Latest / The Epstein Chronicles / The Epstein Death Question Revisited With Dr. Michael Freeman’s New Findings (10/8/26)
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- 0:00Speaker 1: What's up everyone and welcome to another episode of the
- 0:03Speaker 1: Epstein Chronicles. A few days ago we were talking about Dr.
- 0:07Speaker 1: Michael Freeman and his new report talking about Jeffrey Epstein's death.
- 0:12Speaker 1: And according to Mr. Freeman, there were several things that
- 0:16Speaker 1: he found problematic with them calling it a suicide. So
- 0:20Speaker 1: in this episode, we're going to dive into an article
- 0:23Speaker 1: from the Metro giving us a bit more context on
- 0:26Speaker 1: what Mr. Freeman is alleging. Headline, Jeffrey Epstein's death was
- 0:32Speaker 1: more likely a struggle, not suicide. This is the evidence.
- 0:37Speaker 1: This article was authored by Luke Alsford. Jeffrey Epstein's autopsy
- 0:42Speaker 1: file shows his death was more consistent with a struggle
- 0:45Speaker 1: and not suicide, a respected forensic pathologist told Metro after
- 0:50Speaker 1: reviewing the evidence. Dr. Michael Freeman, fellow of the Royal
- 0:54Speaker 1: College of Pathologists in London, will publish an independent report
- 0:58Speaker 1: about the late financier's death after he was given the
- 1:01Speaker 1: complete medical examiner's file by Epstein's brother, Mark. And look,
- 1:06Speaker 1: I know that a lot of us aren't the biggest
- 1:08Speaker 1: fans of Mark Epstein. But if it was your brother,
- 1:12Speaker 1: you'd want to know the truth too, right? I know
- 1:15Speaker 1: I'd want to know if he was killed or if
- 1:16Speaker 1: he hung himself or what happened. And I think that
- 1:20Speaker 1: if you're trying to get to the bottom of what happened,
- 1:22Speaker 1: having people like Dr. Bodden and Dr. Freeman involved is
- 1:26Speaker 1: a good-ass idea. Ahead of the bombshell talk revealing his
- 1:30Speaker 1: findings next month, Freeman told Metro the suicide determination was problematic.
- 1:35Speaker 1: He pointed to evidence such as fingernail marks, which allegedly
- 1:38Speaker 1: showed Epstein tried to get the ligature off in a
- 1:41Speaker 1: potential struggle or assault. And look, I don't know why
- 1:46Speaker 1: anybody would be surprised by this. We don't even know
- 1:50Speaker 1: what that blur was, that orange blur in the video,
- 1:54Speaker 1: next to Jeffrey Epstein's jail cell. Tova Noel said it
- 1:57Speaker 1: wasn't her. If it wasn't her, who was it? Nobody
- 2:00Speaker 1: else was there. So was it a ghost? Or was
- 2:03Speaker 1: it another inmate that was lurking and waiting for Epstein?
- 2:06Speaker 1: I think that scenario is very, very possible. And I
- 2:09Speaker 1: think that Jeffrey Epstein had way too much to live
- 2:13Speaker 1: for still. And I've said this from the beginning. When
- 2:16Speaker 1: you have the kind of money Epstein has, and you've
- 2:18Speaker 1: already beat these kinds of charges one time before, you're
- 2:21Speaker 1: going to feel pretty confident. And I have just a
- 2:24Speaker 1: hard time believing that Jeffrey Epstein is going to kill
- 2:27Speaker 1: himself over a few days in lockup. That just doesn't
- 2:31Speaker 1: seem to be the kind of person that Epstein was.
- 2:34Speaker 1: From everything that we know, from everybody we've heard from,
- 2:38Speaker 1: that doesn't seem like the logical conclusion. Now, I'm not
- 2:41Speaker 1: saying it can't be possible. I'm not saying for sure
- 2:44Speaker 1: that he didn't kill himself. What I'm saying is, I
- 2:48Speaker 1: don't believe the narrative, and I don't think they've provided
- 2:51Speaker 1: enough evidence to make me believe it. And that's where
- 2:55Speaker 1: I'm at. It's either show me evidence or shut all
- 2:58Speaker 1: the way up. And it looks like Mr. Freeman is
- 3:02Speaker 1: going to do exactly that. Show us some evidence. Dr. Freeman,
- 3:06Speaker 1: who previously served as chair of forensic and legal medicine
- 3:09Speaker 1: with the Royal College of Physicians, told Metro, There are
- 3:13Speaker 1: lots of things that are not explained by a suicidal hanging,
- 3:16Speaker 1: but are consistent with potentially a struggle. And I remember
- 3:20Speaker 1: at the time, we heard from multiple people that had
- 3:23Speaker 1: forensic experience say the same thing. And I think that
- 3:25Speaker 1: one of the biggest problems for the official narrative is
- 3:28Speaker 1: the hyoid bone being broken. That's not something that happens
- 3:33Speaker 1: when you, you know, hang yourself from the kind of
- 3:36Speaker 1: place where Epstein allegedly hung himself. When that hyoid bone breaks,
- 3:41Speaker 1: usually it's due to manual strangulation, right? Somebody doing that
- 3:45Speaker 1: shit to you. And according to Dr. Freeman and Dr. Bodden,
- 3:50Speaker 1: that's what they believe. he had injuries that could not
- 3:53Speaker 1: possibly have been caused by a ligature. The pathologist will
- 3:56Speaker 1: be releasing the complete medical file, including portions not public,
- 4:01Speaker 1: after his talk at a university college London law faculty
- 4:04Speaker 1: event next month. Man, I wish I can go to that.
