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An anonymous email received in 2019 alleged that two girls were buried in hills outside Jeffrey Epstein’s former Zorro Ranch in New Mexico. The allegation remains unverified. New Mexico reopened a broader criminal investigation in February 2026 and searched the ranch in March; an interim report said search efforts had found no human remains by March 24. That dated update is not a final finding, and it does not establish whether the alleged burials occurred.
What did the anonymous email say?
Radio host Eddy Aragon told Source New Mexico that he received the message in November 2019 from an encrypted account. The sender claimed to be a former Zorro Ranch employee. According to the report, the sender alleged that two “foreign girls” died by strangulation during rough sex and were buried on orders of “Jeffrey and Madam G” in “somewhere in the hills outside the Zorro.” The email gave neither a date of death nor a precise burial location.
The sender also claimed to have seven videos, including videos involving minors, and offered them on a thumb drive for one bitcoin. Aragon said he forwarded the message to the FBI and did not pay for the purported videos. These are details of an anonymous message as reported by Source New Mexico, not independently established facts. The email itself does not identify “Madam G” as Ghislaine Maxwell; that identification has been reported as a possible interpretation.
The sender’s identity, the alleged videos and the alleged deaths have not been verified in the public materials described here. An offer to sell purported evidence is not evidence that the material exists, and the vague location does not identify a specific place to search. Those limitations do not prove the claim false; they mean the email alone cannot establish it as true.
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What did New Mexico authorities do?
The state’s actions developed over several months. The dates below distinguish requests and investigative steps from findings about the allegation.
| Date | Development | What it establishes |
|---|---|---|
| November 2019 | Aragon received the anonymous email and said he forwarded it to the FBI, according to Source New Mexico. | A radio host reported receiving and forwarding the message; this does not verify its contents. |
| February 10, 2026 | New Mexico Commissioner of Public Lands Stephanie Garcia Richard asked state and federal authorities to investigate. Her letter said the State Land Office had supplied lease records to the New Mexico Department of Justice in July 2019 and that she was not aware of a specific alleged burial location. | An official request for investigation, not a finding that burials occurred. |
| February 19, 2026 | Attorney General Raúl Torrez ordered the criminal investigation into alleged illegal activity at Zorro Ranch reopened. The state DOJ said the earlier state investigation had been closed in 2019 at the request of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York. The DOJ said it would “follow the facts wherever they lead.” | The state reopened a broader criminal inquiry; reopening is not corroboration of the email. |
| March 9, 2026 | State investigators began searching the former ranch, with state police and a Sandoval County Fire and Rescue K-9 team assisting. The state DOJ said the current owners cooperated with access. | Authorities conducted a search; the announcement did not confirm the alleged burials. |
| By March 24, 2026 | The New Mexico Survivors’ Truth Commission’s interim report said cadaver dogs and ground-penetrating radar had found no human remains by that date. | A dated interim account of the tools and results described, not a final investigative finding. |
| August 5, 2026 | New Mexico announced a lawsuit seeking unredacted federal investigative records. The state alleged that federal withholding hampered its inquiry. The Associated Press reported that the Justice Department cited court orders protecting victim-identifying information and said it remained available to assist within applicable law and court orders. | The complaint states the state’s position in litigation; it is not a court ruling on the records dispute. |
The commission’s interim report describes the ranch as 7,621.74 acres; Source New Mexico uses the approximate description 7,500 acres. These are differently stated figures from those sources, not evidence about the burial claim.
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What does the search result—and not—tell us?
The interim report’s account that the dogs and radar had found no human remains by March 24 is the clearest published search update in the materials available here. It is limited to that date and to the search methods and work the report describes. It does not establish that no remains exist anywhere on or around the property, nor does it settle whether the email’s allegation was true.
The state’s reopened inquiry concerns alleged illegal activity at the ranch more broadly than the burial email. Its existence shows that authorities pursued an investigation; it does not turn every allegation in the email into an official finding.
What is separately documented about alleged abuse at the ranch?
The anonymous burial claim must be kept separate from the public record of sexual-abuse allegations concerning Zorro Ranch. The Associated Press reported that testimony at Ghislaine Maxwell’s trial alleged that Epstein and Maxwell sexually abused women at the New Mexico ranch. Annie Farmer testified about an incident when she was 16.
That testimony and reporting concern allegations of abuse, not the alleged deaths or burials in the anonymous email. They do not corroborate the burial claim. Treating these as separate evidence tracks avoids mistaking documented testimony about one subject for proof of another.
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What remains unresolved?
The public materials described here do not establish whether the alleged burials occurred, whether investigators later found evidence, or the final outcome of the criminal investigation. They also do not establish whether New Mexico obtained the requested unredacted federal records. The Truth Commission’s interim report said its final report was due December 31, 2026, subject to extension; as of October 3, 2026, that stated due date had not arrived.
Sources for the developments and distinctions above include the New Mexico Department of Justice’s February 19 reopening statement and March 9 search announcement; Commissioner Garcia Richard’s February 10 letter; the New Mexico Survivors’ Truth Commission interim report; the state’s August 5 lawsuit and complaint; Source New Mexico reporting republished by KUNM on the email; and Associated Press reporting on the records dispute and trial testimony.
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