What the "missing minute" in the Jeffrey Epstein jail video shows

By Dan Ruetenik
September 3, 2025 / 7:39 PM EDT / CBS News

The so-called "missing minute" from the security camera video of the jail tier where the infamous sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein died is no longer missing.

... Attorney General Pam Bondi attributed this gap to a nightly DVR reset at the prison ...

The Department of Justice's Office of Inspector General reported in 2023 that between 4 p.m. and midnight the night of Aug. 9, 2019, responsibility for rounds and inmate counts in the Special Housing Unit mostly fell to two staff members: Tova Noel, a corrections officer, and another employee identified only by the title "Material Handler."

The material handler was working his third consecutive 8-hour shift. Just after 11:59 p.m., a man, believed to be that material handler, walks away from the guard desk and walks off screen in the direction of the main entrance to the Special Housing Unit or SHU. That figure is likely finishing his shift and heading home. While he does pass in front of the stairs leading to Epstein's tier, he does not appear to be approaching the cells where Epstein resided, but instead seemed to be heading out of the SHU ...

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