what Census workers do. So wait before you swallow "any kind of politicized Let's-Blame-Glenn-Beck speculation." {more}
A colleague of a Census worker found hanged in Kentucky describes him as an "innocent person" who saw only good in the world.
A man who knew Sparkman from working at a local school said he'd warned him to be careful making his Census rounds. As he put it, "sometimes people can view someone with any government agency as 'the government."' He says he worried that Sparkman might meet up with "the wrong character along the way." {more}
Census Worker's Death: The Next Generation of Lynching?
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