Witness Says Census Worker Bound, Naked When Discovered
September 25, 2009 by national
Filed under Incident Reports
Bill Sparkman, the Kentucky school teacher, part-time U.S. Census worker, found hanged with the word, Fed scrawled across his chest, was naked with both his hands and feet bound with duct tape when discovered in the Daniel Boone National Forest two weeks ago, according to witnesses.
According to this Ap news video, the man who discovered the body,Jerry Weaver has no doubt Sparkman was murdered.
“The only thing he had on was a pair of socks,” Weaver said. “And they had duct taped his hands, his wrists. He had duct tape over his eyes, and they gagged him with a red rag or something.”
In a report at The Courier-Journal, Weaver said “they even had duct tape around his neck.”they had like his identification tag on his neck,”. “They had it duct-taped to the side of his neck, on the right side, almost on his right shoulder.”
The The Courier-Journal’s report has several additional details.
Census Worker Found Hanged With “fed” Scrawled On Chest
September 23, 2009 by Homeland Security NTARC News
Filed under Incident Reports
This is a very disturbing story. Last week WKYT reported that there was concern and worry when Bill Sparkman didn’t show up for his after school work assignment at Johnson Elementary School. (Questions surround Laurel County man’s death.) The 51 year old Sparkman’s body was later found more than 30 miles away.
At the time of the report, police did not say how Sparkman died or even what kind of injuries he had.
Today, the AP is reporting that the FBI is investigating the hanging death of a U.S. Census worker near a Kentucky cemetery, and a law enforcement official is reported to have said the word ‘fed” was found scrawled on the dead man’s chest. The man identified in the story is Bill Sparkman.
The Census has suspended door-to-door interviews in rural Clay County, where the body was found, pending the outcome of the investigation.
This is a very disturbing story.
