Jail guards overseeing Jeffrey Epstein used a decoy body to mislead reporters gathered outside the prison after his death, while his real body was secretly removed in a separate vehicle, newly unsealed files claim.
According to an internal memo, a jail supervisor told FBI agents that staff at Manhattan’s Metropolitan Correctional Centre staged the ruse amid an intense media presence following Epstein’s apparent suicide in 2019.
The files allege that boxes and sheets were placed to resemble a human body and loaded into a white van marked as belonging to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, prompting reporters to follow it as it drove away.
Unbeknown to the media, Epstein’s real body was instead put into a black vehicle that left the building ‘unnoticed,’ permitting officers to transport the corpse privately.
The apparent ruse was carried out after an official alerted guards about the large number of journalists assembled outside the prison and said he would arrive at the loading dock with a separate black vehicle to remove the body.
The records also show that investigators highlighted a handwritten note discovered inside Epstein’s cell at the time of his apparent death, which was not treated as a suicide note by the medical examiner.
The note, which investigators said was ‘difficult to read’, seemed to document grievances about prison conditions, including complaints about food, showers and bugs.
The records, included in a tranche of three million newly released documents, describe how officers reacted to the heavy media presence outside the prison in the hours after Epstein’s supposed death.
After Epstein was pronounced dead at the hospital, his body was returned to federal custody at the prison while arrangements were made for its transfer to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.
One interview note states that because of the ‘large news media presence,’ staff devised a plan to ‘thwart’ reporters as the body was removed.
According to the document, officers ‘used boxes and sheets to create what appeared to be a human body, which was put into the white OCME vehicle, which the press followed, permitting the black vehicle to depart unnoticed with EPSTEIN’s body.’
Other sections of the records tell how officers were stationed at a secure facility connected to the prison, where Epstein’s body was guarded while fingerprinting, and other procedures were carried out ahead of its transfer.
Epstein was being held in the Metropolitan Correctional Centre in New York on sex trafficking charges at the time of his death on August 10, 2019.
Now, I’m genuinely wondering if the man is still alive or if he’s smiling as he watches all of this media attention, and of course, having a fake body ready and waiting would suggest a degree of forward planning by somebody.
I didn’t believe he was alive until now. Perhaps he was the fall guy that never fell.
Why would the guards care if the media saw a body bag with someone’s body in it? Whether it had a fake body in it or the real body, it wouldn’t matter because the media report would be the same in both cases, and if he is still alive, he will be extremely well protected.
If it were not a tragedy, it would be almost comical. The guards failed to check on him, and they found a body but took no photographs – definitely a fishy rat here!
Pictures of his cell, where he was discovered, resembled a laundry room with multiple orange garments spread about. It was almost as if they were saying, ‘take your pick,’ and how he managed to cut the garments up has yet to be clarified.
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