https://nypost.com/2025/07/30/us-news/mystery-orange-shape-spotted-near-jeffrey-epsteins-jail-cell-night-before-his-death-report/
An orange shape was spotted on surveillance footage near Jeffrey Epstein’s prison cell on the final night of his life — and forensic experts are questioning the federal government’s explanation of the mysterious object.
The shadowy object, seen in video obtained and reviewed by CBS News, moves up the stairs to Epstein’s cell block at the Metropolitan Correctional Center around 10:40 p.m. the night before the 66-year-old convicted sex trafficker was found hanged.
Federal investigators previously concluded the pixelated blob was a corrections officer “carrying linen or inmate clothing,” but forensic experts who spoke to the network as part of an investigation into the jail video now suspect it may have actually been a jumpsuit clad inmate.
“Based on the limited video, it’s more likely a person in an [orange] uniform,” Conor McCourt, a retired NYPD sergeant and forensic video expert, told CBS.
Epstein was found dead in his cell on August 10, 2019 and an official autopsy, as well as a joint DOJ-FBI probe, found that the disgraced financier killed himself by hanging.
But the forensic experts who spoke to CBS News believe there are significant flaws in the Justice Department’s official review of the convicted sex trafficker’s death.
While the FBI claimed surveillance cameras would have captured anyone entering or exiting the area where the billionaire was held, footage released by the DOJ revealed that the staircase is almost entirely out of view, the outlet’s analysis found.
The entrance to Epstein’s cell is also outside the camera’s field of view.
“To say that there’s no way that someone could get to that, the stairs up to his room, without being seen is false,” video forensic expert Jim Safford told CBS, with his view shared by four other leading experts.
The footage also doesn’t appear to be raw, with the outlet reporting it’s likely a screen recording — evidenced by a cursor and menu visible on the screen. The video feed also skipped ahead a full minute just before midnight, and its aspect ratio abruptly shifted.
The Office of the Inspector General responded to the theories raised by CBS, stating they have not modified or changed their conclusion based on the recent analysis into the sexual predator’s death.
“Our comprehensive assessment of the circumstances over the weeks, days, and hours before Epstein’s death included the effects of the longstanding, chronic staffing crisis in the [Bureau of Prisons] and the BOP’s failure to provide and maintain quality camera coverage within its facilities,” the statement to the outlet read.
“As CBS notes, nothing in its analysis changed or modified the OIG’s conclusions or recommendations.”
A furor and fresh wave of public fascination over Epstein’s death erupted earlier this month when the DOJ confirmed there was no evidence he was murdered in his lockup — despite years of conspiracy theorists claiming otherwise — just weeks after being charged with sex trafficking dozens of girls.
The Justice Department and FBI also said, via their investigation, that Epstein didn’t have an incriminating “client list.”
President Trump has since urged Americans to stop wasting “time and energy” on the disgraced financier.
Last week, US Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche met with Ghislaine Maxwell for two days of questioning about the case, with her attorney publicly angling for a pardon or sentence commutation from the president.
Maxwell is currently serving 20 years in prison as Epstein’s accomplice.
Shitty news outlet doesn't mention that it was actually 3 minutes or that his necklace broken in three places which it doesn't happen when you hang yourself, not even with a large drop.
"at one point a menu and cursor appear in the video"
shit, they aren't even trying to hide the fact that it was altered. This is a mistake that wouldn't be made 30 years ago. They don't care. They own the entire court system, the entire justice system.
Trump, Clinton, and Prince Andrew? And were' somehow gonna find out the truth? Sheeeeee-it.
>>1423457 (OP)But enough about Donald J. Trump
>>1423465I mean, can you really deny that there's not only an obvious minute missing, but also metadata showing it's spliced from multiple videos with edits?
>>1423503I mean jokes aside it's almost definitely a prisoner jumpsuit.
>>1423501>metadata showing it's spliced from multiple videos with edits?That's not what the metadata shows, but nice headcanon.
