In cell where Jeffrey Epstein died, a scene of disarray that never underwent thorough inspection, experts said

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: CBS News

Updated on: October 9, 2025 / 7:55 AM EDT


The federal investigation into the death of convicted sex-trafficker Jeffrey Epstein was marred by significant lapses, experts told CBS News, including the failure by investigators to interview potential witnesses, properly preserve certain evidence and run basic forensic tests.

Nearly two years passed before investigators interviewed the two key corrections officers on duty the night Epstein died in his cell in the Metropolitan Correctional Center in downtown New York City, in what was later ruled a suicide, according to court documents. One of those officers was the only person to attest to seeing Epstein hanging by a bedsheet from his bunk.

And details pulled from 90 photos of the cell and other evidence collected in the hours after Epstein's death — but before FBI agents arrived to process the scene — appear to show a succession of basic oversights, ranging from an absence of evidence markers to items being moved, experts told CBS News.

"The FBI literally has all of the best tools. I mean, spared no expense. They have every tool you can imagine. And they used none of it as far as we can tell," forensic analyst Nick Barreiro said after reviewing the photos, many of which have never been published. "How are there not way more people pointing out the absurdity of this?"

Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jeffrey-epstein-cell-where-he-died-disarray-no-thorough-inspection/

[gab13by13]

1. Release the Epstein autopsy,

3 small bones were broken in Epstein's neck and 2 forensic experts stated that those broken bones do not happen in a hanging, they happen from strangulation. Primarily.

[tanyev]

2. You can't find anything incriminating if you never look.

[JoseBalow]

34. Stop the testing!

[hlthe2b]

3. I'd never consider anyone having doubt on this "suicide" as being a conspiracy theorist. There are major questions...

That said, as much as I put NOTHING past Trump--who I believe to be a sadistic sociopath and possibly a psychopath--it is a special level of ghoulishness if he actually ordered the "hit" on his former "best friend" to protect himself. That said, Hitler would have done so without hesitation...

[gab13by13]

4. The Kaiser Family Foundation

did a study and estimates that the cuts to healthcare in the Big Ugly Death Bill will kill 50,000 Americans per year.

It's a lot more sinister than just killing one person, Project 2025 wants depopulation, better known to them as eugenics.

[hlthe2b]

6. Americans and that has immediacy. But, he's already killing what will end up being millions from his USAID demolition.

[Trueblue Texan]

19. I don't doubt what you say, but...

...it doesn't make sense that they want depopulation, yet try to destroy reproductive contraceptives.

[Irish_Dem]

29. Banning reproductive freedom is about torturing and controlling women.

Women cannot go to school or get a good job if they are pregnant all the time.
Like the old days.

[travelingthrulife]

35. They want white babies.

They are also GOP so too stupid to understand that people of color will have more children too.

[BumRushDaShow]

7. I think it goes far beyond 45

who has deemed himself "immune" (thanks to John Roberts) from any crime. It's all the other "monied interests" who apparently frequented Epstein's homes and island and who want that kept on the "down low".

So I expect there is a "protection racket" going on and Johnson is part of it.

[tonekat]

10. Excellent point!

There are private entities with so much more power and anonymity than trumpustle that could have done this.

[riversedge]

14. Agree and it is as if they have super powers when they band together.

[KT2000]

13. Exactly

trump inherited Epstein's business. He has control of all of his materials - names and possibly tapes of very powerful people. I would love to know if payments have been made to keep this quiet.

We all know trump's name is in the files - it is the others. As Eric Weinstein said, the wealthy have no problem getting sex, but what they need is secrecy.

[KS Toronado]

37. I've always thought dumpie ordered the hit

If my memory serves me correctly didn't Bill Barr visit the prison the day before the
the alleged hanging but never talked to Epstein himself just prison officials?

[BootinUp]

5. Was this story penned or directed by Bari Weiss? This is nothing but CT garbage. nt

[BumRushDaShow]

8. She was only brought in the past week

This stuff looks like it has been simmering on the back burner since the early 2020s.

[hlthe2b]

9. CBS has been actively investigating this for more than a year--well before she was a "glimmber" in CBS-Paramount+

eyes. Sometimes questions are just that--questions unanswered and which should have been at least asked.

[gab13by13]

12. If it looks like a duck,

walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, I guess it may not be a duck unless someone looks closer.

