Tasia Fortune's hanging was 'staged' after her death, Mississippi police say
A detective testified that Tasia Fortune was killed in a drug dispute before her body was hung in a tree to stage a lynching in Mississippi's capital.
Tasia Fortune was apparently killed in a drug dispute before her body was hung in a tree in a “staged” lynching behind an abandoned home in the Mississippi capital this summer, a detective testified Friday.
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