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44. Yeah, the sheets are important.

Sat Mar 21, 2015, 09:49 AM

Mar 2015

The origin of the sheets will be a long step in the direction of sorting this out. As you said, if they came from his home, then suicide becomes much more likely, even with the other problems with that theory.

If, however, the sheets weren't from his home or weren't just purchased, there should be something to go on there. Even a freshly laundered sheet is going to have hair and other biological traces. It's not a lot, but at least it's something. If good old-fashioned detective work leads them elsewhere, biological traces recovered from the sheets might play a big part later on.

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Autopsy suggests suicide in hanging of black man in Mississippi [View all] jberryhill Mar 2015 OP

he could have been drugged Romeo.lima333 Mar 2015 #1

One might think toxicology would pick that up jberryhill Mar 2015 #2

Why does a toxicology report... NaturalHigh Mar 2015 #8

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Thanks jberryhill. NaturalHigh Mar 2015 #11

I also learned something new. Thank you! n/t Mugu Mar 2015 #17

wow that's on the net - no matter what the heck it is it's on the net Romeo.lima333 Mar 2015 #19

Tox reports take days to weeks to turn up Warpy Mar 2015 #27

Huh -- are you gleefully HOPING it's a hate crime?! n/t BP2 Mar 2015 #26

Huh? Sounds like you are HOPING Joe Chi Minh Mar 2015 #35

Really. You think? KamaAina Mar 2015 #3

I think it's good they are investigating it jberryhill Mar 2015 #5

This is a sad moment for his family, wish them well in the coming days. Thinkingabout Mar 2015 #4

I agree that it's good they are looking at it. MADem Mar 2015 #6

According to various studies, enlightenment Mar 2015 #58

That's a good point. MADem Mar 2015 #59

Can't argue that. enlightenment Mar 2015 #60

Convenient, especially since hanging from a tree is a black man's preferred method valerief Mar 2015 #7

Hanging is the second most common method of suicide hack89 Mar 2015 #12

Yet blacks (and hispanics, who are not a specific racial group) have the lowest suicide rate BumRushDaShow Mar 2015 #13

Right, which is why they mentioned the other factors Recursion Mar 2015 #30

So you don't think that someone who may have been bound BumRushDaShow Mar 2015 #36

Several points Recursion Mar 2015 #37

All your points are sound. romanic Mar 2015 #38

And addressing the points BumRushDaShow Mar 2015 #39

I completely grant your rebuttal points Recursion Mar 2015 #40

That's fine BumRushDaShow Mar 2015 #41

The state govt is investigating, the FBI is on the ground. Yo_Mama Mar 2015 #49

tragic Skittles Mar 2015 #9

or, coroner writes off another black murder mwrguy Mar 2015 #14

A black coroner and black sheriff in a county that's 85% African American? Recursion Mar 2015 #29

geeez,,,, Cryptoad Mar 2015 #15

not surprised in the least heaven05 Mar 2015 #16

Do you have some reason to think the finding is wrong? NaturalHigh Mar 2015 #18

there is nothing spectacular heaven05 Mar 2015 #45

If the hands had been 840high Mar 2015 #53

sure heaven05 Mar 2015 #54

You seem to favor only one outcome. Have a good day. 840high Mar 2015 #55

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Thanks! Fiendish Mar 2015 #42

Glad to hear you're recovering! CaliforniaPeggy Mar 2015 #52

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Yeah, the sheets are important. Fiendish Mar 2015 #44

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thanks for lucidness heaven05 Mar 2015 #46

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If he was murdered for ANY reason I hope they catch the perp! Yo_Mama Mar 2015 #50

Yeah, that's what I meant, as well. Fiendish Mar 2015 #51

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I think suicide may be it ripcord Mar 2015 #28

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from the sheriff shaayecanaan Mar 2015 #34

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Except Josh Sparkman wasn't found "hanging" jberryhill Mar 2015 #57