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I know I'm going to be called a conspiracy theorist, but, in fact, deep skepticism is often advisable, especially when it involves the powerful and/or rich. Here's a Times' article about a whistleblower in the NYC medical examiners office from January 2019:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/23/nyregion/dna-testing-nyc-medical-examiner.html
TomSlick
(11,035 posts)choie
(4,102 posts)or writes.
TomSlick
(11,035 posts)I'm on DU because I very much care what other people here think.
MineralMan
(146,192 posts)they have. An autopsy can show the immediate, physical cause of death. However, what happened around the time of that death is sometimes unknown to the medical examiner. It's sometimes unknown to anyone, really.
From what I understand, there were no video cameras aimed at the cell, itself, and the guards were apparently not watching Epstein or the cell.
So, the medical examiner has nothing more than the body and its injuries to use in determining whether Epstein hung himself or someone attacked him and made it look like he hung himself. Apparently, the injuries were consistent with a suicide by hanging. Lacking any evidence to the contrary, the medical examiner reports that as the cause of death.
So, a different investigation, by different people, might show something else, but the medical examiner has only what is available - the body.
We have even less information. In fact, we have no information at all on which to base our opinions. So, I'm skeptical of people making conspiracy claims in this case. We're just guessing. I don't do guesses. No doubt, the investigation continues.
JonLP24
(29,322 posts)BTW thanks for the article about the whistleblower.