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deminks

(11,407 posts)
Tue Jul 15, 2025, 04:43 PM Jul 15

Missing Minute in Epstein prison tape is actually 2 min 53 seconds

Oh

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2025-07-15T20:09:10.954Z


NEW: Metadata from the “raw” Epstein prison video shows approximately 2 minutes and 53 seconds were removed from one of two stitched-together clips. The cut starts right at the “missing minute.”

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GOP is trying to find that old Rosemary Woods interview.
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Missing Minute in Epstein prison tape is actually 2 min 53 seconds (Original Post) deminks Jul 15 OP
Can you strangle someone in 3 minutes? Irish_Dem Jul 15 #1
Yes BeerBarrelPolka Jul 15 #2
Wouldn't the victim fight back and struggle? Irish_Dem Jul 15 #3
Depends BeerBarrelPolka Jul 15 #5
Very interesting. Irish_Dem Jul 15 #9
Leave the gun. Bring the cannoli. :) BeerBarrelPolka Jul 15 #11
That is good. Irish_Dem Jul 15 #12
Remember the guards were asleep. Hope22 Jul 15 #15
Yes good point. Irish_Dem Jul 15 #17
Humans have a maximum of 90 seconds of consciousness without air. NutmegYankee Jul 15 #32
Apparently the answer is yes Johonny Jul 15 #7
Yes. 1 minute is James Bond level. 3 minutes is competent killer Arazi Jul 15 #8
Thank you. I wondered how a garrote would replicate a suicide hanging. Irish_Dem Jul 15 #10
Four men could make it more suicidey..... Aviation Pro Jul 15 #14
LOL Rosemary Woods! n/t Saoirse9 Jul 15 #4
Beat me to it! no_hypocrisy Jul 15 #28
Too funny! Saoirse9 Jul 16 #35
Ms. Woods demonstrates how it happened: tanyev Jul 15 #6
That photo is a classic customerserviceguy Jul 15 #25
Ah, that changes everything. Joinfortmill Jul 15 #13
Is this normal for prison video cameras to stop recording Emile Jul 15 #16
Doesn't matter anymore, this is 4 gaps deliberately stitched together Arazi Jul 15 #18
One conspiracy says he is alive and well on his little island. OverBurn Jul 15 #19
Two stitched together clips? Does that mean two edits? tinrobot Jul 15 #20
To me, it sounds like 1 piece cut out Hornedfrog2000 Jul 15 #26
deja vu - with the sleazy, underhanded republicon lying and cheating BoRaGard Jul 15 #21
Though few... GiqueCee Jul 15 #22
And this is the type of thing that ensures the Epstein death slightlv Jul 15 #23
Especially if Mierda47 is a big time player in any video, pictures or lists ... aggiesal Jul 15 #30
Whoopsie! Drip drip drip LOL nt Javaman Jul 15 #24
Kick SheltieLover Jul 15 #27
Rose Mary Woods, where are you? viva la Jul 15 #29
Definitely enough time to off someone n/t TexasBushwhacker Jul 15 #31
Who the fuck is letting them get away with this bullshit? Blue Owl Jul 15 #33
Watched what was shown and I suspect laying in wait when he was away, super obvious, right? Brainfodder Jul 15 #34
Oh my Scott Alan Swaggerty Jul 16 #36

Irish_Dem

(72,736 posts)
3. Wouldn't the victim fight back and struggle?
Tue Jul 15, 2025, 05:06 PM
Jul 15

Might take longer than 3 minutes?

Unless the victim was drugged first.
Then strangulation could be done easily in three minutes.

Or pillow over the mouth or nose?

BeerBarrelPolka

(1,839 posts)
5. Depends
Tue Jul 15, 2025, 05:13 PM
Jul 15

He may have had his neck broken or his larynx broken in the process. Or the garrote used should have been mighty tight. It'll cut off the blood supply quickly. I've choked out guys with my arms unconscious in under 10 seconds routinely once I slapped on the choke. I'm suspecting there was more than one assailant here. They may have knocked him out or drugged him first like you suggested. We will never know. Chloroform would work.

Irish_Dem

(72,736 posts)
9. Very interesting.
Tue Jul 15, 2025, 05:25 PM
Jul 15

So someone can be killed by choking with a garrote in a short period of time.
Three minutes would do it.

Yes I agree, most likely two assailants.

They grabbed Epstein, gave him a fast acting drug injection, or chloroform.
But an injection would leave a puncture mark on autopsy.
So better to use chloroform. Probably doesn't show in the pathology bloodwork.

But a skilled assassin could render Epstein unconscious in ten seconds.
Maybe they did not need drugs.

