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Fresh controversy has engulfed the case of disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, after a former chief medical examiner for New York City told the Fox & Friends show that to him, Epstein’s death looked more like a strangling than a suicide.

This, Dr. Michael Baden said, was because of specific broken bones in Epstein’s neck, as well as eyeball hemorrhages more common in strangling homicides than in hanging. His remarks are likely to be music to the ears of conspiracy theorists, who believe the accused pedophile’s death was not self-inflicted.

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Epstein, 66, who faced charges of sex trafficking, was found dead in his cell at New York’s infamous Metropolitan Correctional Center on Aug. 10. Since then, online theories have raged that his death was a well-orchestrated murder. Amateur sleuths, citing little evidence, maintain someone entered Epstein’s cell to strangle him in order to silence the financier, who had a long list of high-profile friends.

Talking Wednesday, Baden, 85, said he had been privately hired by Epstein’s family to observe the autopsy carried out soon after his death. As he did, he said, he drew conclusions that contrasted markedly from what was found in the official report (death by hanging suicide).