Epstein's Missing New Mexico Ranch Operators: Where Are Karen And Brice Gordon?
Brice and Karen Gordon ran Jeffrey Epstein's most remote compound for over a decade. Then Epstein died. Then they vanished. The New Mexico Truth Commission has subpoena power. It hasn't used it.
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In the federal documents released from Jeffrey Epstein’s files, two names appear again and again — attached to contracts, to payroll records, to VIP arrival logistics, to gun inventories, and daily maintenance schedules. They are not Ghislaine Maxwell, nor Darren Indyke, Kahn or Kellen.
They are Brice and Karen Gordon.
Brice Gordon via DOJ —EFTA00003672
New Zealand nationals and long-term Epstein employees. The people Epstein’s assistants were told to call in an emergency and the people who hosted Leon Black when he flew by private jet to Santa Fe, then by helicopter to the ranch. They are the people who greeted Epstein’s personal physician with a cell phone number and gate instructions. They are the people who — two days before Epstein died — were left two million dollars in his will.
They have not spoken publicly since 2019 nor have they been subpoenaed. They have not been charged with anything.
But the documents tell a story. Not of passive caretakers who looked the other way, but of trusted operators who ran a compound designed to function without oversight, and who walked away with no accountability when the whole thing collapsed.
Brice Gordon and Jean-Luc Brunel at Zorro Ranch via Department of Justice
— EFTA00003822
THE COMPOUND
Jeffrey Epstein’s Zorro Ranch in New Mexico, as seen on Google Earth.
Zorro Ranch sits off mile marker 45 on Highway 41 in Stanley, New Mexico — a stretch of high desert where the land opens up and everything feels far away from anything that might interrupt it. About 45 minutes southeast of Santa Fe, but it doesn’t feel connected to it. It feels separate. Deliberately so.
On paper it’s a ranch. But in the federal documents it reads very differently. The maintenance logs in the EFTA files don’t read like upkeep for a retreat or a seasonal property. They read like continuity — like something designed to keep running, whether anyone was there or not. Routine, yes, but not casual.
Gun cabinets were to be checked daily, weapons cleaned on a weekly schedule. Ammunition inventories logged every two weeks, with oxygen bottles inspected monthly. Foam packs tested on a fixed quarterly cycle, generator fuel tracked. Water filtration systems always monitored. Fire response protocols were drilled, practiced.
Fire Truck on Zorro Ranch Compound — EFTA00801700
On the property itself: a 1961 fire truck kept ready. Zorro Ranch had an ambulance on site, staffed with a trained EMT.
Jean-Luc Brunel with firetruck at Zorro Ranch — EFTA00003675
Recently, there has been a lead — a tip to the Zorro Ranch mystery referencing the Yurt and grave like plots at Zorro:
This email was sent from a tipster claiming to have seen dug up burial plots at Jeffrey Epstein’s former ranch in New Mexico. (New Mexico Department of Justice)
The yurt, referenced in the EFTA files under cleaning and maintenance protocols
Zorro Ranch duty check list, mentions yurt — EFTA00586050
was photographed and explored by the tipster. They claimed that inside, they found a defibrillator. When tipsters who accessed the property in 2020 relayed what they saw to New Mexico lawmakers, they singled this out. Not just because it was there, but because of how it was set up. It was there in a way that suggested something happening inside the yurt required cardiac equipment close at hand.
A photo purports to show a yurt on the grounds of Jeffrey Epstein’s former ranch in New Mexico.
An image purports to show a defibrillator in a yurt located on the grounds of Jeffrey Epstein’s former ranch in New Mexico
Note from LPF: reviewing the photographic evidence from Epstein's Manhattan mansion and Little St. James, one detail keeps appearing — fire extinguishers. Not one or two. Multiple units, clustered together, in the same areas. More than any residential property would require. No explanation appears in the documents for why. It is logged here as an open question.