It had to be done quickly. Guards, video, other prisoners, etc.

PS Remind me not to piss you off BBP.

NutmegYankee

(16,437 posts)
32. Humans have a maximum of 90 seconds of consciousness without air.
Tue Jul 15, 2025, 08:11 PM
Jul 15

Once out, gravity in a noose would do the rest and prevent awakening.

Arazi

(8,206 posts)
8. Yes. 1 minute is James Bond level. 3 minutes is competent killer
Tue Jul 15, 2025, 05:25 PM
Jul 15

Prison guy discussing it on Bluesky… interesting thread (probably NSFW discussion so I’ll leave a gap for those who need to scroll back up and out)







the correct way to stage a hanging by suicide is to put someone on their face, sit on their back, and garrote them by leaning forward and pulling a rope upwards (from their perspective). you have to do this without otherwise marking yourself or them up. you then string them up with the same rope

SE Gyges (@segyges.bsky.social) 2025-07-15T20:48:29.940Z

Irish_Dem

(72,736 posts)
10. Thank you. I wondered how a garrote would replicate a suicide hanging.
Tue Jul 15, 2025, 05:29 PM
Jul 15

This answers the questions.
Sounds quite possible.

Yes the assailants had to do it without leaving any marks of a struggle on Epstein's body.

Emile

(36,150 posts)
16. Is this normal for prison video cameras to stop recording
Tue Jul 15, 2025, 06:16 PM
Jul 15

every night at a certain time?

OverBurn

(1,259 posts)
19. One conspiracy says he is alive and well on his little island.
Tue Jul 15, 2025, 06:47 PM
Jul 15

Not that I believe that. I don't believe he killed himself though. With his money and connections he would have likely got out of it. Somebody very powerful didn't want him to talk. Who was President when this happened? O yeh that guy.


Dr. Micheal Baden famous coroner said, "Going over a thousand jail hangings, suicides in the New York City state prisons over the past 40-50 years, no one had three fractures. He says Epstein's injuries were consistent with strangulation from behind.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Jeffrey_Epstein

tinrobot

(11,659 posts)
20. Two stitched together clips? Does that mean two edits?
Tue Jul 15, 2025, 06:49 PM
Jul 15

Because that would make sense. One cut when the perp enters the cell, another when leaving.

BoRaGard

(6,558 posts)
21. deja vu - with the sleazy, underhanded republicon lying and cheating
Tue Jul 15, 2025, 06:52 PM
Jul 15

GOP is always pissing on the Bible. That should tell you something,

GiqueCee

(2,599 posts)
22. Though few...
Tue Jul 15, 2025, 06:52 PM
Jul 15

... will mourn his passing, how can anyone doubt that he was murdered? I mean, come ON! Trump doesn't have the balls to do it himself, but he's certainly got the juice to have it done. Don't EVER doubt that. Unless, of course, you've got terminal Pollyannic Syndrome, then you're over the high side, into the rhubarb, and gone forever.

slightlv

(6,192 posts)
23. And this is the type of thing that ensures the Epstein death
Tue Jul 15, 2025, 07:01 PM
Jul 15

will hang around every bit as long as JFK's murder theories. When you start cutting out bits of video and splicing them together... when you start stating categorically that files don't exist... when you were screaming and telling everyone they existed just a few years ago... no one is going to trust their eyes on what they see... IF the ever see anything! trump has completely done himself in with this one. And he should have known, as much as maga screamed for the release of the files from the very start. But when he says one thing, then states the exact opposite, and then comes up with a completely different story from either of those two, well... there are even magas who aren't idiot enough not to see through it. This will be a lodestone around the R's necks, and especially trump, bondi, patel, and anyone else who supposedly had their hands on them before now. Even if they released the true, correct, straight from the island evidence, it would be questioned and torn apart as inauthentic. They're just really screwed the pooch. Good on 'em! I'd really like to see trump, et al, as well as the magas in general brought down low by their own conspiracy theory.

aggiesal

(10,202 posts)
30. Especially if Mierda47 is a big time player in any video, pictures or lists ...
Tue Jul 15, 2025, 07:54 PM
Jul 15

MAGA will refuse to believe it
At the same time, I will believe it, as I do right now.

It would be really cool if Jeffrey kept meticulous records & notes.

It's the reason Mierda47 will not release these documents.

Brainfodder

(7,554 posts)
34. Watched what was shown and I suspect laying in wait when he was away, super obvious, right?
Tue Jul 15, 2025, 10:41 PM
Jul 15

Clipped out their coming and going, not wise to forensics, leaves a trail?

The Republicans voting to suppress files that don't exist, really now?

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