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TWO BRUTAL PRISON MURDERS TRANSMOGRIFIED INTO BIZARRE SUICIDE COVER-UPS
During January 2023, Tucker Carlson featured a segment that challenged the theory that Jeffrey Epstein committed suicide. He was not alone. Many doubt the official narrative. What the doubters don’t realize is how the press used the cover-up of a 1995 brutal prison homicide to facilitate the cover-up of Epstein’s (very likely) homicide.
On August 21, 1995, Kenneth Michael Trentadue was found dead in his allegedly suicide-proof cell at the Federal Transfer Center in Oklahoma City.
https://kennethtrentadue.com/pdf/crimescene/MORTUARY%20PHOTOGRAPH%202.pdf
Pieces of his skull were missing in three different places. His knuckles were deeply bruised and swollen
https://kennethtrentadue.com/pdf/crimescene/MORTUARY%20PHOTOGRAPH%204.pdf
There were deep bruises underneath his arms, including bruises shaped like a person’s fingertips running along his biceps.
https://kennethtrentadue.com/pdf/crimescene/MORTUARY%20PHOTOGRAPH%205.pdf
During an interview on Fox news on July 3, 1997 Dr. Fred Jordan, the State Medical Examiner, spoke candidly:
“I think it’s very likely he was murdered. I’m not able to prove it. I have temporarily classified the death as undetermined. You see a body covered with blood, removed from the room as Mr. Trentadue was, soaked in blood, covered with bruises, and you try to gain access to the scene and the government of the United States says, ‘No, you can’t.’
“They [the federal government] continued to prohibit us from having access to the scene of death, which is unheard of. …..
“There are still questions about the death of Kenneth Trentadue that will never be answered because of the actions of the United States government.”
https://www.motherjones.com/wp-content/uploads/legacy/news/featurex/2007/07/Jordan_7.3.97.pdf
(Transcript) Emphasis added.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86hZhcjZHE8
(Poor Visual)
According to the Department of Justice (DOJ), Trentadue’s appalling injuries resulted from his hanging himself in that “suicide-proof” cell during a 24-minute interval between bed checks. The FBI and the DOJ successfully made their suicide fantasy the accepted narrative about Trentadue’s death.
The only person who wasn’t fooled was Kenneth Trentadue’s brother, Jessie Trentadue, a trial lawyer in Salt Lake City who kept challenging the government’s lies. What he could not figure out was what triggered the violent assault. That issue was addressed in the congressional Rohrabacher Report, which examined the many controversies surrounding the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. It turns out that Trentadue’s violent and gruesome death may have arisen from a case of mistaken identity:
Bank robber Richard Guthrie claimed that he would soon be revealing information that would blow the lid off the Oklahoma City bombing case. The next day, he was found dead, hanging in his cell, purportedly a suicide. This suspicious “suicide” mirrored the similar death of Kenneth Trentadue, another prisoner, who may have been tangentially and incorrectly linked to the Oklahoma City bombing. The death of these two prisoners, who happened to be very similar in appearance, is more than disturbing. (Emphasis added.)
https://www.motherjones.com/wp-content/uploads/legacy/news/featurex/2007/07/Rohrabacher_Final_Report.pdf
According to the FBI, Richard Guthrie was a member of the Midwest Bank robbers gang that reportedly shared stolen monies with Timothy McVeigh to help fund the Oklahoma City bombing. Trentadue may have been beaten to death by prison guards because they mistook him for Guthrie.
This is more or less where matters stood until 2019, when Epstein was discovered dead in his federal prison cell, purportedly another prison hanging. The next day two prominent newspapers described Epstein’s death in relation to Trentadue’s death.
From the Wall Street Journal (emphasis added):
The investigation into Mr. Epstein’s death could take years to complete. It took more than two years, for instance, for the Justice Department’s inspector general to complete a probe into the death of Kenneth Trentadue, who was found hanging in his cell at a federal prison…
https://www.wsj.com/articles/there-were-serious-irregularities-at-federal-jail-where-jeffrey-epstein-died-barr-says-11565622895
The Hill newspaper article was more colorful:
Deadly déjà vu: Epstein’s prison death was decades in the making
https://thehill.com/opinion/criminal-justice/457304-deadly-deja-vu-epsteins-prison-death-was-decades-in-the-making/
By accident or design, each newspaper incorrectly referred to Trentadue’s death as a “suicide.”
Epstein’s death, as it turns out, was just as unlike a “suicide” as Trentadue’s was. To begin with, how many people are aware that Dr. Barbara Sampson, then Medical Examiner for New York City, did not attend Epstein’s autopsy? Consider:
[Acclaimed forensic pathologist Dr. Michael] Baden told the [Miami] Herald that the pathologist who actually conducted the autopsy, Dr. Kristin Roman, also had trouble determining that Epstein hanged himself, and initially determined that the manner of death was ‘pending.’
https://web.archive.org/web/20191103074537/https:/www.miamiherald.com/news/state/florida/article236809668.html
Less than a week later, Dr. Sampson changed the manner of death from “pending” to “suicide,” with no further findings or input.
