EFTA01194912: Audio Recording From Epstein Files Dataset 9
Document: EFTA01194912
Direct evidence link: EFTA01194912 audio record
Date created: April 26, 2014
Recording began: Approximately 9:03:31 a.m., UTC minus four hours, according to embedded metadata
Container creation time: 1:06:20 p.m. UTC, equivalent to approximately 9:06:20 a.m. at UTC minus four hours
Date sent or filed: Not applicable to the audio itself
Date released: January 30, 2026
Author or creator: Unidentified participant using Apple Voice Memos
Sender: Not applicable
Recipient: Not applicable
Custodian or producing source: United States Department of Justice, Epstein Library, Data Set 9
Evidence type: Native audio recording
Length and format: 2 minutes and 45.65 seconds, M4A container, AAC Low Complexity audio, 44.1 kHz, mono
File size: 1,350,661 bytes
Recorded with: Apple Voice Memos on iPhone OS 7.1.1
SHA 256: 5ea7966ddc05fe228bd93ec7916c1d1b08c3630b6e2e0b553bb65300f4e6af3d
Case or investigation: Released within the Department of Justice Epstein Library under the Epstein Files Transparency Act. The audio file does not identify the particular investigation, search, device, or evidentiary collection from which it came.
People named in the audio: Peter, Danny, Guy, and Anna
People identified through the corroborating email: Ann Rodriquez, Jeffrey Epstein, Carlos, Randy, Ti, Sandra, and Sandra’s husband
Organizations named: None in the audible conversation
Locations named: The audio does not clearly identify a location. A contemporaneous email about the same incident identifies Little Saint James and St. Thomas in the United States Virgin Islands.
Content warning: Profanity, discussion of dead deer, a marine accident, damaged property, and an angry workplace confrontation
Key takeaway: The recording captures an operational dispute after workers used a boat called Little C to retrieve dead deer from Little Saint James and struck a reef while returning to St. Thomas. A contemporaneous email, EFTA01799948, independently describes the same incident. The evidence supports a literal discussion of deer and a damaged crew boat. It does not support online claims that “deer” was code for people or homicide victims.
What Is This Record?
EFTA01194912 is a native M4A recording released by the United States Department of Justice in Epstein Library Data Set 9.
The recording captures a tense conversation among one woman and several men. They discuss a boat accident that occurred after workers attempted to collect dead deer. The woman is angry that she was not contacted immediately when the boat crashed and repeatedly emphasizes that responsibility for the incident rests with her.
The speakers refer to people named Peter, Danny, Guy, and Anna. They also discuss the responsibilities of an electrician, landscapers, and a boat captain. The conversation indicates that the damaged vessel was a crew boat used to transport staff.
The audio does not identify its speakers by full name. Its context can nevertheless be reconstructed through EFTA01799948, a contemporaneous email from Ann Rodriquez to Jeffrey Epstein that describes the same people, deer retrieval, boat, accident, and communication failure.
That email identifies the boat as Little C and states that Peter took it to Little Saint James to retrieve dead deer. According to the email, Peter then crashed Little C into a reef while returning to St. Thomas. Sea Tow became involved.
The extraordinary factual overlap makes it highly probable that EFTA01194912 records the staff discussion that followed that accident.
Source and Provenance
Primary Source
The primary source is the native audio file published by the Department of Justice:
DOJ native M4A file for EFTA01194912
The file contains the following embedded technical metadata:
Recording date tag: April 26, 2014 at 9:03:31 a.m., UTC minus four hours
Container creation time: April 26, 2014 at 1:06:20 p.m. UTC
Encoder: Apple Voice Memos on iPhone OS 7.1.1
Duration: 165.651156 seconds
Audio codec: AAC
Sample rate: 44,100 Hz
Channels: One, mono
The difference between the recording date tag and container creation time is approximately the length of the recording. That pattern is consistent with the first value marking the beginning of the voice memo and the second marking its completion or finalization.
Metadata can be altered and does not identify the phone owner. It should therefore be treated as strong technical context, not independent proof of authorship.
Epstein Data Record
Epstein Data copy of EFTA01194912
This provides a direct evidence page keyed to the DOJ identifier.
Official or Court Source
Department of Justice Data Set 9 index
Department of Justice announcement concerning the January 30, 2026 production
The Department stated that its January 30 production contained more than three million additional pages, approximately 2,000 videos, and approximately 180,000 images. Native audio and video files were sometimes accessible by replacing a placeholder PDF extension with the file’s actual media extension.
Archived Copy
Jefftube media index lists EFTA01194912.m4a with a displayed runtime of 2 minutes and 45 seconds.
The archived listing is useful for access and preservation. The DOJ native file remains the controlling primary source.
What the Record Contains
The conversation begins with the female speaker attempting to determine who authorized Peter to use the boat and whom Peter contacted before acting.
