An anonymous email landed in Eddy Aragon's inbox in 2019 claiming two girls were buried on Epstein's ranch.
He forwarded it to the FBI that same day and waited six years for a response.
What he just found out about why nobody came will make your blood run cold.
The Epstein FBI Investigation That Never Reached Zorro Ranch
Aragon had been covering the Epstein story from New Mexico long before it became national news — a local talk radio host who understood better than most what Zorro Ranch represented to the people who lived near it.
When the anonymous email arrived in November 2019, four months after Epstein's arrest on federal sex trafficking charges, Aragon recognized immediately it wasn't a crank.
The sender claimed to be a former employee at Jeffrey Epstein's 10,000-acre Zorro Ranch – a remote desert compound thirty miles south of Santa Fe with its own airstrip, helipad, and a history of abuse allegations that local people had whispered about for years.
The ranch had never been searched by federal investigators, despite victims reporting abuse there dating back to the mid-1990s.
The email claimed two foreign girls had been buried in the hills outside the ranch on Epstein's orders after dying during what the sender described as rough fetish encounters.
The sender offered to provide videos and the exact burial location in exchange for one Bitcoin.
He forwarded the email to the FBI that same day, convinced the sender was legitimate.
"I felt my blood run cold – this was serious," Aragon told the Daily Mail this week.
The FBI never called.
How the Epstein Files Reveal Who Shut Down New Mexico
Six weeks after Epstein died in a Manhattan jail cell, assistant U.S. attorney Maurene Comey – daughter of disgraced former FBI Director James Comey – sent an email confirming she had shut down New Mexico's active state investigation into Zorro Ranch.
New Mexico got a promise in return: federal prosecutors would share their own findings when the case closed.
That promise was never honored.
Former New Mexico AG Hector Balderas handed over police reports, recorded witness interviews, and inter-agency correspondence – and received nothing back.
"The communication was mostly one-sided," Balderas said. "This was a significant tactical mistake."
By July 2020, Balderas was so frustrated he sent a letter urging federal prosecutors to seize the ranch through civil forfeiture, writing that it had been "utilized by Epstein and others to facilitate and conceal the ongoing trafficking of children."
Federal prosecutors never responded.
By December 2019 – one month after Aragon forwarded his tip – an internal federal email had already confirmed investigators had "not searched the New Mexico property."
Aragon's email sat in those same federal files, untouched, for six years.
Cadaver Dogs at Zorro Ranch and What New Mexico Found in the Epstein Files
When the DOJ released more than three million Epstein documents in January 2026, Aragon's tip resurfaced.
New Mexico AG Raúl Torrez reopened the criminal investigation within weeks.
The state legislature passed a bipartisan truth commission with subpoena power and a $2 million budget.
On March 9, 2026, state investigators walked onto Zorro Ranch with cadaver dogs for the first time in the property's thirty-year history.
A separate tipster sent lawmakers photographs of what they described as grave-like plots with rock-covered mounds on the grounds.
No remains have been found yet.
State Rep. Andrea Romero, who chairs the truth commission, told the Daily Mail she found it "appalling" that the burial claims were ignored for years – and that survivors described what happened at Zorro Ranch as the "worst of all his atrocities."
Aragon spent six years wondering why the FBI never came.
The answer was sitting in a federal filing cabinet the whole time.
The prosecutor who took New Mexico's evidence, made a promise, and delivered nothing shares a last name with the man who spent years running a witch hunt against Donald Trump.
Maurene Comey was quietly fired by the Trump DOJ in July 2025 with no public explanation.
Sources:
- Tom Leonard, "I Felt My Blood Run Cold," Daily Mail, April 4, 2026.
- Phaedra Habachy, "Feds Asked New Mexico to Halt Its Epstein Probe," Albuquerque Journal, March 1, 2026.
- Staff, "Epstein's Zorro Ranch Searched by New Mexico Investigators," Fox 10 Phoenix, March 9, 2026.
- Staff, "Mystery Persists at Epstein's New Mexico Ranch After Search for Human Remains," ITV News, March 24, 2026.
- Staff, "Epstein's Zorro Ranch Becomes Investigation Focus," Christian Science Monitor, April 3, 2026.
