1 00:00:00,520 --> 00:00:04,480 Speaker 1: Crime Lord Hourly update, Breaking Crime News Now. I'm Dave 2 00:00:04,559 --> 00:00:09,000 Speaker 1: mac recently released surveillance video from the Metropolitan Correctional Center 3 00:00:09,039 --> 00:00:12,240 Speaker 1: in New York, raising questions about prison cameras at the 4 00:00:12,280 --> 00:00:15,960 Speaker 1: facility where Jeffrey Epstein dies in twenty nineteen. The new 5 00:00:16,040 --> 00:00:19,080 Speaker 1: video are among a huge cache of materials released by 6 00:00:19,120 --> 00:00:22,320 Speaker 1: the Justice Department, as congressionally mandated by the Epstein Files 7 00:00:22,320 --> 00:00:25,759 Speaker 1: Transparency Act. The problem with the recent release is that 8 00:00:25,880 --> 00:00:28,600 Speaker 1: videos don't clarify what took place with regard to events 9 00:00:28,600 --> 00:00:31,760 Speaker 1: surrounding the death of Epstein. The new footage complicates the 10 00:00:31,760 --> 00:00:36,160 Speaker 1: official narrative and contradicts prior statements about the surveillance system 11 00:00:36,200 --> 00:00:39,520 Speaker 1: in the prison. Epstein was awaiting trial on federal sex 12 00:00:39,560 --> 00:00:41,640 Speaker 1: trafficking charges when he was found dead in his cell 13 00:00:41,680 --> 00:00:44,960 Speaker 1: by corrections officers bringing breakfast to the inmates at the MCC. 14 00:00:45,520 --> 00:00:48,080 Speaker 1: His death was ruled a suicide by the city's Chief 15 00:00:48,200 --> 00:00:51,200 Speaker 1: m e, but that ruling has been subjected to much debate. 16 00:00:51,680 --> 00:00:55,080 Speaker 1: Three months later, then Attorney General Bill Barr said he 17 00:00:55,160 --> 00:00:59,440 Speaker 1: had personally reviewed prison surveillance footage and verified that no 18 00:00:59,480 --> 00:01:02,840 Speaker 1: one entered Epstein's cell area in the hours before his death, 19 00:01:02,920 --> 00:01:06,480 Speaker 1: which supported the conclusion that Epstein died by suicide. However, 20 00:01:06,880 --> 00:01:10,080 Speaker 1: when the footage was released by the FBI, analysts found 21 00:01:10,080 --> 00:01:12,760 Speaker 1: the footage did not provide a clear enough view of 22 00:01:12,800 --> 00:01:16,440 Speaker 1: the area to definitively prove no one entered Epstein's cell area, 23 00:01:16,520 --> 00:01:20,120 Speaker 1: Plus there were other inconsistencies with the official statements and 24 00:01:20,240 --> 00:01:24,319 Speaker 1: witness interviews. Questions about these issues with the video, the 25 00:01:24,400 --> 00:01:28,640 Speaker 1: DOJ and FBI declined to comment. Reports about cameras that 26 00:01:28,680 --> 00:01:31,040 Speaker 1: were operational at the time in question come from a 27 00:01:31,080 --> 00:01:34,240 Speaker 1: twenty twenty three report by the Department of Justice's Office 28 00:01:34,240 --> 00:01:37,880 Speaker 1: of the Inspector General. That report stated that although there 29 00:01:37,880 --> 00:01:41,200 Speaker 1: were eleven cameras in the special housing unit known as 30 00:01:41,240 --> 00:01:45,720 Speaker 1: the Shoe, ten were not recording due to malfunctioning hard drives. 