The Rest of the World Report | September 26, 2026 — Saturday Edition

The Rest of the World Podcast · Sep 26, 2026 · 14m

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TASIA FORTUNE

Tasia Fortune was already dead when someone hung her body from a tree behind an abandoned home in Jackson, Mississippi.

Jackson Police Detective Samuel Dukes testified at a preliminary hearing Friday that investigators believe Fortune was killed elsewhere in a drug-related dispute, then moved to the tree and positioned to look like a lynching. Fortune, a Black mother of four who had experienced homelessness and was working to rebuild her life, was found hanging on August 3. She had…