Dan Riehl continues spinning off his weird, creepy fantasies about murdered census worker Bill Sparkman.

He’s actually had an email exchange with a trained investigator who agrees with him that Sparkman just might have been a child predator — and may not even have been hanged at all: Riehl World View: Was Bill Sparkman Actually Hanged?

Riehl laughs — oh how he laughs! — at those who think he’s a few shingles shy of a roof.

Sparkman may indeed have been “hanged,” even if it wasn’t the cause of death. If he were killed off site, then taken to the cemetery to where they wanted to display the body, his legs may not have been completely straight. For example, he could have been placed in the trunk of a second car in transit.

Point being, with his legs slightly bent, they could have remained off the ground for a time due to rigor mortis. Over time they would have straightened some, perhaps enough to just touch the ground were he hung rather low.

It probably would have taken two men to display a dead body in such a manner.

It’s a fascinating theory, if nothing else. And only one more reason why I’m laughing at the closed minded people who think they know all the facts without speculating as broadly as one might.

There’s all sorts of information floating around out there that may or may not be linked to this case. Someone cited an old Craig’s list posting for what appeared to be a child predator in this area looking for a boy to “mentor”.