How Convenient...

Folk #1: Speaking of Conspiracy Theories (see previous post), I have always been skeptical about those conspiracy-minded folks pushing the idea that Jeffery Epstein didn't commit suicide in jail, but was murdered. It all seemed so cliche. Still, the more we learn about the circumstances leading up to finding his lifeless body laying on the floor of his jail cell, the more murder seems plausible, and maybe even most likely. Funny. Facts are funny things. The prison guards were sleeping, the security cameras were mysteriously turned off at the exact critical time, Epstein's body was found on the floor with wounds to his neck, and according to the leading journalist who really broke the case early on, Julie K. Brown, the reporter closer to this story than anyone else, Epstein feared for his life, left a secret message in a book, and was preparing to finally "name names." It all sounds like a million other stories we've heard and seen in millions of TV shows, movies, & graphic novels. But, still, just because it all sounds like a very cliched, well-worn script, it doesn't mean it isn't true.  Murder. As David Foster Wallace once pointed out, cliches are cliches because they often are true. We now know that many, many powerful & famous people hung out with Epstein doing god knows what. God & Epstein knew the truth of what was going on his island lair. Those powerful folks certainly had good cause to want Epstein to remain silent. How convenient that he ends up dead before he could spill the beans on all those visitors, friends & clients who visited him. It sure seems like Julie K. Brown believes that Epstein was murdered, and if she believes it, well, that's good enough for me too. Will we ever know who murdered Jeffery Epstein? Who knows? Is it gonna be one of those stories, where everything is all wrapped up in a neat little ball, or, is it gonna be the kind of tale that leaves us all grappling around in the a murky, uncertain darkness? "It's Chinatown, Jake..."