Trafficked: Underworlds with Mariana van Zeller
Season 1
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Network: National Geographic
Season aired: 2024-01-17
Overview
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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Episodes · 10
Assassins
What drives a person to make a living out of killing? Mariana goes inside the dark world of contract killers.
Sextortion
Mariana investigates a new blackmail scam called "sextortion", in which compromising photos are used to extort victims and often leads to suicide.
Body Parts
Mariana exposes how black market operators are profiting from the sale of stolen human remains on secret marketplaces in the U.S. and beyond.
Black Market Meds
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.
Apes
Mariana heads to the Congo to investigate the illegal trade in wild apes that have them on the brink of extinction.
Migrant Smugglers
Mariana heads to Mexico to investigate the billion-dollar business of people smuggling to the US — a system fueled by cartels and corruption.
Hash Smugglers
Mariana tracks the illicit path of hashish from Morocco into Europe — a world of shadowy dealers, lightning-fast smuggling boats and endless wealth.
Illegal Gambling
Mariana investigates a nefarious scam that tricks elderly Americans into becoming unwitting drug mules.
The Drug Mule Scam
Mariana investigates a nefarious scam that tricks elderly Americans into becoming unwitting drug mules.
Caught in an African Coup
Mariana's investigation into how gold mining is funding terrorism gets interrupted by a military coup that strands the team in Niger.
