Blade_Runner wrote:
I thought you were a medical expert. Don't you know that as people age, after about age 30, their bones begin to deteriorate. With increasing age, bones lose mass and mineral content, they are prone to osteoporosis, they become less dense and brittle, more fragile, and are more susceptible to fractures.
Epstein was 66 years old and weighed 180 pounds. If Epstein was kneeling and the noose was secured to a bed post, he would have had to fall forward to put his weight into it. The force on his neck would have been lateral, not vertical as in a gallows hanging. Much easier to break bones in the neck and spine with a lateral force.
When I was a firefighter, we responded to a call of a suicide by hanging in a university dorm. When we arrived, a campus police officer was already there. He had determined the victim was not breathing and there was no pulse. The paramedics with us confirmed that. No one moved the body or cut him down until the city police officers dispatched had arrived. The sergeant who investigated ruled it an unintentional auto-erotic asphyxiation. That was obvious.
The victim was about 18 or 19 years old, was quite thin, and weighed about 130 or 40 pounds. He had fashioned a noose with several pairs of panty hose, tied it to a ceiling beam, and stood on a chair. He either stepped off of it or kicked it out from under him. He was naked except for the panty hose he wore with a hole cut in the crotch, his genitals exposed. A knife lay on the floor beneath him, so he apparently intended to cut himself down before it was too late.
When the police sergeant finished his notes and concluded his investigation, he said we could cut him down so the ambulance crew could transport the body.
We assisted the paramedics in getting the body down and secured in a body bag. A paramedic cut the rope and everyone there noticed immediately that his neck was broken. His head flopped around without any skeletal or muscle support at all. Some vertebrae in his neck had obviously separated.
I never read the autopsy report on this guy so I have no clue what condition his body and bones were in. All I can say is he didn't appear very healthy, and it didn't take much to break his neck.
I don't know how or why Dr. Barbara Sampson, the NY ME, ruled Epstein's death a suicide. I don't know the extent or severity of internal injuries she found, including bone breaks. I don't know if she was politically motivated or under some kind of pressure. I don't know if she had been coerced, intimidated, or threatened in any way.
And neither do you.
I do know that if Dr. Sampson is a professional and wanted to keep her job, she certainly would have done the autopsy according to the ethics of the medical profession. To do otherwise could subject her to criminal prosecution.
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