Census worker hanged with 'fed' on body

[Xiahou]

Well, it looks like we can put this one to rest. It was suicide.

He apparently arranged the scene to look like a murder because his family wouldn't be eligible for life insurance if he killed himself.

Authorities said Sparkman alone manipulated the scene to conceal a suicide. Police said he had talked with others about ending his life, though authorities did not say specifically who in a news release.

Sparkman had recently taken out two life insurance policies that would not pay out for suicide, authorities said. If Sparkman had been killed on the job, his family also would have been be eligible for up to $10,000 in death gratuity payments from the government.