article_snippet: For that reason, suicide is the early theory as the likely manner of death, law enforcement officials said.
article_snippet: What distinguishes a suicidal hanging from a lynching?
article_snippet: Injuries to the dead person indicate lynching, Thomas Martin, a veteran crime scene investigator and president of Crime Scene Forensics LLC said, because it means the dead person struggled with other people before being hanged.
article_snippet: We don't know if it was a suicide, if it was a homicide.
highlights_snippet: Forensics expert talks about how evidence differs in suicides and lynchings .
  