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Dr. Michael Baden saw photos of a summary from Epstein's autopsy, that showed 3 broken bones in Epstein's neck, his comment to Fox News was that in his 50 years he has never seen a hanging where those 3 bones were broken. Baden said the broken bones were more common in strangulations.
A summary of the autopsy was released but I don't think the entire autopsy has ever been released?
https://www.foxnews.com/us/jeffrey-epstein-autopsy-report-released-photos-bone-fracture?msockid=25d6599f42ad6c523b244bb643056dc7
Disclaimer for posting a link from Fox News, it involves the testimony of a reliable forensic pathologist.

BOSSHOG
(43,446 posts)What the hell does he know about broken necks? Strangling somebody is a method of suicide. Everybody I love knows that. Why are you still talking about this?
gab13by13
(29,065 posts)your response.
I know they released a summary of the autopsy but don't believe they released the entire autopsy.
Did they check for strange DNA on Epstein's neck and bed sheet?
BOSSHOG
(43,446 posts)Lets keep up the good fight however we can.
SSJVegeta
(1,191 posts)BurnDoubt
(871 posts)Isn't that how we got into this mess?
Nobody ever asked "who are this 'lotta people?'"
And nobody EVER asked: "What will America look like when it's 'Great Again?'"
stopdiggin
(14,101 posts)at the behest of FoxNews
But, hey! All in here!
gab13by13
(29,065 posts)Are you saying that Fox brought the guy in to say that Epstein may have been murdered? Trump was president and Billy Barr was AG.
You confused me. Are you one of the people who believe that Epstein committed suicide? I have this bridge....
EdmondDantes_
(700 posts)But apparently the person who did the autopsy and the Biden era DOJ are just rubes.
Baden himself admits that the breakage is only more common in homicide strangulation not dispositive of suicide strangulation. People don't understand odds very well.
prodigitalson
(3,132 posts)EdmondDantes_
(700 posts)From the link:
No Evidence Contradicting the FBIs Determination that there Was No Criminality Associated with Epsteins Death.
Separate from the OIGs investigation, which focused on the conduct of BOP personnel, the FBI concurrently investigated whether Epsteins death was the result of criminal conduct by any non-BOP actors. Among other things, the FBI investigated the cause of Epsteins death and determined it was not the result of a criminal act. The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, City of New York, determined that Epstein died by suicide. While the OIG determined MCC New York staff engaged in significant misconduct and dereliction of their duties, we did not uncover evidence contradicting the FBIs determination regarding the absence of criminality in connection with Epsteins death.
Autumn
(48,185 posts)Complacent? Yes. A lot of stuff should have been released and dealt with, including this report from 2023, the trump era.
EdmondDantes_
(700 posts)And are you suggesting that the people who actually wrote the report were under orders or just complacent?
That's one of the many problems with these conspiracy theories. They require either a lot of complicit people who then never say anything or unitary actors.
Autumn
(48,185 posts)Melon
(636 posts)He didnt drop from the ceiling. He basically tied a homemade rope around his neck and then crouched until he lost consciousness with his body weight.
I am not convinced that he wasn't suicided.
Melon
(636 posts)Similar to Robin Williams. There is nothing in a cell to hang from the ceiling. Just rope around neck short enough that you sit and body weight causes strangulation.
brush
(60,748 posts)AG Barr visited, shortly thereafter Epstein was dead and guards were 'alledgedly and mysterious' absent. Yeah, right.
Sometimes Occam's Razor is what it is.
still-prayin4rain
(367 posts)before actually dying?
Melon
(636 posts)A boy had killed himself on a double bunk bed. We found him basically strangled but on his knees.
Putting a short rope around your neck and sitting down with it on a low bar on a bunk bed. You lose consciousness and pass out and hang. .
Robin Williams was a belt on a door knob. Thats waist level.
still-prayin4rain
(367 posts)NutmegYankee
(16,438 posts)Many suicidal hangings are only partial suspension. But the broken bones raise the possibility he was rendered unconscious by strangulation and then arranged in a manner to let gravity finish the job.
3Hotdogs
(14,411 posts)wile his hands were handcuffed behind his back. He shot himself.
Joinfortmill
(18,672 posts)Kaleva
(39,682 posts)A preeminent but controversial medical examiner, Baden testified that he had billed about $100,000 so far in the Simpson case, but defense lawyer Robert L. Shapiro sought to blunt any challenge to Badens credibility by eliciting his detailed testimony about work he has done for prosecutors, including the Los Angeles County district attorneys office
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-08-11-me-33974-story.html
moniss
(7,757 posts)Barr of the cell and slumps to choke off the airway from body weight I'm not so sure that bones would break. I would think that would happen more likely from a considerable weight jerking on the neck like jumping off a chair at least.
Melon
(636 posts)The bones break because these people arent executioners. They tie a basic knot and hand their body weight from it when they pass out. The knot slips and is incredibly tight. It can get so tight from body weight that it splits the skin. Same force or worse than strangulation.
moniss
(7,757 posts)of how he supposedly hung himself? Your response leads me to believe you didn't.
Melon
(636 posts)He basically twisted paper tight for a noose. You are not given fabric clothes usually on suicide watch. He didnt hang by the neck with his feet dangling. Hanging when the noose draws tight like that is strangulation. It doesnt break the neck. The rope just tightened around your neck and you pass out, body weight strangles you. His but was a barely off the ground is what I had heard. If you weigh 180 pounds, the rope will get very tight around the throat. Im not necessary disputing what the autopsy expert said but hes paid. Paid people tend to match the opinions of those that pay.
moniss
(7,757 posts)was a way for him to jump with some weight snapping against his neck I doubt whether the bones in his neck would break. Honestly this is like me saying it's night time and you saying to me "No it's not it's just that the sun went down and it's dark."
Melon
(636 posts)Is the mechanism here. This isnt breaking the neck. Its small bones. The hyoid and cartridge. Strangling someone with your hands commonly breaks them. A ligature will break them.
Someone in a jail cell without access to long rope. Without access to a high point. In a cell designed to stop suicides through hanging do not hang from a rope. They die from asphyxiation, just like a ligature strangulation. Its classified as hanging because body weight is constricting the rope, but the mechanism is strangulation. They put their body weight against a rope until they pass out, then their full body weight is on their neck except for their legs.
moniss
(7,757 posts)what they found with how they say Epstein did it. Period. I believe how those bones came to be broken was from other circumstances. Someone can die of self imposed asphyxiation without breaking bones. I have never believed that the official story is on the up and up. But then again there are people who still swear the Warren Report is gospel.
Tetrachloride
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