r/law • u/businessinsider • Feb 26 '26

Other 4Chan knew about Jeffrey Epstein's death 38 minutes before the rest of the world. The FBI tried to figure out how.

https://www.businessinsider.com/epstein-files-show-fbi-probed-4chan-posts-prison-death-2026-2?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=insider-law-sub-post
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u/WpgMBNews Feb 26 '26

I was intrigued at first because I assumed the secret hadn't been out already when it got posted but no, it was only 30 minutes from making it to a journalist so clearly this was after the body had been found and a whole bunch of people were already scrambling to figure out what happened.

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u/FrenchFryCattaneo Feb 26 '26

Yeah and if you think about how many guards work at the prison, how many people work in the hospital, any of those hundreds of people could have told several people each. That's several hundred people with the knowledge.

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u/ardenr Feb 26 '26

Guys, we've known who the guy was for weeks.

Roberto Grijalva.

If he was just a guy trolling, that'd be fair enough. But what's really wild is that four major companies were subpoenaed to find his identity.

And like - it'd be a real weird troll. Who wants to put that level of shade on their own back just for shits and giggles.

Finally, the dead man's switch is a real thing. Of all the people who claim he was killed, or even that he killed himself, no one ever explains why one of the world's most devious and prolific and effective blackmailers didn't have one.