Trafficked: Underworlds With Mariana van Zeller

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.
Assassins
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Mariana goes inside the world of contract killers.

Sextortion
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Mariana delves into a new scheme called sextortion, where compromising photos are used to extort victims; while searching for the scammer who targeted a young American, she uncovers a scam culture even more terrifying than she had imagined.

Body Parts
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The trafficking of human remains yields billions of dollars globally and remains clandestine; Mariana's investigation reveals the vulnerability of anyone to human remains trafficking.

Black Market Meds
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Health care costs have pushed millions of Americans to the black market.

Migrant Smugglers
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Mariana heads to Mexico to investigate the billion-dollar business of people-smuggling to the U.S., a system fueled by cartels and corruption.

Hash Smugglers
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Mariana tracks the illicit path of hashish from Morocco into Europe; a world of shadowy dealers, fast smuggling boats and endless wealth.

Illegal Gambling
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Mariana goes inside the dangerous, high-stakes world of illegal gambling to try and understand its allure, its growth and its dark side.

The Drug Mule Scam
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Mariana launches an investigation into a complex scam that targets seniors, tricking them into becoming drug mules.

Caught in an African Coup
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Mariana's investigation into how gold mining is funding terrorism gets interrupted by a military coup that strands the team in Niger.