NEW YORK, NY. (THECOUNT) — A forensic pathologist hired by the brother of the late, Jeffrey Epstein, claimed on Wednesday that evidence suggested that the convicted sex offender did not die by suicide.
The New York City medical examiner concluded that the 66-year-old’s August death was caused by hanging in his Manhattan jail cell, where he was awaiting trial on federal sex-trafficking charges, however, pathologist, Michael Baden, told Fox & Friends that the autopsy he observed “points to homicide rather than suicide” and that Epstein had a number of injuries that “are extremely unusual in suicidal hangings and could occur much more commonly in homicidal strangulation.”
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Baden added: “I’ve not seen in 50 years where that occurred in a suicidal hanging case.” To be clear, New York City’s chief medical examiner, Barbara Sampson, has ruled Epstein’s death a suicide and has strongly denied the claims made by Baden on Wednesday.
Baden, 85, famously testified for the defense in the O.J. Simpson murder trial and conducted private autopsies after the killings of Michael Brown and Eric Garner, reports TheDailyBeast.
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