India, Feb. 14 -- Michael Baden, a pathologist who was hired by Jeffrey Epstein's family to observe his official autopsy findings, has sparked a controversy by alleging that the death could have been a homicide.

In an interview with the UK's The Telegraph, the veteran doctor alleged that the late financier's dead body bore marks more consistent with death by strangulation than suicide. Epstein died in his jail cell at a Manhattan prison on August 10, 2019, while he was awaiting trial. His death was officially ruled a suicide.

However, Baden, who was present during the autopsy of Epstein, is among many who questions the official ruling that Epstein's death was a suicide. In the interview with The Telegraph, Baden said he observed many in...