Posted on 03/20/2015 6:35:47 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
Federal authorities are investigating the grisly discovery of the body of a man found hanging by a bed sheet Thursday morning...
Local officers were searching for Otis James Byrd, a 54-year-old black man, who vanished on March 2.
....it remained unclear whether the death was a homicide or a suicide, but he confirmed that the man "had a bed sheet tied around his neck."
....Byrd spent just over 25 years in prison for the Feb. 1980 murder of Lucille Trim in Claiborne County, according to Mississippi Department of Corrections records cited by the Clarion-Ledger newspaper. The records show he robbed her of $101.
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...
I heard the casino report on the local news. I’ll see if I can find it.
I wonder what was the deal with the Skull on his shirt?
Byrd was reportedly last seen when a friend dropped him off at Riverwalk Casino, Vicksburg Police Chief Walter Armstrong said.
http://www.vicksburgpost.com/2015/03/19/man-found-hanging-from-tree-in-claiborne-county/
Part of it was my speculation
>> Claiborne County is southWEST of Jackson and Louisiana is to the west <<
You’re correct, and the article is wrong. Moreover, Claiborne isn’t just “near” Louisiana. It’s CONTIGUOUS with Louisiana.
Last but not least, here’s one of my favorite nit-picks:
The Mississippi River, which separates the two states, is not a “border.” The demarcation between any two U. S. states is properly referred to as a STATE LINE. The term “border”should be reserved for international demarcations.
Sparta Mississippi Police must be working hard.
Wait til the MSM finds out the lynching was done by a black gang member over a bad drug deal... and the goons video taped in on their cell phones..
I think all white law enforcement should just say we will no longer be policing anyone that is black.
If I were a detective looking for the person who hung him, I'd look for a member of Trims family.
25 years isn't enough, hanging would be justice served, even if it had been delayed 25 years.
I would not look too hard though, wouldn't want to find them if the family did it.
From the article : “It’s too early in the process to speculate, but “based on the history in Mississippi” of racial hate crimes, we are always concerned when an African-American is found hung in a tree in this state.
From an article 10+ years ago:
The last recorded lynching in Mississippi occurred 40 years ago when eight masked men dragged a black man from a county prison and hanged him just days before he was due to go on trial for raping a white woman.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=96223
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