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The “missing minute” from the surveillance video at the Manhattan Metropolitan Correctional Center where Jeffrey Epstein died in 2019 may not be missing after all, CBS News has learned.
When the Justice Department and FBI released nearly 11 hours of footage earlier this month, the time code on the screen jumped forward one minute just before midnight, prompting questions about the one-minute gap. The video shows part of the area near the cell where Epstein was being held the night he died in what the medical examiner ruled a suicide.
A government source familiar with the investigation says the FBI, the Bureau of Prisons and the Department of Justice inspector general are all in possession of a copy of the video that does not cut from just before 11:59 p.m. to midnight of the night Epstein died by suicide in his cell.
Even if there were a missing minute, or three, here’s the problem:
For the conspiracy theory to work, somone would have had to have snuck in, murdered Epstein, and snuck out, without appearing on video on either side of that 1-3 minute window.
I really just don’t see how that’s possible. Obviously it depends on how much “real estate” is covered in the video, if we’re talking a 20 foot hallway or something, there’s no way someone is doing that without getting caught on the recording either going in or coming out.
OR there’s more than 1-3 minutes missing… Or the whole thing is faked.
One of the stair ways leading to the cell is obscured, we can’t rule out that entry way. Also the video doesn’t rule out that other inmates on the block could have done the deed.