Black Man Found Hanging from Tree in Mississippi

[pbrower2a]

The first question that I would figure that the FBI would seek to answer -- are the decedent's fingerprints on the rope? If so, then suicide. If not, then murder.

[pbrower2a]

We don't know enough to judge this unfortunate incident.

It took time for investigators to figure that Michael Donald was murdered and how, that he did not die of the hanging (his body was hanged after he was dead, and strangulation by hanging leaves specific injuries which Michael Donald did not have -- he was beaten to death), and finally who did it.

Expect much the same process. Investigate, and if there is evidence of murder, prosecute.