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Newly released documents in the Epstein Files include an anonymous 2019 email claiming bodies may be buried near Jeffrey Epstein’s Zorro Ranch in New Mexico. The unverified message alleges two girls were killed and buried on or near the property — a claim that has not been substantiated. Now, New Mexico officials are calling for further investigation, and lawmakers have approved a multi-million-dollar probe into activity connected to the ranch.
There is a new bombshell allegation in the Epstein files that dead bodies are buried on once of the deceased financiers’s famous properties .
We are going through the allegations , the launch of a new investigation.
Is this even possible? can alleged bodies be found and properly examined?
Jeffrey Epstein has been called a lot of things and he has been accused of a lot of things. But killer ?, being responsible for the cover up of violent deaths, that would be a new one.
What are we supposed to make of these new allegations coming out of the Epstein files? because as you may know we’ve been covering as best as we can the existing files that were released from the department of Justice and something came out.
Burried in the millions and millions of pages ,there is an email that has now stood out for a very dark reason …
There’s an email from November 2019, it’s directed to an Edward Aragon,according to KOB4, he’s a local radio host , the other names are redacted in this email.
But this is what it says;
Edward, “this is sensitive, so it’ll be the first and last email depending on your discretion, you can choose to take it or trash it,but this comes from a person that has been there and seen it all as a former staff at the Zorro, the material below was taken from Jeffrey’s Epstein’s home as my insurance in case of future litigation against Epstein,sorry no questions.
What is damning about Jeffrey Epstein is yet to be written,did you know somewhere in the hills outside the Zorro,two foreign girls were buried on orders of Jeffrey and Madam G? both died by strangulation during rough fetish sex.
And there even appear to be links to purported sex videos,including one that says ;
sex video with minor.
And then it goes on to say;
Please arrange for one Bitcoin BTC by 6 PM Eastern standard time today,thursday 11:22 to the BTC wallet address ” that’s redacted, the USB will be sent anonymously to your attention by overnight courier upon receipt of the funds , you have my assaurance ,this is exlusive, never shared before,no attorneys, no samples, no questions , please confirm ASAP.”
So, Zorro by the way,is referring to Zorro Ranch,
it’s about 30 miles south of Santa Fe,New Mexico .
he wanted this property along with all of his major properties to go to Karina Schuliak, his purported secret girlfriend , this is in trust documents and will documents.
Now, Epstein , based on reporting here, apparently purchased the 7500 acre property from former New Mexico Govenor Bruce king in 1993.
And there were several civil lawsuits that accused Epstein of sexually assaulting girls at this property, it was dubbed the playboy ranch ,where Epstein ,infact is accused of sexually abusing a 16 year old girl as early as 1996.
And for example, you have this unsealed 2016 court deposition where the Epstein accuser renowned Epstein accuser .
Virginia dufrey,testified that ghislaine maxwell ordered her to give the late former New Mexico Govenor Bill Richardson a massage at the ranch.
Now, this radio host, Aragon, said that he got this message anonymously, he sent the email to the FBI , which is why ,by the way ,it was in the Epstein files to begin with Why it was released from the DOJ.
And he indicated that he didn’t pay this person, which when you think about one Bitcoin back in the day was reportedly worth about $ 8,000 at the time.
And hbe indicated that while he spoke to an FBI agent, he never heard anything more from it, didn’t know the status of the investigation.
Let me be clear about something, we couldn’t find more corroborating evidence to support this claim that , you know ,they’re dead bodies somewhere in the area of this ranch or on the ranch, we don’t know if these allegations are true, but if they are true…
When would this have happened? we don’t know that either.but apparently, this ranch,this claim is being taken seriously .
What potential evidence could be left behind? how can you even find a body ? what will be left to actually examine? how much can we tell here?
But the reason that we’re even bringing a coroner on and talking about this is because this claim is getting serious attention .
You have New Mexico’s land commssioner Stephanie Garcia Richard who sent the letter to the New Mexico Department of Justice and the US attorney’s office requesting a full investigation .
According to KOB4 , Epstein had apperently leased land around this ranch from the state land office ,did it through a company called Cypress Inc, but Garcia Richard ended that lease in light of what happened with Epstein .
And in a further escalation, the chief deputy attorney general, James Grayson, said;
The Department of Justice is taking these allegations seriously,only has so much information right now to go forward with because they’re working to try to get the original documents to try to verify these accusations.
As Grayson saying quote;
Stephanie Garcia Richard saying quote;
Now in some latest reporting…
the New Mexico Department of Justice apparently sent a letter to the feds seeking the unredacted copies of this email.
