By the time Palm Beach, Florida, police raided Jeffrey Epstein's mansion, the evidence they sought was gone. Three computers were missing from the home, leaving only loose wires and keyboards behind.
Newly surfaced documents indicate that Epstein had private investigators remove the computers and lock them in storage units across Palm Beach County and beyond. Epstein continued making monthly payments to one such Royal Palm Beach storage facility until 2019, the year he died by suicide in his Manhattan jail cell while awaiting trial on federal sex-trafficking charges.
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When asked on Feb. 24 whether it had searched any of Epstein's storage units or recovered the computers hidden in 2005, the FBI referred all inquiries to the Department of Justice, which did not respond to a request for comment. Stephen Kiraly, the private investigator whose Pinellas County firm handled the computers, declined to comment.
"I apologize, but under state law I can't divulge any information without written consent from the client or his estate," Kiraly said.
