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Police said Tasia Fortune, 29, was killed before her body was placed in the tree, and the scene was ‘staged’A <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/mississippi" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc" target="_blank">Mississippi</a> judge set a $5m bond on Monday for a third man charged in the death of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/26/mississippi-tasia-fortune-arrest-hanging-staged" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc" target="_blank">a Black woman</a> whose body was found hanging from a tree in August.Police disclosed on Friday that Tasia Fortune, 29, was killed before her body was placed in a tree behind an abandoned house in Jackson, Mississippi’s capital city. <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/28/judge-sets-bond-third-suspect-woman-hung-mississippi" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc" target="_blank">Continue reading...</a>

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