And you had the New Mexico Departement of Justice Chief of Staff Lauren Rodriguez telling source New Mexico in a statement, quote;
We’re going to talk about the truth commission …
But now,back to Garci Richard, she said in an interview, while the state land office sent hundred of pages of Zorro Ranch leasing records to the New Mexico attorney general in 2019 , Garcia Richard said ;
I have a lot of frustration that we are now seven years beyond the initial cancellation of the leases, and to my knwoledge,not one member of law enforcement has investigate the ranch or state land.”
– Stephanie Garcia Richard / New Mexico Land Commissioner.
And in her letter to the DOJ , she added ;
We are fully committed to assisting with an investigation in anyway possible, including providing access to state lands adjacent to the former Zoro Ranch.”
So, assuming, these bodies are really buried, where exactly are they buried?
You even had US representative Melanie Stansbury who issued a video recorded statement.
Guess, what happened , New Mexico lawmakers ,they passed legislation to launch a fullscale investigation.
You have a committee of both Republicans and Democrats who are going to have subpoena power, they’re going to try to get testimony from survivors of the alleged abuse that happened at this ranch and local residents to testify all at the state capital.
So, the person who maybe sent that 2019 email, will they come forward?
Don’t know ,but according to Reuters, this probe is going to cost about two $ 2.5 million reportedly funded through a settlement betwenn the AG’s office and financial services companies for failing to address the alleged abuse at this property.
And the idea is here they want to transform the law , the want to amend the law that may have allowed Jeffrey Epsten to allegedly operate the way he is accused of operating at this property.
And the preliminary findings are due in July,there was a full final report that’s going to be due by year’s end .
And you have to wonder, is it going to include allegations about dead bodies?
Representative Andrea Romero, she said that they’re going to use subpoenas and public records and testimonies, quote, to put the whole story together , and in a statement following the vote to launch all this, romero said;
New mexicans deserve to know the truthabout what went on at the Zoro Ranch and who knew about it, we have heard years of allegations and rumors about Epstein’s activities in New Mexico ,but unfortunately, federal investigations have failed to put together an official record, with this truth commission, we can finally fill in the gaps by investigating the failures that led to the horrific allegations of abuse and crime at Zoro Ranch ,so we can learn from them and prevent such atrocities from taking place in our state going forward”
-Rep. Andrea Romero ( D .Santa Fe)
This is a complication, maybe a complication, got to mention it.
So, while the 1,200 acres that were previously leased by Epstein’s company is still public and unleashed, this is according to Garcia Richard.
Guess who owns the the actual ranch today?
The family of Texas businessman and politician Donald Huffiness.
It was bought in 2023 by an LLC, this LLC was apparently created just one months before.
and Huffines is actually running for statewide comprollers office
and according to the new Mexican, the Zorro,Ranch was renamed the San Rafael Ranch located at San Rafael Road.
By the way, what was the purchase price? reportedly it was listed in 2021 for over $ 27 million ,but the sales prices may have dropped to $ 18 million , we don’t know what it was actually bought for,althoug, we will tell you,there’s a side note, the LLC made the argument given the ties to Epstein along with a lower sales price, that’s why it was actually valued at only $ 13,4,4 million in 2023 for tax purposes .
Interesting side note, by the way, public business filings aparently indicated that at one point Huffine’s son Colin was the manager of the LLC.
Then you had Alan Blakemore, spokesperson for the family who released the statement saying ;
Four years after Mr Epstein’sdeath ,the Huffines family purchased property in New Mexico listed at public auction whose proceeds benefited his victims, prior to the auctionlisting ,they had never visited the property”
– Allen Blakemore / family spokesperson
Now,we will tell you this,the Huffiness family did indicate that they would fully cooperate with this New Mexico investigation if authorities wanted to search the property.
That’s big , and it is being reported that the feds haven’t even searched this ranch as of December 2019.
So , one one of the things that’s come out is that you had the former AG Hector Balderas wrote a letter to then attorney John Anderson in October 2019 about a joint investigation,quote;
My office has been actively investigating and assisting other state and federal agencies with their investigations related to criminality perpetrated in New Mexico by Jeffrey Epstein.”
-Hector Balderas/ New Mexico attorney General
And Balderas wrote and requested that the United states attorney’s officer quote ;
Explore initiating the process to seize Epstein’s New Mexico land holdings.”
But now, all these years later, it’s coming up again , and by the way , Zorro Ranch , it came up quite a bit in the Epstein files, several photographs released in Epstein files show women or girls, their faces apparently recacted at Zorro Ranch.
For example, in the files , there’s a 2015 itinerary , or that’s appears to be presumably for Epstein, and it says .; august 1 st, 2015 , zorro, sunday, august 2nd ,2015, San Fransisco, reminder, Leighton to the Island today, 11:18 a.m Depart Zorro 12:18 p.m. arrive San Jose.
There’s a lot of correspondence regarding the ranch,too , in the Epstein files, in fact ,it appears the ranch is mentioned over 4,000 times, a lot of the correspondence between 2012 and 2018 , you have the ranch as a sender or receiver in emails.
