Not to throw cold water on a fire I would like to see kindled, but you will have to rely on local law enforcement to gain REAL access to some of these remote territories.

And just like those civil rights cases of yesteryear, some of those local law enforcers may well protective of, related to, or completely in cahoots with the guilty parties.

Not suggesting any of them were directly responsible, but they migh just be in the same rod and gun club with the people they suspect did this, and they aren't about to betray a fellow stars n' bars bro.

Call me paranoid, but I would wager you never met Deputy Bubba (actually had that name etched on his badge) down south, like I did one day, long ago, (1974) as a long-haired Iowa kid ("f#*&in' yankee hippy" was the deputy's CB radio term for me) hitchhiking through Dixie.

So don't think it will be easy to uncover the guilty parties in this case, I hope I'm wrong on this one, and someone comes forward and exposes the murderer(s).

Maybe some good citizen from that area will help clear this up. Just don't hold your breath waiting.

Wasn't Allende described as having committed suicide, firing X number of cartridges, and stopping once to reload?

Are you suggesting that every single Republican is a suspect? Believe it or not, in Kentucky a lot of Republicans are really good people.

"And hate radio, and Glen Beck and Rush Limbaugh now. "

While we may never be able to prove it, there's a good chance these creeps have had more influence on weak minded bigots than their parent media is letting on.

The Beckian teabaggers aren't all floating on the surface, some of them are no doubt knuckledragging bottomdwellers, they likes of which would conflate the census with big government, and equate a census worker with a federal law enforcement agent.

They have been moved by the talk-show drivel to acts of depravity, what we see in the rallies and astroturfing is only the public version of a much more insidious underpinning. When the Becks and Lumps spew their hate talk, this class of 'baggers turns it into sneering threats, muttered over cheap beer and cheaper whiskey, between gutteral co-conspirators.

Imagine a census worker, all smiles and full of friendly, stumbling onto a drunked-up gathering of some of these miscreants.

Regardless of whether they had meth cooking, or a still boiling, they might find a spontaneous outlet for all that hate that Lump and Beck and the rest of the hate-talkers have filled them with.

Those Stars N' Bars bro's would all be desperate to prove to each other who was the "baddest", and a poor fellow like Sparkman would find no mercy.

Can't say why this scenario sticks in my head, but it seems more likely than some we have heard.

Besides being ugly and baseless, that dosen't make sense. If that's what happened, that would result in a "homocide" finding and the report would issue.

There are really just the four findings from a coroner's inquest or investigation: accident, suicide, homocide and natural causes.

Given how long this has taken, I suspect the delay is because someone thinks releasing the report would compromise the investigation in some way.