On Wednesday, British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell was found guilty of sex trafficking of a minor, four other charges.
The next morning, federal prosecutors asked a judge to dismiss charges against Tova Noel and Michael Thomas, the prison guards on duty at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York City at the time of pedophile Jeffrey Epstein’s death.
The pair failed to perform mandatory inmate checks on the night of Epstein’s “suicide” and then falsified records. They later told authorities they’d been napping and surfing the internet in the hours before they discovered Epstein “unresponsive” in his cell at 6:30 a.m. on August 10, 2019.
Reuters reported that Noel and Thomas had agreed to “deferred prosecution agreements” in May “which required that they each perform 100 hours of community service and cooperate with a federal probe arising from Epstein’s death.”
The New York Medical Examiner ruled Epstein’s death a suicide.
Dr. Michael Baden, himself a former Chief Medical Examiner of New York City, disagrees and told Fox News’ Will Cain last week that “Epstein’s autopsy points to homicide.”
Baden, a Fox Business Network Contributor, was present at the autopsy. Below is a transcript of their discussion:
BADEN: There were crush injuries to the neck — three fractures in the neck, which is extremely unusual in a suicidal hanging.
Usually, there aren’t any fractures in a suicidal hanging, and this is more typical of a homicidal strangulation type injury. The ligature on the floor, made from the sheet didn’t match the ligature burrow in the neck.”
The guards that slept, and didn’t look at his cell for eight hours, they are supposed to look at least every 30 minutes and refused to say when they finally went there what his body was positioned in, were his feet on the ground? Was he on his knees? Was he on his abdomen? None of that came out from their statements. They refused to say anything.
And the FBI, which was investigating the case because it was a federal jail, therefore, the New York City Police were not involved in the investigation, but the FBI investigated and they haven’t released anything, including why the videos of the cell and of the tier weren’t working. They have the videos; I’ve looked at them. They haven’t said whether they were manipulated.
So I think as Professor Turley said, there’s a lot more to his death than has been released so far.
CAIN: No doubt. Video suddenly doesn’t work, guards suddenly asleep. On our screen right now is a graphic of the hyoid bone in the throat.
BADEN: Yes.
CAIN: Will you help me understand? Now, you said there’s a difference. You said there’s a difference between the marks on a body who has been strangled versus the marks on a body that had died from a suicidal hanging. How do those two markings differ in an autopsy?
BADEN: The internal investigation, when — the head weighs about 10 pounds, so when somebody hangs, the free hanging, there’s — the body weight less 10 pounds, say a 200-pound person would weigh 190 pounds pressure on the neck. That’s not enough to cause a fracture of the hyoid bone, usually, almost always.
And you need an additional pressure, more than the body weight pressure to break the hyoid bone and the two bones underneath — the thyroid — Adam’s apple — the thyroid cartilage were also fractured and that is extremely unusual for a suicide.
So that points in that direction. It has to be investigated.
It was called a suicide. The doctor who did the autopsy, I was there. A doctor does the autopsy, says it is undetermined. She is overruled two or three days later by the Chief Medical Examiner who calls it a suicide before all of this information has been gotten together.
So, I think there may have been a premature rush to judgment to call it a suicide for whatever the reason, because usually these things take weeks before they worked out at the earliest.
So the issue I had referred to earlier in the law is, how come certain things haven’t been done legally? Well, how come certain things haven’t been done in investigating the death of Epstein?
CAIN: Well, if your judgment is correct, that Epstein’s death was not a suicide, but that it was a homicide, there is more than one reason that Glenn Maxwell should sleep uneasy in prison tonight.
Dr. Michael Baden, thank you so much for joining us tonight.
BADEN: Thank you.
CAIN: On your screen, by the way, as we say goodbye to Dr. Michael Baden, you see an image of Jeffrey Epstein’s neck and there is some illustration of some of what he is describing there that appears suspicious in the ruling of a suicide.
It seems to me that the feds are using Ghislaine Maxwell’s conviction to end the Jeffrey Epstein case.
But Maxwell is far from the only guilty party in this case.
Shortly after Epstein’s 2019 arrest, Vanity Fair’s Gabriel Sherman described the case as an “asteroid poised to strike the elite world in which Epstein moved.” He noted that even after Epstein was forced to register as a sex offender, he continued to cavort among the rich and famous.
Yet, no one beside Maxwell and Prince Andrew have been accused of wrongdoing.
From the suspicious circumstances in the hours before Epstein’s death to the radio silence about the other recipients of sexual services, there are a trove of unanswered questions.
Someone, in a very influential position, wants this case to be over. And they’ve moved heaven and earth to do so.
Will the bodies remain buried, or will justice prevail?
A previous version of this article was published on The Western Journal.
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