There’s even a email signature that says Zorro management LLC.
So , with all that in mind , what would it take for there to be an excavation of potential bodies on these property?
And if bodies are found , what would it show?
Okay, this is a big allegation , we don’t know if this is true, obviously ,we’re talking about the fact that now an investigation is being launched into this property.
It’s about sexual abuse allegations, but who knows what else they might be able to find during the course of this if they have residents and you know ,survivors speak out about what they saw.
What would it take for authorities to actually go around the property and try to excavate to find bodies?
First of all, you have New Mexico , the terrain there is going to be extremely difficult , it’s dry , it’s rugged terrain, it’s rough.
So any excavation that’s going to happen, they’re going to need to have some idea about where this could possibly take place on this property ,unless they’re going to dig up the entire property.
Which is not very prudent of them.
So, they would need some sort of ground penetrating devices that could help to look and see if there ‘s some sort of grave there, if they put this person in a box, if they buried them with something special that’s not supposed to be in the ground naturally .
So, they’re going to need a lot of technology first before they just go digging around this property. and it’s a big property.
and this allegation is not even clear about when these ,people were allegedly buried there .
Which makes us wonder, even if you were digging, what could you potentially find?
What would be left over?
You’re going to have skeletal remains at this point, these allegations purport that this happened so long ago, and so, not only did they say that these are possibly minors, so you have smaller bodies that are potentially buried, you have scavengers that are in this area , again , animals that are indigenous to this area .
Again , it is very hard to dig a grave unless you have special equipment ,so, and especially on that type of terrain.
so, did they have special equipment?
Supposedly these people have a lot of money, they have a lot of resources, so, if they tapped into those resources, they could have done this properly.
But again, that’s why the technology piece of this is going to be so important to be able to see where they could have possibly buried someone.
And then the amount of time, that has passed, it’s going to be grown over , you’re not going to be able to see, , freshly disturbed ground as you would for someone who has maybe been recently buried , and so, again , this is going to take a long time.
And those excavation efforts are probably just going to reveal skeletal remains , which then you’re going to have extract DNA from possibly the femur bones.
And who are these supposed miners that were there?
Do their families know they’re missing?
Where were they trfficked from?
So, not only are you trying to pinpoint country of origin, possibly since they said that these minors were possibly from foreign countries.
Now you’re going to have to try to track down family utilizing DNA, skeleton remains, again , you look at the femur bone, you’re trying to gather the DNA from there.
But what else could youd do? dental records and things, but you must know the identity of the person in order to be able to do that.
Let’s laborate on that.
so, even if they find remains,it could be very very difficult to establish a identity ,but b cause of a manner of death.? – absolutely.
Unless they did something that affected the skeleton of the person , soft injuries are not going to be readily apparent in someone who has been buried , especially if they’ve been buried for a really long time.
That soft tissue eventually becomes desicated and goes away, it goes back to the earth, and so, you’re not going to see much , unless they were blunt force trauma, stabbed ,shot, you may not see those things, you can see broken bones potentially .
but again, how well preserved is the skeleton ? and that’s going to be very important.
How quickly was these persons supposedly buried?
again ,lots of allegations,lots of speculations, but if you are searching for bones, then you’re going to need technology to look over all of that terrain .
So,in other words, if we take these allegations as true that you had these girls die as a result of strangulation,it may be very difficult to actually see that.
Yes, it will, and again, how well was the body preserved before burial ?
Meaning the hyoid bone which is located here in the neck, its a protected bone, but usually that’s what we see broken in someone who has died from strangulation and you’ll see that piece again of the hyoid bone broken off, but you also see soft tissue injury, so ig the body is not well preserved, then you’re not going to see those thing.
And again, after all this time, all of that soft tissue is going to be gone ,so in a regular autopsy where we suspect strangulation, you’re going to see peticio hemorrhaging, you’re going to see bleeding within the strap muscles of the neck, you’re going to see that damage that happens from someone being strangled.
But in skeletons , you don’t see those things, again, unless there is a severe blunt force injury to the area and again , small tiny bones, you have insects and things that are going to feed on the body when its burried and so again , you may lose a lot of that evidence.
Whether it’s from an anthropologist or looking at the dental records,if it’s possible or the bones, is there any way to determine age?
Yes , and this is where a forensic anthrpologist is going to be really important.
Just how they make these determinations , so femur length is going to be important, they are going to measure those bones, they’re going to make sure that any part of that skeletal remain that they find that they try to put that body together as anatomically correct as possible and then they’ll start getting their information from there.
So, again , the measurements of those bones,not only just the femur length, but also head circumference and those different things, basing those anthrop those anthropology measurements, those are going to be very important in terms of assessing them and comparing them to what someone’s age could be for the measurements that they find.
