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In reply to the discussion: A Hanging in Mississippi this afternoon - posted with heavy heart and worry [View all]jberryhill
(62,444 posts)...I wouldn't engage in conclusion jumping either way.
The interesting thing about the perception phenomena in this thread, IMHO, is the idea that the common use of bedsheets in suicides as an improvised rope is not that, but some signature technique of lynch mobs. I guess it comes from the notion that the KKK wears bedsheets instead of actually tailored robes, or regularly has bedsheets on hand for lynchings - or, I suppose someone had to give up their robe to use, because nobody had rope, jumper cables, electrical cords, or other things that are more likely to be in the back of someone's pickup truck.
The absence of any other injuries from the original story isn't really telling either way, since one might imagine that if he's been missing that long, then a non-expert observer might not be able to tell if there were other injuries or not.