{"id":5972,"date":"2009-11-06T06:00:16","date_gmt":"2009-11-06T11:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5972"},"modified":"2009-11-05T19:24:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-06T00:24:00","slug":"the-instant-verdict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5972","title":{"rendered":"The Instant Verdict"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember six weeks ago, when the regional leftyblogosphere <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5464\">tried and convicted Rep. Michele Bachmann for the death of Census worker Bill Sparkman<\/a>, due to her views on overweening government?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5466\">Not so fast<\/a>, some of us said; law enforcement hadn&#8217;t even had a chance to look at the case.<\/p>\n<p>And now that they have&#8230;?<\/p>\n<p>(Echo echo <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20091105\/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe\/us_census_worker_hanged\">echo echo echo<\/a>)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Two officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the case, said no final conclusions have been made in the case. In recent weeks, however, investigators have grown more skeptical that 51-year-old Bill Sparkman died at the hands of someone angry at the federal government.<\/p>\n<p>The officials said investigators continue to look closely at suicide as a possible cause of Sparkman&#8217;s death for a number of reasons. There were no defensive wounds on Sparkman&#8217;s body, and while his hands were bound with duct-tape, they were still somewhat mobile, suggesting he could have manipulated the rope, the officials said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, Matt Hoffman?\u00a0 Dusty Trice?\u00a0 Got anything to tell us?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember six weeks ago, when the regional leftyblogosphere tried and convicted Rep. Michele Bachmann for the death of Census worker Bill Sparkman, due to her views on overweening government? Not so fast, some of us said; law enforcement hadn&#8217;t even had a chance to look at the case. And now that they have&#8230;? (Echo echo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-slander-files"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5972"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5976,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5972\/revisions\/5976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}