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Investigators are attempting to determine if census worker 51 year old Bill Sparkman committed suicide but altered the scene so it would appear as a homicide, allowing his son, 20 year old Josh Sparkman, to collect on his life insurance policy, but Josh Sparkman says, items, apparently stolen from his father's car, have him convinced his father was slain. Bill Sparkman's body was discovered in the Daniel Boone National Forest in the Arnett's Fork area of Clay County on September 12th. Sparkman was tied to a tree with a rope around his neck, but his feet were in contact with the ground, and, although his hands were bound with duct tape, they were tied in a way that he could have removed the rope from around his neck. Investigators say he died at the tree, and his body did not show signs of defensive wounds. Because Sparkman was a census worker, his family would be eligible for up to $10,000, if he was killed in the line of duty. Josh Sparkman says his father last updated his will in 1993, leaving Josh heir to an estate including his London, Kentucky, home valued at $80,000.