The notorious pedophile multi-millionaire had somehow received advance warning of a search warrant, the ex-police chief, Michael Reiter, told Dateline NBC.
"The place had been cleaned up," Reiter recalled, noting that a computer that would have stored all of his Palm Beach mansion’s video surveillance had vanished.
"And all the wires were left hanging there," Reiter said.
A half-year into the investigation, Epstein appeared to know about details of the probe that had never been made public, he said.
"We believe the content of our probable cause affidavit ... ended up with the defense attorneys, because minute details nobody else knew that was in those documents were being refuted," he said.
The Dateline interview also included extensive interviews with Epstein "sex slave" accusers, most prominently Virginia Giuffre, who said she was just 17 when Prince Andrew bought her vodka and bedded her.