31 00:01:46,120 --> 00:01:49,200 Speaker 1: The single camera inside the common area of the Shoe 32 00:01:49,280 --> 00:01:52,400 Speaker 1: that was recording was positioned on an upper tier and 33 00:01:52,480 --> 00:01:55,280 Speaker 1: showed only a sliver of the staircase that led to 34 00:01:55,280 --> 00:01:59,040 Speaker 1: Epstein's tier. In the twenty twenty three report, the DOJ's 35 00:01:59,080 --> 00:02:02,760 Speaker 1: Inspector General did acknowledge the existence of an additional camera 36 00:02:03,040 --> 00:02:06,520 Speaker 1: covering a secondary entrance to the Shoe. That footage was 37 00:02:06,600 --> 00:02:09,320 Speaker 1: never released, and according to the report, did not show 38 00:02:09,360 --> 00:02:13,480 Speaker 1: anything revealing about Epstein's visitors or his death. The Justice 39 00:02:13,480 --> 00:02:17,200 Speaker 1: Department releases the footage on Christmas Eve, and of the 40 00:02:17,240 --> 00:02:20,800 Speaker 1: four hundred one hour clips of surveillance video from the MCC, 41 00:02:21,240 --> 00:02:24,040 Speaker 1: the footage spans a time period dating back to more 42 00:02:24,080 --> 00:02:27,320 Speaker 1: than a month before Epstein's death, beginning on July five, 43 00:02:27,440 --> 00:02:32,359 Speaker 1: twenty nineteen, and the videos are nonsequential an arbitrary conglomeration 44 00:02:32,440 --> 00:02:35,720 Speaker 1: of video. Also, with the release of the video, our 45 00:02:35,760 --> 00:02:40,040 Speaker 1: internal doj emails that say the surveillance system was configured 46 00:02:40,080 --> 00:02:43,239 Speaker 1: to only retain thirty days of footage, which begs the 47 00:02:43,360 --> 00:02:47,359 Speaker 1: question why do videos from July five exist at all? 48 00:02:47,680 --> 00:02:50,119 Speaker 1: The videos are out of order and by their own 49 00:02:50,160 --> 00:02:54,280 Speaker 1: setup of rules, should not even exist. The explanation is 50 00:02:54,280 --> 00:02:57,560 Speaker 1: that the video only records over existing video when space 51 00:02:57,639 --> 00:02:59,960 Speaker 1: is needed, so it is possible to have more than 52 00:03:00,040 --> 00:03:03,239 Speaker 1: than thirty days built into the system. If this is 53 00:03:03,280 --> 00:03:05,919 Speaker 1: the case, why is there a thirty day save window 54 00:03:05,919 --> 00:03:09,160 Speaker 1: at all? Why not set the minimum time at thirty days? 55 00:03:09,400 --> 00:03:12,760 Speaker 1: To add more questions about the surveillance video even though 56 00:03:12,880 --> 00:03:16,280 Speaker 1: there was only one camera saving video during the time period. 57 00:03:16,520 --> 00:03:20,119 Speaker 1: The Christmas Eve release contains footage from five more cameras 58 00:03:20,160 --> 00:03:23,720 Speaker 1: inside the prison, including hours of footage from a camera 59 00:03:23,960 --> 00:03:28,760 Speaker 1: previously described as non recording. This footage provides an unobstructed 60 00:03:28,840 --> 00:03:31,480 Speaker 1: view of the primary entrance to the shoe and the 61 00:03:31,480 --> 00:03:35,720 Speaker 1: stairs leading to Epstein's tier. The four non sequential one 62 00:03:35,760 --> 00:03:39,200 Speaker 1: hour videos from this camera are all dated August twelfth, 63 00:03:39,400 --> 00:03:44,640 Speaker 1: twenty nineteen, two days after Epstein's death. However, Department of 64 00:03:44,800 --> 00:03:48,480 Speaker 1: Justice correspondence states that the surveillance system stopped recording on 65 00:03:48,560 --> 00:03:53,040 Speaker 1: July twenty nine and was not repaired until August fourteen. 