Then there was the matter of the fact that Epstein allegedly killed himself simply by kneeling into the noose. Moreover, during a 60 Minutes interview, Baden noted, “This looks like a clean noose that was never used to compress anybody’s neck.”
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/did-jeffrey-epstein-kill-himself-60-minutes-investigates-2020-01-05/
Baden explained that “there was no transfer of blood or skin to that noose although Epstein had a bloody wound under his chin.”
https://www.wpbf.com/article/new-epstein-jail-cell-photos-reinforce-suspicions-according-to-independent-medical-examiner/30423395#’
Graphic images from a Daily Mail article reveal a deep, bloody ligature mark on Epstein’s neck. Baden said there was no way the mark could have been made by a bed sheet.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7857561/Pathologist-hired-Epstein-family-says-doesnt-think-suicide.html
According to Baden, the type of wound Epstein had—straight across his neck—“is more common when a victim is strangled by a wire or cord.”
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/did-jeffrey-epstein-kill-himself-60-minutes-investigates-2020-01-05/
During an interview with Fox News, Baden pointed out that the petechiae, or broken capillaries in Epstein’s eyes, are further evidence that Epstein did not hang himself:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JZkVM4Ehl0
Then there is the highly suspicious matter of Epstein’s broken neck bones. During a 60 Minutes broadcast in January 2020, Baden expressed dismay concerning fractured neck bones discovered during Epstein’s autopsy:
Dr. Michael Baden: There were fractures of the left, the right, thyroid cartilage and the left hyoid bone. I have never seen three fractures like this in a suicidal hanging. Sometimes there’s a fracture of the hyoid bone or a fracture of the thyroid cartilage.
Sharyn Alfonsi: But not three?
Dr. Michael Baden: Very unusual to have two and not three. And going over— over a thousand jail hangings, suicides in the New York City state prisons over the past 40-50 years, no one had three fractures.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/did-jeffrey-epstein-kill-himself-60-minutes-investigates-2020-01-05/
Dr. Cyril Wecht, another expert forensic pathologist, does not believe Epstein killed himself. He told Fox News:
If they tell me he hurtled himself down, fine. But if they’re telling me that he was just kneeling down, and he broke the hyoid bone and the cervical vertebrae, no way, with all due respect to the fine forensic pathologist there at the NYC Medical Examiner’s Office …
I’m sorry, I do not buy that. I have never seen that. I have never heard of that.
https://www.foxnews.com/transcript/jeffrey-epsteins-death-ruled-suicide-by-hanging?msockid=29ffc22e05d76a053d6dd41604af6bd4
Nevertheless, Dr. Barbara Sampson, Chief Medical Examiner for New York City, tenaciously clings to her suicide-by-hanging ruling. She does so even though it flies in the face of reams of hard evidence that indicates otherwise. On his January 26, 2023, show, Tucker Carlson featured the many strange circumstances surrounding Epstein’s death, including pointing out how Dr. Sampson unilaterally overruled the conclusions of those who conducted the autopsy. But why did she do that? Carlson says that, when she was asked that question, Sampson responded by hanging up.
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6319257168112
5:58 Minutes
On a May 18, 2025 Fox News broadcast FBI Director Kash Patel together with then- Assistant FBI Director Dan Bongino. Patel insisted that Epstein’s prison death was a suicide. Patel explicitly stating,”As someone who has worked as a public defender, as a prosecutor who’s been in that prison system, who’s been in the Metropolitan Detention Center, who’s been in segregated housing, you know a suicide when you see one … “
Bongino added, “I’ve seen the whole file, he killed himself.”
https://www.foxnews.com/media/fbi-bosses-insist-jeffrey-epstein-killed-himself-after-reviewing-his-file?msockid=29ffc22e05d76a053d6dd41604af6bd4
Since that legendary interview the Justice Department has released terabytes of Epstein files. After all that the question still remains: “What did Patel and Bongino see in the “whole file” that convinced them that Jeffrey Epstein’s death was a suicide and not a homicide?
Regarding the cover-up of the Trentadue homicide current Attorney General Pam Bondi has done nothing to investigate the fusillade of outlandish claims and obvious lies.
As you consider the evidence versus the official rulings regarding Epstein’s and Trentadue’s deaths, consider too what President Harry Truman wrote on May 12, 1945:
“We want no Gestapo or Secret Police. F.B.I. is tending in that direction. They are dabbling in sex life scandles [sic] and plain blackmail when they should be catching criminals.”
https://quotecatalog.com/quote/harry-s-truman-we-want-no-gest-K7QDDZ1/
What makes Truman’s statement so profound is not just its word content but when it was written: a mere five days after Nazi Germany’s unconditional surrender and Europe’s liberation. Truman, who should have been ebullient, was instead apparently more concerned about the FBI, already in the blackmail business, and behaving more like a Gestapo.
Considering the mess we’re in now, one might be tempted to ask, “How did we fall so far so fast?” In fact, warning bells have been going off for decades. Did they fall on deaf ears?
– National Security Commentator Mark Adams
