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New Mexico searches Epstein Zorro Ranch after FBI sat on buried-bodies tip for six years

New Mexico investigators searched Jeffrey Epstein's former 7,500-acre Zorro Ranch on March 10, 2026, after January 2026 DOJ releases of 3 million Epstein file pages revealed two 2019 communications the FBI had received and never acted on: an anonymous email alleging two foreign girls were buried on the property, and a retired state police officer's report of a suspicious barn with a concealed incinerator. The FBI had searched Epstein's Manhattan, Palm Beach, and Caribbean Island properties but deliberately excluded Zorro Ranch.