Award-winning journalist Mariana van Zeller investigates new emerging underworlds, including the trade in body parts, hired assassins, sextortion and the smuggling of people across the U.S.-Mexico border, to meet the players and learn the business.
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Episode 1
What drives a person to make a living out of killing? Mariana goes inside the dark world of contract killers.
Episode 2
Mariana investigates a new blackmail scam called "sextortion", in which compromising photos are used to extort victims and often leads to suicide.
Episode 3
Mariana exposes how black market operators are profiting from the sale of stolen human remains on secret marketplaces in the U.S. and beyond.
Episode 4
The high cost of prescription drugs has pushed millions of Americans to the black market — and into hands of criminal syndicates looking to cash in.
Episode 5
Mariana heads to the Congo to investigate the illegal trade in wild apes that have them on the brink of extinction.
Episode 6
Mariana heads to Mexico to investigate the billion-dollar business of people smuggling to the US — a system fueled by cartels and corruption.
Episode 7
Mariana tracks the illicit path of hashish from Morocco into Europe — a world of shadowy dealers, lightning-fast smuggling boats and endless wealth.
Episode 8
Mariana investigates a nefarious scam that tricks elderly Americans into becoming unwitting drug mules.
Episode 9
Mariana investigates a nefarious scam that tricks elderly Americans into becoming unwitting drug mules.
Episode 10
Mariana's investigation into how gold mining is funding terrorism gets interrupted by a military coup that strands the team in Niger.
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