FW: Epstein tip --- UNCLASSIFIED

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[8/16/2019 10:45 AM] [REDACTED]

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Hello [REDACTED], I'm the SSA in Nashville over CY & CI. I'm reaching out looking for a place to direct a tip an agent received regarding Epstein from an old school LAPD detective that used to work homicides and suicides in the prison. Any idea who he can email it to?
[8/16/2019 10:46 AM] [REDACTED]:
Is the tip on his suicide or the sex trafficking?
[8/16/2019 10:46 AM] [REDACTED]:
suicide
[8/16/2019 10:47 AM] [REDACTED]
That's my squad. Case Agent/TFO assigned are [REDACTED] and Det. [REDACTED]
[8/16/2019 10:47 AM] [REDACTED]
10-4 thanks. I'll have him send them an email and they can follow up if they want.
[8/16/2019 10:48 AM] [REDACTED]:
perfect... thanks

ME-14 / Nashville RA / Memphis
Cyber & Counterintelligence
cell

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— Please see the below conversation as a point of reference. I have a POC in the Nashville area that is a retired LA County Sheriff's Deputy. He spent several years as a homicide detective and worked a few cases that involved inmates hanging themselves with bedding. He said that one piece of evidence that they found helpful was examining the fibers of the bedding under a high powered microscope. He said that if the fibers were all laying the same direction, the most probable explanation was suicide b/c the sheet only moved one direction over whatever object provided the anchored point. If the sheet fibers were laying both directions, it was more likely that a 30d party was involved in some way b/c the sheet would have been pulled over the anchor point by someone else and then shifted forward from the weight of the individual.

Full disclosure — I have no clue if this is helpful or not. Although I spent my first 12 years on VCMO squad, I have never processed a homicide scene. If this is a waste of your time, very sorry. If this is something you think is worth discussing more, reach out to me and I will provide you with a name and number and you can go direct with the source.

Memphis Division - Nashville RA