A 2020 email recently unearthed from the Justice Department's release of 3.5 million files on Jeffrey Epstein appears to show a DOJ attorney referring to Epstein's death " officially ruled a suicide " as a "murder," a revelation that sparked a frenzy among journalists. Epstein was found dead in his cell at the Metropolitan Detention Center in New York City, New York on Aug. 10, 2019, and six days later, his death was ruled a suicide by Chief Medical Examiner Barbara Sampson, despite several oddities surrounding the circumstances of his death.