Taken together, the logs don’t read like a place people just visited. They read like a place built to operate — kept running in isolation, far from hospitals, far from basic infrastructure like fire stations.
There was a private airstrip. A hangar that had to be swept monthly. Fiber optic internet with satellite backup. Redundant T1 lines. Sensors on every vehicle and the front gate. A bunkhouse for permanent staff with its own A/C filters, water heater room, and heater filters — all on a formal maintenance rotation. Roads graded. Driveways leveled. Walking paths maintained. Vehicles checked for oil changes at 3,000 to 4,000 mile intervals. A gravel pit, weed-controlled on schedule. Every light bulb on the property replaced as needed, every month, on the 15th.
And on that same monthly checklist: run the fire truck, run the foam trailer, check all fire extinguishers, check the gun cabinet, check the oxygen bottles.
Zorro Ranch monthly maintenance checklist — EFTA00586051
This is not a maintenance schedule for a vacation property. It is an operations manual for a facility designed to run continuously, without interruption, without outside assistance, and without anyone needing to know what was happening inside.
And then there is the microwave link.
In April 2014, Advanced Communications & Electronics of Albuquerque submitted a vendor proposal to Zorro Ranch specifying installation of a 6 GHz FCC-licensed microwave link between Sandia Crest and the ranch, with an Octal T-1 interface configured at the Main House.
Caption: Vendor proposal, April 14, 2014 — 6 GHz microwave link between Sandia Crest and Zorro Ranch. Sandia Crest sits directly above Sandia National Laboratories. — EFTA01186937
The licenses — WQXY316 and WQXY300 — were registered to Epstein’s own LLC, Zorro Development Corp, and ran directly to Sandia Crest Tower. The tower sits on the mountain directly above Sandia National Laboratories, where the non-nuclear components of American nuclear weapons are engineered — the triggering systems, the delivery mechanisms.
In 1985, Ghislaine Maxwell’s father Robert Maxwell sold backdoored Israeli surveillance software into those same laboratories, on behalf of Mossad operations chief Rafael Eitan. Per a classified FBI counterintelligence file in the EFTA archive, it was Eitan — operating through Ehud Barak — who later trained Jeffrey Epstein as a spy. Three redundant communications systems. One of them pointed at a nuclear weapons lab. Built by the operational partner of the man whose father had already been inside it.
The link remains active today. Under the Huffines family’s ownership. In Epstein’s LLC name.
Epstein and Jean-Luc at Zorro — EFTA00003661
And running all of it — Brice and Karen Gordon.
The Gordons came to Epstein with credentials. Brice had a background in the New Zealand Defence Force. Karen held the formal title of Island Manager at Epstein’s Little St. James property in the U.S. Virgin Islands — coordinating guest arrivals, managing household logistics, signing her emails with an official title and a St. Thomas business address.
Karen Gordon to Epstein, October 2012: coordinating guest arrivals at LSJ. Title in email signature: LSJ, LLC Island Manager, 6100 Red Hook Quarters, St. Thomas USVI. — EFTA01891133
By 2006, Brice had been designated manager of Zorro Development Corp LLC, the entity that held the ranch. He had signing authority for purchases.
Brice Gordon signing authority confirmed 2008 — purchase authority for ranch operations. — EFTA00595260
He caught accounting errors that Epstein’s own accountant, Richard Kahn, missed. He held limited power of attorney to handle Epstein’s New Mexico affairs.
Limited Power of Attorney documents — Brice Gordon designated as Zorro Trust manager with authority to handle New Mexico affairs on Epstein’s behalf. — EFTA00430016 / EFTA02185230
Brice and Karen Gordon had direct access to Epstein and they were not shy about using it.
When Lesley Groff, Epstein's executive assistant — one of three assistants federal prosecutors had been prepared to indict before the 2008 non-prosecution agreement granted them immunity — needed Epstein reached urgently, she went through the Gordons. Please give Jeffrey a call. That's the chain of command. That's where they were on the ladder.
