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If you want my opinion—and it's just that, though based on years working in the justice system—the chance this *wasn't* a suicide is vanishingly small. The question—and it'll be looked at—is if he was being threatened, blackmailed, or induced to self-harm and a guard looked away.
And that's actually the thing that bothers me the *most* about being misquoted in the media; someone with my background claiming the Saudis or Trump allies "had Epstein killed"—something I never said and don't believe—would in effect be revealing they don't know much about crime.
To kill someone in federal custody who's in a single-occupancy cell under CCTV or live monitoring, and to have the time to arrange the scene and the body to create the appearance of a suicide-by-hanging for the autopsy...no. It's a frankly preposterous notion. It wouldn't happen.
Had something like that happened—which I strongly think it *didn't*—you would've heard news minutes after the news of Epstein's death revealing that a) a guard is unexpectedly gone from the MCC or b) there are no signs of strangulation—and instead some evidence of blood toxicity.
Instead, we had none of those things—and repeated corroboration of on-site evidence suggesting a hanging, which leaves investigators seeing a suicide but wondering whether outside forces somehow facilitated, induced, or negligently looked away from (and thus enabled) the suicide.
