Famed forensic pathologist says, at best, this was gross negligence.

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YOU HAVE SOME REAL QUESTIONS TO BE ASKED. REPORTER: HE SAYS HE KNOWS WHEN SOMETHING SEEMS OFF. JEFFREY EPSTEIN’S CELLMATE WAS REMOVED. THE CAMERAS MONITORING HIM WERE NOT WORKING. THE GUARDS WATCHING HIM WERE OVERWORED. AND HE HAD BEEN ON -- AND HE WAS NO LONGER ON SUICIDE WATCH. >> WHAT CASE HAS RECEIVED MORE PUBLICITY? EVEN IN THE MOST BENIGN CHARACTER A SIN IS THAT THIS IS AN INCIDENCE OF GROSS NEGLIGENCE. REPORTER: HE SAID AMERICANS CAN SOMETIMES BE NAIVE. HE SAYS SOMETIMES THE MOST SIMPLE EXPLANATION BRINGS UNCOMFORTABLE TRUTH. >> I AM SICK AND TIRED OF THESE PEOPLE TALKING TO ME SAYING -- I AM AN INTELLIGENT PERSON WHO RAISES INTERESTING QUESTIONS AND MA -- AND AM AN EXPERIENCED FORENSIC PATHOLOGIST. REPORTER: THIS PARTICULAR JAIL HELD OTHER HIGH-PROFILE CONVICTS. LIKE EL CHAPO, THE INFAMOUS MEXICAN DRUG LORD THAT WAS JUST CONVICTED. HE SAYS IT JUST DOESN'T

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To borrow a Shakespeare phrase, forensic pathologist Dr. Cyril Wecht says "something's rotten in Denmark."Denmark is the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan, and the "something" is the death of New York financier and convicted child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein."Even at its most benign characterization, the most benign, gracious, benevolent characterization is an instance of gross, wanton negligence," Wecht said Tuesday.Watch the interview with Wecht in the video player above.ABC News has reported Epstein's cellmate was removed before his death, that the cameras monitoring him weren't working, the guards watching him had been overworked and Epstein might not have been on suicide watch despite attempting suicide weeks earlier."Put all of this together and you've got some real questions to be asked here," Wecht said.And as for charges that Wecht is putting a conspiracy out there, he says to look at the facts."I'm sick and tired of these people that talk to me and say I'm a conspiratorial theorist," Wecht said. "What I think I am is an intelligent person who raises interesting questions that present problems to me as an experienced forensic pathologist."