The Billion Dollar Scam Cult King who tried to Take Over an Island

The Billion Dollar Scam Cult King who tried to Take Over an Island

When Bougainville fought an incredible civil war over a colossal mine, and won, its military leader emerged a hero. But he would soon fall under the spell of a conman and cult leader who wanted the Pacific island—and believed himself to be its king. The unlikely pair soon carved an empire out of a coconut palm jungle—and a wild, picaresque myth about Eden, ancient monarchs, and gold. The wildest thing was that almost everybody in the region believed it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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The Tijuana Cartel's Bloody Rise and Fall

The Tijuana Cartel's Bloody Rise and Fall

When the godfather Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo got busted in '89, he divvied up his empire from a prison cell and handed the coveted Tijuana plaza to the Arellano Felix Brothers, who transformed it in...

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The Cartel Puppetmaster: Juan Matta Ballestero

The Cartel Puppetmaster: Juan Matta Ballestero

Juan Ramon Matta Ballesteros began life as a pickpocket in his hometown of Tegucigalpa, before heading out on the perilous border roads of Latin America as an emerald smuggler. Soon he was making frie...

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The State Line Mob: Redneck Mafia

The State Line Mob: Redneck Mafia

Along the blood-soaked border between Mississippi and Tennessee, a ruthless crime empire ruled the night where whiskey flowed, dice rolled, and anyone who crossed the wrong person disappeared into the...

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The Cartel World's Donnie Brasco w/ Ian Frisch

The Cartel World's Donnie Brasco w/ Ian Frisch

Starting at the tail end of the wild cowboy days of 1980's Miami, undercover FBI agent Martin Suarez didn’t just infiltrate a cartel...he nearly rose to the top. As a smuggler, he helped move a billio...

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Warlords, Narco-Pirates, & The Gangster King of Vietnam

Warlords, Narco-Pirates, & The Gangster King of Vietnam

Emerging from Saigon’s system of warlords and narco-pirates, Nam Cam built a criminal empire by making sure everyone — cops, politicians, media — was in his pocket. But that meant that when everything...

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The OG Mexican Narco: Pablo Acosta

The OG Mexican Narco: Pablo Acosta

Pablo Acosta ruled Mexico's drug trade from a dusty border town, turning Ojinaga into a narco-empire that funneled billions in cocaine, weed and heroin into America during the 1980s. Known as the Fox ...

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Cambodia’s Untouchable Gangster-in-Chief

Cambodia’s Untouchable Gangster-in-Chief

Hun To, the nephew of Cambodia’s former PM, is also the ruler of a criminal empire stretching from illegal logging and Triad-run casinos, to corrupt Chinese investment and — ALLEGEDLY — people and her...

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London’s Corrupt Cops & Gangland Killers: the Epping Forest Slayings

London’s Corrupt Cops & Gangland Killers: the Epping Forest Slayings

When a London couple were found dead in a lover’s lane, in 1987, evidence pointed quickly at some of the city’s most notorious gangland figures — both established and upcoming. But despite informants ...

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