10.0Award-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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Watching1. Assassins
45mWhat drives a person to make a living out of killing? Mariana goes inside the dark world of contract killers.
2. Sextortion
45mMariana investigates a new blackmail scam called "sextortion", in which compromising photos are used to extort victims and often leads to suicide.
3. Body Parts
45mMariana exposes how black market operators are profiting from the sale of stolen human remains on secret marketplaces in the U.S. and beyond.
4. Black Market Meds
45mThe high cost of prescription drugs has pushed millions of Americans to the black market — and into hands of criminal syndicates looking to cash in.
5. Apes
45mMariana heads to the Congo to investigate the illegal trade in wild apes that have them on the brink of extinction.
6. Migrant Smugglers
45mMariana heads to Mexico to investigate the billion-dollar business of people smuggling to the US — a system fueled by cartels and corruption.
7. Hash Smugglers
45mMariana tracks the illicit path of hashish from Morocco into Europe — a world of shadowy dealers, lightning-fast smuggling boats and endless wealth.
8. Illegal Gambling
45mMariana investigates a nefarious scam that tricks elderly Americans into becoming unwitting drug mules.
9. The Drug Mule Scam
45mMariana investigates a nefarious scam that tricks elderly Americans into becoming unwitting drug mules.
10. Caught in an African Coup
54mMariana's investigation into how gold mining is funding terrorism gets interrupted by a military coup that strands the team in Niger.