Lesley Groff to Brice and Karen Gordon: ‘Please give Jeffrey a call.’ — The Gordons are the people Epstein’s own executive assistant routes urgent contact through. — EFTA02089629
Brice and Karen Gordon were not caretakers. They were operators — the ones Epstein couldn't fire, wouldn't fire, kept through every accusation because the compound didn't run without them.
THE GUESTS OF ZORRO RANCH
One of the clearest windows into what the Gordons actually did comes from a December 2012 email from Lesley Groff, Epstein’s executive assistant and one of the three assistants whom federal prosecutors had been prepared to indict in 2007, before the non-prosecution agreement granted them immunity:
‘Leon Black is scheduled to come to the island this Friday Dec. 21st for lunch... Brice/Karen are asking if Leon will be bringing his wife and kids for the lunch as well, and if Leon will be arriving via his own boat like last time...’
— Lesley Groff to island staff, December 2012 — EFTA00399550
Leon Black — the Apollo Global Management billionaire who paid Epstein approximately $158 million for financial advice — required advance logistics from the Gordons before arrival. In April 2013, Karen Gordon personally coordinated the helicopter that brought Black from Albuquerque to the ranch, with tail number pre-confirmed and wait time billed at $150 per hour.
Leon Black helicopter logistics, April 2013 — Karen Gordon coordinating arrival from Albuquerque to Zorro Ranch, tail number pre-confirmed, $150/hour wait fee
— EFTA00391556–559
In June 2017, Karen personally handled arrival instructions for Dr. Bruce Moskowitz — Epstein’s Palm Beach physician — providing the mile marker on Highway 41, her personal cell number, Brice’s personal cell number, and asking about dietary restrictions to make the visit more comfortable.
Karen Gordon to Dr. Bruce Moskowitz. The physician’s arrival managed directly by ranch management. — EFTA_R1_00945705–706
An April 2013 planning email from Epstein’s personal account includes the notation listing visit logistics for the ranch. It names the Gordons alongside billionaires and Nobel laureates in the same planning sequence: “brice karen, lynn isster. woody, branson. billl, sinofsly, boris science, bach, hanson signal music, teachers. weekends. women accomplished.”
Epstein planning email April 2013 — EFTA02569197
They were not witnesses to what happened at Zorro Ranch. They were the infrastructure it ran on.
THE GUNS
The ranch’s weapons were not decorative. They were part of the formal maintenance protocol — checked at three separate intervals, documented in writing, on a schedule that most police departments would recognize as institutional.
Daily: “Visual check of gun cabinet. — EFTA00586048
Weekly: Check and Clean Guns — EFTA00586049
Bi-weekly: Check gun and ammunition inventory — EFTA00586050
In March 2010, Epstein instructed Brice Gordon to acquire as many firearms as the law allowed. The ranch accumulated an arsenal across the years that followed.
In August 2018 — eleven months before Epstein’s arrest — 32 guns were stolen from Zorro Ranch. The Gordons reported the theft to Santa Fe County police. Then they stopped cooperating with authorites. They refused to provide the serial numbers of the stolen weapons. The investigation was closed after one month.
32 firearms vanished from a registered sex offender’s remote compound eleven months before his federal arrest. The people who reported the theft then refused to provide the one piece of information that would allow police to find the weapons. The investigation lasted thirty days. It has never been reopened.
No one has ever explained why.
THE INTERVIEW THAT ENDED WITH A PHONE CALL
In February 2007, FBI agents drove to Zorro Ranch to interview Brice Gordon. He was talking. Providing names, payment records, details the agents needed. Productive enough that they followed him to his office to continue. In the office, the phone rang, it was the “main office.” Brice Gordon was told to stop talking. The interview ended and no subpoena followed.
