{"id":191077,"date":"2009-09-26T19:04:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-27T00:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/09\/26\/this-was-no-boat-accident\/"},"modified":"2009-09-26T19:04:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-27T00:04:00","slug":"this-was-no-boat-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/09\/26\/this-was-no-boat-accident\/","title":{"rendered":"This was no Boat Accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, we have an update on the death of Bill Sparkman, the US Census worker who was found dead at a cemetery in Daniel Boone National Forest.<\/p>\n<p>He was naked except for his socks, gagged, and bound hand and foot with duct tape, and had the word &#8220;Fed&#8221; written on his chest in pen, but authorities are, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.courier-journal.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=2009909250366\">Still trying to determine if Sparkman died of foul play<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Seriously, I understand how they might not know the motive, it could be a paranoid meth lab operator, or perhaps something to Glenn Beck&#8217;s 912 whack job anti-government paranoia, but when a man is found  naked except for his socks, gagged, and bound hand and foot with duct tape, it&#8217;s foul play.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img443.imageshack.us\/img443\/5437\/regrepubxo6.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" width=\"300\" \/>This is not some friend and confidant of Jerry Fallwell being found in his closet in wearing two rubber SCUBA suits, rubber underwear, diving gloves and slippers, &#8220;numerous straps and cords&#8221; restraining him, a leather belt, and <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">a dildo in the anus covered with a condom<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>This is a man who was clearly killed by someone else.  Of course it&#8217;s foul play, and given the area, there is a non-zero possibility that the drug trade, particularly meth, might have something to do with this.<\/p>\n<p>The question is who did this, and why, not whether there was foul play involved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, we have an update on the death of Bill Sparkman, the US Census worker who was found dead at a cemetery in Daniel Boone National Forest. He was naked except for his socks, gagged, and bound hand and foot with duct tape, and had the word &#8220;Fed&#8221; written on his chest in pen, but &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1052,1009],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crimes","category-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191077"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191077\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}