Fresh reporting has raised new questions about how seriously federal authorities treated a tip alleging possible mass grave claims connected to Jeffrey Epstein's Zorro Ranch in New Mexico. The account, tied to a period during Donald Trump's first administration, suggests potentially critical information was not properly logged or acted upon for years.
Former New Mexico Attorney General Hector Balderas was working on aspects of the case in 2019 when local radio host Eddy Aragon received a tip from a person claiming to have worked at the ranch. The message alleged that the bodies of two foreign girls were buried 'in the hills outside the Zorro.' Balderas was furious that the tip never made it into his radar at the time.
