Quote:
Jeffrey Epstein was found hanging in his Lower Manhattan jail cell with a bedsheet wrapped around his neck and secured to the top of a bunk bed, The Post has learned.
The convicted pedophile, who was 6 feet tall, apparently killed himself by kneeling toward the floor and strangling himself with the makeshift noose, a law enforcement source said Monday.....
Here's something (a speculation on my part) to think about:
The problem facing the NYC Medical Examiner
may not be the cause of death, but the manner of death. There are three scenarios given this limited info:
(A) He intentionally hanged himself = suicide.
(B) It was a faked suicide made to look like a hanging = homicide.
(C) His death was a result of autoerotic sexual asphyxia = accidental death.
I've seen unsubstantiated comments from sources saying the ME was certain that hanging was the cause of death; that would make
(B) extremely unlikely.
Was it
(A)? Well, I've seen discussions that his case eventually may have been thrown out because of double jeopardy. However, he was certainly under a lot of stress & may have thought that he was going to be locked up forever...& pedophiles don't fare very well in penitentiaries. So fairly high probability.
How about
(C)? Well, this dude certainly had some sex hangups. There are circa a thousand (probably more as often these are hidden from the public) such deaths a year in the US, so it's not unusual or uncommon. Kneeling with a noose about the neck would fit this pattern. An important death scene finding though ought to help cast light on this scenario -- was he naked from the waist down & was there a pile of semen on the floor?