New York City medical examiner Dr. Kristin Roman, who oversaw convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein‘s autopsy, revealed why she hesitated to rule his death as a suicide.
Roman said the reason for her delay was partly due to her wanting to be 100% certain that Epstein hanged himself given the high-profile nature of the case and circumstances surrounding his death in the latest tranche of files released by the U.S. Department of Justice last week.
“It was pretty clear cut” that it was suicide, Roman told investigators her examination via the New York Post.
“If he had been a less high-profile person who there weren’t people wanting to kill, I would have probably called it a hanging on the day of autopsy. But this was thoroughness that made me look for these things before I called it a suicide,” she added.
Roman also told investigators she wanted to speak to the prison employee who found Epstein’s body in his cell before making an official ruling, but was prohibited from doing so.
“‘Was he fully hanging? Where was he hanging?’ That kind of stuff,” Roman said of the questions she intended to ask the employee.
“I would have been a little bit more circumspect if there had been another inmate in there with him who had made threats,” she added. “But even knowing that … it would have been more for completeness rather than a big factor in making the determination.”
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