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Investigators: Ky. Census Worker Committed Suicide

Nov. 24, 2009
A Kentucky census worker found naked, bound with duct tape and hanging from a tree with "fed" scrawled on his chest killed himself but staged his death to make it look like a homicide, authorities said Tuesday.
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