The companion podcast to National Geographic’s Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller. In season two, investigative journalist Mariana van Zeller goes deep with masterminds behind black markets and underground economies, including illegal plastic surgery, meth labs fueling America’s addiction crisis, and a global marijuana smuggling empire built by high school s ... Show More
Dec 2021
Meth in the Badlands: The Story of Pastor Al Peratt
Al Peratt’s trafficking career started when he was in the military: legal clerk by day, hashish dealer at night. The gig turned to heroin, and after a lengthy prison sentence, to dealing meth in San Diego’s biker scene. He later fled the city—but not his old habits. In the Black ... Show More
45m 30s
Dec 2021
Sex Lies & Murder: I Hired A Hitman?
Florida’s Boynton Beach police department is in the midst of filming an episode of COPS when they come across Michael and Dalia Dippolito. A murder-for-hire plot goes wrong, and police unravel a history of drugs, ponzi schemes, and escorts. New episodes of Sex Lies & Murder drop ... Show More
45m 43s
Jun 2022
Episode 117: Crime Con - where murder meets entertainment
IT'S a Mecca for true crime super fans, where detectives, lawyers and even podcasters become celebrities for a weekend and the public mix and mingle with faces and voices they know so well.Created in America, where the genre has become a major multi-million dollar industry, Crime ... Show More
30m 2s
Sep 2022
The Village Introduces: The Outlaw Ocean
The high seas are beyond the reach of international law – and beyond the beat of most reporters. But Pulitzer-Prize-winner and former New York Times journalist, Ian Urbina, has sailed into uncharted territories. Urbina sets out on a years-long quest to investigate murder at sea, ... Show More
55m 2s