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Chelsie Napiza

'She Would Never Climb That, Ever, Ever': Family Seeks Justice in Slaying of Mother Found Hanging in a Tree

Jackson, Mississippi police arrested Jarques Ratliff on a murder charge after the medical examiner ruled 29-year-old Tasia Fortune’s death a homicide (Credit: Facebook: Tasia Fortune)

Tasia Fortune's mother spent five weeks insisting her daughter had not taken her own life.

On Thursday, Sept. 10, 2026, the Mississippi State Medical Examiner's Office determined that the 29-year-old's death was a homicide, more than five weeks after her body was found hanging from a tree behind an abandoned house in Jackson.

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