Mark Epstein

It would have been the highest bail ever in U.S.

history.

So there's a chance maybe he would have gotten bail, which might have been unpalatable to some people, but he might have gotten bail.

Why would he kill himself?

Before that hearing, which would have been in the next week or two tops.

You know, of course, if he got bail, he'd be living in his house.

He'd have an ankle monitor on with armed guards and he'd surrender passports, the camera set up so he couldn't go anywhere.

I don't think he'd be a slight risk anyhow.

And why would he kill himself before that hearing?

I could see, okay, if he had the hearing and bail was denied again and he didn't want to spend a year in jail awaiting a trial, I could see then take yourself out.

Also, let me be really clear.

When I first heard that Jeffrey was dead from an apparent suicide, I believed it.

I had no reason to doubt it.

I just thought that, well, he decided to take himself out.

He didn't want to be in jail.

Life in jail as a pedophile is no fun for anybody.

And these are all things that might have been playing on his head.

So there was no reason for me to doubt it.

But when they did the autopsy the next day and the two highly qualified pathologists said they can't call it a suicide because it looks too much like a homicide.

That's when I'm like, well, what's going on here?