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Medical Examiner Kathleen Liggio And Her Epstein Investigation Report · The Epstein Chronicles

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  Speaker 1: What's up, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the
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  Epstein Chronicles. In this episode, we're going to continue talking
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  about the death of Jeffrey Epstein, and this time we're
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  taking a look at the investigation report that was filed
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  by the Medical Examiner's Office. And this portion of the
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  report was prepared by someone named Kathleen Liggio. So let's
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  jump in and let's see what she had to say
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  about the death of Jeffrey Epstein. Case synopsis. The decedent
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  is a sixty six year old white male prison inmate
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  who was found hung by the neck within his cell
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  and was later pronounced dead at the hospital despite resuscitative efforts.
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  D NOKA does not object to an autopsy. PMH information
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  is pending on receipt of the correction facility. Medical Health
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  Services records subjective findings. As per doctor dejer of the
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  ed at New York President Materian Lower Manhattan Hospital, EMS
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  found the decedent to be in cardiac arrest with the
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  ligature markings of the neck following an unknown downtime at
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  the Metropolitan Correctional Center. The decedent was innovated and was
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  given epinephrine times four and biocarbonate times two along with
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  CPR ACLS was continued at THEED. The decedent was given
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  an additional epinephrine times one and biocarbonate times one. However,
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  the decedent was in acetol by cardiac monitor and the
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  cardiac standstill by ultrasound. He was pronounced dead at seven
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  thirty six hours so seven thirty six in the morning.
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  Ligature markings of the neck were observed by doctor Dejur
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  in the ED as well as by EMS. However, no
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  ligature material was observed by either EMS or doctor Dejure
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  in the E. No bloods were drawn and no fennyl
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  was administered in the ED or by EMS. Doctor de
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  Jur was instructed to submit to OCME a complete clinical
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  summary worksheet the EMS, ACR and ED notes. These were
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  received except the ACR. An email was sent to Evidence
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  request with ccs to evidence pickups and OCME tour commanders
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  requesting that the ACR be obtained. The undersign was accompanied
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  by Nicholas Schultz, Deputy Director of Forensic Investigation and Operations
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  for a MLI. Scene Investigation. Special Agent redacted were also
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  present at the scene conducting their investigation. As per Redacted
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  at MCC. The decedent was detained at MCC since seven six,
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  twenty nineteen on charges of sex trafficking, conspiracy, and sex
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  trafficking of minors as inmate number seven sixty three one
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  eight zero five to four. He was placed in a
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  cell on seven seven, twenty nineteen, but was moved for
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  psychological evaluation on seven eight, twenty nineteen through seven ten,
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  twenty nineteen. This psychologist was redacted. He was then moved
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  a special housing unit from seven ten, twenty nineteen to
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  seven twenty three, twenty nineteen. However, on seven twenty three,
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  twenty nineteen, the decedent attempted suicide by hanging in the
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  early morning hours this date, the deceded cell mate inmate
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  Nicholas Tartaglione, was awakened by a sound and saw the decedan.
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  He started banging on the cell door to alert the
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  corrections officers. Redacted responded that had won twenty seven hours
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  and observed the decedent to be either seated or laying
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  in a fetal position on the cell floor, with a
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  loose homemade noose around his neck made from torn orange
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  bed sheet. At this time, the decedon was found to
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  have arrhythmia around two thirds of the circumference of his
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  neck two inches wide, with sparing of the back of
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  the neck. There were also some friction marks. The decedon
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  was transferred to Suicide Watch from seven twenty three, twenty
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  nineteen to seven twenty nine, twenty nineteen. He was transferred
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  to the Shoe again on seven twenty nine, twenty nineteen,
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  where he remained until the DoD He was in cell
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  number two O six originally this last time in Shoe,
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  but was switched to sell to twenty at an unknown
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  date and time. The decedon had a cell mate, in
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  mate Rayes. However, on the morning of eight nine, twenty nineteen,
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  in made rays went to court and was released through
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  the court. No cellmate was present at the time of
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  the incident leading to the Deceedon's death. Information was taken
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  from redacted and redacted regarding this incident. Regular rounds of
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  the inmates cell are conducted by the corrections officers every
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  thirty minutes, but no longer than at forty minute intervals.
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  It's unknown when the decedent was last seen alive. Pending
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  interview of MCC personnel. On the morning of eight ten,
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  twenty nineteen at six thirty three hours. During these regular rounds,
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  officers Redacted found the decedent hung by the neck within
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  his cell number two twenty. However, the location within the
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  cell and the position of the decedent or unknown pending
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  interview of MCC personnel. Redacted removed the decedent from an
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  unknown fixed object and placed them on the cell floor.
