Great, reasonable question. This question alone makes it even more plausible that the "Epstein was murdered" narrative is a government approved alternative narrative. The unlikely narrative is either Epstein killed himself, although we have zero proof for this, we don't even have proof if he was in the U.S. at the time or at his court appearances considering we only have sketches of him. Or Epstein is alive and this entire narrative is a show trial, or a a psyop from beginning to end.

Instead it's all a show, to convince the masses that the justice system is completely broken, to cause protests so some billionaire can seize more power in the chaos

Makes perfect sense to me. They do this all the time.