The Unanswered Questions Of Epstein’s Shocking Death

Jeffery Epstein’s apparent suicide at the Metropolitan Correctional Center leaves many questions (“Epstein ‘suicide’ scandal,” Aug. 11).

Court papers were released on Friday that have names of powerful men who have connections with Epstein. In my opinion, there are reasons these men would not want Epstein going to trial and talking about what they knew or did.

I would hate to think that a conspiracy took place. Epstein was reportedly on suicide watch after an earlier suicide attempt, then was taken off, which should never have happened.

There are many questions and not enough answers at this time. So many women who were hurt by Epstein will not get to tell their stories in court. So very sad. Frederick Bedell Glen Oaks Village

There’s no doubt in my mind Epstein was going to exchange testimony for a lighter sentence.

If he sang to the FBI and Department of Justice, it might have implicated many high-profile people world wide. His life wouldn’t have been worth a cent.

Those at the top of the food chain will always have their own laws and system of justice. The rest of us can rot in jail for an ounce of weed. Stephen Kruger Brugantine, NJ

Attorney General William Barr’s statement that he will investigate “to get to the bottom” of how Epstein died in jail even after he might have been beaten up once before doesn’t inspire any confidence.

The timing of Epstein’s death coincided with disclosures about Bill Clinton and other important people.

The federal Bureau of Prisons, which is in charge of the care of inmates like Epstein at the Manhattan Correctional Center, is part of Barr’s DOJ. So this is like the fox guarding the hen house. Andrew Delaney Flushing

Nice going to the guards and officials at MCC.

By enabling Epstein’s death, they’ve deprived the world of what would have been one of the biggest trials of this century. Charles Winokoor Fall River, Mass.

Although his suffering was nothing compared to the lasting pain and anguish he dealt to young, vulnerable girls, serial child rapist Epstein’s selfinflicted death penalty is a positive outcome.

The young women who Epstein indelibly scarred will now avoid reliving the horror they endured at his hands at a trial, and our justice system and taxpayers will not be burdened with providing his food, housing and legal assistance.

We know that Epstein could not and did not operate in a vacuum. Let us hope that we learn the identity of all of his accomplices and to what extent their actions served to shield a rich, powerful and deviant man, perpetuating his ability to prey on the weak. Good riddance. Oren Spiegler Peters Township, Pa.

I can’t say I feel much sympathy for Epstein, who supposedly committed suicide in his jail cell.

Having said that, most of us would like to know how it was possible for him to hang himself as reported? How did he get the materials to do this?

Are the correction officers and the warden at the prison so stupid and incompetent as to let this happen?

Something does not quite add up. Epstein had powerful, high-profile friends, who might have been exposed had he lived. They would have greatly benefited from his “silence through death.” The whole thing stinks. Robert Polin Brooklyn

You don’t have to be a professional conspiracy theorist to smell a rat in the matter of the Epstein “suicide.”

My prediction is that we’ll have the whole truth of Epstein’s life and death about the same time we find Jimmy Hoffa’s body. Mike Reynolds Jay

After his arrest, Epstein should have been put in protective custody for being a pedophile, and a famous one at that.

Dead men tell no tales. I think that’s what the government was hoping for when it comes to Epstein. Chris Tripoulas Manhattan