- 4:07Speaker 1: That would be awesome. Because I would love to hear
- 4:10Speaker 1: what he has to say. And you know what I'm
- 4:12Speaker 1: going to do? I'm going to reach out to Dr.
- 4:14Speaker 1: Freeman and see if he wants to have a chat.
- 4:16Speaker 1: Because I'd love to get it from the horse's mouth.
- 4:19Speaker 1: I think that's the best way to go, right? Go
- 4:22Speaker 1: to the actual source and see what they have to say.
- 4:25Speaker 1: So I'm going to reach out to Dr. Freeman and
- 4:28Speaker 1: see if he wants to come on the podcast or
- 4:30Speaker 1: talk to me for a little while and tell us
- 4:33Speaker 1: what he found and what led him to believe that
- 4:36Speaker 1: Jeffrey Epstein was in fact murdered and didn't kill himself.
- 4:39Speaker 1: A guard said that they discovered him hanging with an
- 4:42Speaker 1: orange colored strip of material around his neck in a
- 4:45Speaker 1: near seated position. The New York Chief Medical Examiner's Office
- 4:49Speaker 1: ruled his death a suicide, which was later backed up
- 4:51Speaker 1: by a review from the Department of Justice in 2023
- 4:55Speaker 1: and FBI findings. Yeah, you mean the Trump Department of Justice?
- 5:00Speaker 1: Which we now know is less than reliable when it
- 5:03Speaker 1: comes to Jeffrey Epstein and what Epstein was up to.
- 5:06Speaker 1: And certainly not reliable when it comes to giving us
- 5:09Speaker 1: the truth. And when you look back with hindsight as
- 5:11Speaker 1: your guide, it becomes pretty damning, right? Considering what they're
- 5:15Speaker 1: willing to do now to try and cover it up,
- 5:18Speaker 1: does it really shock anybody that there might have been
- 5:21Speaker 1: some kind of plan or plot to take Epstein out?
- 5:25Speaker 1: Doesn't shock me, and I certainly wouldn't be surprised if
- 5:27Speaker 1: somewhere down the road, we find that out. Dr. Freeman
- 5:33Speaker 1: says he's the first person trained in forensic pathology who
- 5:36Speaker 1: has reviewed all the evidence, including the entire autopsy file,
- 5:40Speaker 1: since the suicide determination. The top pathologist told Metro that
- 5:45Speaker 1: Epstein's death was completely unique in the annals of suicidal
- 5:49Speaker 1: hanging descriptions. Yo, that's crazy. And that's not me saying it,
- 5:54Speaker 1: or somebody, you know, that doesn't have experience as a
- 5:57Speaker 1: forensic pathologist. Somebody that actually knows what's what. And according
- 6:02Speaker 1: to him, this is completely unique. Not something that happens maybe,
- 6:07Speaker 1: but completely unique. And I'm going to take him at
- 6:10Speaker 1: face value when he says that. He claimed that we
- 6:12Speaker 1: had no picture of him suspended, there was no picture
- 6:15Speaker 1: of him after he was taken down from the suspension,
- 6:18Speaker 1: and that all had to do with Thomas and Tovanoel.
- 6:22Speaker 1: None of the policies were followed, nothing was done in
- 6:25Speaker 1: the aftermath that should have been done, they didn't treat
- 6:28Speaker 1: it like a crime scene, nothing. Dr. Freeman believes the
- 6:32Speaker 1: guard's description of the position where he found Epstein was credible,
- 6:35Speaker 1: so he said his focus was, could all of Epstein's
- 6:38Speaker 1: injuries have been caused by the hanging scenario, in which
- 6:41Speaker 1: he was found. He has concluded there are some very
- 6:44Speaker 1: notable inconsistencies and areas where there is not adequate explanation
- 6:49Speaker 1: of what the medical examiner found. The expert said Epstein
- 6:53Speaker 1: had a number of injuries, aside from the ligature marks,
- 6:56Speaker 1: including on his left shoulder and behind his neck. Yeah,
- 6:59Speaker 1: because he was struggling, that's why. Trying to get that
- 7:04Speaker 1: thing off of him. I know we've all seen that
- 7:06Speaker 1: shit in the movies, right? Somebody gets a bag put
- 7:08Speaker 1: over their head, starts getting choked with a garrot or something,
- 7:11Speaker 1: And the freak out begins. Nobody's just going to sit
- 7:14Speaker 1: there and let it happen. They fight back. He added
- 7:19Speaker 1: he had injuries that could not possibly have been caused
- 7:22Speaker 1: by a ligature. And he had facial injuries that were
- 7:24Speaker 1: clearly not caused by resuscitation efforts. He had been dead
- 7:29Speaker 1: for hours by the time they tried to resuscitate him.
