Criminology and Psychology

On 187 chaparral-covered acres deep in the hills of southeast Orange County, the ranch features a modest 1930s-era Spanish hacienda, numerous guest rooms with antique mahogany doors, a small vineyard, a well-stocked lake and at least a dozen scattered buildings including stables, caretaker's quarters, pump houses and barns. "It's peaceful, serene and gorgeous," says Jason Hahn, who oversees the place for the family that owns it. "It's a little piece of the 1800s just 7 1/2 miles from downtown San Juan Capistrano; you expect to see Hoss Cartwright walking out of the barn."The largest piece of residential property available in Orange County can be yours for $22.5 million, said Stephen Sutherland, one of the real estate agents trying to sell it. The only drawback, he says, is the property's unsavory history; once the base of a ring of international drug smugglers, it has become something of a monument to southern Orange County's inglorious past. In ...