Epstein bought 10,000 acres in southern Santa Fe County from the family of former Gov. Bruce King in 1993. The parcel sits on a lonesome stretch of NM 41 between Galisteo and Stanley. He didn’t raise public eyebrows until 1995.
“Excuses, excuses. You’ll hear them every day. Now the devil he’ll supply them. If from church you stay away. When people come to know the Lord, the devil always loses. So to keep them folks away from church. He offers them excuses.”
A man was headed up to bed one night, when his wife told him that he’d left the light on in their shed. She said she could see it from the bedroom window. He told her he hadn’t been in the shed that day. However, when he looked out the window, he saw that there were indeed people in the shed, likely stealing things.
The patient was “most likely” infected out of state but developed symptoms after arriving in New Mexico and reported them while in Eddy County, according to a news release from the New Mexico Department of Health.
New World screwworm is a species of parasitic fly that can cause infection and often deadly damage to livestock, pets, birds and occasionally humans, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.