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Uncle Joe

(64,539 posts)
Thu Feb 5, 2026, 10:10 PM Thursday

Who entered Epstein's jail tier the night of his death? Newly released video logs appear to contradict official accounts

Newly released Department of Justice documents show that investigators reviewing surveillance footage from the night of Jeffrey Epstein's death observed an orange-colored shape moving up a staircase toward the isolated, locked tier where his cell was located at approximately 10:39 p.m. on Aug. 9, 2019.

That entry in an observation log of the video from the Metropolitan Correctional Center appears to suggest something previously unreported by authorities: "A flash of orange looks to be going up the L Tier stairs — could possibly be an inmate escorted up to that Tier."

(snip)

The new records raise more questions about activity near Epstein's tier late that evening. Official reviews of Epstein's death make no mention of the figure in orange, and later pronouncements from authorities including the attorney general at the time, Bill Barr, were that no one entered Epstein's housing tier the night of his death. Last summer in an interview on "Fox & Friends," then-deputy FBI director Dan Bongino said, "There's video clear as day, he's the only person in there and the only person coming out. You can see it."

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The noose Epstein allegedly used has never been definitively identified. According to the inspector general's report, a noose collected at the scene was later determined not to be the ligature used in Epstein's death.

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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/epstein-files-jail-cell-death-video-logs/

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Who entered Epstein's jail tier the night of his death? Newly released video logs appear to contradict official accounts (Original Post) Uncle Joe Thursday OP
A flasher who's orange? Sounds like.... jls4561 Thursday #1
From the pics that I remember of his cell, orange linen or fatigues were all over the place. Uncle Joe Thursday #2
Why whoever could you mean?? Marie Marie Thursday #5
I know, first thought that came to my mind, too yliza Yesterday #7
Why wasn't the Biden administration all over this? exboyfil Thursday #3
Merrick Garland. Mr. Evil Yesterday #8
Yes, it's frustrating. I think our party has always brushed everything under the carpet and tried to move on and heal. C Moon Yesterday #10
Release the Epstein autopsy. gab13by13 Thursday #4
What's the problem with the missing noose. The fuck hung himself, then took the noose and 3Hotdogs Yesterday #6
With the information about a missing suicide noose RockCreek Yesterday #9
I would think we have the technology to clean this image up better Uncle Joe 16 hrs ago #12
CBS is reporting this? kurtyboy Yesterday #11

Uncle Joe

(64,539 posts)
2. From the pics that I remember of his cell, orange linen or fatigues were all over the place.
Thu Feb 5, 2026, 10:20 PM
Thursday

So if a potential assassin carried a bundle of them up, that might have been the flash of orange that the guard noted at that time on the log.



C Moon

(13,540 posts)
10. Yes, it's frustrating. I think our party has always brushed everything under the carpet and tried to move on and heal.
Fri Feb 6, 2026, 12:54 AM
Yesterday

That's obviously not working anymore. The right is just getting worse and worse—more and more evil.

3Hotdogs

(15,145 posts)
6. What's the problem with the missing noose. The fuck hung himself, then took the noose and
Fri Feb 6, 2026, 12:05 AM
Yesterday

hid it in the garbage so people would blame Trump for him being killed.

RockCreek

(1,434 posts)
9. With the information about a missing suicide noose
Fri Feb 6, 2026, 12:29 AM
Yesterday

"The noose Epstein allegedly used has never been definitively identified. According to the inspector general's report, a noose collected at the scene was later determined not to be the ligature used in Epstein's death."

All questions I had about this being a murder are gone.

WTF!?! Where is the extensive murder investigation that should have been taking place for 6+ years now?

Uncle Joe

(64,539 posts)
12. I would think we have the technology to clean this image up better
Fri Feb 6, 2026, 01:55 PM
16 hrs ago
This image from the video — zoomed in and highlighted by CBS News – shows a partial view of something orange on the stairs leading to Jeffrey Epstein's cell tier.
U.S. Bureau of Prisons

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/epstein-files-jail-cell-death-video-logs/

kurtyboy

(980 posts)
11. CBS is reporting this?
Fri Feb 6, 2026, 02:06 AM
Yesterday

I suspect this is a screen for some other thing they don't want us to discuss--they are trying to change the focus.

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