An autopsy has been completed on Jeffrey Epstein, and now his body has been released to an unidentified “associate.”

NBC reports:

Jeffrey Epstein’s body has been claimed from the New York City medical examiner’s office, a source close to the investigation told NBC News on Wednesday. …

The person who claimed Epstein’s body was described only as an “Epstein associate.”

The autopsy found broken bones in Epstein’s neck, which aren’t unusual in a hanging, but “are more common in victims of homicide by strangulation.”

The Washington Post reports:

An autopsy found that financier Jeffrey Epstein sustained multiple breaks in his neck bones, according to two people familiar with the findings, deepening the mystery about the circumstances around his death.

Among the bones broken in Epstein’s neck was the hyoid bone, which in men is near the Adam’s apple. Such breaks can occur in those who hang themselves, particularly if they are older, according to forensics experts and studies on the subject. But they are more common in victims of homicide by strangulation, the experts said.

The details are the first findings to emerge from the autopsy of Epstein, a convicted sex offender and multimillionaire in federal custody on charges of sex trafficking. He died early Saturday morning after guards found him hanging in his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan and he could not be revived.

“If, hypothetically, the hyoid bone is broken, that would generally raise questions about strangulation, but it is not definitive and does not exclude suicidal hanging,” Jonathan Arden, president of the National Association of Medical Examiners, tells the Post.

Sigrid McCawley, an attorney for one of Epstein’s victims, doesn’t believe Epstein’s death only 24 hours after documents listing other high-profile alleged abusers, is a coincidence.