TPM: New details on the Sparkman Murder, and none of them necessarily good...

1) Sparkman, a part-time Census Worker found dead on September 12th may not have been hanged, as his body was in partial contact with the ground.

2) Sparkman was apparently warned by a retired Trooper not to do his work in some parts of rural Kentucky.

"I said, you're going into rural Kentucky, isolated areas. Be careful over there -- people may not understand that you're there to gather statistics."

Sparkman's death, to me, is still looking like a homicide, but an Anti-Federal Hate Crime motive is still way up in the air.