66 00:03:53,280 --> 00:03:56,600 Speaker 1: How is it possible to have four non sequential one 67 00:03:56,640 --> 00:04:00,120 Speaker 1: hour videos of surveillance video from August twelfth when the 68 00:04:00,160 --> 00:04:04,880 Speaker 1: surveillance system was not recording between July twentieth and August fourteenth, 69 00:04:05,440 --> 00:04:08,440 Speaker 1: But this is the only Epstein's related surveillance video that 70 00:04:08,520 --> 00:04:11,760 Speaker 1: is suspect. On the night of July twenty third, Epstein 71 00:04:11,800 --> 00:04:14,080 Speaker 1: was found unconscious on the floor of his cell but 72 00:04:14,200 --> 00:04:18,400 Speaker 1: was revived. Footage should show Epstein's cellmate calling for help. 73 00:04:18,640 --> 00:04:22,479 Speaker 1: Corrections officers responding this happened prior to the hard drive 74 00:04:22,480 --> 00:04:25,680 Speaker 1: failures that led to the broken DVR system, But now 75 00:04:25,720 --> 00:04:30,119 Speaker 1: the DOJ says they can't locate the footage. More crime 76 00:04:30,120 --> 00:04:42,920 Speaker 1: and justice news coming up. After days of searching, a 77 00:04:42,960 --> 00:04:46,400 Speaker 1: heartbreaking update to a story out of Texas, the family 78 00:04:46,440 --> 00:04:49,880 Speaker 1: of Camilla Mendoza Almost posts a message saying the body 79 00:04:49,920 --> 00:04:52,360 Speaker 1: of the nineteen year old was found in a field 80 00:04:52,839 --> 00:04:55,880 Speaker 1: just one hundred yards from their home. A joint team 81 00:04:56,040 --> 00:04:59,160 Speaker 1: of the Bear County Sheriff's deputies and FBI agents discovered 82 00:04:59,160 --> 00:05:02,280 Speaker 1: the body beside a handgun around four forty five pm. 83 00:05:02,360 --> 00:05:05,960 Speaker 1: The San Antonio Expresses reporting teams had already combed through 84 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:08,840 Speaker 1: this field earlier in the search, but decided to try 85 00:05:08,880 --> 00:05:12,640 Speaker 1: again because of the tall grass and heavy brush. Almost's 86 00:05:12,680 --> 00:05:15,520 Speaker 1: body was found beside a handgun near her home outside 87 00:05:15,560 --> 00:05:18,360 Speaker 1: San Antonio. She had shot herself in the head. According 88 00:05:18,360 --> 00:05:21,680 Speaker 1: to the medical examiner. Officials believed she had been dead four, 89 00:05:21,800 --> 00:05:24,640 Speaker 1: five or six days when she was discovered. A nine 90 00:05:24,640 --> 00:05:27,719 Speaker 1: millimeter pistol belonging to one of her relatives was reported 91 00:05:27,800 --> 00:05:30,799 Speaker 1: missing around the time of her disappearance, but it's unclear 92 00:05:30,839 --> 00:05:33,760 Speaker 1: if that firearm recovered that the scene is a match. 93 00:05:34,200 --> 00:05:37,000 Speaker 1: Camilla is believed to have been showing symptoms of depression 94 00:05:37,200 --> 00:05:40,440 Speaker 1: and thoughts of suicide after struggling with school work and 95 00:05:40,520 --> 00:05:43,640 Speaker 1: a relationship that recently ended. This. According to Bear County 96 00:05:43,640 --> 00:05:47,440 Speaker 1: Sheriff Javier Salazar, Almost was a young person going through 97 00:05:47,440 --> 00:05:50,039 Speaker 1: a very tough time in her life. He says, Almost 98 00:05:50,080 --> 00:05:53,960 Speaker 1: studied Northwest Vista College with the goal of being an orthodonist, 99 00:05:54,080 --> 00:05:56,599 Speaker 1: and had last been seen around seven am Christmas Eve 100 00:05:56,800 --> 00:05:59,800 Speaker 1: rumaging through her car. She vanished with her car keys 101 00:05:59,839 --> 00:06:02,400 Speaker 1: and license, but her cell phone was found on her bed. 102 00:06:02,920 --> 00:06:05,920 Speaker 1: The search for Camilla dragged on without any leads as 103 00:06:06,000 --> 00:06:10,520 Speaker 1: police exhausted all possibilities, including human trafficking, warning at one 104 00:06:10,560 --> 00:06:14,080 Speaker 1: point that she could be in imminent danger. 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