Charles Homans

So remember, Epstein is found in the morning around 6.30 by one of these guards.

Right, bringing breakfast.

Bringing him breakfast.

And that guard didn't actually tell investigators or really anybody, I think, except for maybe his supervisors, what he saw until much, much later.

Two years later, actually, is when he gives a real interview about this to investigators.

Hmm.

And in that interview, he didn't really have a lot of detail.

He had some detail about how the body was found when he got there, but not very much.

And by the time anybody else makes it into the cell, he's pulled down Epstein and he's put him on the floor.

And pretty soon you have other guards, you have EMTs, you have all sorts of people trampling over this death scene to the point where it's really been very badly contaminated by the time the FBI shows up.

And for that reason, according to their own records of this, the FBI agents did not take DNA evidence from anything in the scene.

This is a little unusual.

A normal procedure would be to take DNA evidence, but they didn't do that.

I would say it's not super unusual.

You know, a lot of people are operating under the assumption that he might not actually be dead at this moment.

And their first priority is to resuscitate him if that's possible.

So it's not crazy that the guards and the paramedics are sort of trampling all over this place.

But that is what happened.

And it led to them making some real errors in terms of cataloging the evidence in the scene.

The most notable is probably that they grabbed the wrong noose from his cell.