Tasia Fortune's hanging was 'staged' in 'drug case gone very wrong': Police chief
Tasia Fortune, a Black woman, was found hanged from a tree behind an abandoned home in Mississippi's capital this summer. Police investigators believe she was already dead from a drug dispute before her body was hanged. A detective testified about these findings in court. The case is now in the legal process.
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