Speaker 1: What's up, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the
Epstein Chronicles. One of the biggest mysteries, if you will,
when it comes to Epstein, is what occurred at Zoro Ranch.
And unfortunately, the authorities had a chance to really blow
the doors off of that investigation back in twenty nineteen,
twenty twenty, and they refused to do so. So I
went down to Santa Fe and Zoro Ranch to do
some investigating of my own. And when I got there
and I started talking to people, I was blown away
by how many people knew something was up at Zoro Ranch.
And according to the sources I spoke with, including ex
law enforcement, it was ignored because of Jeffrey Epstein's contacts
and his political connections inside New Mexico and out obviously,
but he had a lot of powerful friends in New Mexico,
the King family, Bill Richardson and others, so he was
given that secrecy in New Mexico. And when the investigation
into Epstein kicked off in earnest, the state of New
Mexico kicked the investigation up to the federal government, and
of course the federal government never even bothered to raid
Zoro Ranch or do any real investigation in New Mexico.
So now people obviously they're pissed off, and now that
people are finding out about this, they want answers, and
people down in New Mexico have taken this step to
even go up to the ranch and protest. So today
we're going to talk about that protest add Zoro Ranch,
and to do that, we have an article from the
Santa Fe, New Mexican. The author of this article is
Andre Sulkin. A handful of armed private securities tood guard
at the former Jeffrey Epstein estate warning those gathered for
a roadside vigil not to step onto the property. Oh
isn't that nice? The new owner, the Huffeen family armed
guards really, Oh, don't step onto the property, bunch of
fucking clowns, cowards. Rather protect Jeffrey Epstein. Huh, they're protecting
their filth, said Pauline Simms, a retired Albuquerque teacher, as
she recorded the guards from the other side of the gate.
They know what happened there. There is nothing hidden in
the world, she added. Never eventually it'll all be out,
And you know what, I hope, So, I really hope so.
And up until recently I had zero faith that we'd
ever find out what really happened. In New Mexico, nobody cared. Literally,
nobody gave a shit. Now, of course there are a
few people obviously that you know, know the score and
wanted to know what was going on there, But I'm
talking about in the overall conversation, New Mexico has never
even really brought up the island. This, the island that.
And I told you all back then that there was
something real bad going on at this ranch. Now, I'm
not going to say, you know, there was a bunch
of murders or anything like that, because I don't know.
But do I think it's possible. I certainly do. And
I also think that there were some weird ass experiments
going on there as well. What those experiments were, again,
I wish I could tell you. Around sixty people came
to the former Zoro Ranch now known as Rancho San
Rafael Saturday morning for a part memorial, part protest to
pay tribute to Epstein's survivors. While some praise the state's
efforts now to investigate what happened, many lambasted the state
and federal officials for acting too late or failing all
together to bring justice to the high profile participants of
his alleged years long operation to sex traffic miners to
powerful clients. That was just part of it. Remember, Epstein
was doing a lot more than just trafficking miners. And
even if they can come up with an excuse for
why they missed that, how did they miss all the
financial crimes, How did they miss all the other stuff
that was going on, How they missed the immigration scam
that was being run. Well, the answer is they didn't
miss it. They ignored it. Eddie Aragon, a radio host
in something of a central figure in New Mexico's part
of the Epstein saga, was among the roadside crowd. In
twenty nineteen, Aragon received an email from an anonymous ender
claiming to be a former Zoro Ranch employee. Did you
know that somewhere in the hills outside of Zoro two
foreign girls were buried on the orders of Jeffrey and
Madam G. The person wrote, with Madam G likely referring
to Glenn Maxwell, both died by strangulation during rough fetish sex.
Now that certainly fits. I can't tell you one way
or the other with certainty that there's people buried on
this property. But girls dying during rough sex is not
on heard of, especially when we're talking about these rich
degenerates who have no regard for anybody, never mind some
girl that they're abusing. So did somebody go too far
one day? Very possible? And you see this is the
big problem, right, This is why an investigation should have
kicked off years ago. But because you didn't do that,
here we are now, and now there's a lot more
people interested in what's going on. And I think that
the more people that are demanding answers, the closer we're
gonna get. Does that mean we're gonna get over the
goal line and have all the answers we want? Doubtful?
