Charles Homans

perceive this.

And this was sort of the starting point for the first people who investigated this death after it happened.

You know, I think that pretty much immediately after his body was found, there's these questions about how did this happen?

And a lot of them seem to kind of operate on this assumption that it was unthinkable that somebody as significant as Epstein would have been allowed to kill themselves in this jail.

But the people who actually knew this facility well, the inmates and certainly the federal prosecutors who spent a lot of time dealing with people being held there, had a better sense of what kind of jail this was and that it was a place where lapses on the part of the guards were very common, where a lot of things went wrong.

And it wasn't necessarily as counterintuitive to them that somebody would have been able to get away with this there.

Interesting.

But as much as all the evidence points in this direction, there are some very important gaps which we should talk about.

Okay.

Let's talk about them.

The first is the autopsy of Jeffrey Epstein.

The day after his body was found, the city medical examiner did a full autopsy.

And she concluded that he had died by self-hanging.

But there are a set of credible questions about the marks on his body and whether they were exclusively consistent with suicide or whether they could have been consistent with homicide also.

We put this to a number of pathologists and actually got a lot of different opinions when they were looking at these photos.

But what nearly all of them say is it's really not possible to determine a manner of death conclusively from looking at the body alone.

You would need this whole other suite of information about the circumstances the body was found, the death scene.

And that's the information that we simply don't have because a lot of it wasn't gathered at the time of his death.

And why wasn't it gathered at the time of his death?

Well, that brings us to the second gap, which is these really pretty big holes in the initial handling of the death scene and some aspects of the first investigations into the scene.