Following the death of financier Jeffrey Epstein in 2019, the FBI conducted searches of his infamous properties scattered across the globe.
However, one notable exception may exist.
The FBI has remained tight-lipped about whether its agents ever searched Epstein’s estate in New Mexico, known as Zorro Ranch.
According to documents related to Epstein, the ranch was reportedly the scene of heinous crimes, including rape and murder.
These documents allege that Epstein ordered the burial of two “foreign girls” who were strangled to death during “rough, fetish sex.” This disturbing claim is contained in an email released by the Department of Justice.
This email, sent from an encrypted address by someone claiming to have been employed by Epstein at Zorro Ranch, was addressed to a man named Eddy Aragon on November 21, 2019, before being forwarded to the FBI.
When the Daily Mail asked the FBI on Monday whether it ever searched the notorious ranch residence, a bureau spokesperson responded: ‘The FBI declines to comment.’
The FBI’s field office in Albuquerque, New Mexico, did not immediately respond to the Daily Mail’s request for comment.
The FBI has declined to comment on whether it searched Jeffrey Epstein’s Zorro Ranch in New Mexico despite repeated inquiries
The ranch is a sprawling complex that Epstein survivors have said was the venue for their abuse
The email, sent on November 21, 2019 to Eddy Aragon, was forward to the FBI
The FBI has also declined to answer the pressing question when asked by other outlets, raising questions about whether the New Mexico residence was ever investigated.
‘Edward, This is sensitive, so it will 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 email states.
‘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.’
The sender also included links to videos which claimed to show Epstein having sex with minors, threesomes and sex with underage girls.
They then demanded a payment of one Bitcoin in return for the video and information.
The email was forwarded onto the FBI just three months after Epstein died while being held at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York City.
Nearly half a dozen Epstein victims have alleged they were abused at the ranch.
Months after Epstein’s death in federal custody in August 2019, the ranch had not been scoured by the FBI, according to a recently released email.
Jeffrey Epstein ordered the burial of two ‘foreign girls’ near his ranch after they were strangled to death during ‘rough, fetish sex’, a person claiming to be a former worker has alleged
According to a December 2019 email released by the DOJ, a prosecutor relayed to one of Epstein’s estate co-executors that authorities had ‘not searched the New Mexico property.’
Now local authorities are calling for a new probe into the email and its grizzly allegations.
New Mexico Land Commissioner Stephanie Garcia Richard has called on the Department of Justice and the New Mexico Department of Justice to probe the claim that two were killed and buried at Zorro.
‘I’m horrified when I learned something new, especially when I learned that state land could have been used, could have been involved in some of these monstrous activities,’ she said in a local news interview.
New Mexico’s Chief Deputy Attorney General, James Grayson, released a statement noting how the claims are ‘unsubstantiated,’ but that his office will seek to find the truth.
‘We will work to obtain the original, unredacted emails and any underlying files, as access to complete and authentic materials is critical to our assessment and planning,’ Grayson said.
‘These circumstances raise significant concerns regarding the reliability, authenticity, and credibility of the claims. Notwithstanding those concerns, we are prepared to review and assess any verifiable information should it be provided through appropriate and lawful means.’
Documents released as part of the Epstein files also show that Epstein intended to leave his Zorro estate to his Belarusian girlfriend Karyna Shuliak.
The person who sent the email alleged the girls were buried on the orders of Epstein and ‘Madam G’, believed to be Ghislaine Maxwell
Epstein bought Zorro Ranch in 1993 from Bruce King, a former three-time New Mexico governor.
The 13 square miles of high desert include a 26,700-square foot luxury estate, guest lodges, staff dwellings and several outbuildings.
It also has a firehouse, horse stables, a seven-bay heated garage, a greenhouse to grow fresh produce, a cattle grazing operation and private air strip, a hangar and a helipad.
Epstein used Zorro Ranch as an isolated getaway and playground for VIP guests who were able to come and go more discreetly than they could even to Little St James, his private Caribbean island off St Thomas.
Civil filings claim that the compound hosted the former Prince Andrew, who was accused by Virginia Giuffre who produced photographs and written statements showing she visited the compound during the time she was trafficked as a teenager between 2000 and 2002.
Epstein owned the property until his death. His estate listed it in 2021 for $27.5 million.
That price was later dropped to $18 million and the ranch sold for an undisclosed price in 2023 to a limited liability corporation that renamed the property the San Rafael Ranch.
The owner was shrouded in secrecy until recently when it was revealed that Donald Huffines, a former Republican state senator from Dallas, purchased the property.
It is unclear how much the Huffines wound up spending, but a spokesman for the family insisted to the New Mexican that proceeds went to Epstein’s victims.
‘Four years after Mr. Epstein’s death, the Huffines family purchased property in New Mexico listed at public auction, whose proceeds benefited his victims,’ spokesperson Allen Blakemore said.
‘Prior to the listing auction, they had never visited the property.’
