Charles Homans

in the public eye has not actually really been fully picked through.

And we were able to take advantage of the experience of some of the people on this project who really know the Epstein story forwards and backwards and who were able to make connections inside of these files and figure out who some of the people were who we were reading about in some of these redacted documents.

So we use these documents as a roadmap.

to do our own investigation, interviewing anybody we could find, gathering any other documents we could find, and trying to construct in as much detail as we could Jeffrey Epstein's last days in this jail, the moments leading up to his death, and the biggest question of all, how did he die?

Did he die by suicide, or did something else happen?

And we found that all the evidence that we gathered really did point towards one conclusion.

So within hours of arriving...

Epstein has his first real rough encounter in this jail.

The inmates have very quickly figured out who he is.

And a guy who calls himself Locotron, which is Dominican slang for, like, a crazy person, comes up to him with a T-shirt pulled up over his face and shakes him down for money.

It's this very quick interaction, but it's something that clearly really rattles Epstein.

If you think about this, like, only hours before, he is, you know, in his own private jet crossing the Atlantic.

And suddenly he's in this fairly notorious jail being shaken down in the sort of protection scheme.

Right.

It's an incredible reversal of fortune.

It's almost hard to imagine.

So by the next day, the jail warden figured out who Epstein is.

And they decide that he can't be in general population.

There's too much risk there, clearly.

And they put him in the special housing unit, what they call the SHU.