Release the Epstein autopsy.

[BootinUp]

15. It looks like CT garbage

[gab13by13]

17. 2 expert forensic doctors,

stated that the broken bones in Epstein's neck were consistent with strangulation, not hanging.

Want me to find the article?

[BootinUp]

20. I would be shocked if there were not such statements.

Clearly you don’t know how the game is played.

[Kid Berwyn]

23. The covering up for fascist game?

For some reason, some people are unable to see a conspiracy ever.

[NBachers]

11. Kick to keep alive

[Bayard]

16. Epstein was trump's best friend,

Mostly for what he could provide. Partners in crime. I'd like to see an independent pathologist report on the autopsy as well.

[Botany]

18. Epstein died with in 24 hours of saying Trump had let him use his plane and that Trump had been on his ...

…. plane “The Lolita Express” numerous times too.

[Blue Owl]

21. Donny Dump really has someone looking out for him

How many times has he clearly fucked up to the point where everyone can see it, yet he is shielded from any actual punishment?

Jesus fucking Christ.

[hadEnuf]

25. Nobody else would have done what Trump has done and is still doing. Open treason, fleecing the taxpayers

turning the country into a police state aristocracy. Even the most loathsome Republicans never dared to go as far as him, not that they didn't want to. But now that they have someone like Trump, he is considered frigging gold. The billionaires have never made so much money and had so much power, nor has any politician had such a giant propaganda machine behind him dismissing open corruption.

They will justify anything that Trump does as long as he keeps delivering.

[AllaN01Bear]

22. mob hit. he was going to sing i feel.

[Mme. Defarge]

24. K&R!

[republianmushroom]

26. Just cause, cause we didn't need to, just to say "SUICIDE".

Suicided decided before the FBI got the call, several days before.

[Old Crank]

27. Republicans love incompetence.

It is what they do.

[Irish_Dem]

28. FBI was in on the cover up.

They either never attempted to investigate the crime scene or they did
and the evidence pointed right to Trump.

[Kid Berwyn]

30. When you don't interview eyewitnesses for 2 years, it's a cover-up.

Who has seen Officer Nicholas "Epstein's Quadruple Murderer Cellmate" Tartaglione mentioned in the coverage of Epstein's demise?

Bill Barr assigned psycho killer cop as Epstein's first cell mate.

Nicholas Tartaglione, Jeffrey Epstein’s first cellmate, is a hulking ex-cop-cum drug dealer then-charged, now convicted, quadruple murderer. For some reason no one in authority found confusing, Epstein said he didn't appreciate it when he woke up to find the killer ex-cop's muscle-y hands around his neck.



To be fair, Tartaglione denied making the marks on Epstein’s neck when the presidents’ friend was found unresponsive in his cell the first time. Barr’s DoJ was surprised to hear the news and moved Tartaglione to another cell.

Perhaps this under-reported story is why many today think Epstein tried to kill himself.

https://yonkerstimes.com/dirty-westchester-ex-cop-is-epsteins-cell-mate/

The assignment of a violent psychopath as a cell-mate makes one wonder if Barr really had Epstein’s safety in mind. Otherwise, somebodies high up in the MAGANAZIGOP might have wanted to shut Epstein up permanently before there had been a trial, let alone a conviction.

Recently, Tartaglione told Rupert Murdoch’s New York Post that Epstein confided in him that the Feds offered Epstein a deal in exchange for dirt on Donnie Dipshit. Tartaglione added that Epstein told the Feds he barely knew Trump, that they didn’t like each other, but Dipshit was nice to females, and that he knew nothing about Trump’s politics. Right-o.

https://nypost.com/2025/01/18/us-news/feds-offered-jeffrey-epstein-a-deal-for-dirt-on-trump-ex-cellmate/

Then, there's Bill Barr's dad, Donald Barr, who hired Epstein the college dropout to teach at the Dalton School...

[electric_blue68]

36. Woah, had missed this re cell mate. Definitely incompetence of sorts.

[cstanleytech]

31. Ya, his 'assisted' suicide investigation wasn't handled well at all.

[RockRaven]

32. The cover-up started immediately, as it always does.

Did ANYONE believe, prior to reading this article, that everything was done by the book?

[progressoid]

33. Epstein Epstein Epstein