Jeffrey Epstein rented at least six storage units scattered across the country and used them to hide hard drives, photographs, computers, and files from investigators, according to a report from The Telegraph. The majority of the units were in Florida, with others located just five minutes from his New York City mansion and near his New Mexico ranch. Some of those lockers may never have been uncovered by U.S. authorities.

The implications are staggering. A man credibly accused of horrific crimes against young people maintained a network of secret storage facilities for over a decade, paying thousands of dollars between 2003 and 2019.

The contents reportedly included computers from his private Caribbean island, Little Saint James, which investigators were reportedly told to move and wipe. Staff discussed taking computers and CDs and placing them in secret vaults, the Daily Mail reported.

And nobody in the federal government seems to have found all of them.

A Paper Trail That Screams Obstruction

The timeline, built from credit card statements and emails released by the Department of Justice, paints a picture of meticulous evidence management. Epstein allegedly began leasing one locker at Uncle Bob's in Florida in 2003, paying $374.13 per month until March 2015, with smaller payments continuing until 2016. He paid $140 per month for a Royal Palm Beach location until 2019. In 2010, he asked investigators to rent a unit on his behalf in New York at around $500 per month.

At least one Florida unit, used between 2009 and 2011, was accessible 24 hours a day and large enough to store vehicles.

Credit card records suggest Epstein paid a private detective agency $38,500 from January to May 2010 alone. An August 2009 message from a representative of that agency reveals the kind of work that money bought:

"Over the weekend I learned that plaintiff's counsel are looking to get from me the computers and paperwork I took from Jeff's house prior to the Search Warrant."

The representative continued, asking what to do with materials locked in storage:

"I have them locked in storage and would like to know what to do with them. They are no longer needed in the criminal case, I assume. Is it possible to give you these items for your review and safekeeping or give it to Darren Indyke or back to Jeff, etc.?"

Darren Indyke was Epstein's lawyer. The casual tone of the message is notable. Computers and paperwork removed from a suspect's home before a search warrant, locked away in storage, with the question of where to route them treated like a logistics problem rather than a legal crisis.

Cleaned Up Before They Got There

Former Palm Beach Police Chief Michael Reiter told NBC that during a 2005 search, Epstein's place "had been cleaned up." Authorities long suspected that Epstein received insider information about raids of his properties. The storage unit network helps explain how that cleanup might have worked in practice: move the material out before law enforcement arrives, stash it in a rented locker under someone else's arrangement, and wait.

A 2009 email exchange between Epstein and an associate captures the system in miniature. Epstein wrote that the associate was "going to send me a copy of [redacted's] picture." The reply:

"I thought I had a copy of it on my computer but it is in storage with everything else. I will get it out next time I go to the storage unit."

Photographs. Hard drives. Files. All parked in anonymous storage lockers while federal investigators circled for years.

What Happened to It All?

Staff took pictures from one unit in 2012 showing furniture and boxes in a cluttered space. Photographs taken during the 2019 police raids captured other units. Files also suggested Epstein was interested in a "secret storage unit" near his New Mexico ranch. The man owned five properties in the United States and France, yet still maintained a parallel network of off-site storage specifically for materials he did not want found at those addresses.

It remains unclear what happened to the contents of each unit after Epstein died by suicide in 2019. Under Florida law, storage facility owners can auction off abandoned materials after 90 days without payment.

That means hard drives, photographs, and documents potentially containing evidence of serious crimes against minors could have been auctioned to strangers, destroyed by facility operators, collected by associates, or left sitting in a locker somewhere, untouched.

None of those outcomes is acceptable.

The System That Protected Him Still Hasn't Answered

The Epstein case has always been less about one man's depravity and more about the infrastructure that enabled it. The sweetheart plea deal. The prison conditions that somehow allowed his death. The client list that remains largely shielded from public view. Now add to that list a network of storage facilities where potential evidence sat for years, possibly beyond the reach of any warrant ever executed.

The question that should haunt every federal official who touched this case is simple: How many of those six units did you actually find? The Telegraph's investigation suggests the answer may not be all of them.

Epstein is dead. His victims are still here. And somewhere in America, a storage locker may still hold evidence that could name the people who helped him.