Javion Magee of Aurora, found dead against tree with rope around neck, not lynched, NC sheriff says Preliminary autopsy results are inconclusive By Leah Hope, via Saturday, September 14, 2024 ...

There was not a knot in the rope, so therefore, it was not a lynching here in Vance County." "There's been information put out there that there's a lynching in Vance County. There is not a lynching." ...

These two knots, stacked on top of each other, lock up the rope to form a bond that will stay until it is intentionally untied. Square knots can be tied around straight strands in the middle to ...