So ,again, you refer to forensic anthropologists on that, they’re going to need a quite a few if they do get to a point where they’re going to do excavation because you don’t want to lose any evidence,you can’t just dig it up , it has to be done very carefully,methodically, and it’s a very timeintensive process.
A more elaborate on dental records -What may or may not be available there?
Whenever you look at dental records,you look at the shape of the jaw, you look for any filings, any cavities, any bridge work, anything that may be present, braces, for example, they come from someplace.
Again, they’re useless if you don’t know a potential identity of the person, because you would have to be able to go to that dental office and subpoena those records and say”hey,could you please give us the dental record for this person so you can compare what you found with these skeletal remains.
Again, TV sometimes tricks us into thinking that you can just use dental records and all of a sudden you can find out everything you need to know about a person but you have to have a possible identity for someone before you just go digging through dental records.
Well , let’s say theres’ a crown or filling or braces, there’s no way to extract DNA from that?
Sometimes there is, but you have the femure bone which is going to give you a lot more information, so any of the bones you can get DNA from them ,but that femur bone is going to have the best and that’s usually what you utilize.
They cut a little window into the bone and that’s usually what’s utilized for DNA and those purposes, so , again, that larger bone is going to have more information.
What happens? again, we’re speculating here ,but asuming there are bodies here for the moments, if they’re buried with items,(not sayong that there would be ID ) but if they’re buried wearing clothing, would any of the clothing or materials that were buried with them,would that remain at that point?.
Obviously if you’re dealing with somebody who’s nude,right, that’s kind of what we’re talking about, if they were buried with articles of clothing or items,the ability of that to be preserved and the ability to extract DNA or other forensic material from it.
There’s definitely the possibility of extracting DNA and other items, you have to think hairs, people often don’t think about the your hair sheds , other fibers gets transferred during burial process,most people are not experienced criminals and that’s what people fail to realize.
Most people have not committed these types of crimes before and so they make a lot of mistake in the process, again, what kind of resources they had access to, we don’t know , and again we don’t know anything about this case , we simply commenting on the possibility that bodies are on this land.
And so, When the coroner,when they ‘ve had skeletal remains partially buried or buried for a long time, and they’re done the ground penetrating radar and found what they needed to find , they´re removed those skeletal remains very carefully.
So even the area the dirt around the body, they’re going to preserve a lot of that as well and take samples from it because it can sometimes give you great information, so there is a possibility that very valuable information can be obtained from what was buried with that person.
And usually what we see in our line of works when people bury someone,they bury their stuff with them, so the DNA from their things,i f they put something in someone’s mouth, it could possibly gave saliva on it, which again has DNA hair, just because the skeletal remains are there it doesn’t mean that the hair goes away.
sometimes you find skeletons that stil lhave hair attached, this are things that could be very helpful in determing the identity of this person,but it could also give us pertinent information about who may have buried this person.
To be clear, hair can stay for quite some time , even if buried udnerground?
Yes it can, with excavation from the around the world and looking at people from the suposed Neanderthal Era , they have found hair, and that gives you a lot of information and hair retains things, it retains things like drugs,it retains nutrititonal information sometimes.
Anything that’s with that body, they’re going to want to excavate this in the most careful way possible.we cannot stress this enough ,they cannot just go in there just digging and doing it very roughly .
It needs to be layer by layer by layer, and it is a veri timeintensive process.
Shout out to all of the forensic anthropologists out there because their work especially on a case like this is so vital.
So , what would it take for an excavation to be ordered in something like this?
There’s one thng to have this right now uncorroborated account ,but obviously they’re taking it seriously, they’re trying to look into it and see what they can find .
What would it take for them to go arond the property to excavate, to use the ground penetrating devices to try to find a body?
What would it take?
Usually it takes that someone is missing and they have a possible location for this missing person , again were bones found ? is there some sort of suspicions that there are missing persons on this property? so, usually it just take someon leaving a tip or giving information that could be related to a missing person for them to go and start digging.
But again, they are going to need technology to even begin looking through all of this land because there’s just so much of it.
How doyou find which section ?
are they going to go section by section and do a grid kind of dig?
We don’t know.
But it’s going to take a lot of logistics.
And how long would that take if they went section by section using penetrating devices?
How quickly can you get a hit?
Weeks , months, for an area that is known to possibly have a buried person, that can take a couple of hours, but for the amount of land that these, researchers and that these, investigators are looking at , this could take weeks in order to pinpoint an area .
So they may have to have multiple devices out there trying to find what is possibly a grave.
This is a fascinating discussion, we are obviously in the early preliminary stages of this ,but as we trying to understand this allegation and now that there’s an investigation into this property how could we not talk about it?
Again ,really interesting things to thing about,so, we’ll see what happens.
