KY Police: Speculation About Sparkman Death Has Hampered Probe (Murdered Census Worker)

[mod mom]

KY Police: Speculation About Sparkman Death Has Hampered Probe
Zachary Roth | October 28, 2009, 10:00AM

Are investigators edging away from the idea that Census Bureau worker Bill Sparkman was killed in an act of anti-government violence?

Kentucky police have been largely silent for weeks now on the probe of Sparkman's case, in which the part-time Census worker was found dead in a rural area of the state, blindfolded and gagged, with a rope around his neck and the word "Fed" written on his naked chest.

But yesterday, the local captain said the investigation was making progress, and would likely wrap up in weeks, not months. "We're much closer than we were," Lisa Rudzinski told the Courier-Journal. "I think we are toward the end."

But Rudzinski also said that speculation that Sparkman may have been killed in an act of anti-government violence had "hampered the case," as the paper put it. "The speculation that has occurred ... with no concrete basis has been a detriment to the investigation," she said.

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http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/10/ky_police_speculation_about_sparkman_death_has_ham.php

WTF KY STATE POLICE INVESTIGATING? I THOUGHT FEDS WERE SINCE MR SPARKMAN WAS WORKING AS A CENSUS WORKER. I WOULD THINK IT LIKELY THAT STATE/LOCAL AUTHORITES WOULD WANT TO PAINT THIS AS SOMETHING OTHER THAN ANTI GOVERNMENT VIOLENCE. I WAS JUST THINKING WHY HASN'T THIS BEEN SOLVED? HOW MANY PEOPLE COULD HAVE POSSIBLY BEEN IN THE COUNTY?

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. Shades of Mississippi burning

And you are right, the Feds should be involved.

[tmyers09]

2. "No concrete basis"?

THE WORD FED WAS WRITTEN ON HIS FUCKING CHEST, I THINK THAT'S ENOUGH BASIS.

[mod mom]

3. and he wasn't just murdered & robbed but left in a grotesque manner making

a statement.

[Barack_America]

4. It was written in ink and not concrete.

Now, if the murderers had poured a sidewalk in front of his body and scrawled 'FED' in that, perhaps the KY State Police would have been convinced.

:eyes:

This shit is crazy. In better news, I believe Mr. Sparkman was finally laid to rest this Monday. I am glad that his friends and family, who seemed so devoted to him, have had their chance to say 'goodbye'.

[Junkdrawer]

5. Can't wait for the finding of suicide or auto-erotic asphyxiation...

:sarcasm:

A politically inconvenient murder.