SPECIAL REPORT: BENEATH ZORRO

SPECIAL REPORT: BENEATH ZORRO

From Narativ with Zev Shalev (Audio) by Zev Shalev

May 21, 2026 · 37 min

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The episode discusses the overlooked investigation of Zorro Ranch following Jeffrey Epstein's death and the leads that emerged from it.

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.narativ.org Eddy Aragon broadcasts from Albuquerque on KIVA — “The Rock of Talk.” When Jeffrey Epstein died in August 2019, the FBI searched his Manhattan townhouse, his Palm Beach mansion, and his Caribbean island. One Epstein property was left alone: Zorro Ranch, in the high desert south of Santa Fe. The local ABC, NBC, and CBS affiliates would not touch the story. The people who had worked on the ranch called Aragon’s station instead. His AM signal carries to the small towns around the property — Edgewood, Moriarty, Stanley — and for seven years the leads came to him because there was nowhere else for them to go. In November 2019, three months after Epstein’s death, one of those leads arrived as an email. The sender said he was former Zorro staff — “a person that has been there and seen it all.” He said he had taken material from Epstein’s home “as my insurance.” And he wrote one sentence: two foreign girls had been buried in the hills outside the ranch, on the orders of Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. Aragon did what a citizen is supposed to do. He took the email to the FBI in person, sat for a formal intake —…

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Host: Zev Shalev

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Organizations: FBI

Places: Zorro Ranch, Albuquerque, Santa Fe, Edgewood, Moriarty, Stanley

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