Posted on 08/14/2019 9:28:00 PM PDT by bitt
While theories on how he met his death (if he is actually deceased) the people who bankrolled him and controlled him, and whom he may have controlled...all get lost in the narrow, unfocused discussions of ‘who dunnit’
Who were his handlers, what was his purpose?
Why the ugly image?
Cyril Wecht, a forensic pathologist, told USA TODAY that he’s skeptical.
“Fractures of the hyoid bone are almost always associated with manual strangulation,” Wecht said. “Because a hand gets up high underneath the chin of the victim.”
Wecht said that multiple breaks or fractures in neck bones are rare to find in suicidal hangings.
A fractured hyoid is possible from any blunt trauma to the neck. However, it is more common in a strangling than in a hanging, according to the National Center for Biotechnology Information.
“Fractures of the hyoid bone in suicide hangings are rare and when you further keep in mind this was not a suicide hanging from stepping off a high ladder,” said Wecht.
According to reports, Epstein had tied a bed-sheet to the bunk and kneeled on the ground and then leaned forward to kill himself.
That maneuver, Wecht said, is not conducive to breaking bones.
“In majority of those you don’t see fractures because there is no great amount of force,” said Wecht. “It’s basic physics.”
Death would likely come from pressure applied to the neck and cut off circulation of nerves, particularly the vagus nerve, which is the tenth cranial nerve and longest nerve in the body, Wecht said.
Questions surrounding Epstein’s death, and any outstanding circumstances, such as his guards sleeping through checks, still fester.
And the bottom line, Wecht said, is that multiple fractures in suicide hangings are rare.
“This case right now has very strong odor to it,” said Wecht.
I don’t recall. Criminal intent one where Gomer Pyle goes into a prison undercover?
I don’t think so. I dunno. Might have been the original “L&O”. But that happened - guy killed himself by ramming unto a wall in his cell.
ears are very good identifiers..if there was a switch who did they do an autopsy on?
also when they took the body out his hands were on his stomach, and since he was not pronounced dead yet his hands were not bagged..if he struggled with someone it would be likely dna skin under his fingernails if he scratched them.
A fractured hyoid is possible from any blunt trauma to the neck.>>>>>>>>>
My belief is that Epstein was hit hard with a sap on the back of the neck, and then strung up to look like he did it to himself. No way these breaks could have happened from the alleged slumped off the bunk “self strangulation” which is being touted as a suicidal “hanging.”
Perhaps he was not dead when strung up, but he was unconscious enough to strangle while semi suspended from the bed sheet.
Someone knows who did it, the sleeping guards are the foremost suspects. Watch and see whether they too both will be killed or disappeared.
He might also have been nothing more than one of the greatest scammers of all time. All froth and bubble and no substance, with a collection of incriminating photographs of the rich and famous. All that was about to go up in smoke...
Was life worth living without the private island, the properties and the toys? More to the point, who really owned it all?
His handlers?
Who might he have been working for?
He went to an awful lot of trouble to get his three ‘massages’ a day.
There’s more to this than meets the eye, though we will never see it.
Skullduggery on a grand scale. He played with fire.
Skullduggery on a grand scale. He played with fire.>>>>
Reminds of the various episodes of Machiavelli.
You are laser-like right in your questions, most of which likely never will be answered.
Until it is proved conclusionively to the exculsion of a reasonable doubt, I see the hand of Clinton in his demise.
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