5 Nights 5 Secrets: What Was Going On At Epstein's Zorro Ranch?

5 Nights 5 Secrets: What Was Going On At Epstein's Zorro Ranch?

From Narativ with Zev Shalev (Audio) by Zev Shalev

April 21, 2026 · 42 min

About this episode

The episode features an investigation into Jeffrey Epstein's Zorro Ranch with journalist Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez discussing her findings.

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.narativ.org On the opening night of Narativ’s five-part investigation into Jeffrey Epstein, independent journalist Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez — whose document reporting at The Pugilist is the proximate cause of the 2026 New Mexico Department of Justice criminal investigation into Zorro Ranch — sat down with Zev Shalev to walk through the archive she has been building around the 7,500-acre property halfway between Los Alamos and Sandia National Laboratories where Jeffrey Epstein ran his New Mexico operation for nearly three decades. Valdes-Rodriguez led with the microwave link. Zorro Development Corporation, the Epstein entity that held the ranch, filed five FCC microwave licenses; the estate maintained them after Epstein’s 2019 death, and when Texas millionaires Donald and Mary Catherine Huffines purchased the property in 2023 they cancelled three of the five and kept two. “It’s a bidirectional system,” Valdes-Rodriguez told Shalev. “One of them transmits from the ranch to the top of Sandia Crest.” She has pulled DOJ emails in which the general contractor who installed the system described it, in his own words, as “a…

People in this episode

Hosts: Zev Shalev, Shalev

Guest: Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez

Topics covered

  • Jeffrey Epstein
  • Zorro Ranch
  • investigation
  • New Mexico
  • FCC microwave licenses

Keywords

  • Department of Justice
  • microwave link
  • Zorro Development Corporation
  • military-industrial grade system

Mentioned in this episode

Products: microwave system

Places: New Mexico, Los Alamos, Texas, Oak Ridge, Brookhaven, Albuquerque, United States, the District of New Mexico, U.S.

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