Peter is described as having appeared without adequate coordination. Danny denies that Peter spoke to him before the trip. Guy acknowledges speaking with Peter. The woman says Anna was not called and complains that relevant personnel learned about the situation only after the boat had already crashed.
The woman repeatedly states that she is responsible for the consequences. Her language indicates that she holds a supervisory or managerial role.
Peter says that after the accident they tried to calm or contain the situation. The woman rejects that response and says that she did not receive a message until around midnight.
The discussion then turns directly to the purpose of the trip. The woman asks why the boat was used to retrieve dead deer. The participants acknowledge that the better plan would have been to kill the deer, wait until daylight, and dispose of them properly.
The woman calls attention to the damage and says, in substance, that the vessel belongs to “the man.” She says the owner does not have another crew boat and is angry about what happened.
Danny describes the situation as a nightmare.
The woman addresses the men according to their operational responsibilities. She refers to a head electrician, one of the head landscapers, and someone who had been given work as a boat captain. The exchange shows that personnel with other estate duties were also expected to make decisions involving vessels and transportation.
The woman explains that the crew boat was needed to move workers. Without it, the operation might have to use a barge, creating additional cost and logistical problems.
The recording ends with her continuing to condemn both the decision and the failure to notify her.
Key Evidence Points
The Audio Concerns a Documented Boat Accident
The recording is not an isolated or contextless discussion. EFTA01799948 documents the same event in writing on the same date.
Ann Rodriquez wrote that Peter called Guy to ask whether the deer had been killed. After Guy said yes, Peter decided to take Little C to Little Saint James without first calling Ann, Danny, or Carlos.
The email says Peter traveled with Randy, Ti, and Sandra’s husband. It then states that Peter crashed Little C into a reef while returning to St. Thomas.
The Deer Reference Is Literal
The contemporaneous email repeatedly uses the word “deer” and explains why the animals were aboard the vessel. Text messages reproduced in the email include the statement that an accident occurred while carrying the deer to St. Thomas.
This written account resolves the most consequential ambiguity promoted in social media posts about the recording. There is no evidentiary basis for changing “deer” into “people,” “girls,” or a supposed code word.
The Boat Was Little C
The audio refers to a crew boat without stating a clearly audible vessel name. EFTA01799948 identifies the vessel as Little C.
The email subject is “Sea Tow & Little C pics,” and Ann tells Epstein that Sea Tow responded after the vessel became stuck on rocks or a reef.
The Trip Began at Little Saint James
The audio itself does not establish the location. The related email states that Peter took Little C to LSJ, the abbreviation used in Epstein related records for Little Saint James.
It says the vessel was returning to St. Thomas when it struck the reef.
The Recording Was Made After Epstein Had Been Notified
The written chronology places the initial incident report at approximately 2:12 a.m. on April 26, 2014. Jeffrey Epstein replied at approximately 7:23 a.m. that the situation was “not good on many counts.”
The audio metadata places the start of the recording at approximately 9:03 a.m. that morning. This is consistent with a staff discussion held after Ann reported the accident to Epstein and received his response.
The Female Speaker Is Probably Ann Rodriquez
The recording does not announce the woman’s identity, and no public voice authentication report accompanies it.
Contextual identification is nevertheless strong. The woman says that she is responsible, complains that Anna was not contacted, repeats facts found in Ann Rodriquez’s email, and refers to the owner’s anger. Ann’s email records her personal calls and text messages with the same participants.
The evidence therefore supports identifying the female speaker as probably Ann Rodriquez. It does not justify describing that identification as biometric certainty.
“The Man” Probably Refers to Jeffrey Epstein
The female speaker refers to the vessel as “the man’s crew boat” and says the man is angry.
The contemporaneous email was sent directly to Jeffrey Epstein, addresses him as “Bossman,” reports that Anna expected him to be angry, and contains Epstein’s response. In that context, “the man” probably refers to Epstein.
The audio alone does not name him, so this remains a contextual identification based on the related email.
What the Record Does and Does Not Prove
What It Establishes
The audio establishes that several people discussed a damaged crew boat, dead deer, missed notifications, staff transportation, and responsibility for an operational failure.
The native metadata dates the recording to April 26, 2014 and identifies Apple Voice Memos as the recording application.
The conversation establishes that the boat was important to routine staff transportation and that losing its use could require more expensive transport by barge.
The related email establishes that the vessel was Little C, that the trip involved collecting dead deer from Little Saint James, and that the boat struck a reef while returning to St. Thomas.
The combined records establish that Jeffrey Epstein was notified of the accident and responded before the voice memo appears to have been recorded.
What It Does Not Establish
The recording does not document homicide, disposal of human remains, or coded references to victims.
It does not mention sexual abuse, trafficking, Ghislaine Maxwell, or any survivor.
