The FBI will use its Behavioral Analysis Unit to investigate the hanging death of Mississippi man Otis Byrd, the USA Today reports.
The unit “focuses specifically on criminal human behavior in an attempt to better understand criminals — who they are, how they think, why they do what they do — as a means to help solve crimes,” according to FBI.gov.
The hope is that the unit will help determine whether Byrd, 54, committed suicide or was murdered.
He was found hanging from a tree by a bed sheet near his last known residence last week.