FBI interview record, February 2007. Brice Gordon interviewed at Zorro Ranch. Interview terminated after call from “main office.” No subpoena issued. Ranch never searched. — EFTA00269599
In any ordinary federal investigation, a witness cut off mid-interview by a subject’s legal team would be compelled to continue under oath. The ranch would have been searched — not requested, not negotiated. Searched plain and simple.
A compound with a formal gun arsenal, a private microwave link to a nuclear weapons laboratory, an ambulance, oxygen, fertility medications, a germline blueprint, a Clomid stockpile. All of it sitting on 50,000 acres of high desert with one road in and one road out. The FBI knew where it was, they had been there, and they had a witness who was talking. When Brice Gordon ended the interview the FBI never followed up. Zorro Ranch was the only major Epstein property that federal investigators never searched. His Manhattan mansion, searched. Little St. James, searched. Palm Beach, searched. Zorro Ranch, nada. Not in 2007 and not in 2008 after the conviction. Not in the twelve years between his guilty plea and his death. The ranch sat untouched for nineteen years while the compound kept running, the maintenance schedules kept cycling, and the Gordons kept the guns clean and the oxygen bottles checked.
The notes from that interview — everything Gordon said before the phone rang — have not appeared in the public EFTA release. They are not missing by accident, documents do not vanish from federal files by accident.
WHAT THE ACCOUNTANT SAID, AND WHAT EPSTEIN DID ABOUT IT
Richard Kahn was Epstein’s longtime accountant and one of the co-executors of his estate. In October 2018 — less than a year before Epstein’s death — Kahn sent an internal email accusing Brice Gordon of steering ranch contracts to vendors who were paying him kickbacks. Something felt, Kahn wrote, “very off with the lack of concern and lax attitude of brice, karen and glidden.”
Richard Kahn internal email, October 2018. Kickback accusation against Brice Gordon. Steering contracts to vendors. “Very off” lax attitude notation. — EFTA01021257
The Gordons were not investigated, followed up with on this, or fired.
A separate staff member described them as “liars and thief’s” and claimed they had sold ranch equipment without authorization — a rock crusher, a Rhino, a Hummer. Ann Rodriguez, Epstein’s household manager at Little St. James, had been sending distress signals for years. She coordinated island operations, managed guest logistics, and communicated with Epstein constantly — hundreds of emails, addressed to him as “Bossman.” By November 2018 she was writing to him in a register that reads less like a complaint and more like a quiet plea. “Brice & Karen will be here to take over because I haven’t been doing a good job.”
Ann Rodriguez to Epstein, November 2018. — EFTA01015293
Staff complaints: workplace hostility, removed from group texts, environment described as “uncomfortable.” — EFTA_R1_01900740
Epstein kept the Gordons through all of it. The kickback accusation, the equipment theft, the hostile workplace complaints. Even through five years of Ann Rodriguez quietly asking for help.
There is only one explanation the documents support: the Gordons were too valuable to lose. They ran the compound, they knew the guests. They managed the weapons and had signed the contracts. Whatever was happening at Zorro Ranch, it didn’t run without them. And Epstein knew it.
THE TWO MILLION DOLLARS
Jeffrey Epstein signed his will on August 8, 2019 — two days before he was found dead at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan.
Item 29 reads:
“To BRICE GORDON, if he survives me, Two Million Dollars ($2,000,000).”
No comparable bequest to ranch staff has been publicly reported. The estate was estimated at $577 million. The most charitable interpretation of this: Epstein valued a loyal employee and rewarded him. Or — you leave two million dollars to someone who knows what you know, saw what you saw, and has every reason to stay quiet. The documents do not answer which is correct right now. What they do say is that Epstein signed that will on Thursday and was dead by Saturday. The two people who ran his most remote compound for over a decade walked away with the largest individual staff bequest in his estate. And they have not been subpoenaed by the Department of Justice.
THE COMMISSION THAT COULD FIND THEM — AND WHAT IT HASN’T
The New Mexico Truth Commission was established February 16, 2026, by unanimous House vote. It has a $2 million budget drawn from Epstein-related bank settlements. It has subpoena power — the authority to compel witness attendance, administer oaths, issue subpoenas enforceable under New Mexico law.
