In an interview onFox&Friends on Wednesday,Dr Michael Baden said that Epstein,who was found dead in his Manhattan jail cell on August 10,had fractures on the left and right sides of his larynx - the thyroid cartilage or Adam's apple,and the left hyoid bone above the Adam's apple.
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"Those three fractures are extremely unusual in suicidal hangings and could occur much more commonly in homicidal strangulation,"said Baden,who was hired by Epstein's brother,Mark Epstein,to oversee Epstein's autopsy.
Baden,aFox News contributor,added that there were haemorrhages in Epstein's eyes that are more common in strangulation than in hangings.
Baden's opinion contradicted New York City Medical Examiner Barbara Sampson,who ruled Epstein's cause of death to be a suicide by hanging.
Baden,85,who once led the New York City Medical Examiner's office,is one of the nation's best known forensic pathologists,having participated in some of the country's most famous death investigations,including the congressional committee probing the death of John F. Kennedy.
Most recently,he conducted one of the private autopsies of Michael Brown,an unarmed black 18-year-old who was fatally shot by police in Ferguson,Missouri,and Baden also hosted the HBO seriesAutopsy.