There’s a pattern to the failure to carefully search and investigate crime scenes owned by the rich and powerful. It always involves massive delay, if not complete dereliction. It’s also why they never find client lists or client information connected to organized pedophilia.
Zorro Ranch is just now about to undergo a search as part of the investigation into the sex crimes of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. Epstein bought this property in 1993, five years before he bought his pedophile island, Little St. James, in 1998. Epstein bought the land from former New Mexico Governor Bruce King. Epstein’s friend and “distinguished public servant” Bill Richardson was governor of New Mexico from 2003-2011. Richardson is accused of being a client of Epstein’s high roller rape club. He died in 2023.
What is alleged to have taken place at Zorro Ranch is monstrous and sick. Yet it remained unexamined.
Despite Epstein’s arrest in Palm Beach in 2005 and his later arrest in New York in 2019, and despite allegations made by survivors concerning Zorro Ranch crimes, his New Mexico property was never searched.
The property was sold in 2023 to an LLC created by the family of Don Huffines, a Texas businessman, Republican politician, and friend of Epstein’s old pal, Donald Trump. It is slated for use as a christian retreat. There have been modifications to the mansion, outbuildings and to the land they sit on. Otherwise known as evidence destruction.
Zorro Ranch is being searched 21 years late after Epstein’s arrest in 2005; 7 years after Epstein’s arrest in 2019; and 6 years after the arrest of Ghislaine Maxwell in 2020.
The old Busch home on Morningview Terrace in Bloomfield Village was searched 30 years late in 2008. One month shy of 30 years from the date convicted pedophile Chris Busch died in the home by either suicide or murder, and two months shy of the shut down date of the OCCK “task force.” As I have written many times, the evidence collected from a day-long search and removed in an evidence trailer, appears from FOIA documents to have been organized and filed, but never evaluated or reviewed.
The Busch cottage at Ess Lake had been sold years prior, but just happened to be demolished very soon after a brief visit there by detectives in 2008 after Chris Busch again surfaced as a serious OCCK suspect. This was allegedly prompted by a tree branch dropping onto that evil structure, which has been credibly named as the site of multiple child rapes and filming of CSAM. It was never searched by authorities. That place, probably like any place Chris Busch ever lived, was a crime scene.
North Fox Island is now established to have been the site of many sex crimes against children and the creation of untold amounts of CSAM, all organized by trust funder Frank Shelden. That fucking place was never searched by authorities. Like Zorro Ranch, there are allegations of buried kids on the island. Private searches may be conducted and these are 50-60 years late.
Maybe going forward survivors will be believed the first time. Maybe going forward society won’t forget that these monsters can be (are often) rich financiers, trust funders of all stripes, GM executives and/or their family members, philanthropists, academics, senators, cops, attorneys, chairmen of boards, school principals, clergy, princes, prime ministers, or even a labor leader and civil rights activist. Maybe law enforcement will search the crimes scenes used by these monsters promptly and carefully and not be called off or deterred by pedophile protectors who try to run defense for their rich pals or tip them off to an imminent search.
Only then will these people stop raping kids with impunity.