Former US Attorney General Bill Barr has outlined the reasons he believes Jeffrey Epstein almost certainly took his own life, undercutting unfounded theories that swirled after the child sex offender's death during a deposition with House investigators.
Barr didn't believe it was possible, he said, for someone to get into the convicted sex offender's jail cell without being captured on security camera footage.
"For me, the video was the icing on the cake," Barr said in recent testimony with House investigators.
"There was a lot of evidence about, you know, his state of mind and other physical evidence pointing to suicide and also testimonial and records pointing to this."
The jail also had recordings and guards in place that didn't detect anyone entering Epstein's jail cell.
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