Trafficked: Underworlds with Mariana van Zeller (2024)
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 - Assassins
Release Date: 2024-01-17What drives a person to make a living out of killing? Mariana goes inside the dark world of contract killers.
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Episode 2 - Sextortion
Release Date: 2024-01-24Mariana investigates a new blackmail scam called "sextortion", in which compromising photos are used to extort victims and often leads to suicide.
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Episode 3 - Body Parts
Release Date: 2024-01-31Mariana exposes how black market operators are profiting from the sale of stolen human remains on secret marketplaces in the U.S. and beyond.
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Episode 4 - Black Market Meds
Release Date: 2024-02-07The high cost of prescription drugs has pushed millions of Americans to the black market — and into hands of criminal syndicates looking to cash in.
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Episode 5 - Apes
Release Date: 2024-02-14Mariana heads to the Congo to investigate the illegal trade in wild apes that have them on the brink of extinction.
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Episode 6 - Migrant Smugglers
Release Date: 2024-02-21Mariana heads to Mexico to investigate the billion-dollar business of people smuggling to the US — a system fueled by cartels and corruption.
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Episode 7 - Hash Smugglers
Release Date: 2024-02-28Mariana tracks the illicit path of hashish from Morocco into Europe — a world of shadowy dealers, lightning-fast smuggling boats and endless wealth.
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Episode 8 - Illegal Gambling
Release Date: 2024-03-06Mariana investigates a nefarious scam that tricks elderly Americans into becoming unwitting drug mules.
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Episode 9 - The Drug Mule Scam
Release Date: 2024-03-13Mariana investigates a nefarious scam that tricks elderly Americans into becoming unwitting drug mules.
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Episode 10 - Caught in an African Coup
Release Date: 2024-03-20Mariana's investigation into how gold mining is funding terrorism gets interrupted by a military coup that strands the team in Niger.