I was wrong

A while back I wrote that the grisly finding of a dead, duct taped census worker was suspicious and had the earmarks of right wing domestic terrorism. If the Kentucky State Police are right - then my suspicions were misplaced. According to them, it was a suicide disguised as a hate crime.

I actually have no problem admitting I was wrong about this (well, OK I guess it's a little uncomfortable). But if someone like me is going to scream about being "fact based" then I certainly have to be opened minded enough to see when an assumption is wrong. This seems to be the case here!

Police: Ky. census worker staged death as homicide

By BRUCE SCHREINER and ROGER ALFORD (AP) – 12 hours ago

FRANKFORT, Ky. — On the surface it all seemed like a gruesome hate crime in a rural part of Kentucky with a history of disdain for the government: a census worker found bound with duct tape and hanging from a tree, the word "fed" scrawled across his chest.

But investigators noticed the foot-tall letters scrawled in black felt-tip pen looked like they could have been written by the victim himself, and they soon found out that he believed he had cancer, had two insurance policies worth $600,000, and had an adult son in need of money.

Investigators said Tuesday what they had been hinting at for weeks, that Bill Sparkman's hanging was a ruse to mask his suicide for a big insurance payout.