- 7:32Speaker 1: That's true too. My guess is it happened early in
- 7:34Speaker 1: the night. You know, when Tova and Mr. Thomas decided
- 7:37Speaker 1: they'd have a little nap. Dr. Freeman, who worked with
- 7:41Speaker 1: a team of researchers, said that there was evidence that
- 7:44Speaker 1: aligned potentially with a struggle and assault. He claimed that
- 7:47Speaker 1: one of the things that I'll point out during my
- 7:50Speaker 1: lecture will be the presence of what appears to be
- 7:52Speaker 1: fingernail marks above the ligature mark. That would be consistent
- 7:56Speaker 1: with his own fingernail marks trying to get the ligature off. Yes,
- 8:01Speaker 1: that's what happens. Someone starts choking you. Your instinct is
- 8:05Speaker 1: going to be to try and get that thing off
- 8:07Speaker 1: of you. And to do that, obviously, you got to
- 8:10Speaker 1: grab it, right? Dig into it. And if there's fingernail
- 8:13Speaker 1: marks there, that's a big deal. Dr. Freeman said this
- 8:19Speaker 1: information was not even the good stuff, which will come
- 8:22Speaker 1: out during the talk next month. And he's doing this
- 8:25Speaker 1: in front of other professionals, right? People in the field.
- 8:29Speaker 1: He's not just, you know, shooting from the hip, starting
- 8:31Speaker 1: a podcast or going on Reddit. This is a guy that,
- 8:34Speaker 1: you know, does this for a living and somebody that
- 8:37Speaker 1: is well-respected and in his industry. So, when he has
- 8:41Speaker 1: a report coming out, my advice is, we all pay attention. Now,
- 8:45Speaker 1: does that mean we should just blindly believe whatever he says? No.
- 8:49Speaker 1: But I think that it's something that's going to be
- 8:51Speaker 1: important to help put the pieces together. The pathologist acknowledged
- 8:55Speaker 1: that there'll be people who are going to disagree with him,
- 8:58Speaker 1: but he was releasing the autopsy files publicly to let
- 9:01Speaker 1: the world judge for themselves. He explained that medical examiners
- 9:05Speaker 1: don't want to have their work looked at again. Meanwhile,
- 9:08Speaker 1: that leaves everybody without recourse to go back and say,
- 9:11Speaker 1: can we have a second look at this? And nobody
- 9:13Speaker 1: wants to have their work checked, right? Especially if you're
- 9:16Speaker 1: somebody like a medical examiner. You rule that somebody has
- 9:19Speaker 1: been killed via suicide. You don't want somebody going back
- 9:23Speaker 1: and changing that ruling. Science is what you can prove.
- 9:27Speaker 1: What is replicable? What's reproducible? That's what I'm focused on.
- 9:32Speaker 1: So the fact is Jeffrey Epstein is actually more of
- 9:35Speaker 1: a nuisance factor than because there's so much interest in it. Dr.
- 9:39Speaker 1: Freeman said he has no opinions about the debate and
- 9:42Speaker 1: conspiracies surrounding Epstein's death. The New York medical examiner told
- 9:46Speaker 1: Metro their office stands by the determination of suicide after
- 9:50Speaker 1: they were asked about Dr. Freeman's criticisms. Epstein's brother, Mark Epstein,
- 9:55Speaker 1: previously told Metro the report will be game-changing. He said
- 9:59Speaker 1: the independent group has been properly studying the autopsy results
- 10:03Speaker 1: for months, comparing evidence against autopsies of suicides and murders.
- 10:09Speaker 1: The younger brother, who gave the panel Jeffrey Epstein's autopsy report, added,
- 10:13Speaker 1: they are not doing this on my behalf. I'm not
- 10:15Speaker 1: paying for this. So that also gives it some credit, right?
- 10:19Speaker 1: He's not paying for it. There's no motivation, financially speaking,
- 10:23Speaker 1: to come to this determination. So I'm very interested to
- 10:27Speaker 1: see what Dr. Freeman came up with. And obviously, once
- 10:30Speaker 1: we have that report, I'll get it added to the
- 10:32Speaker 1: catalog and share it with all of you. But until then,
- 10:36Speaker 1: that's going to do it for this one. All the
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