Black woman Tasia Fortune’s hanging was ‘staged’ after her death, Mississippi police say

South China Morning Post - Sep 25, 2026

Investigators believe Tasia Fortune was already dead before the black woman’s body was hanged from a tree behind an abandoned home in the Mississippi capital this summer, a detective testified on Friday. The hanging of Tasia Fortune’s body, which was found on August 3, was “staged”, Jackson police detective Samuel Dukes testified, citing the medical examiner’s opinion. Authorities have not disclosed the exact cause of Fortune’s death, but they did rule it a homicide and have arrested two men,...

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