Jeffrey Epstein Found Dead at MCC; Guards Had Falsified Check Logs

Jeffrey Epstein was found hanging in his cell at Metropolitan Correctional Center on August 10, 2019, and was pronounced dead at New York Presbyterian Lower Manhattan Hospital. Guards Tova Noel and Michael Thomas had falsified logs to conceal that they slept instead of conducting required 30-minute checks, and 10 of 11 SHU surveillance cameras were malfunctioning. NYC Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Barbara Sampson ruled suicide by hanging; forensic pathologist Dr. Michael Baden, hired by the Epstein family, said the neck fracture pattern was more consistent with homicidal strangulation.