On September 26, 2009, we selected the murderer of a Census Taker for the "Dock of Shame" -
"A part-time Census Bureau field worker was found hanged in Kentucky 12 Sep 2009 with the word "fed" scrawled across his chest, according to a law enforcement source. Bill Sparkman, 51, was found at the Daniel Boone National Forest in rural southeast Kentucky."
[http://tsgsblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/river-debris-tsgs-dock-of-shame.html]
Recently, his death has been reported as a suicide that was perpetrated as a murder to ensure that the insurance proceeds would be paid.
According to a news report by Ian Urbina for The New York Times (24 Nov 2009):
"The Kentucky census worker found hanging from a tree with the word 'fed' scrawled on his chest staged his death to look like a homicide so that his son could collect his life insurance, the authorities said Tuesday. 'We believe this was an intentional act,' said Trooper Don Trosper, a Kentucky State Police spokesman. 'We believe the aim was to take his own life.' ”
It, now, appears that it is not a "murderer" of a Census Taker that is "river debris" that deserves to be in the TSGS Dock of Shame, but, rather, the Census Taker himself... Bill Sparkman.
- Compiled by JGWest
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