article_snippet: the victim has been identified as Otis James Byrd, 54, who went missing on March 2 after a friend dropped the victim off at a casino in Vicksburg,  30 miles north from where the victim body was discovered.
article_snippet: The NAACP was the first to identify Byrd.
article_snippet: Otis James Byrd, 54 (pictured left and right), was found hanging from a tree in Mississippi after Byrd went missing March 2 .
article_snippet: Byrd was found about 200 yards from Byrd home. '
article_snippet: The last time his was seen, a friend was dropping his off at a casino in Vicksburg .
article_snippet: Dark past: Above, Byrd's parole board mugshot.
article_snippet: The owner of the land, 87-year-old Johnie Baker, said that the area where Byrdwas found is covered in pecan and black walnut trees.
highlights_snippet: The NAACP has identified African-American man as 54-year-old Otis James Byrd, who has been missing since March 2 .
  
highlights_snippet: The last time Byrd was seen, a friend was dropping African-American man off at a casino in Vicksburg, Mississippi - about 30 miles north .
  