Commission Chair Andrea Romero told the NZ Herald the Gordons were among a handful of people “of the highest interest” to the commission. “They will absolutely be on a list of people of interest based on everything we do know about them today and in the hope that we can find them.”
Finding them is the problem. The Gordons’ whereabouts have not been publicly confirmed since 2019. Multiple investigative reports describe them as having gone into hiding. An off road camping sighting in early 2024 is the most recent confirmed public trace. Their current country of residence is unknown. Eight weeks into the commission’s existence, they remain unfound and unheard.
What the commission has searched: one property. For two days. With four cadaver dogs — Shamus, Gingersnap, Greta, and Mini. The current owner’s attorney issued the only substantive statement: “To our knowledge, no physical evidence was found suggesting criminal activity by the prior owner.” The New Mexico Department of Justice declined to comment on the outcome.
What the commission has not searched is the more important question.
The King family ranch land surrounds Zorro Ranch on multiple sides. Bruce King sold the property to Epstein in 1993. His son Gary King served as New Mexico’s Attorney General, failed to investigate Epstein during his tenure, and accepted hidden campaign contributions from Epstein after his 2008 sex offender conviction. King family members appear in Epstein’s contact files. That land has not been searched. You can read our previous pieces linked at the top of this article for more information.
San Cristobal Ranch shares over two miles of fence line with Zorro Ranch. Its former owner Henry Singleton was a defense contractor with documented OSS and Sandia National Laboratories connections — and his modem number appears in Epstein’s personal files. In 2016, San Cristobal’s manager discussed sharing the cost of a massive industrial and military grade microwave communications build out with Epstein. That property has not been searched either.
THE CONFLICTS NOBODY ADDRESSED
The Truth Commission was formed to investigate a property now owned by Donald and Mary Catherine Huffines of Dallas, Texas. Donald Huffines is the current Trump-endorsed candidate for Texas State Comptroller.
The Chief Procurement Officer of the New Mexico Legislative Council Service — the official controlling contract selection for the commission’s legal team and outside investigators — is Gerardo “Jerry” Antonio Paredes Jr. Before New Mexico, Paredes worked as a Tax Analyst II for the Texas State Comptroller’s office under Glenn Hegar — the Trump-endorsed comptroller whose office Huffines is now running to lead.
The man gatekeeping the investigation into a property owned by Huffines came from the office Huffines is running to lead. Commission member Rep. Marianna Anaya responded to a written inquiry by stating that Paredes does not make the final decision. The conflict has not been formally addressed.
Commission Chair Andrea Romero is a former Project Manager and Program Manager for Sandia National Laboratories, per her NM Changemakers program profile. She chairs the commission investigating a property with a private microwave link to Sandia Crest Tower, built by Bradbury Stamm — a contractor whose classified work at Sandia and Los Alamos is a matter of industry record. This has not been publicly addressed either.
These conflicts were first documented by journalist Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez at alisav.substack.com in April 2026. The commission has not responded to them publicly.
THE KIWI CONNECTION
In April 2026 — the same month the Truth Commission became operational — a New Zealand diplomatic delegation visited Santa Fe. The group included former U.S. Ambassador to New Zealand Tom Udall, who previously served as New Mexico’s Attorney General and as a U.S. Senator for the state. A Rotary Friendship Exchange. Ceremonial, routine. He is also in the Epstein files.
JPMorgan Chase internal document, marked Confidential — Global Corporate Security report referencing U.S. Rep. Tom Udall in connection with New Mexico political activity, August 2006. Document produced in Southern District of New York proceedings. — EFTA01481013
Former U.S. Ambassador to New Zealand Tom Udall, photographed at the Rotary Club of Santa Fe’s New Zealand Friendship Exchange, April 17, 2026 — the same month the New Mexico Truth Commission became operational. Udall previously served as New Mexico’s Attorney General and U.S. Senator for the state. Source: Rotary Club of Santa Fe, Facebook, April 17, 2026. Public post.
