LOS ANGELES (YBH.ME) Bill Sparkman, 51 at the time of his suicide, was fresh from a battle with lymphoma and working two jobs, as an after care worker at a middle school, and as a census worker in an economically hard hit part of Kentucky. In September, his nude body was found hanged from a tree in a rural cemetery, his truck parked near by and the word “Fed” written in red marker on his chest.
Census Worker Achieved Mid Life Degree
The manner of his death was meant to suggest murder, it is supposed so as to allow his son to collect on two life insurance policies he held. The policies prohibited payout in the case of suicide. At the time, bloggers and mass media alike were titillated into speculation about anti-government sentiment in the heartland. As Kentucky Police Captain Lisa Rudzinksi noted in other interviews, “If there had been no writing on his chest and his identification hadn’t been taped to him, [we] could have concluded more quickly that [the] death was a suicide.”
New information released today by law enforcement stated that a credible force told them Sparkman had discussed suicide plans just prior to his death. The most telling detail dispelling the murder theory was the police conclusion that the words on Sparkman’s chest were written from the bottom up – indicating he wrote on himself. Meth kitchens and marijuana fields abound in the area, also leading at first to suspicions of a drug-related killing.
When his body was discovered in September, Sparkman’s mother Hennie stated that her son’s death “was a mystery to her.” That mystery is now solved.
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