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  The officer started CPR. In the meantime, Redacted entered the cell.
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  Redacted took over performing CPR, and the decedent was taken
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  to the Medical Health Services Area. EMS arrived and took
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  over care for the decedent. There seen investigation details. The
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  scene was within the decedent cell number two twenty on
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  tiers L of the shoe within the MCC of the
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  scene photos I NV Scene zero zero three depicts the
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  sealed cell door to two twenty. Photos zero zero four
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  depicts a straight ahead view from the now open cell door.
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  Photos zero zero five represents the left side of the
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  room beyond the right side wall of photo zero zero four.
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  The right side of the room can be viewed in
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  photo zero zero nine. There's betting materials strewn in the
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  middle of the floor, including a mattress presumably from the
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  top bunk, and orange blanket and sheets. There was a
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  cepat machine on the floor with an electric cord reportedly
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  provided by the MCC staff at bedtime twenty two hundred
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  hours and plugged into an outlet to the right outside
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  of the cell door. Adjacent to the toilet and sync
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  is a small table and stool On the right side
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  of his cell. There was a handwritten note. It was
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  not a suicide note, but its content vented frustrated about
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  conditions and experiences at the facility. There was a bunk bed,
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  The mattress was removed and personal items were kept on
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  the top bunk. Amongst these were medications and supplements, including
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  vitamin C five hundred milligrams, pulled fil eight cream one
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  percent viseeppa Omega three, two boxes of a set of
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  mitafin five hundred milligrams which were both seal closed multi vitamins,
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  A sealed container of milk magnesia was also sealed, and
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  dacusate sodium one hundred milligrams. The bottom bunk had rumpled
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  up orange bedding. There were strips of orange cloth, presumably
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  from betting, located in different spots in the room. Included
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  amongst these was what appeared to be a makeshift clothes
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  line between the bunk bed post with a pair of
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  orange underpants hung from it. Measurements of the bunk bed
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  are set as follows. The height from the floor to
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  the top bunk was fifty eight and a half inches.
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  The length of the bed set was seventy nine and
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  a half inches. The width across the bed. Photo zero
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  fifty two depicts the bottom bunk mattress was twenty five inches.
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  Photo forty nine shows the heights of the wrongs of
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  the latter to the top bunk. Redacted of the Medical
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  Health Service arrived to the scene and presented the ae
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  D with defibrillator pads used on the decedents, along with
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  the ligature, which appears to be a strip piece of
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  an orange bed sheet. As per Redacted, the ae D
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  revealed no shockable rhythm on the decedent. The ligature was
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  collected by the undersigned and entered into the evidence locker
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  cage at redacted in Manhattan. As per Redacted, he was
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  made aware by m c C staff that the deceded
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  cell mate rais left. It is believed that some of
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  the items in the cell may have been his which
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  were not removed. Additional information as per adacted confirmed that
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  the decedents and okay as brother Mark Epstein redacted was
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  notified of the decedent's death. The undersigned called the brother
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  and discussed OCME policy and procedure with regard to an
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  ME case. He does not object to an autopsy. However,
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  he's requested to have present private independent physician pathologist as
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  a second opinion for the findings at the OCM autopsy.
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  Doctor Jason Graham has agreed to allow this as a
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  courtesy to the family, with the following conditions. The physician
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  must be a forensic pathologist. He she must arrive at
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  OCME at five point twenty First Avenue in Manhattan before
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  or by nine am. On eight eleven, twenty nineteen, Mark
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  Epstein was made aware of this and he understood he
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  was instructed to call OCME with his choice of the
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  private pathologist. Beforehand, he was pro with the Manhattan OCME
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  office address, telephone number, and the decedent's OCME case number.
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  He expressed that following completion of the autopsy, he intends
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  to have the decedent's body ship to Florida. The visual
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  identification process was also discussed with the brother. Note the
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  discedent cell at MCC is being held pending the preliminary
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  autopsy results. It's requested that the assigned me discuss the
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  preliminary autopsy findings with FBI Special Agent redacted disposition ME
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  case hospital with mL scene investigation. NOKA does not object autopsy,
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  and OKAY plans to retain an independent forensic pathologist to
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  observe the autopsy. The information provided above is true and
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  correct to the best of my knowledge and belief. Electronically
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  signed by Kathleen Liggio on August eleventh, twenty nineteen. All
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  the informa that goes with this episode can be found
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  in the description box.