Kingpins
Undeniable power. Unbelievable stories. Unlikely origins. Kingpins follows the rise and fall of rulers of the underworld. Every Friday, we examine the leaders of organized crime rings, and how money and power corrupted and changed their communities. What makes a kingpin or queenpin, and how can we stop them? Kingpins is a Spotify Original from Parcast.

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“El Azul” Pt. 1: Juan José Esparragoza Moreno

“El Azul” Pt. 1: Juan José Esparragoza Moreno

From the late 1960s to the 2010s, the Mexican narcotics trade evolved from a Wild West of independent traffickers into a network of massive, highly-organized cartels. Only one man successfully weather...

31 Touko 201946min

"The Wolf of Widnes” Pt. 2: Shaun Attwood

"The Wolf of Widnes” Pt. 2: Shaun Attwood

After instigating a war with the Italian Mafia while high on a cocktail of psychedelic drugs in the early 2000s, former stockbroker Shaun Attwood realized he was in over his head. Shaun's resulting in...

24 Touko 201943min

"The Wolf of Widnes” Pt. 1: Shaun Attwood

"The Wolf of Widnes” Pt. 1: Shaun Attwood

In 1996, this British-born stockbroker quit his day job trading stocks and switched his focus to trading ecstasy. Within a year, Shaun Attwood controlled the majority of the ecstasy market in the Amer...

17 Touko 201946min

"The Lord of the Skies" Pt. 2: Amado Carrillo Fuentes

"The Lord of the Skies" Pt. 2: Amado Carrillo Fuentes

Under his leadership, the Juarez Cartel became one of the most powerful narcotics enterprises in Mexico - but it also caught unwanted attention from authorities on both sides of the border. In 1997, t...

10 Touko 201943min

"The Lord of the Skies" Pt. 1: Amado Carrillo Fuentes

"The Lord of the Skies" Pt. 1: Amado Carrillo Fuentes

The nephew of one of Mexico's first major drug kingpins, Amado Carrillo Fuentes, learned the narcotics trade from the best and brightest. By the time he took control in Ciudad Juarez in the late '80s,...

3 Touko 201944min

“Mad Dog” Pt. 2: Vincent Coll

“Mad Dog” Pt. 2: Vincent Coll

After a hit job gone awry in 1932, 23-year-old Vincent Coll found himself in the crosshairs of the New York Police - as well as several of the most powerful organized crime outfits. Instead of accepti...

26 Huhti 201937min

“Mad Dog” Pt. 1: Vincent Coll

“Mad Dog” Pt. 1: Vincent Coll

When mobsters wanted a particularly ruthless job done in the 1920s and 30s, their go-to man was Vincent "Mad Dog" Coll. Vincent would kidnap or kill anyone, from Hell's Angels leader "Big Frenchy" DeM...

19 Huhti 201940min

“The Cocaine Godmother” Pt. 3: Griselda Blanco

“The Cocaine Godmother” Pt. 3: Griselda Blanco

As Griselda's closest ranks of family and associates turn into a list of enemies and rivals, she flees from Miami to California to escape the heat. But even as the law started to close in on Griselda'...

12 Huhti 201945min

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