Charles Homans

So there were a number of different nooses or things that looked like nooses that Epstein had around him in the cell.

The cell was really a mess.

There were all these piles of linens, and there were a number of these strips of fabric kind of scattered around the cell.

The one that they grabbed was tied in the shape of a noose, but investigators later concluded was not the one that he actually used.

Wow.

But the fact that they grabbed it and this was the one that was sort of seen in the evidence created a lot of suspicions around this.

Because if you look at the pictures of his body, they really clearly didn't match this noose that we'd seen a picture of at the time.

That's right.

And on top of all that, there's this huge problem, which is the security camera system of the jail.

There were security cameras spread throughout this unit where Epstein was being held.

But a number of days before his death, there was a hardware failure, which led to half of the cameras in this unit not recording anything.

They could be monitored in real time.

but they were not recording any video.

And this meant that there were only really two cameras recording in the area outside of Epstein's corridor that captured any of the events that night.

Right, and that's raised this question of whether somebody could have gotten in

in this blank spot on the tape and made their way to Epstein's cell and killed him.

Right.

And, you know, one piece of evidence that people marshaled to show that that would have been possible is this little enigmatic fragment of video from one of the two cameras that was actually recording that night.

One of the two cameras, the one that we've spent the most time looking at, was trained on the common area of the shoe, including the desk where the guards were sitting.

And it catches a little sliver of the staircase leading up to Epstein's cell.