Murder or Suicide? The Death of Jeffrey Epstein.

Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan

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🗓️ 16 January 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

The death of Jeffrey Epstein has been debated since the minute it was announced to the world. On this episode of Body Bags, Joseph Scott Morgan will share what it was like to be on the air with the news and noticing "red flags" as certain parts of the death story didn't seem to be correct. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack will break down the death of Jeffrey Epstein. Did Jeffrey Epstein commit suicide, or was he murdered?

Transcript Highlights

00:01:17 Joe hears story about where the meanest men in America live

00:04:47 Joseph Scott Morgan talks about covering Epstein death

00:08:23 Discuss first attack/suicide attempt

00:11:45 Talk about unusual circumstances

00:14:37 Discuss conflicting statements about noose

000:17:15 Talk about Epstein allowed unmonitored phone call

00:18:23 Discuss no cellmate to attack or stop suicide

00:20:33 Talk about two nooses in the cell

00:22:42 Discussion of cell condition and contents

00:25:49 Talk about July 23rd event

00:29:25 Discuss observing body at time of death

00:32:25 Talk about putting hospital gown on Epstein

00:34:03 Mark Epstein told his brother may have been dead 2 hours or more

00:37:40 Talk about Epstein body wheeled into hospital

00:40:34 Discussion of hyoid bone

00:42:05 Discuss facts of the body at time of death

00:44:24 Discuss agreement overturned regarding suicide

00:45:14 Talk about autopsy, who was present

00:47:00 Discuss distribution of force

00:48:16 Mentions that noose wasn't collected for evidence.

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0:00.0	Bodybags with Joseph Scott Morgan. In 1972, my father, who had just gotten out of the Marine Corps relocated our
0:27.1	family to Georgia from Louisiana. I was a kid. He took me for a drive in Atlanta, Georgia. And you know how it is when you're
0:40.1	you're little, the world that you're surrounded by at that age seems so big.
0:49.0	You can go to your grandparents' house, you can think about it back then. Things seem so much bigger than they
0:54.1	they actually were, particularly when you get to revisit those locations as an adult.
1:02.0	But you know back then in 1972 I was in the front seat of his
1:08.0	forward pickup truck and we were driving down the road. He said I'm going to take you somewhere and show you
1:14.6	where the meanest men in America live. This is in Atlanta, Georgia and I had no idea.
1:22.3	I didn't even know anything about Atlanta. We just This is in Atlanta, Georgia, and I had no idea.
1:22.5	I didn't even know anything about Atlanta.
1:24.7	We just moved there.
1:27.3	So we're riding down the road, and suddenly,
1:31.2	I look through the windshield at his direction. He said, looked straight ahead and all I could
1:36.4	see was this big gray mass of buildings surrounded by fencing.
1:45.4	And as we grew closer and closer,
1:50.4	those buildings filled up the entire windshield.
1:55.0	You couldn't see anything but gray, mass of gray stone.
1:59.0	And what I was looking at was actually the federal penitentiary that is located in Atlanta, Georgia, and it looked scary.
2:11.0	And as I came to find out later, some of the most notorious criminals in America
2:18.0	had been placed there and had passed through there at some point Tom. I was amazed at the names.
2:26.0	And even as an adult when I began to work in Atlanta as a representative of the medical examiner's office every now and then I'd have to drive by that prison.
2:39.0	And even in a passing glance, that child that I was back in 72 would re-emerge and I still viewed that
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