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格雷厄姆·凯茨是哥伦比亚广播公司新闻数字频道负责报道刑事司法、隐私问题和信息安全的调查记者。可通过KatesG@cbsnews.com或grahamkates@protonmail.com联系格雷厄姆。
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据爱泼斯坦的哥哥透露，一名审阅过杰弗里·爱泼斯坦尸检记录的顶尖病理学家计划展示相关研究结果，对官方得出的这名声名狼藉的性虐待者上吊自杀的结论提出质疑。
“他们全面审视了整个事件，以科学方式进行了调查，真正开展了侦查工作，”马克·爱泼斯坦周五对哥伦比亚广播公司新闻表示。
《法医学与法律医学杂志》主编、教授迈克尔·弗里曼计划于11月16日在伦敦大学学院展示其研究成果后，发表他的分析报告以及从马克·爱泼斯坦处获得的纽约市法医办公室尸检文件。
马克·爱泼斯坦周五对哥伦比亚广播公司新闻表示，弗里曼的分析坚定了他的看法，即他弟弟的死亡需要进行更深入的调查。
“杰弗里最初死亡证明上的死因——他们对此进行了更细致的研究；这类研究此前从未开展过，”马克·爱泼斯坦说道。“如果此前进行过这类研究，他们就不会得出自杀的结论。”
“这份报告并非受我委托制作，他们是出于自愿开展的这项工作，”他补充道。
弗里曼的审查指出了多项使爱泼斯坦的死亡调查在自杀案件中显得“与众不同”的细节，包括案发后未拍摄爱泼斯坦遗体的现场照片，且所用的勒颈绳索未被留存或检验。勒颈物指的是用于勒颈或捆绑他人的绳索或其他材料。据调查人员透露，爱泼斯坦一案中使用的是床单。
弗里曼对勒痕图案进行了“生物力学分析”，并查阅了他对哥伦比亚广播公司新闻所称的“法医未解释的受伤部位相关影像”。目前他拒绝透露自己的结论。英国报纸《泰晤士报》率先报道了弗里曼的计划展示内容。
“死亡原因只能是自杀或他杀，本次演讲将阐述两种解释的证据权重，”俄勒冈健康与科学大学医学院以及荷兰马斯特里赫特大学医学中心的教授弗里曼说道。弗里曼此前的工作包括为马里兰州法医办公室的一次审计提供咨询。
弗里曼开展审查之际，恰逢《联邦爱泼斯坦文件透明度法案》引发全球对爱泼斯坦及其社交圈的关注，该圈子由富有的精英权贵组成，即便爱泼斯坦因性虐待指控声名狼藉，他们仍与其保持交往。爱泼斯坦2019年在狱中死亡，当时他正面临未成年人色情交易的联邦指控。
这项2025年通过的法案要求司法部公开其关于爱泼斯坦及其相关人员的大量调查记录。
今年5月，美国一名地区法官下令公布爱泼斯坦死亡前不到一个月发生的一起事件中疑似自杀的笔记。该笔记于2021年5月作为涉及爱泼斯坦前狱友尼古拉斯·塔尔塔格利奥内的谋杀案的一部分被归档并密封。《纽约时报》提交申请后，该笔记得以公开。
塔尔塔格利奥内是一名曾被判杀害四人的前警官，他在播客采访中称，自己在爱泼斯坦死亡后的次日早上在一本书中发现了这张笔记，并将其交给了自己的律师。
这张潦草书写的笔记内容似乎是：“他们调查了我一个月——一无所获！！所以才以15年前的指控结案。”笔记中还包含“该说再见了”和“毫无乐趣——不值得！！”等语句。
哥伦比亚广播公司新闻未对该笔记进行独立核实。
Pathologist to present Epstein findings that raise questions about whether he killed himself
October 2, 2026 / 6:03 PM EDT / CBS News
By Graham Kates Reporter
Graham Kates is an investigative reporter covering criminal justice, privacy issues and information security for CBS News Digital. Contact Graham at KatesG@cbsnews.com or grahamkates@protonmail.com
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A top pathologist who reviewed Jeffrey Epstein’s autopsy records plans to present findings that call into question the official conclusion that the disgraced sex abuser’s death by hanging was a suicide, according to Epstein’s brother.
“They looked at this whole thing, they looked at it scientifically, they truly investigated this,” Mark Epstein told CBS News Friday.
Michael Freeman, a professor who is editor-in-chief of the Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine, plans to publish his research and the New York City Medical Examiner’s autopsy files — which he obtained from Mark Epstein — after presenting his findings at the University College London on Nov. 16.
Mark Epstein told CBS News Friday that Freeman’s analysis bolstered his belief that his brother’s death required a deeper investigation.
“The cause on Jeffrey’s original death certificate — they further studied it in detail; this kind of study hasn’t been done before,” Mark Epstein said. “If this kind of study had been done before, they wouldn’t have come up with a suicide conclusion.”
“This report was not done on my behalf, they did this on their own volition,” he added.
Freeman’s review highlights several details that make Epstein’s death investigation “unique” for a suicide case, including that there were no photographs of Epstein’s body at the scene of his death and the ligature used wasn’t preserved or examined. Ligature refers to the rope or other material used to choke or bind a person. In Epstein’s case, according to investigators, bed sheets were used.
Freeman performed “a biomechanical analysis” of the ligature pattern and reviewed what he described to CBS News as “images that show injuries unaccounted for by the medical examiner.” For now, he has declined to describe his conclusions. The Times, a British newspaper, first reported on Freeman’s planned presentation.
“The death can only be a suicide or a homicide, and the lecture will describe the weight (of) evidence for both explanations,” said Freeman, a professor at the Oregon Health & Science University School of Medicine and the Netherlands’ Maastricht University Medical Center. Freeman’s previous work includes advising an audit of Maryland’s medical examiner office.
Freeman’s review comes as the federal Epstein Files Transparency Act has fed a worldwide fascination with Epstein and his circle of elite, wealthy power players who socialized with him even as he became notorious for allegations of sexual abuse. Epstein died in jail in 2019, while facing federal charges for sex trafficking of minors.
The act, passed in 2025, required the Department of Justice to release its voluminous investigative records into Epstein and those in his orbit.
In May, a U.S. district judge ordered the release of an apparent suicide note from an incident less than a month before Epstein’s death. The note had been filed and sealed in May 2021 as part of a murder case involving Epstein’s former cellmate, Nicholas Tartaglione. It was released in response to a filing by The New York Times.
Tartaglione, a former police officer convicted of killing four people, claimed in a podcast interview that he found the note in a book the morning after Epstein’s death, and he gave it to his lawyers.
The scrawled note appears to read: “They investigated me for month — found nothing!!! So 15 year old charges resulted.” The note also includes the phrases “time to say goodbye” and “No fun — not worth it!!”
CBS News has not independently verified the note.
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