The moment prison guards find Epstein dead: Never-before-seen footage shows guards running back and forth after paedophile’s corpse is discovered

Never-before-seen footage buried deep in the Epstein files has revealed the moment prison guards discovered the pedophile’s body.

The CCTV tape, buried deep in millions of files released by both the Justice Department and the House Oversight Committee, provides rare insight into the circumstances that led to Jeffrey Epstein’s death.

At the time of his death on August 10, 2019, Epstein was being held at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York for sex trafficking.

He was found unresponsive in his cell by prison guards early that morning. After attempting CPR, he was taken to New York Downtown Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

A New York City medical examiner ruled Epstein’s death a suicide by hanging.

But the circumstances surrounding his death have fueled major conspiracy theories that the financier’s death may have been the result of foul play.

Footage revealed by the Daily Mail shows the silhouette of a guard approaching a table next to Epstein’s cell at 6.30am on the day he died.

After just 10 seconds, the person moves towards the cell.

Jeffrey Epstein (pictured) reportedly died by suicide sometime after 6:30 a.m. on August 10, 2019.

A little more than a minute after that, a guard is seen moving back and forth between the security desk and the area where Epstein’s cell is located, where he is soon joined by two more people.

Guards are then seen running between the two areas. Epstein was officially pronounced dead at 6:39 a.m.

Epstein’s death brought to an abrupt halt one of the most closely watched federal criminal cases in recent memory.

Prosecutors had accused him of running a years-long sex trafficking operation involving underage girls; Alleged victims were coming forward to describe abuse that spanned multiple states and countries.

His arrest in July 2019 followed years of scrutiny over a controversial plea deal he reached in Florida in 2008 that allowed him to avoid federal investigation at the time.

The new charges brought in New York left Epstein facing the possibility of decades in prison if convicted.

But Epstein’s death came amid a series of failures at one of the federal government’s most secure detention facilities.

Prison records show that guards assigned to watch Epstein did not conduct necessary checks the night before his body was found.

At the time of his death on August 10, 2019, Epstein was being held at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York for sex trafficking.

Epstein was officially declared dead at 6.39am

According to official findings, the tours planned to be held at 03.00 and 05.00 in the morning were missed.

Moreover, the cameras placed outside Epstein’s cell were not working properly that night.

Investigators later confirmed that at least two security cameras malfunctioned, creating critical gaps in visual monitoring of the area.

Because of these failures, authorities have been unable to establish a definitive timeline for Epstein’s final moments.

To date, an exact official time of death has not been determined.

The newly released DOJ files contain additional details that investigators examined following Epstein’s death, including surveillance observations from inside the facility.

Investigators with the FBI and the Justice Department’s Office of Inspector General detected footage showing an unidentified individual moving toward Epstein’s location, records show.

In the footage, an orange shape can be seen climbing up a staircase near Epstein’s residence at night.

At around 10:40 p.m. the night before Epstein was found dead, a shadowy, orange object could be seen moving up the stairs toward Epstein’s cell block in a New York prison.

Epstein was found dead at the Metropolitan Correctional Center on August 10, 2019.

Photos from Epstein’s cell were among the millions of files released by the Department of Justice

Investigators from the FBI and the Department of Justice’s Office of Inspector General (OIG)Footage from New York’s Metropolitan Prison, where Epstein was held before his death, showed an orange glow that could be a ‘convict’ walking towards where the notorious pedophile was being held.

Investigators noticed An orange shape walking up the stairs towards his cell the night he died.

The OIG’s report stated that on August 9, 2019, at 10:39 p.m., FBI agents observed “an orange glow going up the stairs to Level L that was likely to be a prisoner being escorted to that Level.”

The lead investigator appeared to come to a different conclusion for the FBI regarding the orange glow: ‘Prisoners are currently in isolation, it is possible that someone is carrying the prisoners’ sheets or bedding.’

The two investigative bodies’ analyzes contradict public statements by at least two senior US officials.

Bill Barr, the US attorney general during Trump’s first term, claimed in a 2019 interview that he personally reviewed security footage that confirmed no one entered the area where Epstein was housed the night he died.

And last May, former FBI deputy director Dan Bongino told Fox News: ‘The picture is clear as day. He’s the only one there and the only one coming out. You can see.”

Shortly before the video was released last August, he added: ‘We’re working on cleaning up the video to make sure you have an improved video experience. [version] and we’ll give you the original so you don’t think it’s any nonsense.’

The Inspector General’s final report said: ‘At approximately 10.39pm, an unidentified officer appeared to ascend the Level L staircase and then reappeared within view of the camera at 10.41pm.’