Try /x/ out, it may be more your speed
>>1423505Looks like we got a metadata expert over here
>>1423512Sounds like you'd be surprised what I do for a living
>>1423522Collecting welfare checks and masturbating isn't a real occupation.
I don't have specific knowledge of this jail, but I do have personal knowledge on how jails and prisons typically operate. People who are on suicide watch are typically not observed by prison staff, because they don't have enough people for that; it's usually ONE guard at the central station watching an entire wing up to as many as 50 guys, with one or two guards patrolling.
They have trusted inmate volunteers watching the suicidal people, usually trying to talk to them and de-escalate the guys if they can. They come by on a rotation and check on them.
However, in a situation like this where everyone probably knows he's a serial child rapist and international pimp, guards and other inmates will absolutely look the other way while he kills himself or somebody else helps him out. It didn't even need to be a targeted hit by the government or intelligence agencies, some random could easily have strangled him to death just on the knowledge of his charges. That shit happens every single day, and it doesn't get investigated at all.
>>1423628>some random could easily have strangled him to death just on the knowledge of his charges. That shit happens every single day, and it doesn't get investigated at all.I don't agree with this theory because it was investigated, extensively, and if it wasn't suicide then there was a reason to cover it up by the fbi
>>1423628>However, in a situation like this where everyone probably knows he's a serial child rapist and international pimp, guards and other inmates will absolutely look the other way while he kills himself or somebody else helps him out. It didn't even need to be a targeted hit by the government or intelligence agencies, some random could easily have strangled him to death just on the knowledge of his charges. That shit happens every single day, and it doesn't get investigated at all.Not when he still had a whole ton of people who wanted to know who else was in on it. Epstein is the complete opposite of a random pedo who gets shanked to death by another inmate for being a piece of shit; he was high priority and potentially the key to an entire pedophile ring.
>>1423525So why do you think we'd be surprised?
>>1423628Do they normally give them enough spare blankets to easily create several nooses? Don't answer, it's rhetorical.
>>1423681does it count as spare blankets if they're already converted into nooses?
No fucking shit it was an inmate. I'm so tired of this obvious murder being pretended to be anything else.
>>1423661>Not when he still had a whole ton of people who wanted to know who else was in on it.Inmates would not care about this, and being a known snitch to get lesser charges makes you an even bigger target inside.
I think Epstein was most likely an intelligence asset for the Israelis, but that doesn't mean they or the US government killed him. He was in a dangerous place with dangerous people.
>>1423709>>1423687If you think an inmate did this, I want what you're smoking.
>Yeah that rich pedophile in the depths of maximum security? Fuck that guy right?>I'll sneak out of my maximum security cell, break into his maximum security cell, kill him, make it look like a suicide, then sneak back into my maximum security cell so expertly none of the other cameras pick me upUnless they had fucking Danny Phantom as one of the other prisoners and he could secretly phase through walls, I don't think it was a prisoner. If anything the jumpsuit is him.
>>1423709>being a known snitch to get lesser charges makes you an even bigger target inside.I'm sorry but prisoners kill snitches who snitch on other prisoners. The whole issue with Epstein is no one else got sent to prison because of him.
>>1423726Inmates target anyone who cooperates with or talks to the authorities, or is perceived as doing so.
>>1423724I don't care. I am not theory crafting this. Epstein didn't kill himself. I don't care how it happened. He was obviously murdered and that's the end of that. You have to be an absolute braindead moron to think otherwise.
>>1423749Oh he was obviously murdered. Just not by an inmate.
>>1423750Oh. Fair enough, then. Apologies for my attitude. I'm just tired of this crap.
ORANGE BLOB. Buddhist mind master tRump's TULPA.A tulpa is a materialized being or thought-form, typically in human shape, that is created through spiritual practice and intense concentration. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulpa
>>1423818Trump wouldn't have his Tulpa murdering Epstein. It would be out raping kids.