It does not establish that killing the deer violated a wildlife law, hunting rule, permit requirement, or animal welfare law.
It does not prove who killed the deer, how many deer were involved, what method was used, or why they were being removed.
It does not establish the legal ownership, registration, insurance status, or final repair cost of Little C.
It does not prove which participant held each job mentioned in the conversation.
It does not identify who activated the recording or establish whether every participant knew that the conversation was being recorded.
It does not establish why investigators retained the file or why the Department of Justice included it in Data Set 9.
Unresolved Questions
Who owned and operated the iPhone used to create the recording?
Was the recording captured during a formal staff meeting or an informal confrontation?
Which speakers correspond to Peter, Danny, and Guy?
Who were Randy, Ti, Carlos, and Sandra’s husband?
Which employee was the electrician, which was the landscaper, and which had been assigned work as a boat captain?
How badly was Little C damaged, and how long was it unavailable?
Do the photographs referenced in EFTA01799948 survive elsewhere in the released evidence?
Are there repair invoices, Sea Tow records, insurance claims, marine reports, or later emails documenting the consequences?
What authorization existed for killing and removing deer from Little Saint James?
Why was this particular voice memo preserved in the investigative collection?
People and Entities Appearing in the Record
Ann Rodriquez
Ann Rodriquez is the author of EFTA01799948 and the probable female speaker in the audio. Some secondary indexes and the EpsteinWiki profile use the spelling Ann Rodriguez. The primary email displays “Ann Rodriquez.”
Her email shows that she reported the accident directly to Jeffrey Epstein, communicated with Guy, called Danny, and expected to return the following morning.
Jeffrey Epstein
Jeffrey Epstein is not named in the audible conversation. He is the recipient of the contemporaneous incident report and replied before the apparent recording time.
The references to “Bossman” in the email and “the man” in the audio probably refer to Epstein.
Peter
Peter is described as the person who contacted Guy, decided to take Little C to retrieve the deer, and crashed the boat into a reef.
The released records examined here do not provide his surname.
Guy
Guy told Peter that the deer had been killed. He later exchanged text messages with Ann about the accident and acknowledged that Little C was stuck on rocks.
The record does not establish Guy’s surname.
Danny
Danny told Ann that Peter had arrived without warning and that he had not known Peter was coming. He is also heard participating in the recorded discussion.
The record does not establish Danny’s surname.
Anna
“Anna” appears in the email’s reproduction of text messages. The messages are presented by Ann Rodriquez as exchanges between herself and Guy. This strongly indicates that “Anna” is Ann Rodriquez’s name or nickname within the exchange.
Carlos
Carlos appears in the corroborating email as another person Peter should have contacted before using Little C. He is not clearly identified in the audio.
Randy, Ti, and Sandra’s Husband
EFTA01799948 says these individuals accompanied Peter on the trip. Their full identities and precise roles are not established by the audio or the email.
Little C
Little C was the boat used to travel to Little Saint James and transport the dead deer toward St. Thomas. The conversation describes it as a crew boat needed for staff transportation.
Sea Tow
Sea Tow is identified in the related email subject and text messages as the service that responded after Little C became stuck on the reef or rocks.
Little Saint James
Little Saint James was the departure point identified in the email. The recording itself does not name the island.
St. Thomas
St. Thomas was the intended destination of the return trip carrying the deer.
Timeline Significance
Approximately 2:12 a.m., April 26, 2014: Ann Rodriquez emails Jeffrey Epstein with an account of the Little C accident.
Approximately 7:23 a.m.: Epstein replies that the situation is “not good on many counts.”
Approximately 9:03:31 a.m.: The embedded date tag indicates that the voice memo begins.
Approximately 9:06:17 a.m.: The recording ends based on its measured duration.
Approximately 9:06:20 a.m.: The M4A container creation timestamp is recorded.
Approximately 2:15 p.m.: Ann forwards the email chain under the subject “Sea Tow & Little C pics.”
This sequence places the recording between Epstein’s response and Ann’s later forwarded message. It supports interpreting the audio as a same morning effort to determine responsibility for the accident.
The record also provides a small but concrete view of island operations in 2014. It shows workers moving between Little Saint James and St. Thomas, staff using a dedicated crew boat, managers coordinating employees across different trades, and operational problems being reported directly to Epstein.
Related Evidence
EFTA01799948
EFTA01799948 is the most important corroborating record. It identifies the date, vessel, route, people, purpose of the trip, collision with a reef, Sea Tow response, and Jeffrey Epstein’s reaction.
Department of Justice Data Set 9
The audio was released within DOJ Data Set 9, part of the January 30, 2026 production.
The EpsteinWiki index for the production is available at DOJ Vault Data Set 9, 10, 11 Files.
