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In a current interview with journalist Megyn Kelly, Mark Epstein, the brother of convicted intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein, raised questions in regards to the official narrative that Jeffrey’s dying was a suicide.
Mark Epstein mentioned never-before-seen proof and inconsistencies surrounding the circumstances of his brother’s dying, suggesting that it could have been a murder.
Mark Epstein started by recounting how he initially believed his brother’s dying to be a suicide when he first heard the information on tv. Nevertheless, his perspective modified after the post-mortem was carried out.
Involved in regards to the accuracy of the investigation, Mark Epstein employed Dr. Michael Baden, a famend forensic pathologist, to witness the post-mortem. To Mark’s shock, each Dr. Baden and town pathologist, Dr. Kristin Roman, concluded that the accidents sustained by Jeffrey Epstein had been inconsistent with a suicide by hanging. They famous that Jeffrey Epstein had three damaged bones in his neck, that are unusual in instances of suicidal hanging.
“Simply as a precaution, I had employed Dr. Michael Boden to witness the post-mortem, which I’ve the best to do. And town pathologist, Dr. Roman and Dr. Baden, got here out of the post-mortem saying that they might not name this a suicide as a result of it appeared an excessive amount of like a murder,” mentioned Mark.
“It makes it clear that there’s no person who has extra expertise with jail deaths than Dr. Baden. And he mentioned he’s by no means seen these outcomes, like three damaged bones in Jeffrey’s neck, from a suicidal hanging like this. So, then the questions come up: if he didn’t commit suicide, then he was killed; after which, who killed him? How was it accomplished? So, these questions began developing.”
The dialog then turned to Lawyer Common William Barr’s public assertion concerning the case. Mark Epstein criticized Barr’s assertion that he personally seen the video footage from the digicam outdoors the tier the place Jeffrey’s cell was positioned.
Barr claimed that nobody entered or exited the tier, which led him to conclude that it was a suicide. Mark Epstein discovered this assertion doubtful, questioning Barr’s capacity to personally evaluate hours of footage and suggesting that it could be an try to cowl up the reality.
“Once I heard him make that assertion, I assumed, “He’s both the dumbest man on the planet or he’s masking one thing up.” As a result of for 2 causes: one, to presume that any individual may get to that door, go in undetected, kill any individual, and exit and go away undetected is ridiculous as a result of there are six ranges of safety earlier than you get to that tier. This was the utmost safety place within the jail.”
“So, that didn’t make any sense. After which, when he mentioned he personally noticed the videotape, watched the videotape, I assumed, ‘However that is the Lawyer Common of the US. May I see him sitting by a monitor, watching an evening’s price of videotape to see that no person went in or out? Couldn’t he have folks in his workplace watch the videotape and simply say no person went in or out?’ So, after I heard that he personally watched the videotape and he concluded that it was a suicide as a result of no person went in or out, I mentioned, ‘That is bullsh-t.’”
Mark continued by saying that he had heard about cell doorways being left unlocked, which might have allowed different prisoners entry to Jeffrey’s cell. He additionally expressed frustration in his makes an attempt to acquire details about the opposite inmates on the tier, their size of keep, and their present whereabouts
“There have been, I feel, eleven different prisoners on that tier, within the cells that might have killed him, as a result of I heard early on in my investigations. I heard by any individual from a form of dependable supply that cell doorways had been left unlocked. So, if cell doorways had been left unlocked—I don’t know what number of or which of them—however any individual may have gone out, killed him, went again into his cell, and that’s the way it was accomplished. So, I’ve been looking for out who had been the eleven prisoners on that ward as a result of, if Jeff was killed, it needed to be by certainly one of them.”
When requested about his makes an attempt to acquire solutions from the federal government, Mark Epstein defined that he and different media retailers had submitted requests for details about the case. Nevertheless, they’d been met with restricted cooperation. He talked about the existence of functioning surveillance footage from outdoors the tier however expressed frustration on the lack of entry to it.
“We are able to’t get the footage that’s been requested various occasions of once they took Jeff off of that tier, once they took his physique off of that tier and introduced him to the infirmary. The place’s the footage from that time frame?”
Moreover, he acknowledged that in a gathering with Justice Division officers, he obtained a generic response that the dying had been dominated a suicide after an intensive investigation, regardless of the numerous remaining unanswered questions.
In accordance with Mark, emergency responders and hospital employees concerned within the case had been by no means questioned by authorities, which he discovered extremely uncommon given their roles in high-profile incidents.
