Jeffrey Epstein Likely Murdered, According To Forensic Pathologist

Ho. Lee. Crap. 

So that celebrity autopsy guy, Dr. Michael Baden, was on Fox this morning to say that Jeffrey Epstein’s autopsy shows a cause of death much more indicative of homicide than suicide.

From the source:

He noted that the 66-year-old Epstein had two fractures on the left and right sides of his larynx, specifically the thyroid cartilage or Adam’s apple, as well as one fracture on the left hyoid bone above the Adam’s apple, Baden told Fox News.

“Those three fractures are extremely unusual in suicidal hangings and could occur much more commonly in homicidal strangulation,” Baden, who is also a Fox News contributor, said.

While there’s not enough information to be conclusive yet, the three fractures were “rare,” said Baden, who’s probed cases involving O.J. Simpson, President John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, record producer Phil Spector, New England Patriots star Aaron Hernandez and many others.

“I’ve not seen in 50 years where that occurred in a suicidal hanging case,” the 85-year-old medical legend told Fox News.

I don’t know about y’all, but that seems like kiiiiiiiiiiiiind of a big deal to me.

This is a doctor who’s examined more than 20k bodies, and generally is considered an expert at this sort of stuff.

Here’s more:

Baden…explained that if a person weighed 120 pounds and their head weighed 10 pounds, there would be 110 pounds of pressure on the neck at the jaw during a hanging. But, if someone put a hand around a person’s neck and squeezed, that could double or even triple the pressure on the neck, Baden said.

There were also hemorrhages in Epstein’s eyes that were common in homicidal strangulation and uncommon, though not unheard of, in suicidal hangings, the forensic pathologist said.

“The prominent hemorrhage in the soft tissues of the neck next to the fractures is evidence of a fresh neck compression that could have caused the death,” Baden said.

Baden stressed his independent study was not complete. “The investigation is not completed until all the information has come in,” he said.

He says further investigation is needed, but raise your hand if you think that’ll Actually Happen.