Rotary Club of Santa Fe New Zealand Friendship Exchange, April 2026. The delegation included former U.S. Ambassador to New Zealand Tom Udall. District Governor Tom Simon exchanged banners with the visiting group. The exchange was described as routine and ceremonial. Source: Rotary Club of Santa Fe, Facebook, April 2026. Public post.
The Gordons are New Zealand nationals who vanished from the United States sometime after Epstein’s death and have not been publicly located since an off road camping sighting in early 2024. Peter Thiel — a documented Zorro Ranch visitor whose name appears across Epstein’s connection files — holds New Zealand citizenship.
New Zealand government document, released under the Official Information Act — Peter Thiel’s citizenship application approved under section 9(1)(c) of the Citizenship Act 1977, “due to exceptional circumstances.” Signed by Minister of Internal Affairs Hon. Nathan Guy.
Source: New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs, released under Official Information Act. Public record.
There is no evidence the Gordons are in New Zealand. There is no evidence the diplomatic visit had anything to do with them. But the web of New Zealand ties — Thiel, the Gordons, the timing — is a thread the commission has not pulled. No one with legal authority has asked any of them where the Gordons are.
What began as an investigation into financial crimes and sex trafficking has expanded to include a potential search for graves. The people who had the keys and the codes, who logged every vehicle arrival, who managed the equipment capable of digging, who would know if the earth on that property had ever been disturbed — have not been asked a single question under oath. Where are Brice and Karen Gordon?
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Sources
EFTA Primary Documents
EFTA00269599 — FBI interview record, February 2007. Brice Gordon, Zorro Ranch. Interview terminated by phone call from “main office.” Notes missing from public release.
EFTA00586048–54 — Zorro Ranch maintenance schedules. Daily gun cabinet check, weekly gun cleaning, bi-weekly ammunition inventory, monthly oxygen bottles, fire truck, foam trailer. Quarterly foam pack testing.
EFTA00586050–51 — Vehicle telephone verification, sensor checks, perimeter monitoring.
EFTA00584371 — Richard Kahn email. Ambulance procurement, Zorro Ranch, February 2016.
EFTA00801700 — Fire truck documentation, Zorro Ranch.
EFTA01079125–31 — March 2015 asphalt paving. 11,700+ square yards across front entrance, driveway, parking area, and general ranch. Four years before arrest.
EFTA01186937 — Vendor proposal, Advanced Communications & Electronics, Albuquerque. April 14, 2014. 6 GHz FCC-licensed microwave link between Sandia Crest and Zorro Ranch. Octal T-1 interface configured at Main House.
EFTA00430016 / EFTA02185230 — Limited Power of Attorney. Brice Gordon designated Zorro Trust manager with authority to handle New Mexico affairs on Epstein’s behalf.
EFTA00595260 — Brice Gordon signing authority confirmed 2008. Purchase authority for ranch operations.
EFTA02089629 — Lesley Groff to Brice and Karen Gordon: “Please give Jeffrey a call.”
EFTA01891133 — Karen Gordon to Epstein, October 2012. Guest arrival coordination at LSJ. Email signature: LSJ, LLC Island Manager, 6100 Red Hook Quarters, St. Thomas USVI.
EFTA01767137 — Karen Gordon LSJ punch list and supply coordination.
EFTA00904122 — Epstein planning email, April 2013. Gordons listed alongside Branson, Sinofsky, Nikolic in same operational sequence.
EFTA_R1_00457553 / EFTA00391556–59 — Leon Black helicopter logistics, April 2013. Karen Gordon coordinating arrival from Albuquerque to Zorro Ranch. Tail number pre-confirmed. $150/hour wait fee.