But if New Mexico here does something a little different
and opens a real estate investigation and holds people accountable,
that could set a template moving forward. You mean to
tell me nobody committed any crimes in New York. I
got bad news for you. They most certainly did. The
message also included seven video descriptions, offering to send Eragon
the videos if he sent one bitcoin. He didn't pay, but,
thinking the claims might be legitimate, forwarded the email to
the FBI, only for it to resurface in a recent
dump of Epstein files from the US Justice Department. The
New Mexico Land Commissioner, Stephanie Garcia Richard urged an investigation
into the reported bodies earlier this month. The New Mexico
Department of Justice reopened its criminal investigation in mid February,
and state lawmakers created the Truth Commission during the recently
concluded legislative session to investigate Epstein's activities at the ranch. So, look,
I'm not going to blame the new politicians for what
the previous ones did. Let's give them a chance to
do the right thing. Right. I try to give everybody
the benefit of the doubt. Until you prove to me
you're an absolute moron, I'll give you the benefit of
the doubt. So let's see what this Truth Commission can
come up with, and hopefully they subpoena people and they
have a state level run investigation that the FEDS can't
tapper with. That's crucial because we know we can't trust
the DOJ and we know that Congress isn't going to
install any kind of real guardrails here. They've already proven
they're not going to do that. So where do we
go from here, maybe we have to take it to
the state level. I was doing this six and a
half years ago. Why weren't we doing this back then?
Aragon said in an interview. Besides Laurance's gate, he doesn't
expect that to change now. I tried contacting the FBI
again to give them an update on the person I
think is responsible for the email. There's nothing that's going
to be done. Look, he's not wrong, and I hate
to be cynical, but history has shown us they're not
going to do shit about this. And if they really
wanted to do something, the DOJ would have actually been transparent.
But no. While many present praise state lawmaker efforts, Aragon
called baloney political theater that he said wouldn't target Democrats
named in the files, including former President Bill Clinton and
the late former Governor Bill Richardson. Well, there's a lot
of politics at play, especially now, and it's disgusting because
what it does is it puts the survivors and the
victims second, and instead of centering them, it centers politics.
And of course that's how things get all muddled, more confusing,
and how people end up justifying, not investigating things. Oh,
this is just a hoax, and he said it's now
too late to uncover anything, including bodies reported in the email.
Owing to years of development and changes to the property,
the whole place is different. They revamped it. They raised
the labyrinth that's in the back, he said. Despite his doubts,
he supports those who gathered Saturday. I think it's good
that they're out here. He said. There were victims, Yeah,
there were victctims. There were a lot of victims in
New Mexico, one hundred percent. Whether those victims were American
girls or otherwise, I don't give a shit. A victim
is a victim, and the powerful preying on us has
to end. I refuse to be under the fucking boot
of these people. I refuse, and I will not shut
up about it until something changes. The ranch's new owners,
revealed earlier this month by the New Mexican to be
the family of Don Hauffens, a former Republican Texas state senator,
were ordered to cease construction on the exterior gate, which
appeared hal completed Saturday owing to a lack of a permit.
The Haffens family has aimed to rehabilitate the image of
the sprawling ranch, planning a Christian retreat on the site
and renaming it Rancho San Rafael, a Christian retreat on
this site. Oh that's a whole different level of weird. Now. Look,
I'm certainly not into the occult or anything like that.
I really don't have any idea, but this seems like
a desecration to me. We have a sight here where
people might have been murdered. We know people were raped
and assaulted, but sure, let's bring a Christian camp here.
Here's an idea, mister rich guy, why don't you turn
Zoro Ranch into some kind of facility that hurts people
who were abused? Just a thought. Many attendees were struck
with emotion standing on New Mexico forty one, dwarfed by
the half completed gate and under surveillance by cameras placed
beside it. Yo. When I went there, there was nobody there, obviously.
So I went to the gate and they had all
these cameras everywhere, and I ring the bell, right, nobody answers.
So I ring the bell again, and they have like
this intercom system. So I start talking shit, calling them cowards,
jumps the whole thing. Nobody ever showed up, not one person,
not a security guard. Nobody I saw them there. They
were standing on the property, but nobody showed up. And
I was there for like an hour. But the real
meat and potatoes on my trip came talking to people.
I mean, even the lady that was running my hotel
knew that something goofy was going on down at Zorro Ranch.
