richt University Medical Center. Freeman's previous work includes advising an audit of Maryland's medical examiner office.

Freeman's review comes as the federal Epstein Files Transparency Act has fed a worldwide fascination with Epstein and his circle of elite, wealthy power players who socialized with him even as he became notorious for allegations of sexual abuse. Epstein died in jail in 2019, while facing federal charges for sex trafficking of minors.

The act, passed in 2025, required the Department of Justice to release its voluminous investigative records into Epstein and those in his orbit.

In May, a U.S. district judge ordered the release of an apparent suicide note from an incident less than a month before Epstein's death. The note had been filed and sealed in May 2021 as part of a murder case involving Epstein's former cellmate, Nicholas Tartaglione. It was released in response to a filing by The New York Times.

Tartaglione, a former police officer convicted of killing four people, claimed in a podcast interview that he found the note in a book the morning after Epstein's death, and he gave it to his lawyers.

The scrawled note appears to read:  They investigated me for month - found nothing!!! So 15 year old charges resulted.  The note also includes the phrases  time to say goodbye  and  No fun - not worth it!! 

CBS News has not independently verified the note.