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Mega Edition: Jeffrey Epstein's Death And The 38 Minute Gap In Reporting (10/18/26)
One of the strangest unresolved episodes surrounding Jeffrey Epstein’s death involved an anonymous 4chan user who appeared to announce his death before the news became public. Epstein was officially pronounced dead at NewYork-Presbyterian Lower Manhattan Hospital at approximately 7:36 a.m. on August 10, 2019, but at 8:16 a.m.—roughly 38 minutes before ABC News reporter Aaron Katersky first reported the death publicly—an anonymous 4chan poster wrote that Epstein had died about an hour earlier from hanging and cardiac arrest. When other users questioned the claim, the poster supplied unusually…
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