man, that is some awesome policing in kentucky if they are still unable to determine if a man found naked, gagged, eyes taped shut, feet bound, hands bound behind his back and a noose around his neck. and his federal i.d. taped to his shoulder.

i'm guessing those good ol' boys are just waiting for those snoopy northerners to go home and stop calling.

I agree, there is something very fishy that a guy gets found stripped, bound, hung and written-on, but more than two weeks later it's not even declared a homicide. Also, this is a fascinating story and only becoming more so, where are the CNN or NYT reporters? Sure like to see a press conference on this.

Unfortunately, lynchings throughout the South and Red States have been declared suicides over the past 20 years. Steve McNair's cousin is one popular case. A southern black man who just won a mayoral election was found shot in the head in a school parking lot a year or two ago. A black male youth who was dating a white female youth who had a racist family was found hung in their yard in Georgia 3-4 years ago- suicide. Black youth in Virginia - same story - hung by his own belt in a playground.

The fact that Kentucky law enforcement are suggesting that he hung himself after duct taping his own mouth and pinning his badge to himself and writing fed on himself is just proof they don't give a fuck. The fact that they are getting away with it is proof the media and America doesn't give a fuck.

Suicide???

I'm sure he hung himself, put his name tag on his neck and scrawled FED on his shirt, yes republicans, its one BIG plot to discredit you .... gimme a fing break

"his hands and feet were bound" Yeah, he did that to himself, with his other hands two hands, I suppose.

This is Kentucky Burning.

Where is Gene Hackman when you need him?

Or Chuck Norris! He could find the murderer!

Has anyone actually suggested it was a suicide? It seems stupid and counter-productive not to have ruled this a homicide yet, but that doesn't mean they're not proceeding as if it were a homicide. Some of the posts here seem a little over the top--do we have some reason to think the police are trying to make this go away besides general suspicion of Southerners?