Jeffrey Epstein And Billy The Kid

This has been added to "Insights Into Major Crimes", September 2024.

What really happened with Jeffrey Epstein? He supposedly committed suicide by hanging while in jail, awaiting trial, in 2019. But there are just so many doubts about it.

The clue is the vast ranch that Epstein owned in New Mexico.

Jeffrey Epstein was a convicted sex offender regarding underage girls. He accepted a plea deal in 2008. The ongoing revelations about who was associated with him, and the total number of victims have been devastating. Epstein was a billionaire and hung around with multitudes of the wealthy and powerful and royalty.

The number of people who were accomplices of Epstein, or who joined in his crimes, are probably relatively few. But that is not the point. Presidents, billionaires, famous people and royalty continued to hang out with, and do business with, Epstein after he had become a convicted sex offender involving underage girls. 

His harem of girls as young as their early teens was widely considered as an "open secret". The girls were often recruited as employees, with Ghislaine Maxwell making the initial approach. Saying that they "didn't know" about Epstein's conviction and sex offender status was difficult because a quick Google search would have revealed it.

The truth must be that a lot of the world's most prominent people adopted a "look the other way" attitude toward Epstein's collection of underage girls, or at least his past conviction regarding them. It was more than ten years between Epstein's conviction and his supposed "death".

Epstein was arrested in 2019 for trafficking underage girls. He is listed as having committed suicide by hanging in his cell while awaiting trial.

As it is the revelations of who had been associated with Epstein, whether doing business or just hanging out after he had been convicted in 2008, have been devastating. The worst, of course, is for those who actually participated with him. Epstein was a frequent visitor to Britain and association with him has come close to bringing down both the monarchy and the government.

We can only imagine what it would have been like if Epstein had lived and gone to trial. The millions of pages of revelations have many names and faces redacted. But at trial everyone would be under oath, with the penalty of perjury, to reveal what they knew not only about who assisted or participated with Epstein but who knowingly "looked the other way" at what was going on. Again this includes presidents, billionaires, movie stars and, royalty.

The next thing that happened is that Epstein "committed suicide" by hanging in his cell. What a relief this must have been to a lot of the most prominent people in the world, even if they had liked Epstein. As bad as the revelations were going to trial, where nothing is redacted or blacked out, would have been far worse. "Looking the other way" at Epstein's behavior might not have actually been a crime but would result in tremendous reputational damage to a lot of important people.

But the circumstances surrounding Epstein's "suicide" were very questionable. Epstein had a cellmate, who was removed the day before the "suicide" so that Epstein was alone in the cell. Two prison employees who were charged with Epstein both "fell asleep". Two separate security cameras monitored Epstein's cell but, can you believe it, both cameras "malfunctioned"?

Epstein's "suicide" is listed as having been by hanging. But what he used for a noose has never been positively identified. Epstein had not been convicted. My information is that he had a bail hearing coming up. So why would he commit suicide? Everyone knows that billionaires don't really "go to jail" like ordinary people, and his reputation had already been damaged by the first conviction so a second conviction wouldn't be as damaging as it would have been otherwise.

Most suspicious of all is that Epstein was reported as being buried in an unmarked grave. Wikipedia reports that he was buried next to his parents but with their names removed, supposedly to prevent vandalism.

Does all of this sound familiar? Where have we seen this before?

Let's go to New Mexico, where Epstein had his ranch. New Mexico was also the home of Billy the Kid, who had a suspicious "death" and "burial" that had so much in common with Epstein.

We saw Billy the Kid in "The Would-Have-Been Nation Of Westland", July 2017.

Like Epstein, Billy the Kid was supposedly buried in a grave with two associates. But it is not stated which of the three bodies was his. This discourages future exhumation of the body, to make positive identification, because it is not known which body was supposed to be his.

Like Billy the Kid, I find the official account of the death of Jeffrey Epstein to be less-than-believable.

Billy the Kid was an outlaw in the Old West of the late Nineteenth Century. He is easily the best-known outlaw of that period and one of the most prominent figures in American history. Billy the Kid was found guilty of murder and sentenced to hang. But he escaped from the jail in the courthouse, killing two lawmen in the process.

Here is the courthouse and jail that Billy the Kid escaped from. The road through town is now called "Billy the Kid Trail".

When Billy the Kid was killed a short time later, he quickly became a folk hero and the sheriff who shot him was portrayed as the villain. But did he really die? There is a persistent story that the sheriff had earlier been a friend of Billy the Kid, and use to drink with his gang at a saloon. The dead body belonged to another outlaw, and the sheriff allowed Billy to escape.

Decades later, a former outlaw who had known Billy the Kid said that he had long been living a quiet life in the town of Hico, Texas. There was a man there going by the name of "Brushy Bill" Roberts, who was supposedly Billy the Kid. He had all of the scars that Billy was supposed to have and, even as an elderly man, could quickly slip out of a pair of handcuffs as Billy had done while escaping from jail. There was a lot of doubters, although even president Harry Truman believed that this was really Billy the Kid.

But anyway, the town of Hico made the most out of it, marketing itself as an old western town where the surviving Billy the Kid had lived out his days. Three images from the Wikipedia article "Hico, Texas".

I actually find the official story of Billy the Kid's death, like Jeffrey Epstein's, to be less-than-believable. He had escaped from prison by killing two lawmen. Everyone was looking for him. He was supposedly staying at the house of a friend, and the sheriff was able to find out where he was. 

The sheriff went to the house, alone, and talked to the friend while Billy was asleep in another part of the house. He awoke and approached, without a gun, which he should have had since he had taken the gun of the jail guard that he killed, asking "who is it" in Spanish, which he could speak fluently. The sheriff simply drew his gun and shot Billy dead.

But why would this outlaw, who had a supreme instinct for survival, be staying at a place where he could be so easily found? Why would he be speaking Spanish when everyone that he was dealing with there spoke English? Why would he approach and ask "who is it"?, without a weapon, instead of seeking to escape again? If the sheriff knew that he was there, or could be there, why would be go alone, enter the house, and talk to the friend, instead of surrounding the house with every available lawman?

It doesn't make sense. The official version of his death is much less believable than the stories of his survival. 

These two images, from Google Street View, are of the supposed grave of Billy the Kid, buried with two outlaw friends and the grave titled "Pals". The grave is protected from fans by a cage. But many people, including me, are skeptical. Why was he buried in a group? Was it to discourage exhumation because it wouldn't be certain which body was supposed to be his, as Epstein would later be?

The two known photos of Billy the Kid are among the highest-priced photographs ever, both worth several million dollars. The more recently discovered one is of him with a group of people, outside a cabin, playing what appears to be croquet. The man who is pointing is believed to be Tom O'Folliard, who would be mistaken for Billy the Kid, and killed, by the same sheriff who supposedly would later supposedly kill Billy the Kid. Image from the Wikipedia article "Billy the Kid".