Er baute die endgültige Epstein-Datenbank auf – und sie kostete sein Leben | Der Dateningenieur begann als Gelegenheitsleser der Jeffrey-Epstein-Akten. Dann wurde er besessen und baute das umfangreichste Netzwerkdiagramm der Schattenwelt des Sexualstraftäters auf

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>In February, a user named EricKeller2 posted on Reddit. “I mapped every connection in the Epstein files,” he wrote. He had built a website and database of more than 1.5 million files related to the Jeffrey Epstein case. A giant interactive network graph showed the connections between 1,000-plus people in Epstein’s social world—through flight manifests, email exchanges, and other documents that connect them. The post included a link to the site: Epsteinexposed.com.
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>That post got 5.5 million views. Hundreds of thousands of people from all over the world visited the site in the days that followed. And EricKeller2 was busier than ever.
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>EricKeller2’s real name isn’t Eric Keller. He used a pseudonym to protect himself and his family from Jeffrey Epstein’s rich and powerful friends. A thirtysomething data engineer with a wife and kids, he’d been following the child sexual abuse case for years—reading court filings, depositions, materials from the Giuffre v. Maxwell case. But in the fall of 2025, as the initial deadline from the Epstein Files Transparency Act approached, he got more organized. And then he got obsessed.
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>He has a personal reason for pouring himself into this project. “I am a survivor of childhood sexual abuse,” he tells me. It’s why he can’t seem to look away from the horror inside those files. And so he builds.
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>Scroll through the hundreds of replies to Keller’s launch post on Reddit and you’ll notice a recurring sentiment: He’s building the infrastructure that the government should have set up in the first place.
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>For some time now, online communities have been helping to fill holes left by institutions. Reddit in particular has stood out. Last month, when the DOJ gave lawmakers a strict window in which to peek at the unredacted Epstein files, many members of Congress felt overwhelmed. Congressman Maxwell Frost, a Democrat from Florida, knew he needed to “be strategic and act fast.”
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>“On Reddit, there was an active community (r-Epstein) crowdsourcing information and digging into the details, so we posted there to gather direct links to the DOJ’s website and better understand what to prioritize,” Frost told me. “Millions of people interacted with that post, which made clear that the American people want answers.”
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>As Keller sees it, the online community’s role in the Epstein saga is, primarily, to refuse to let the issue die—to spur new prosecutions and to help the victims see justice. “I think about them constantly,” he says of the survivors. “If they can come to this site and search and find documentation that confirms yes, this happened, yes, it was real, yes, the world knows,” he said, “that matters in a way I don’t have adequate language for.”
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>Since quitting his job, Keller has found himself burning through his savings faster than he expected. He says he spends roughly $3,500 a month to keep the server running, and some weeks the donations don’t cover it. But he says his wife understands why this matters to him and has been supportive. The database has now indexed 2.15 million documents, cataloged 1,500 people, and mapped tens of thousands of Epstein’s connections. “You don’t walk away from that,” he said. “Imagine where this can be in six months or a year from now. I believe this will make a difference. I have to. These things cannot be allowed to stand.”
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>The work is far from over. He recently finished building out a forensic finance system. More than 130,000 documents still need to have their text made fully machine-readable. Hash verification is only 64 percent complete.

On one hand it’s deeply admirable that members of the community such as this person have been working to highlight these issues and keep the topic in the public eye. On the other hand this is also showing that there are deep failures in the public service that this isn’t done as a matter of course on the public’s behalf.

There are innocent people in these files.   We risk becoming the next Salem Witch Trial or McCarthy Hearing ruining innocent people’s lives.

Creating a guilt by association problem for too many powerful people was Epstein’s way of protecting himself.

He thought he couldn’t be touched but that only goes so far. 

He quit his job, spends $3,500 a month on servers, and is burning through savings to index files the government was legally required to release. One guy with a database is doing more for accountability than every agency that was supposed to handle this.

I hope he has made some safe back ups .