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When the convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein was found dead in his prison cell back on August 10th, 2019, while awaiting trial for child sex trafficking charges, many were sceptical that he had committed suicide, as his death seems way too convenient for the people in power whom he could incriminate.

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Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) records that were obtained by the New York Times show that in the days leading up to his death, Epstein had repeatedly said that he was not suicidal. Medical staffers even described him as “cooperative,” “future-oriented,” “goal-directed,” and “psychologically stable.”

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His death was ruled a suicide, but several conspiracy theories emerged because of apparent failures at the prison, such as guards failing to check on him and malfunctioning cameras outside his cell on the night of his death.

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Lawyer David Schoen, who was asked by Epstein to lead his legal team shortly before his death, has said that he believes the financier did not take his own life. He claims Epstein had been ‘upbeat and excited’ just nine days before his death and was looking forward to clearing his name. He says the multi-millionaire was in the process of planning a legal and media strategy to take on the allegations against him.

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Here are a few reasons that make his death seems more like a homicide than suicide.

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Epstein Said He Was Attacked In His Cell

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On July 23rd, 2019, less than three weeks before his death, Jeffrey Epstein was found unresponsive in his cell, with injuries around his neck. According to the official report, he had hanged himself, but the “attempted suicide”, some believed, was really an attack.

 

Epstein didn’t die until August 10th, but on July 23rd, he was found in nearly the exact same state – unconscious and badly wounded. And just like they did on August 10th, his guards claimed that he’d tried to kill himself. Only this time, Epstein had survived to tell his tale.

 

He had denied that he’d ever attempted suicide. In fact, he said that he’d been beaten half to death by his cellmate, a former Briarcliff Manor police officer named Nicholas Tartaglione, who is facing the death penalty for quadruple murder.

 

His Defence Attorney, David Schoen, still insists that it was not a suicide attempt, that Epstein was afraid he would face consequences if he implicated anyone, so he told investigators that he couldn’t remember what happened.

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Tartaglione Was Never Questioned

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Prison officials claimed that Epstein’s cellmate, Tartaglione was cleared of any wrongdoing in the July 23rd incident through an internal investigation, but Tartaglione’s attorney, Bruce Barket, said that he had not been interviewed by investigators since Epstein’s death.

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“(Tartaglione) has not been questioned by any law enforcement official since July 23,” Barket said. “I can’t imagine how they can claim a complete investigation without speaking to the person who was in the cell in that first event.”

 

Tartagoline insisted in a two-page handwritten note that he shared a cell with Epstein because he posed no threat to the accused sex trafficker of underage girls. He denied ever having hurt Epstein, saying that he found Epstein lying in the fetal position, unconscious, on the ground, and helped him.

 

He said that the guards had made up false accusations against him because they were tired of him complaining about the conditions in the prison. He also claimed that the guards had told him to “shut up” about Epstein.

 

“The clear message Mr. Tartaglione has received is that if he conveys information about the facility or about (Epstein’s) recent suicide, there will be a price to pay,” his lawyer claims. “The correction officers know he has information (that is) potentially very damaging.”

 

 

 

Epstein Was Taken Off Suicide Watch

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Epstein was taken off suicide watch just twelve days before his death. He was put on suicide watch in late July, most likely after he was found injured in what guards claimed was an attempted suicide.

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Prisoners on suicide watch are kept in a special cell that gives the staff an unobstructed view of everything the prisoner does, and they’re given daily evaluations by psychologists. Many experts agree that keeping Epstein under constant watch was just a good precaution, whether he was suicidal or not.

However, Epstein was taken off suicide watch after just six days of observation. His psychiatrist, after interviewing him, decided that he didn’t need suicide watch. That’s a sentiment shared by those who saw him in his final days, who have consistently described him as “very upbeat” and “not… suicidal.”

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Epstein was then sent to a normal cell with a new cellmate.

 

 

 

His New Cellmate Was Suddenly Transferred

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On August 9th, 2019 – the last day of Jeffrey Epstein’s life – a federal court released thousands of pages of sealed records on Epstein’s case. Some of those accused of being Epstein’s clients were exposed, revealing some of the most powerful names in the world.

