Census worker's son: Disrespectful to be still throwing suicide and accident around

[gatorboy]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/29/census-workers-son-im-sur_n_303081.html

LONDON, Ky. — The son of a U.S. Census Bureau worker found hanging from a tree in eastern Kentucky with the word "fed" scrawled on his chest said Tuesday he has no doubt his father was slain.

Josh Sparkman told The Associated Press in a phone interview that he is frustrated investigators have not ruled out suicide or accidental death.

"I look at it as disrespectful to be still throwing suicide and accident around," he said. "He didn't do this to himself. That's dishonorable. My dad was a good man. No person on this planet is going to fight cancer like he did, then turn around and kill himself a year or so later."

Bill Sparkman, 51, was a substitute teacher and part-time census worker whose body was found tied to a tree with a rope around his neck in a remote Appalachian forest earlier this month. The Clay County coroner said "fed" was written on his chest, apparently in felt tip pen.

An Ohio man who found the body while visiting a cemetery said Sparkman had been gagged and his hands and feet were bound with duct tape. Authorities have refused to say if he was going door-to-door for census surveys before he died.

[ShortnFiery]

1. This needs to go viral. It's beyond time to ring this bell - it's an OUTRAGE.

The local police and FBI are covering something up?

This "investigation" is full of holes.

What's truly going on here?!?

[Myrina]

2. ... how can you possibly duct tape your own hands together?

I mean, really. Suicide? Accident? C'mon. :eyes:

[Echo In Light]

3. Rec ... and, POLANSKI!!!

[ashling]

4. They are seriously still talking suicide?

If so they had better be going after the guy(s) that just happened to find him dead and then duct taped him up.

[lillypaddle]

5. K&R

Keep this in the news. My thoughts are with his family, and with him ... what a horrible and fucked up death -- and wasted. For what????

[sabrina 1]

6. If the authorities have still not decided that this was a murder

someone else needs to take over the case.

I hope the family has a lawyer by now.

The family at least deserves what his son is asking for. Stop calling it a suicide, that is ridiculous at this point.

[gatorboy]

7. Exactly.

They've had his body for over two weeks now and have yet to decide whether murder was involved. Something's not right.

[malaise]

8. K & R

Justice for Bill Sparkman

[troubledamerican]

9. James Byrd. Matthew Shepard. Bill Sparkman. Bush/Cheney's America.