Former AG Bill Barr says he wasn’t convinced Jeffrey Epstein killed himself until he ‘personally viewed’ prison surveillance footage that showed no one else entered his cell
- Barr writes in his new memoir that surveillance footage proves Epstein’s death was suicide
- He said he had ‘personally’ reviewed the footage from The Metropolitan Correctional Center
- ‘It shows conclusively that…no one entered his tier,’ he wrote in his new book
- Epstein died in his prison cell in August 2019 after being arrested for sex trafficking
- His family attorneys said the marks on his neck looked like he had been strangled
- Epstein killed himself by hanging himself with a bedsheet
Former Attorney General Bill Barr writes in his new book that surveillance footage proves Jeffrey Epstein killed himself and wasn’t murdered because it shows no one else entered his cell the night he died.
Barr was the AG when Epstein killed himself in prison in August 2019. He was tasked with investigating how Epstein was able to kill himself while awaiting trial for sex trafficking.
Conspiracy theorists speculated that Epstein was murdered in order to stop him from telling prosecutors about who else was involved in his child sex trafficking ring, if anyone. His family attorneys also said that the marks on his neck looked as though he had been strangled and not hanged by a sheet.
Barr says he ‘personally’ reviewed the surveillance footage and can conclude that Epstein was alone in the cell.
‘The New York City medical examiner had conducted an autopsy and ruled that Epstein killed himself by hanging.
‘Other evidence also pointed to suicide, but it was the video evidence that confirmed the medical examiner’s finding.
‘I personally reviewed that video footage. It shows conclusively that between the time Epstein was locked in his cell at 7:49 p.m. on the night of August 9 and the time he was discovered the next morning at 6:30 a.m., no one entered his tier,’ he wrote in the book, One Damn Thing After Another.
This was what Jeffrey Epstein’s cell looked like after he killed himself on August 10, 2019
Epstein’s lifeless body is shown after being removed from the cell on August 10, 2019
The surveillance footage has never been made public.
FOX News obtained an advanced copy of the book and reported its contents on Thursday.
Instead of murder, Barr said a ‘perfect storm’ of failures by guards at The Metropolitan Correctional Center led to him being fired.
Ghislaine Maxwell is the only other person who has been arrested in relation to Epstein’s crimes.
Barr makes the revelation in his new memoir One Damn Thing After Another
She was convicted of sex trafficking in New York City in December and is currently awaiting sentencing.
She denies ever facilitating the sexual trafficking and plans to appeal her conviction.
The two guards who were on duty were supposed to be checking on Epstein every 30 minutes.
They told investigators that they fell asleep, watched TV and simply forgot their duties – which many conspiracy theorists did not believe.
Even President Donald Trump questioned if Epstein had in fact been murdered to stop him from snitching on his pedophile friends.
Speaking of Maxwell in an interview with Axios, he said: ‘Her friend or boyfriend was either killed or committed suicide in jail.
‘She’s now in jail. Yeah, I wish her well. I’d wish you well. I’d wish a lot of people well. Good luck. Let them prove somebody was guilty.’
‘Her boyfriend died in jail. And people are still trying to figure out how did it happen.
‘Was it suicide? Was he killed? And I do wish her well. I’m not looking for anything bad for her.’
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