By Andrew Hay
2026年2月19日 美国东部时间凌晨4:02 更新于3小时前
2月18日（路透社）- 新墨西哥州司法部周三表示，该州正在调查一项指控。这项指控源自美国司法部公布的文件，称已故性犯罪者杰弗里·爱泼斯坦曾下令将两名外国女孩的尸体掩埋在其位于新墨西哥州偏远地区的牧场外。
新墨西哥州司法部发言人劳伦·罗德里格斯表示，该部门于2019年曾向美国司法部请求获取一份包含这项指控的电子邮件的完整未编辑副本。
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美国司法部未立即回应置评请求。联邦调查局（FBI）也拒绝置评。
罗德里格斯在电子邮件中回复有关此案的询问时表示：”我们正在积极调查这项指控，并根据美国司法部最新公布的内容进行更广泛的审查。”
就在一天前，新墨西哥州立法机构对指控爱泼斯坦在距离圣达菲以南30英里（48公里）的佐罗牧场对女孩和妇女进行性虐待长达二十余年的事件展开了首次全面调查。民主党议员要求揭露爱泼斯坦罪行的压力，已成为唐纳德·特朗普总统面临的重大政治挑战。
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美国司法部最新公布的与爱泼斯坦相关文件中包含的这份经过编辑的2019年电子邮件，是在爱泼斯坦死后几个月发送给新墨西哥州电台主持人埃迪·阿拉贡的。埃迪·阿拉贡曾在其节目中讨论过佐罗牧场。
发件人自称是佐罗牧场的前员工，要求支付1枚比特币作为回报，以获取据称是从爱泼斯坦家中拍摄的、显示该金融家与未成年人发生性行为的视频。
阿拉贡在电话采访中表示，他认为这封电子邮件是真实的，并立即将其转发给了FBI。他称自己没有收到发件人的任何付款，也没有进一步联系发件人，尽管他最近首次尝试回复该邮件时，地址已无法使用。
美国新墨西哥州斯坦利附近的佐罗牧场（爱泼斯坦的一处房产）鸟瞰图，2019年7月15日拍摄。路透社/Drone Base 购买许可权，新标签打开
致阿拉贡的经过编辑的电子邮件称，两名外国女孩是在爱泼斯坦的命令下”在佐罗牧场外的某个山坡上被埋葬”，并且两人是在”粗暴的恋物癖性行为中被勒死”。
2021年FBI的一份报告也包含在最新的爱泼斯坦档案发布中，报告称阿拉贡曾前往FBI办公室报案，该电子邮件提供了7段性虐待视频，并以1枚比特币为代价，提供了两名外国女孩被埋葬在佐罗牧场的地点。
路透社查阅美国司法部披露的其他文件时，未发现任何其他与这封经过编辑的电子邮件中的指控相关的内容，也未发现调查人员对这些指控的看法。
司法部去年曾警告称，其公布的部分爱泼斯坦调查文件”包含不实和耸人听闻的说法”，其中包括匿名指控，调查人员并未证实这些指控，在某些情况下甚至认定这些指控是虚假的。
新墨西哥州土地专员斯蒂芬妮·加西亚·理查德在周三的采访中表示，她的办公室在最近查阅最新发布的爱泼斯坦档案时发现了这封经过编辑的电子邮件。
加西亚·理查德在2月10日致美国司法部的一封信和一份声明中，呼吁联邦和州司法官员全面调查爱泼斯坦牧场及其周边州属土地上的犯罪指控。
1993年，爱泼斯坦租赁了牧场周边约1243英亩（503公顷）的州属土地。加西亚在2019年9月取消了这些租约，因为她的办公室认定爱泼斯坦并未将这些土地用于牧场或农业用途，而是用作其牧场周围的隐私缓冲区。
爱泼斯坦于2019年8月在纽约监狱自杀身亡，死亡被裁定为自杀。
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New Mexico probes allegation of bodies buried near Epstein ranch
By Andrew Hay
February 19, 2026 4:02 AM UTC Updated 3 hours ago
Feb 18 (Reuters) – New Mexico’s Department of Justice said on Wednesday the state was investigating an allegation, which emerged from documents released by the U.S. Department of Justice, that the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein ordered the bodies of two foreign girls buried outside his remote New Mexico ranch.
New Mexico Department of Justice spokesperson Lauren Rodriguez said it had requested from the U.S. Justice Department an unredacted copy of an email in 2019 containing the allegation.
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The U.S. Justice Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The FBI declined comment.
“We are actively investigating this allegation and are conducting a broader review in light of the latest release from the U.S. Department of Justice,” Rodriguez said in an emailed response to queries about the case.
A day earlier, New Mexico’s legislature launched the first comprehensive investigation into accusations that Epstein sexually abused girls and women at the Zorro Ranch 30 miles (48 km) south of Santa Fe for more than two decades. Pressure from Democratic lawmakers to uncover Epstein’s crimes has become a major political challenge for President Donald Trump.
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The redacted 2019 email, contained in the latest release of Epstein-related documents by the U.S. Justice Department, had been sent a few months after Epstein’s death to Eddy Aragon, a New Mexico radio show host who had discussed the Zorro Ranch on his program.
The sender, claiming to be a former Zorro Ranch employee, requested payment of one bitcoin in return for videos that the email said had been taken from Epstein’s house and showed the financier having sex with minors.
Aragon said in a phone interview that he believed the email to be legitimate and immediately forwarded it to the FBI. He said he did not receive any payment from or have any further contact with the sender, although he recently tried to respond to it for the first time but the address was no longer functioning.
Zorro Ranch, one of the properties of financier Jeffrey Epstein, is seen in an aerial view near Stanley, New Mexico, U.S., July 15, 2019. REUTERS/Drone Base Purchase Licensing Rights, opens new tab
The redacted email to Aragon said two foreign girls had been buried on Epstein’s orders “somewhere in the hills outside the Zorro” and that the two had died “by strangulation during rough, fetish sex.”
A 2021 FBI report, also contained in the latest Epstein file release, said Aragon visited an FBI office to report the email, which offered seven videos of sexual abuse and the location of two foreign girls buried on Zorro Ranch in return for one bitcoin.
A Reuters search of other documents among the Department of Justice’s disclosures did not find any other references to the allegations in the redacted email or what investigators made of its claims.
The Justice Department warned last year that some of the files it disclosed from its investigation of Epstein “contain untrue and sensationalist claims,” and that they include anonymous accusations that investigators did not corroborate, or in some cases determined to be false.
In an interview on Wednesday, New Mexico State Land Commissioner Stephanie Garcia Richard said her office had found the redacted email during a recent search of the latest Epstein file release.
Garcia Richard, in a February 10 letter to the U.S. Justice Department and a statement, called on federal and state justice officials to fully investigate allegations of criminality on Epstein’s ranch and state lands adjacent to it.
Epstein leased around 1,243 acres (503 hectares) of state lands around the ranch in 1993. Garcia canceled the leases in September 2019 after her office determined Epstein did not use the land for ranching or agriculture but as a privacy buffer around his ranch.
Epstein died in a New York jail in August 2019. His death was ruled a suicide.
Reporting by Andrew Hay in New Mexico; Additional reporting by Brad Heath in Washington; Editing by Donna Bryson and Edmund Klamann
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