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liberalla

(10,970 posts)
Mon Feb 16, 2026, 02:26 AM 9 hrs ago

* Epstein's Zorro Ranch: New Owner Is A Political Ally of Donald Trump


Epstein's Zorro Ranch: Now Owned By Trump Political Ally, Don Huffines

The Ranch Was Never Searched—N.M. Land Commissioner Seeks Probe Into Allegation of Two Girls Buried Near Epstein Ranch

In 2023, Zorro Ranch, Epstein’s sprawling New Mexico estate in southern Santa Fe County, was sold to San Rafael Ranch LLC, a limited liability company created just one month before the purchase. The final sale price has not been publicly disclosed. The property was originally listed for $27.5 million before the price was reduced to $18 million.

Public records have revealed that San Rafael Ranch LLC is tied to the family of Don Huffines, a Trump-aligned former Texas state senator and current candidate for Texas Comptroller. Tax protest filings obtained through a public records request list Huffines’ wife as an owner of the ranch and son Colin Huffines, as manager.

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In November 2019, months after Epstein’s arrest and death, the U.S. Department of Justice documented an email that, if credible, should have required immediate forensic action. The email included in newly released DOJ files, was sent from an encrypted ProtonMail account by someone identifying themselves as “a former staff at the Zorro.” The sender attached six videos of sexual abuse by Jeffrey Epstein and alleged that “two foreign girls were buried on orders of Jeffrey and Madam G” in the hills outside Zorro Ranch.

The email claimed the girls “died by strangulation during rough, fetish sex.”
"Madam G” is widely understood to refer to Ghislaine Maxwell, who is currently serving a 20-year federal sentence for sex trafficking. It’s noted that one of the videos is a suicide attempt confession from a girl in the Bay Area.


Now that the ranch is owned by a Trump political ally, how difficult will it be to investigate and properly search the property?
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lapfog_1

(31,816 posts)
1. unless you can pinpoint areas of disturbed earth...
Mon Feb 16, 2026, 02:34 AM
9 hrs ago

The estate spans nearly 8,000 acres of high desert terrain, plus an additional 1,200 acres leased from the State of New Mexico.

It would take an huge effort to search 9200 acres of land.

And that assumes that someone hasn't buried the bodies under some sort of concrete slab or other structure that would make it difficult for cadaver dogs to search the property.

liberalla

(10,970 posts)
2. That's a good start... let's put some drones up and look for unusual or disturbed areas of land.
Mon Feb 16, 2026, 03:23 AM
8 hrs ago

The whole area (buildings included) needs to be searched... not just looking for 2 graves ìn the hills. All of his other properties have been extensively searched. This one should be no different.

lapfog_1

(31,816 posts)
6. apparently Epstein ordered 6 55 gallons drums of very potent acid
Mon Feb 16, 2026, 10:57 AM
55 min ago

to his Little Saint James island... possibly after he was tipped off that he was being investigated.

If that was to be used to dissolve the bodies of murder victims ( post birth babies, girls that threatened to talk, etc ), then I am pretty certain they would have used the same method in New Mexico ( and possibly on the Trump golf course in California ) as well...

Contrary to Breaking Bad and the disposal of bodies by Walter White, acid won't completely dissolve a body... however it will make anything left over much easier to bury in a very small vertical grave. And it would most likely prevent cadaver dogs from finding it. I don't know if the acid would even leave a scent trail for dogs to find ( if the police even have dogs trained to look for acid smells ) but this is going to be a Herculean task to search that many acres, mostly based on shaky witness accounts that sound more like Satanic worship rituals proffered by various extreme Christian fantasies, especially about "the Jews" than based in reality.

It is much easier to believe that some of the sex abused girls were "un-alived" ( I am beginning to hate Internet censorship ) by people hired to execute them and make it look like suicide or accident than it is to believe in satanic rituals and groups of people eating babies or drinking blood. I might go so far as believing that if the little girls became pregnant, the babies would be aborted or killed ( getting someone to perform abortions on 13 year old girls might be much more difficult than just letting her have the baby and then getting rid of the DNA evidence that links the 13 year old to some rich bastard ). Ritual killing? That one is harder to believe.

Still, the number bodies that have piled up, including at least two of the ring leaders of the Pedophile cult and 2 of their underage victims ), is too many to just write off as coincidence. Taking unwanted teens from eastern europe and asia, especially teen runaways, and having them as part of your pedophile compromat ( whether for Israel or Russia or both ) and then "getting rid" of them when they become too problematic ( know too much )... yeah, I can believe they would do that.

The UAE "sheikh" and the email about "loving the torture video" should be the nail in the coffin ( wish it was literal for that asshole ) for a great number of the figures mentioned in the files.

johnnyfins

(3,629 posts)
4. They can say the country should move on,
Mon Feb 16, 2026, 04:23 AM
7 hrs ago

or that all the files have been released, but this issue is NOT going away.

PuraVidaDreamin

(4,515 posts)
5. Don Huffines, a Trump-aligned former Texas state senator and current candidate for Texas Comptroller.
Mon Feb 16, 2026, 06:22 AM
5 hrs ago

Texas does not want Don Huffines!

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