Fight to keep memorial at Jeffrey Epstein’s former Zorro Ranch in Santa Fe
Dozens of people rebuilt a memorial outside Jeffrey Epstein’s former Zorro Ranch as organizers said someone removed parts of it again.
SANTA FE, N.M. – Dozens of people rebuilt a memorial outside Jeffrey Epstein’s former Zorro Ranch as organizers said someone removed parts of it again.
Organizers met Saturday morning outside the former ranch in Santa Fe County to rebuild the tribute. Organizers said the memorial had already been taken down once before this year.
Kathy Barber, a memorial organizer, said the fight to keep the memorial in place has not been easy. She said survivors who come to the site keep them going.
“I think it’s brave, brave of her to be here, you know, because she’s been on the inside and the other side, and she’s lived the things that we can only imagine, you know,” said Barber.
Barber said she believes someone removed the memorial around Memorial Day and said organizers plan to keep rebuilding it.
“It’s just.. who does that? And the way we look at it to where it was, where they last saw it, and when it was gone, is they probably did it Memorial Day, no respect at all,” said Barber.
“We’re going to keep on rebuilding. I mean, you know, the horrors that happened here have to stop,” said Barber. “People need to know what’s going on, and we’ll be out here every time until we get justice and accountability, and people, we’re not going to stop,” said Barber.
Barber said she found some of the memorial across the road when she arrived.
“When I got out of my car, there was a little ceramic heart that’s fragile, and it was sitting over there by my car, across the street, full. It was totally together, and so I started looking around, and then I started seeing the stuff,” said Barber.
Other organizers said they want to make the tribute more permanent. Rebecca Stover said she plans to build a giant heart that people can use to leave items inside.
“I’m planning a giant heart,” said Stover. “It’s going to have an opening, and the survivors and anyone else that wants to can put things inside, close it, and we lock it.”
Barber said she now wants to hear what the Truth Commission plans to do as its first public meeting approaches.
“I want to hear what they’re doing. I mean, I know it’s an investigation but there’s things they can tell us, and I want to know how they’re moving forward,” said Barber.
The first public Truth Commission meeting is set for Monday at the Roundhouse at 2 p.m.
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