EpsteinWiki Evidence Framework
The Epstein Files evidence framework explains why a record must be separated from speculation about what the record might mean.
That distinction is particularly important here because unsupported social media posts transformed an ordinary word, “deer,” into an allegation about human victims. The contemporaneous email contradicts that interpretation.
Audio Recording Evidence
Additional native recordings can be reviewed through the EpsteinWiki audio recording evidence collection.
Reliability and Limitations
The DOJ native file is the strongest available source for the recording itself. Its duration, codec, timestamps, and encoder information can be examined directly.
EFTA01799948 provides unusually strong corroboration because it describes the same incident on the same date and names the boat, route, participants, dead deer, reef collision, and Sea Tow response.
The timing also aligns. Epstein’s response precedes the recording metadata, while Ann’s later forwarded message follows it.
The audio has no official transcript. Some speech overlaps, individual words are unclear, and public transcripts differ in minor places. Any quotation should be checked against the recording before being presented as exact.
The file metadata does not establish who owned the phone, who pressed record, or whether the timestamps remained unchanged throughout the evidentiary process.
No chain of custody report, forensic extraction report, or device inventory is attached to the publicly accessible M4A file.
The EFTA number is a production identifier. It is not the original filename and does not show when investigators first obtained the recording.
The presence of a file in the Epstein Library does not mean every event discussed in it was criminal. It also does not establish that every speaker committed misconduct.
Names heard without surnames must not be matched to unrelated people merely because they share the same first name.
Survivor Safety and Privacy Review
The recording does not name or describe an Epstein survivor. No survivor identity needs to be reproduced to explain the evidence.
Public claims that the speakers were discussing murdered people are unsupported by the audio’s documented context. Repeating those claims as fact risks distorting the evidentiary record and diverting attention from substantiated accounts of Epstein’s abuse.
A survivor centered presentation should preserve the distinction between confirmed evidence, reasonable contextual inference, and online speculation. It should also avoid assigning criminal conduct to workers whose names or identities have not been established.
The private individuals identified only by first name should not be linked to full identities without additional reliable evidence.
Why This Record Matters
EFTA01194912 matters because it demonstrates how native media can be interpreted correctly only when compared with surrounding records.
Standing alone, the audio contains incomplete names, informal language, overlapping voices, and references to an unnamed owner. The contemporaneous email transforms that fragment into a documented operational event involving Little C, Little Saint James, St. Thomas, dead deer, a reef collision, Sea Tow, Ann Rodriquez, and Jeffrey Epstein.
The recording also shows the structure of everyday estate operations. Electricians, landscapers, boat personnel, supervisors, and other workers could be drawn into transportation and property management decisions. The loss of a crew boat affected how staff moved between the island and St. Thomas.
Most importantly, the record offers a clear example of why sensational interpretations must be tested against primary evidence. Claims that “deer” referred to human victims collapse when compared with the same day email explicitly documenting dead deer, their transportation aboard Little C, and the boat’s collision with a reef.
The proper significance of this recording is evidentiary discipline. It documents an island operations dispute and provides insight into staff hierarchy, transportation, and reporting practices. It does not document murder or the disposal of human remains.
Fact Check
Verification status: Verified native audio with strong contemporaneous documentary corroboration
Confirmed: EFTA01194912 is a 165.65 second M4A audio file released by the Department of Justice in Data Set 9.
Confirmed: Embedded metadata dates the recording to April 26, 2014 and identifies Apple Voice Memos on iPhone OS 7.1.1 as the encoder.
Confirmed: The conversation concerns dead deer, a damaged crew boat, failures to notify a supervisor, and operational consequences.
Confirmed: EFTA01799948 describes Little C striking a reef while transporting dead deer from Little Saint James toward St. Thomas.
Confirmed: Ann Rodriquez sent the written account to Jeffrey Epstein, who replied before the recording appears to have been made.
Strong contextual identification: The female speaker is probably Ann Rodriquez.
Strong contextual identification: “The man” or boat owner discussed in the audio probably refers to Jeffrey Epstein.
Not confirmed: The identity of the person who activated the recording.
Not confirmed: The full identities of Peter, Danny, Guy, Carlos, Randy, Ti, or Sandra’s husband.
False or unsupported claim: The recording documents people being killed or human bodies being disposed of.
Last checked: September 11, 2026
Related EpsteinWiki Pages
DOJ Vault Data Set 9, 10, 11 Files
Epstein Files Evidence Framework
Source List
- United States Department of Justice native EFTA01194912 audio
- United States Department of Justice Data Set 9 index
- Epstein Data record for EFTA01194912
- Epstein Data record for corroborating email EFTA01799948
- Department of Justice January 30, 2026 production announcement
- Searchable record for EFTA01799948
- Jefftube media archive
- Technical guide to locating native media in the DOJ library
- Original EpsteinWiki entry for EFTA01194912