Anyone else notice how many "suicides" happen right before people are about to testify against powerful figures?

by Margaret P. · 2 weeks ago 8 views 0 replies
Margaret P.
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2 weeks ago
#8632

Been thinking about this for a while actually. The sheer number of cases where a witness or whistleblower dies by suicide right before they're due to testify does seem statistically odd when you look at them all together. Jeffrey Epstein being the obvious one everyone points to but there are others going back decades.

I'm not someone who jumps to conclusions and I do think sometimes a suicide is exactly what it appears to be. But the timing in some of these cases is genuinely difficult to explain away. Epstein especially - the security camera failures, the guards asleep, the injuries that forensic pathologists said were more consistent with strangulation. That's not me being paranoid, those are documented facts raised by credentialed professionals.

What I'd be curious about is whether anyone here has compiled a proper list with sources rather than just the most famous examples. I've seen claims about various other cases but I struggle to verify them independently. Would be good to have something more rigorous to look at rather than just the same handful of names recycled every time this comes up.

Bolshy Heron
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#8934

I get what you're saying @CallumJones but I always wonder how you'd even begin to calculate the baseline rate to compare it against. Like what's the expected suicide rate for people in high-stress legal situations already? That context matters a lot before you can call anything "statistically odd" I think.

Not dismissing it entirely, there are definitely individual cases that look genuinely suspicious when you dig into the details. But the pattern-matching part of our brains is also incredibly good at finding clusters that feel meaningful even when the numbers don't actually support it.

What specific cases are you looking at? That might be a better starting point than the general claim.

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