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Feds Fight Back as Epstein Death Conspiracy Theories Swirl

Associated Press

   NEW YORK - At another time in history, the indictment of two jail
   guards responsible for monitoring Jeffrey Epstein on the night he
   killed himself might have served as an emphatic rebuttal to suspicions
   that the wealthy sex offender wasactually slain.
   Not in 2019.
   Conspiracy theories continued to flourish, even after prosecutors took
   pains to point out the ample evidence backing a medical examiner's
   determination that Epstein hanged himself.
   Video surveillance confirmed, they said in a news release and an
   indictment, that nobody had entered the area where Epstein was locked
   in his cell.
   The locked door to the unit, they said, could be opened only remotely
   by an officer in the jail's control center, plus there was a second
   locked door to which only correctional officers assigned to the
   high-security housing unit had the key. Epstein had no roommate, they
   said, and died alone.

   'People aren't buying' story
   No matter. Social media buzzed with ``Epstein didn't kill himself''
   memes, fueled by the financier's past associations with Britain's
   Prince Andrew and U.S. Presidents Bill Clinton and Donald Trump.
   ``People aren't buying the suicide story,'' said one tweet.
   ``Epstein is alive on a beach somewhere in the Middle East,'' said
   another.
   Democrats and Republicans -- and even Epstein's family and his alleged
   victims -- were united in skepticism that Epstein could have taken his
   own life a month after his arrest on sex trafficking charges.

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