Efrain 'Stone' Reyes: Epstein's last cellmate who said pedo was 'depressed' found dead in his mother’s apartment
The prison inmate who last shared a cell with disgraced billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein has died after being diagnosed with coronavirus.
The police in New York told the New York Daily News that Efrain 'Stone' Reyes, 51, was found dead inside his mother’s apartment in the Bronx after being diagnosed with Covid-19 earlier this year while serving a sentence for drug trafficking at Queens Detention Facility.
Before he was shifted to that facility, he was serving his time at the Manhattan Correction Center (MCC) in August 2019, where Epstein was confined. He was moved out the day before the billionaire reportedly hanged himself there. His niece, Angelique Lopez, 27, told the outlet that Reyes helped the FBI agents tasked with investigating Epstein's suicide but died on November 27 after being released from jail.
He often confided in her about the time he spent behind the bars with the notorious sex offender. Reyes apparently called Epstein a "good cellmate" who spent a lot of his time reading in his bed. "He wasn’t a problem starter or too loud," she said. Epstein had been placed in her uncle's cell because Reyes had a broken leg and was "laid back".
She also claimed Epstein once told her uncle that he wanted to kill himself. She said: "Epstein was very depressed and he mentioned to my uncle that he didn’t want to live anymore and my uncle was telling him, ‘Don’t do any of this while I’m in the room'. My uncle just wanted to do his time and get out."
We previously reported that Epstein claimed before taking his own life that he was going to kill himself because "the government is trying to kill him anyway". He was also mistreated by guards who made him sleep on the floor and was extorted by fellow inmates. While some of the inmates would slide notes under his door saying: "We're going to kill you, you rapist, you pedophile," others offered him security in exchange for money. "When he got there everyone was fighting over who would get him.... He was getting ripped off left and right," some of the former inmates shared.
Apparently, it was common knowledge in the jail that Epstein was suicidal. Despite this, the guards left the sex trafficker alone in his cell when Reyes was transferred to the other facility. However, Lopez said her uncle told her he was skeptical that Epstein was able to kill himself in the cramped cell. She said: "My uncle kept saying the bunk beds weren’t tall enough to do something like that. It didn’t make sense. The beds weren’t that tall. It just didn’t seem right to my uncle. But he said he didn’t know. He couldn’t be sure. Sometimes people are fighting something we know nothing about."
Lopez also added that her uncle broke down in tears when he revealed to his family he had Covid-19 and that he was terrified he would die of the virus behind bars. Reyes had diabetes and heart problems and was freed in April as it was clear that the virus had affected his lungs.