Two physicians stood over the same body on August 11, 2019, and they still do not share a sentence about what the neck means. Dr. Kristin Roman, then a New York City medical examiner, performed the autopsy of Jeffrey Epstein. Dr. Michael Baden, hired by Mark Epstein, watched. Roman left the suicide box and the homicide box blank and marked the manner of death pending. Five days later her boss, Chief Medical Examiner Barbara Sampson, ruled the death a suicide. Baden has spent the years since saying the three fractures in the neck are the kind of crushing injury he associates with homicidal strangulation, not with the jail’s account of a man found in a lower bunk at the Metropolitan Correctional Center. Mark Epstein, who identified the body, told NewsNation on January 9, 2026, that more autopsy facts would prove murder and that he wanted the name of whoever gave the order.
That is the file The AEGIS Alliance is keeping open. The city’s certificate has not moved. The Justice Department inspector general’s 2023 account of sleeping guards and failed cameras has not been withdrawn. What changed across 2026 is that the doctors’ disagreement is no longer only a television argument. It is a transcript, a newspaper interview, and a brother’s demand sitting on a document dump that still does not reclassify the death.
第一天不检查箱子的考官
罗曼对司法部调查员的采访是根据爱泼斯坦档案透明度法发布的,并于2026年3月由"Epstein Files"报道. 商业内幕. She told them she was being thorough. If the dead man had been less famous, she said, she probably would have called it a hanging the day of the autopsy. She wanted to see the cell and to speak with the employee who found the body. Those steps, she said, were for completeness. They were not, in her telling, the fact that decided the case.
Her reading of the bones is specific, and it is the part Baden has never accepted. The hyoid, she said, was broken at the tip, the part that would press against the spine if the body were suspended, not near the joints where she would expect a break if someone squeezed the neck with pressure that was not sustained. The thyroid cartilage, she said, was fractured where the hyoid pressed into it, a pattern she called consistent with hanging. Manual strangulation, she told investigators, would have broken that cartilage unevenly. She described the medical picture to them as pretty clear cut. Once Sampson signed the certificate, Roman’s conclusion was that the cause was hanging and the manner was suicide.
Mark Epstein read that transcript and rejected it. He told Business Insider the officials were either lying, incompetent, or wrong. He is not a pathologist. He is the brother who says the injuries he saw did not match the way the Bureau of Prisons described the scene. On 页:1 he added claims that have not become a named defendant: 73 people on the floor before the death and 72 after, and a question about who the missing prisoner was. He also said the fire alarm, which he described as tied to doors and video, was not working, and that the surviving tape showed a sliver of a door rather than the cell. Those are family allegations. They belong in the story because the certificate never answered them.
当文件落地时,巴登的行没有软化
巴登和他谈过了 电报 in an interview published February 13, 2026. “My opinion is that his death was most likely caused by strangulation pressure rather than hanging,” he said. “Given all the information now available, further investigation into the cause and manner of death is warranted.” He said that at the autopsy he and the city examiner agreed more information was needed, and that Sampson then superseded the pending finding. “The autopsy findings are much more consistent with a crushing injury caused by homicidal strangulation than caused by hanging by suicide.” The official report, as he described it, lists three fractures: one on the left hyoid and one on each side of the thyroid cartilage. “Even one fracture, we have to investigate the possibility of a homicide. Two definitely warrant a full investigation,” he said. He added that in fifty years of reviewing inmate deaths he had not seen that pattern in a hanging ruled a suicide.
In a July 2026 interview with Süddeutsche Zeitung, Baden repeated the homicide reading and said he had never seen three fractures of the laryngeal skeleton in a jail hanging. Florian Fischer, who leads forensic radiology at the University of Munich, told the same project there is no scientific evidence for treating that pattern as proof of homicide. Baden’s memory of cases is not a controlled study, and a radiologist who was not in the room is not a new certificate. A pathologist who watched the examination still wants the case reopened. An outside specialist will not let three broken bones stand in for a named killer.
AEGIS联盟在其 " AEGIS联盟 " 中列出了更古老的相片斗争。 第60次会议. The public still does not have an unredacted image set with a scale and a lighting key. What it has is a pending box that a supervisor filled, a brother who will not drop the question, and a second doctor who has not changed his mind since the morning after the death.
疏疏有据. 杀人犯不是
The inspector general’s report remains the cleanest official document in the jail file. Two guards falsified counts. The unit was short-staffed. Cameras did not produce usable video across the relevant stretch of the night of August 9 into August 10, 2019. A man who had been placed on suicide watch after a July 23 incident, and then taken off it, was left alone. Those facts are federal findings. They prove a jail that could not watch a defendant it had already flagged. They do not, by themselves, prove that another person entered the cell. Mark Epstein has tried to close that gap in interviews. The department has tried to close it with memos that say there is no credible evidence of murder. Neither side has produced an indictment.
当部门贴出一个走廊剪辑片段, 研究人员和兄弟的营地被描述为产生, AEGIS联盟记录了这集 删除动画故事. 失去相机后在透明发布中失去对视频文件的控制的政府不会得到平稳关闭的好处. 嵌入的坏 也不是谋杀定罪。
Handwritten notes in which Epstein argued he would not end his life, because a bail hearing was coming, sit in the same public pile as a note former cellmate Nicholas Tartaglione said he found tucked in a graphic novel. In May 2026, U.S. District Judge Kenneth Karas in White Plains unsealed that note, including a line about choosing one’s time to say goodbye. Mark called the exhibit a forgery. The New York Times, which petitioned for the unsealing, said it had not authenticated the handwriting. The department said it had not seen the paper before the court fight. That sequence is the 笔记和伪造文件. 某文件在多年后通过狱友的案件到达,是一团糟的证据. 这还不是第二人手的证据。
证书和管道是不同的问题
《爱泼斯坦档案透明法》强迫一个垃圾场 部门拖延。 AEGIS联盟记录了政府自己的部分 承认不到1%的藏品已经发行;凯蒂记者 潘后来赢得了初步禁令 对于速度和编辑,覆盖在 张官司. BBC reporters working a February tranche described an 89-page examiner’s report, scans of the cartilage fractures, and an FBI New York timeline from the July 6, 2019 arrest to the morning he was found. The timeline confirmed the suicide-watch placement and the later removal. The fractures were the same bones, now under a government header. The examiner’s office did not reopen the ruling. Mark treated the packet as the proof he had promised NewsNation. A PDF is not a new manner of death.
死亡和贩运管道是相互关联的,而不是相同的案件。 如果这种方式不自杀的话 银行、岛屿和名字 未编辑的黑皮书 仍然发生了。 如果有人指控杀人案,这些机构不会因为他活着时所接触的东西而变得清白。 美国银行幸存者定居点 is the money chapter. The autopsy is the body. Mark Epstein’s question on NewsNation still has no official answer: who killed his brother, and on whose behalf. The city’s answer is that no one did. Roman’s transcript is the most detailed defense of that answer the public has been given. Baden’s interviews are the most detailed attack. Until an independent review of the original slides and a real chain of custody on every camera file exist, both documents stay on the desk at The AEGIS Alliance.
