Cartel Land: How Acapulco went from Sinatra Singing to Sicarios Shooting
Acapulco has become one of Mexico's, and the world's, bloodiest cities. It saw a stunning 127 murders per 100,000 people in 2019, making it the most murderous city in the world. It's a long way from i...
6 Jul 202145min
The Snakehead Sister Ping: China's Most Infamous Smuggler
She was the greatest smuggler, a Chinatown hero. Or was she a menace? Sister Ping made millions from those fleeing eastern China to the US. But ‘The Snakehead’s legacy is wound up in legend, conspirac...
29 Jun 202152min
The Pink Panthers: The Secretive Organization of the World's Top Jewel Thieves
Emerging out of the breakup of Yugoslavia, the Balkans-based international thieves known as the Pink Panthers have coordinated many of the world's most lucrative heists, sometimes stealing tens of mil...
23 Jun 202156min
The Russian Mafia's NHL Extortion Play
When the Soviet Union collapsed in the late 80's and early 90's, both gangsters and hockey players headed to America (and Canada!) for new opportunities, making use of the skills they had developed ba...
16 Jun 202144min
Turkey's Mafia Boss Youtube Sensation Trying to Bring Down the State
Sedat Peker has long been a top mafia boss in Turkey, but in recent weeks he's found a new calling: Youtuber. He's taken to youtube and social media to air out accusations of corruption and conspiraci...
9 Jun 202150min
The Billion Dollar Dealer Who Linked Hell's Angels, Mafia Families, Cartels, and Native American Smugglers
Jimmy Cournoyer brought a billion dollars of weed into New York City and the east coast through an organization that brought together the Rizzuto and Bonnano Italian Mafia families, Native American Sm...
2 Jun 202139min
Curtis Warren, the English Gangster Who Tried to Take Over an Island:
Curtis Warren wasn't known as "Cocky" for nothing. Perhaps it was his rapid rise to the top of Britain's drug trade, becoming Cali's man in Europe and Interpol's "Target One". Perhaps it was a fortune...
13 Apr 202145min
Brazil's Red Command Rules the Favelas
In the late 1970's when a military dictatorship ruled Brazil, revolutionaries and hardcore criminals formed a collective in a brutal maximum security island prison, giving birth to Brazil's first supe...
24 Mar 202148min