 

Hours before his alleged suicide, and right after the court documents were released, Epstein’s cellmate was suddenly transferred with no one to replace him. There was no explanation for the transfer. Epstein was left completely alone although he was supposed to be under constant surveillance.

 

 

 

The Cameras Outside His Cell Malfunctioned At The Same Time

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Jeffrey Epstein was never supposed to be left alone in his cell, and his guards were aware of this. They were also ordered to always keep camera surveillance on him and to check on him every half hour. However, on the night that he died, every single one of those rules was broken.

 

Not only had Epstein’s cellmate been transferred out, leaving him alone in his cell, but the two guards in charge of monitoring him weren’t even checking in on him as the prison was short-staffed and they were working overtime. Only ten of the 18 guards who were supposed to be on duty had reported to work that night.

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Both men allegedly fell asleep and didn’t check on Epstein for a full three hours. To add to this, they falsified the logs to claim that they’d been doing their duty.

 

Even then, there were two separate cameras that should have caught whatever happened in Epstein’s cell, and both had simultaneously malfunctioned on the night that he died. That’s a few too many coincidences for one night.

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Ex-inmates Say It’s Practically Difficult To Commit Suicide In Prison

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According to the official report, Epstein was found dead in his cell at 6:30 AM on August 10th. The six-footer had allegedly made a noose out of a bedsheet, tied it to his bedframe, and knelt forcefully to hang himself.

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Suicide at the Metropolitan Correctional Center, an ex-inmate claimed, is effectively impossible. “Could he have done it from the bed? No sir. There’s a steel frame, but you can’t move it. There’s no light fixture. There’s no bars,” the inmate stated. “They don’t give you enough in there that could successfully create an instrument of death.”

 

In the past 21 years, the prison has seen only one other successful suicide – the 1998 suicide of South Philadelphia drug kingpin, Louis Tora, who reportedly hanged himself.

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Networks Weren’t Allowed To Air The Jeffrey Epstein Story

 

In a leaked video, ABC News Anchor Amy Robach’s revealed that back in 2015 she had the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking story for three years. “I’ve had this interview with (Epstein accuser) Virginia Roberts. We would not put it on air.” The story never made it to the news.

 

“First of all, I was told, 'Who's Jeffrey Epstein? No one knows who that is. This is a stupid story,’” Robach recounts. “Then the (Royal Palace) found out we had (Giuffre's) allegations about Prince Andrew and threatened us a million different ways.” Robach implies that Giuffre had even provided significant evidence regarding Prince Andrew, Bill Clinton, and others in Epstein's orbit.

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“Do I think (Epstein) was killed? Hundred percent, yes, I do,” Robach rhetorically states later in the footage. “He made his whole living blackmailing people. There were a lot of men on those planes. A lot of men who visited that island. A lot of powerful men who came into that apartment.”

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Robach has since released a statement saying that the story wasn’t censored and that it simply didn’t offer enough evidence to meet “ABC’s editorial standards” but her own, unedited statements in the leaked video tell a very different story.

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Epstein’s Unexplained Injuries

 

When Jeffrey Epstein’s brother, Mark, collected his body, he found that he had far more than just injuries to his neck. There were wounds on his wrists. Mark’s description is backed by the autopsy.

 

When Epstein died, the autopsy says, he had contusions on both of his wrists, an abrasion on his left forearm, and deep muscle haemorrhaging of his left deltoid.

“Those are unexplained,” Mark Epstein says. “Was he handcuffed and struggled? Was someone holding his wrists?”

 

Mark says that he’s requested the details from his brother’s file multiple times, and has asked the investigators to explain how they ruled out that Jeffrey Epstein was murdered. But he has yet to receive a response.

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Post-Mortem Cites Injuries “More Consistent” With Homicide

 

Dr Michael Baden, who observed the autopsy of Jeffrey Epstein, initially refused to talk to the press about what he’d seen. But when the news reports stated that Epstein’s death was being ruled a suicide, Dr Baden told the press that, from what he’d seen, Epstein’s injuries were “more consistent” with murder.

 

Dr Baden revealed that the fractures on Epstein’s neck were “extremely unusual in suicidal hangings.” They did not seem to be injuries from when a man chokes himself with a bedsheet tied to a bed frame.

 

He said that ruling Epstein’s death as a suicide could have been a mistake as “there’s evidence here of homicide that should be investigated.”