Let's say you're Epstein, and on this night of all nights, you don't have a cellmate and the guards have stopped checking in on you every 30 minutes. If you were suicidal wouldn't you take the opportunity?

The only remarkable coincidence here was that the cameras were malfunctioning. It's highly improbable that a jail camera system would be designed in a way that it can be switched off by frontline guards with no evidence of tamper.