Rachel Benavidez was 22 years old when she drove to Zorro Ranch for the first time. She was a newly licensed massage therapist. It was one of her first paying jobs. She passed through security, drove a winding dirt road to a mansion, descended into a basement massage room, and was raped by Jeffrey Epstein. This went on for two years. She told no one. She blamed herself. She has now spent years telling her story to the FBI, to journalists, and to anyone who will listen. She is still waiting for someone other than Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell to be held accountable.

She is not alone. At least ten girls and women have alleged they were groomed or assaulted at Zorro Ranch. They were lured by promises of money or career opportunities. They found themselves isolated, surrounded by miles of dry grassland with no neighbors in sight. They were groped, raped, and assaulted. They overcame paralyzing fear to come forward. And for decades, authorities never fully investigated what happened at the ranch.

That is beginning to change. New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez has launched a criminal investigation, searched the ranch in March 2026, the first time law enforcement had ever done so, and asked the Justice Department for unredacted copies of Epstein documents that reference Zorro Ranch. He has promised to follow every lead no matter how uncomfortable and to center the voices of survivors. That commitment deserves the full, unqualified cooperation of the federal government.

The DOJ documents released in January included an anonymous, unsubstantiated claim that two foreign girls died during sex at the ranch and were secretly buried on the property. Whether that claim is true or false, it must be investigated with the full resources available to federal and state law enforcement. Survivors have named co-conspirators they believe knew what was happening and did nothing. Those people have never been identified publicly or prosecuted. The network that made Epstein's crimes possible did not consist of two people. It consisted of everyone who enabled, facilitated, concealed, or ignored what was happening at his properties for decades.

The legal framework that allowed Epstein to escape meaningful accountability the first time must also be addressed. The 2008 Florida plea deal ended a federal investigation that included New Mexico. It spared him serious jail time. It allowed him to return to Zorro Ranch without registering as a sex offender. Former New Mexico AG Hector Balderas called the missed opportunities that followed a black eye in the justice system. He is right. Non-prosecution agreements that shield serial predators from accountability, that trade away the rights of dozens of victims for prosecutorial convenience, must be made impossible. Congress has the authority and the obligation to close that door permanently.

Rachel Benavidez now works as a hospice nurse. She does not want Epstein to take her attention from her patients. She still speaks because she wants the truth about his enablers to come out and she wants them prosecuted. After everything she has endured and everything she has done to be heard, that is not too much to ask.

Sign this petition to demand the DOJ provide full unredacted cooperation with the New Mexico Epstein investigation, call on New Mexico AG Torrez to pursue every co-conspirator and enabler identified by survivors regardless of their wealth or influence, and urge Congress to pass legislation prohibiting non-prosecution agreements that allow serial predators to escape accountability for crimes against multiple victims.