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Friday, Sep. 25 2009 @ 9:17PM
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Bill Sparkman was a Boy Scount director and substitute teacher
​UPDATE: See Bill Sparkman's Death Ruled a Suicide...

Though police are releasing few details on the case of a Census worker found hanged in the Daniel Boone National Forest, the man who found him had plenty to say today. Jerry Weaver of Fairfield, Ohio was in Big Creek, Kentucky for a family reunion when he went to a cemetery to visit the graves of relatives. That's when he discovered Bill Sparkman's body.

Weaver says the 51-year-old substitute teacher and Boy Scouts director -- who worked part-time for the Census -- was hanged naked, gagged, with his feet bound by duct tape. "The only thing he had on was a pair of socks," Weaver told the AP. "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.

"And they even had duct tape around his neck. And 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..."


Strangely enough, Kentucky state police still haven't ruled the politically charged case a homicide. They've said Sparkman died from asphyxiation, but little else. And though rumors spread that the word "feds" was carved in his chest, it now appears to have been written in marker or pen.

Many have speculated -- including True Crime Report -- that Sparkman was killed by some deranged conservative sent hellbound by media and political propaganda against the government. True/Slant's Rick Ungar even wrote a piece titled "Send the body to Glenn Beck."

But locals are pointing to Clay County's drug trade, noting that Sparkman may have stumbled upon pot growers during harvest season, or been killed by meth traffickers.

Despite what police think, Weaver knows Sparkman's death wasn't a suicide. "He was murdered. There's no doubt... I thought he could have been killed somewhere else and brought there and hanged up for display, or they actually could have killed him right there. It was a bad, bad scene."

Also see "Angry Goobers: Census Worker Bill Sparkman Found Hanged in Clay County, Kentucky."

"Comment of the Day: You'd Be Amazed by What People Think of Census Workers."

"Bill Sparkman, Michelle Bachman, Glenn Beck and the Anti-Census Propaganda Campaign."