Census worker tried to make his suicide look like murder, police say

As we'd previously mentioned, police now believe that Bill Sparkman, a census worker found bound, naked and dead in a Kentucky forest, actually committed suicide. (Only now, they're saying it on the record.) Sparkman had the word "FED" scrawled on his chest, leading some to believe that he'd been killed out of anti-government hatred. But authorities say that he'd talked with an unnamed person about suicide, and he'd taken out two life-insurance policies, which wouldn't pay out if he killed himself.

Comments

[Cousin Eddie]

Did it ever say if his hands were bound in front or back?

[Jellybean]

What does the FBI have to say about it?

[KC Cicero]

given the circumstances, I might want a second, non-locl opinion on this one.

[AG]

It was the State Police, not the local police.

In my mind the most telling thing is that "FED" was written on his chest upside down, like it would be if he was looking down at it when he was writing it. Either a simple mistake on his part, or really, really clever of someone else.