A professor of forensic medicine who examined Jeffrey Epstein’s autopsy records plans to present findings that call into question the official conclusion that the disgraced financier’s death by hanging in 2019 was a suicide, Epstein’s brother said on Friday.

Michael Freeman, who is editor in chief of the Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine, intends to publish his research and the New York City medical examiner’s autopsy files — which he obtained from Mark Epstein, the financier’s brother — after presenting his findings at University College London on Nov. 16. CBS News first obtained details of the planned presentation after The Times of London reported the lecture.

Mr. Epstein said Mr. Freeman’s analysis bolstered his belief that his brother’s death demanded a deeper investigation. “They looked at this whole thing, they looked at it scientifically, they truly investigated this,” he told CBS News by phone. “The cause on Jeffrey’s original death certificate — they further studied it in detail; this kind of study hasn’t been done before. If this kind of study had been done before, they wouldn’t have come up with a suicide conclusion.”

He said he had not commissioned the work. “This report was not done on my behalf, they did this on their own volition,” Mr. Epstein said.

Mr. Freeman’s review points to several details he says make the death investigation unusual for a suicide case. No photographs exist of Epstein’s body at the scene, and the ligature — in this case, bed sheets, according to investigators — was not preserved or examined. Mr. Freeman performed what he called a biomechanical analysis of the ligature pattern and reviewed what he described to CBS News as “images that show injuries unaccounted for by the medical examiner.”

He declined to state his conclusions before the lecture. “The death can only be a suicide or a homicide, and the lecture will describe the weight (of) evidence for both explanations,” said Mr. Freeman, who holds posts at the Oregon Health & Science University School of Medicine and Maastricht University Medical Center in the Netherlands. His earlier work includes advising an audit of Maryland’s medical examiner’s office.

Epstein, 66, was found dead in his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan in August 2019, weeks after his arrest on federal charges of sex trafficking of minors. The city’s chief medical examiner ruled the death a suicide by hanging, but the case has drawn years of scrutiny over failures at the jail, and the finding has been publicly disputed by Mr. Epstein’s brother, who hired his own forensic pathologist to observe the autopsy.

The review arrives as the Epstein Files Transparency Act, passed in 2025, has fed worldwide interest in Epstein and the wealthy figures who socialized with him. The law required the Justice Department to release its investigative records on Epstein and his associates.

In May, a U.S. district judge ordered the release of an apparent suicide note tied to an episode less than a month before Epstein’s death. The note had been filed under seal in May 2021 in the murder case against Epstein’s onetime cellmate, Nicholas Tartaglione, and was unsealed after a request by The New York Times.

Mr. Tartaglione, a former police officer convicted of killing four people, said in a podcast interview that he found the note in a book the morning after Epstein’s death and gave it to his lawyers. The scrawled message appears to read, “They investigated me for month — found nothing!!! So 15 year old charges resulted.” It also includes the phrases “time to say goodbye” and “No fun — not worth it!!” CBS News reported that it had not independently verified the note.

What Mr. Freeman will conclude, and how his findings will be received in the forensic community, will come at the Nov. 16 lecture in London.