The man arrested in the death of Tasia Fortune, a 29-year-old Black woman who was found hanging from a tree behind an abandoned Mississippi home last month, is denied bond after pleading not guilty to murder. ↧ Man pleads not guilty, denied bond for charges in Tasia Fortune’s... Police say that Jarques Ratliff, 51, had an “association” with Fortune, the 29-year-old Black woman found hanging from a Mississippi tree last month.