EFTA_R1_01736394 / EFTA02569197 — Lesley Groff and Leon Black logistics, December 2012. Island and ranch coordination routed through Gordons.
EFTA_R1_00945705–06 — Dr. Bruce Moskowitz arrival, June 2017. Karen Gordon providing personal cell number, mile marker, dietary inquiry.
EFTA01021257–58 — Richard Kahn internal email, October 2018. Kickback accusation against Brice Gordon. Steering contracts to vendors. “Very off” lax attitude notation.
EFTA01015293–94 — Ann Rodriguez to Epstein, November 2018. Distress about Gordons taking over her role.
EFTA_R1_01900740 / EFTA_R1_01795118 — Staff complaints about Gordon conduct. Workplace hostility, removed from group texts, environment described as “uncomfortable.”
EFTA00522943 — Clomid stockpile, Zorro Ranch.
EFTA00804855 — Germline blueprint.
EFTA01683874–75 — FBI counterintelligence file 813B-NY-2928278, SECRET//NOFORN, November 2017. CHS states Epstein trained as spy under Ehud Barak and Rafael Eitan. Declassification date 2042.
Epstein Will, August 8, 2019, Item 29 — Brice Gordon bequest: $2,000,000.
FCC License Database — Call signs WQXY316 and WQXY300. Registered to Zorro Development Corp. Active under Huffines family ownership in Epstein’s LLC name.
Published Reporting
NZ Herald, February 2, 2026 https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/wellington/jeffrey-epstein-files-reveal-new-zealand-couple-managed-his-infamous-island/AVOH6DTWYJDXRCZ5BG4KRM7XYQ/
NZ Herald, February 8, 2026 https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/new-mexico-lawmakers-may-subpoena-nz-couple-brice-and-karen-gordon-over-epstein-links/HSCI5OAAXFDCBFTSBHRIHGLYVU/
Centrist NZ, February 12, 2026 https://centrist.nz/missing-fbi-interview-notes-put-nz-epstein-property-manager-back-in-focus/
Centrist NZ, March 16, 2026 https://centrist.nz/kiwi-caretakers-emerge-as-key-figures-in-revived-epstein-ranch-probe/
The Spinoff NZ, February 5, 2026 https://thespinoff.co.nz/society/05-02-2026/the-epstein-files-and-nz-managers-models-and-the-kiwi-billionaire
Santa Fe New Mexican, February 13, 2026 https://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/texas-businessman-running-for-office-owns-epsteins-zorro-ranch-in-santa-fe-county/article_14a05944-1e00-47c8-a4c3-071895abfb57.html
Texas Tribune, February 13, 2026 https://www.texastribune.org/2026/02/13/don-huffines-jeffrey-epstein-ranch-new-mexico-texas/
Al Jazeera, March 17, 2026 https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2026/3/10/us-investigators-begin-search-of-epsteins-former-ranch-in-new-mexico
AP via PBS, March 9, 2026 https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/new-mexico-prosecutors-search-jeffrey-epsteins-secluded-former-zorro-ranch
Source NM, February 17, 2026 https://sourcenm.com/2026/02/17/new-mexicos-jeffrey-epstein-truth-commission-gets-off-the-ground/
Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez, March 26, 2026
Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez, April 2026
NM Changemakers — Andrea Romero profile https://nmchangemakers.org/2022/andrea-romero
New Mexico DOJ tip line https://nmdoj.gov/get-help/epstein-zorro-tips/
Karen didn't disappear financially. She set up a New Mexico LLC, Cactus 3 Development LLC, put a ghost name (Jody Lyn Stewart) on it as the registered agent at a CPA firm address in Santa Fe, used the LLC to hold a property in southern Arizona near the Mexican border, and sold it in January 2025. Right as the NM Truth Commission was being established and the DOJ Epstein files were dropping. MORE TO COME.
Yes Camping. What a better place to lay low than in a run down RV Park or campground. A trailer or a BUS, or perhaps BOTH. Or an Airbnb.