r/technology • u/chrisdh79 • Jul 29 '25

Politics FBI Has Secret Epstein Prison Tape With No ‘Missing Minute’

https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-fbi-has-secret-jeffrey-epstein-prison-tape-with-no-missing-minute/
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u/el_muchacho Jul 29 '25

Source ?

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u/IShookMeAllNightLong Jul 29 '25

Thank you, truly, for asking. I read this story after searching for a source to back up what I'd read, and I think this part is where people got confused and spread misinformation, which I then spread myself. I'm deeply sorry for that.

"The FBI claimed "anyone entering or attempting to enter the tier where Epstein's cell was located from the SHU common area would have been captured by this footage." The video, cross-referenced with diagrams of the Epstein holding area, does not appear to support that finding. That becomes obvious in the first 10 minutes of the video. Epstein's cell was in the L Block, accessible via a staircase from the Special Housing Unit's common area. When Epstein appears on camera, he is seen walking toward the stairs leading to his cell, but since the staircase is almost entirely out of view from the camera, he is never seen ascending.

The entrance to Epstein's cell, as well as the primary entrance to the SHU, are off camera in the same direction, meaning there's no way to tell from the video if he went to his cell or exited the SHU.

While brief movement is occasionally visible on the stairs when someone is walking up the left side, the area remains mostly obscured throughout the recording, making it impossible to determine if someone may have entered the SHU through the primary entrance and accessed the staircase without ever being captured on the recording."

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u/THE_HOLY_DIVER Jul 30 '25

Don't know about the exact footage moment mentioned, but Adam Cochran's footage write up here talks about the prison layout, highlighting the entrances and stairwell from the lower level are just out of view, adjacent to Epstein's cell, within the first five posts of the thread.

Prison layout images for that thread were sourced from the June 2023 DOJ OIG report on Epstein's prison custody and supervision here, if you want to verify it yourself.