The Department of Justice released more Epstein documents recently, including two separate analyses of surveillance footage from the night of August 9, 2019, at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York.
Jeffrey Epstein was found dead in his cell on the ninth-floor Special Housing Unit (SHU) at around 6:30 a.m. on August 10.
The OIG analysis lists movement starting at 22:27:05, with a person behind the SHU officer's desk. The person walks off camera toward L tier, laundry, and SHU exit at 22:29:52, returns at 22:32:01, disappears again, then moves up and down stairs between J, K, G, and H tiers multiple times.
At 22:35:39 the outline suggests a female walking down G upper tier stairs. At 22:38:47 the person heads toward L tier, laundry, and SHU exit. Then at 22:39:42 a "flash of orange" goes up the L upper tier stairs.
The note says inmates were on lockdown.
The FBI analysis tracks similar activity from 10:29 p.m. onward, with the person moving from the desk toward L tier or laundry exit, possibly to M tier, then up to J tier, down to K tier, to G tier (noted as possibly Officer Noel), to H tier, back to the desk at 10:36 p.m., off camera at 10:38 p.m. toward laundry exit.
At 10:39 p.m. a "flash or orange" goes up L tier stairs, noted as possibly an inmate being escorted.
Epstein’s cell sat on L tier, locked and isolated from everyone else. He was taken off suicide watch on July 29, only days after he was found injured in his cell. Guards Tova Noel and Michael Thomas were supposed to check on him every 30 minutes, but they faked the logs and didn’t even try. No one was supposed to be anywhere near his cell that night.
Both reports catch the orange flash at 10:39 p.m., heading straight for Epstein’s tier while the place was supposed to be locked down tight.