Hanged Zombie (Timeless)

The Hanged Zombie is an ennemy encountered mainly in Wild West. He will first be found hanging on a rope, generally on various parts of the decor like trees, gallows and even inside of certain houses. While they first seem to like classic inanimated dead bodies, when they receiver any kind of physical contact, when they hear very loud noises or when certain waves begin, they will suddenly be alive, struggling a little bit before whatever holds them of the rope around the necks breaks, making them fall to the floor and allowing them to move freely. They can also appear like regular zombies, but it is generaly uncommon

Appearance and origins
The Hanged Zombie will generally wear classic cowboy clothes, without any kind of headwear, but can also wear clothes reflecting various roles like bartenders or farmers. Their necks are slightly longer and distorted, and their bodies look like they were stretched a little bit. The rope can be cutten off, or still attached to something like a piece of wood (the former is however rare) They are based on the common practice of hanging people during the late 19th century of the USA, as a death penalty. Some of the individuals, however, seem to have hanged themselves, probably as an attempt to escape the zombies

Strategies
Since they usually won't be active when the day starts, you'll have some time to kill them before they try to get you. First, search for trees or gallows : these are the most obvious places where you can find them. Then, carefully kill them with a headshot, with weapons like a Revolver or a Colt ; this will allow you to instantly deal with them, and avoid that a zombie's groans wakes up the other Hanged Zombies. When you're done, you can search others places, like the saloon, the prison or even barns or shops, because you might find a few of them inactivated yet. Dealing with them normally is a actually a possibility, since they won't spawn in too large numbers, their stats are far from being great and excepted their quite high speed, you can send them ad patres with only a few more shots than a regular Western Zombies. These can however become more dangerous if the waves are bigger and you can't put them down before.

Trivia

 * During the Day [??] of Wild West, if go in a certain barn, you will found one of them, dressed like a farmer, with a few smaller and unrecognizable bodies laying next to him. When entering the barn, you will earn the achievement Successful escape
 * It is the first zombie of the game to have some kind of proper "backstory" assiociated with him