This story was so fascinating they even made a movie out of it starring Tom Cruise, American Made. Barry Seal was one of the most renowned American dealers that smuggled weapons and drugs in the USA
Barry Seal became an aviator at only 16 years old, and as soon as he received his pilot licence, he started smuggling weapons
He had strong relations with the Ma ... Show More
Jan 16
Amy Mihaljevic 2: 30-year rewind
This is part 2 of my 30-year retrospective, following the original "Who Killed Amy Mihaljevic?" podcast. In this episode, I sit down with Mark Spaetzel, the former Chief of Police in Bay Village. He spoke to Amy's class on the day she disappeared and was later involved in the inv ... Show More
32m 56s
Aug 2019
Contras, Cocaine and the CIA: The True Story of Barry Seal
<p>Across the course of his strange and checkered career, pilot and smuggler Barry Seal was called many things: An informant, a criminal, an asset for America's alphabet soup of intelligence agencies and more. He met an ignoble end in February of 1986, when he was fatally shot ou ... Show More
58m 32s
May 2023
The Drugs Importation: Episode 337
The international crime gang had planned everything, covered every detail.<br><br>And as 33 year old Andrew Cole stood on the deck, he realised that his whole life depended on what happened in the next few hours. Andrew was listed as crew on the manifest, but his role was a very ... Show More
26m 15s
Oct 2023
Lawyers Guns and Money - Trailer
It’s 1985, and John Mattes, a public defender in Miami, meets his first client, who claims to be part of a CIA operation running guns in Central America. As Mattes investigates, he is pulled deep into a dangerous world of mercenaries, drug kingpins, and what would become one of t ... Show More
2m 17s
Mar 2022
Lord of the Skies: The Man Who United Mexico's Cartels
We're joined by author Noah Hurowitz to tell the story of Amado Carrillo Fuentes, one of the most powerful narco-traffickers to every live, with an estimated fortune of 25 billion dollars. After having spent his youth learning the ways from the old guard of top-level drug lords, ... Show More
46m 40s