Hanging Shadows: Mississippi Strange Fruit

In 2025, a young Black student named Trey Reed is found partially hanging from a tree on a Mississippi college campus. His death is swiftly ruled a suicide, but the evidence tells a different story: a belt three times his size, no marks on his neck, and a GPS signal that kept moving after his death.

This is not just the story of one man. In this in-depth episode of "After Dark," we pull back the curtain on the haunting history of lynchings in Mississippi and explore the modern, disturbing pattern of "lynchings by suicide" that have been reported across the country.

We'll connect the dots from the era of Emmett Till to the suspicious deaths of men like Robert Fuller and Malcolm Harsch, asking the difficult question: When does a pattern of tragedies stop being a coincidence and start being a continuation of history?

This episode is a deep dive into the shadow of the past and its chilling presence in the present. What's your theory? Join the conversation on our Facebook page.