just curious

http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/1001/p02s13-usju.html

Why police are keeping quiet on Census worker Sparkman death
Just because Census worker Bill Sparkman was found hanging from a tree with the word 'fed' written on his chest doesn't mean he was murdered in an antigovernment act. Sparkman died in an insular county of moonshiners and pot-growers, and police are wary of taking a wrong step...

But the peculiarities of the case appear to be making it difficult for police to find a quick answer to the riddle of Sparkman's death.

Most obviously, Kentucky police may still be unearthing clues. But it is also possible that they are taking a page straight out of a Henning Mankell police procedural: letting the mystery loosen lips in tight-knit and secretive Clay County, an old moonshiner's haunt and a prime pot-growing area currently in the midst of harvest season...



http://www.mccrearyrecord.com/statenews/local_story_275132557.html

Published: October 02, 2009 01:25 pm print this story

Suspicious fax in Sparkman case sent to FBI

Police still haven’t ruled census worker’s death as homicide
By SAMANTHA SWINDLER and ADAM SULFRIDGE
TIMES TRIBUNE (CORBIN, Ky.)

CORBIN, Ky. " The Times-Tribune received a suspicious fax Friday night, which staff immediately turned over to the FBI. The fax came with the “RE” headline of “I Did It” and referenced the death investigation of Bill Sparkman, a census worker whose body was found hanged in Clay County on Sept. 12.

“I must state the truth,” the fax read, “Bill Sparkman personally didn’t have any enemies, but the Federal government certainly does. So it’s unfortunate that he was representing them when he was out in Clay County. The only good thing to come of this is that the Fed’s (sic) have stopped the census being taken, for now at least.”

The FBI agent handling the Sparkman case said the fax appears to have been sent from an e-mail account. It was signed “Me, Too” but also contained a name that the Times-Tribune has been unable to verify. It was also unclear from where the fax had been sent.

“Having reviewed the contents, we’re not taking it as a serious admission,” the agent said. “...There’s no way to immediately validate the source, and there’s nothing necessarily in it that you couldn’t get from the news.”
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“Detectives are working on it daily, it’s still under investigation, and it’s still classified as a death investigation,” Trosper said on Tuesday. “It’s kind of a strange case due to the fact that we cannot rule out anything... usually in an investigation, you can rule out things... and that gives you the opportunity to focus your investigation. With this one, it’s a little perplexing because you can’t rule out one of the three types of death that we’re looking at” " suicide, accidental death or homicide.
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