He additionally highlighted procedural irregularities, noting that his brother’s physique mustn’t have been moved from the cell earlier than the health worker’s arrival, because the place and situation of a deceased individual can present vital forensic data.
“There have been so many kinds of guidelines that had been violated right here. Initially, once they discovered Jeff in his cell useless, he had been useless for at the very least 2 hours. We all know that from the post-mortem consequence as a result of the mark that was left on his neck, which you’ll see within the {photograph} (see beneath), for that mark to be embedded in his neck that approach and dried like that, he needed to be useless for at the very least 2 hours.”
“May have been 6 hours, however a minimal of two. So once they discovered him, he was clearly useless. Okay. He wasn’t revivable. He mustn’t have been moved. The medical examination ought to have been carried out instantly. They need to not have moved him as a result of, additionally, once they discover a useless physique, the place of the physique gives a whole lot of data. That’s why they inform you to by no means transfer a useless physique.”
In the course of the interview, Mark Epstein raised doubts in regards to the official narrative by discussing the positioning of Jeffrey’s physique when it was discovered. In accordance with the Justice Division’s report, Jeffrey was described as hanging in a seated place along with his legs prolonged in entrance of him, an inch or so off the bottom.
Mark Epstein emphasised that if this had been the case, there ought to have been lividity, or blood pooling, in his legs and buttocks as a result of gravity. Nevertheless, the post-mortem pictures Mark Epstein obtained confirmed no indicators of lividity in these areas, casting doubt on the official description of how Jeffrey was found.
Megyn Kelly revealed a never-before-seen post-mortem picture exhibiting the mark on Jeffrey Epstein’s neck, with Mark Epstein declaring that the place and depth of the mark had been inconsistent with the form of ligature mark that will be anticipated if Jeffrey had hanged himself as described by official experiences.
Mark identified that the ligature mark seemed to be in the midst of the neck reasonably than increased up below the chin, as anticipated in a dangling.
Mark Epstein: For those who image that and he’s been hanging for at the very least 2 hours—like I mentioned, it may have been 6 hours, however at the very least two—you’ll look forward to finding the lividity, the blood pooling in his buttocks and particularly behind his legs, as a result of that was the bottom level, and that’s the place the blood would settle. However the post-mortem pictures—I’ve different post-mortem pictures—present that his legs had been clear and his buttocks had been clear. There may be some lividity on his again.
Mark Epstein: And there’s some lividity on his again. But when he was solely useless for two hours after which they laid him down, that lividity on his again may have come afterwards. So, that’s not conclusive. However the truth that his legs are clear, even when they laid him down, the blood wouldn’t have drained up from his legs into his again except he was hung the wrong way up. So, the truth that his legs and buttocks are clear from lividity leads doubt to the truth that he was discovered the best way they described.
Megyn Kelly: So wait, so let’s simply put a degree on it so folks don’t need to determine it out. So, what you’re saying is you don’t consider that he was killed, clearly, within the method that they’re telling us, and that if he had actually hanged himself, there would have been lividity beneath his legs and within the buttocks from the best way he was discovered hanging—hanging virtually in a seated place simply off the bottom. And there wasn’t any. So, is there a working idea of if it had been a homicide, how this proof does make sense? Why wasn’t there lividity behind the legs?
Mark Epstein: Properly, it’s as a result of he in all probability was not hanging the best way they are saying. As a result of if he was hanging the best way they mentioned, there’d be proof of lividity in his legs and buttocks.
Megyn Kelly: And on that picture you gave us, Mark, is that of the post-mortem and the mark across the neck? I’m not an knowledgeable on this, but it surely actually appears to be like to me—I’ve a tough time as a layperson understanding how a sheet made that mark… it appears to be like virtually extra like a garrote was used or some type of rope, wire. What did Dr. say about that?
Mark Epstein: Properly, once they got here out of the post-mortem, each docs mentioned it appears to be like extra like what’s referred to as a ligature strangulation. That’s the place, like a garrote the place you go behind and also you pull one thing tight alongside any individual’s neck… The best way they described it, he was hanging, his physique was off the bottom, his buttocks had been off the bottom, and his legs had been prolonged in entrance of him. So, there was in all probability some weight on his toes, on the decrease a part of his legs. However the bulk of his physique weight was hanging by the neck from supposedly the highest bunk.
Mark Epstein: If that’s the case. And you could possibly discover images of individuals hanging from outdated lynching images or wartime images. The ligature, the factor across the neck, goes excessive up below the chin and comes up behind the ears, excessive up below the chin. However from that image, the ligature mark on his neck is extra in the midst of his neck and type of goes straight again.