A Santa Fe resident gave Silva seventy three, originally from
Las Crusis, drove toward the distant hilltop manner. He gave
only one word for what its image invoked, atrocities. Kim
Hatch forty six, of Rio Rancho, grew emotional, embracing her
son William nine, as the two listened to a prayer.
You have no soul, She called out to the guards,
who were approached briefly by Santa Fe County Sheriff's deputies
before they drove off. Well, let's not get too carried
away on the guards. They're doing their job right. It's
the people that employ them, and I would never encourage
anybody to wild out. That's what they want you to do.
Don't give them what they want. Be cool, calm, collected,
and blast them into oblivion with facts. That's how you Win.
I'm absolutely outraged by what our government, local and federal
is covering up, set Hatch, a survivor of sexual assault
and an army veteran victims are not being heard, not
being believed. Attendees placed crosses, stuffed animals, bouquets of flowers,
and solar lights. At the roadside. There were posters and
copies of Epstein's victim, Virginia Roberts, whose memoir released a
few months after her death by suicide, in which he
alleges Epstein ran a sex trafficking ring of miners to
serve a wealthy and powerful clientele. He most certainly did,
but not in the way a lot of people think.
It wasn't like Heidi flies people being shamed and stepping
down from their positions. That's not accountability, Hatch said. We
need actual justice, not just continued thoughts and prayers that
don't mean anything. I brought my son because he needs
to know what can happen so he can be part
of the next generation to make sure that goddamn doesn't
And good for Mishatch. Raise your son to know better
and to speak out when shit is not right. The
memorial was organized by Hot Flash ABQ, whose events usually
take the shape of dances at Albuquerque Bars. Co founder
Kathy Barber sixty three and Kathy Kundas fifty nine, visited
the ranch two weeks ago and found no sign acknowledging
Epstein or his victims, something they aimed to fix. We
wanted to let people know that we're going to remember
the victims and stand with the survivors, Barber said, likening
the roadside memorial to cross his placed after car crashes.
When they went to construct it, she said, one of
the security personnel asked, why are you chasing a five
year old story? Don't you have anything better to do? Wow?
They really said that. So tracked what I said about
security a second ago and replace it with a gigantic
fuck you, mister, tough guy. Huh, why are you chasing
a five year old story? What if it was your daughter?
Tough guy? How'd you feel about that? I know, I know,
I get it. Your dear leader told you it was
a hoax and you should move on. But I doubt
you would be if it was your daughter. We figured, yes,
we do, barbera said, will organize something bigger and better.
So you have to look at every single day as
you drive in. She noted that the memorial is protected
as it doesn't lie on the ranch property, and her
group aims to host future events at the site. Many attendees,
including Barber, said they did not identify with a political
party and instead sought accountability for all who participated in
the alleged operation. Yo, that's the message right there. To
help these political parties. They're the reason we're in this mess.
It's gonna be up to us, folks, Oka, It's going
to be up to us coming together as a coalition
of people who are done, people who are tired of
the bullshit, and people who are ready for real change.
The Feds ain't doing shit. Loue Gibney, sixty five, a
construction worker from the East Mountains who identified as a
political independent. They've known about this for a long time
and just covered it up because it's expedient, he added. Eventually,
they're going to have to pay attention to us. Everybody's
got to realize it's not left and right, it's top
going against the bottom. Ay Man bro one thousand percent
where the enemy. These people despise you. You didn't get
that from those emails. You couldn't see that from the
way they talked about you, they hate you and your kids.
They're expendable, whether it's to be abused or sent to
die in some foreign entanglement. It's all the same shit
to them. They don't care. You know, all these politicians
care about is more power and more wealth. And they
know that if we ever team up, you know, the
pitchforks and the torches, that their whole entire scam and
scheme is up. So that's why they continue to promote
all these stupid ass wedge issues that were designed to
cause division. It's all part of the plan. So when
I see people coming together like this and couching their politics,
it gives me a little hope because I'm telling you
right now, we're going to need to work together if
we want real accountability, and I think rallies like this
are a step in the right direction. Now, with that said,
do I trust the government, local or otherwise to do
the right thing? I do not, So I'll remain hopeful
but skeptical as we continue to navigate our way through
the madness known as the Jeffrey Epstein Maelstroom. All the
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