S1, E6: Zorro Ranch

Truth and Lies: The Boston Strangler

ABC News

Society & Culture, True Crime

4.4 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

As Jeffrey Epstein continues to build a financial empire, he ventures West, buying a massive piece of property outside Santa Fe, New Mexico. It's a private cattle ranch -- set in desolate, untouched land -- and rumors would fly among locals as to just what was going on at the compound known as Zorro Ranch. Epstein's wealth may have been growing, but so was the scale of his alleged abuse -- this time, involving a 16-year-old girl who says she was lured to the ranch by Epstein under the guise of a student trip. When she arrived, she was the only student there. "Truth and Lies: Jeffrey Epstein" is a co-production of the award-winning ABC News Investigative Unit and ABC Audio, makers of "The Dropout," "A Killing On the Cape," "Have You Seen This Man?," the daily ABC News podcast "Start Here," and more: http://www.abcaudio.com/podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This podcast includes graphic descriptions of sexual assault.
0:04.0	It may not be suitable for all listeners.
0:07.6	People look at New Mexico and think of it as some remote,
0:10.6	non-existent place.
0:12.1	They come out here thinking that nobody will find them
0:14.4	that this is the Wild West,
0:16.3	that they're completely anonymous.
0:19.0	In 1993, four years after he started working
0:22.8	for Les Waxner, Jeffrey Epstein would venture out West.
0:27.1	He'd buy a massive plot of land in the desert,
0:29.9	about 30 miles outside of Santa Fe, New Mexico,
0:33.5	and it'd be named Zorro Ranch.
0:36.1	He picked a place that had absolutely no neighbors.
0:38.3	He went to great lengths to buy a piece of property
0:41.3	that there was nobody around.
0:43.7	There is little out there, it's ranching country,
0:47.0	and Epstein would attempt to blend in,
0:49.5	keeping a few dozen head of cattle to graze the land
0:52.6	and hiring some local ranch hans.
0:55.4	But Zorro Ranch was no typical ranch.
0:58.9	Well, he fanced everything off,
1:00.4	and he put Zorro Ranch signs all over the place,
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