The Underworld Podcast
Underworld exposes the secret world of transnational criminal networks that have flourished since there were banks to bust, drugs to smuggle, and scams to run. Journalists Danny Gold and Sean Williams bring their experience reporting on dangerous people and organizations to take listeners on a global tour of mobsters, warlords and crooks - from Brooklyn to Beijing, from the streets to the boardrooms - and everywhere in between. Underworld is a show about heroes, villains, and the barely visible mafias that affect all our lives, whether we know it or not.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 49 minutes
- Episodes
- 227
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
The Lord High Executioner of Brooklyn: Albert Anastasia
You don't earn a nickname like The Lord High Executioner by not killing a whole lot of people. And Albert Anastasia, one of the most psychotic gangsters to ever come out of New York City, was alleged…
00:47:28 |
Tue 03 Dec 2024
The Sinaloa Cartel Civil War Raging in Mexico: Los Chapitos vs El Mayo w/Nathan Jones
Sinaloa’s capital Culiacan is roiling with violence in the wake of El Mayo’s capture, and his alleged betrayal at the hands of the Chapitos.
But the bloodshed is just part of an ever-changing drug la…
00:56:19 |
Tue 26 Nov 2024
Peru's Shining Path Narco Terrorists: From Commie Civil War to Cartel Muscle
Peru’s Shining Path, a Marxist-Maoist guerrilla force, plunged the Andean nation into a two-decade civil war that put villagers of the VRAEM, a remote, coca-producing region, on its bloody frontline.…
00:50:46 |
Tue 19 Nov 2024
The Bloody Turkish Mafia War Raging Across the World
With their leader sentenced to life in a Dutch prison, the most powerful heroin trafficking organzation in Europe, the Turkish-Kurdish Baybasin clan, wasn't about to call it quits. Younger brother Ab…
00:46:39 |
Tue 12 Nov 2024
Europe's Pablo Escobar: The Heroin Emperor Huseyin Baybashin
From a village in rural Turkey, Huseyin Baybasin emerged as one of the most powerful drug lords in Europe, setting up a global heroin trafficking ring. Stepping into the vacuum left by the downfall o…
00:56:55 |
Tue 05 Nov 2024
The Billion Dollar Scam Cult King who tried to Take Over an Island
When Bougainville fought an incredible civil war over a colossal mine, and won, its military leader emerged a hero. But he would soon fall under the spell of a conman and cult leader who wanted the P…
00:51:11 |
Tue 29 Oct 2024
North Korea's Meth Trafficking: The Hermit Narco-Kingdom
When a bizarre group of international gangsters shook on a massive meth deal with a DEA agent in Bangkok, Thailand eight years ago, it kicked off a manhunt ensnaring Hong Kong Triads, Outlaws bikers …
00:54:33 |
Tue 22 Oct 2024
Indian Posse: The Native Teen Gang Ruling Canada's Prisons
Danny and Richard Wolfe were barely even teenagers when they formed the Indian Posse in their mother's basement with a handful of friends, but they had already been living the street life since they …
00:58:52 |
Tue 15 Oct 2024
The Warring Prison Cartels Carving up Ecuador
Jon Lee Anderson is an author and staff writer at The New Yorker. Anderson recently profiled Ecuador’s young president Daniel Noboa for a piece entitled “Ecuador’s Risky War on Narcos”.
Jon Lee spoke…
01:07:23 |
Tue 08 Oct 2024
The Cartel That Went to War w/Pablo Escobar: The Gentlemen of Cali
As Colombia's cocaine industry exploded in the 1980's, Pablo Escobar's Medellin cartel became the dominant player, capturing headlines across the world. But there was a second cartel rising up, one t…
00:56:45 |
Tue 01 Oct 2024
How Chinese Money Launderers Took Over the Narco Underworld
When gunmen ambushed a Mexican-Chinese businessman outside his Guatemala City casino in 2016, few outside the DEA paid much attention. But the shootout presaged the downfall of a man who, feds would …
00:47:43 |
Tue 24 Sep 2024
The Legend of Bum Farto and the Florida Keys Cocaine
Something about Bum Farto, Key West’s fire chief, stunk. And it wasn’t just his red suits, bling and lime green company car. By the early 70s Florida’s farthest-flung outpost was a lawless drug encla…
00:43:13 |
Tue 17 Sep 2024
Colombia's FARC Guerillas: From Revolution to the Golden Age of Cocaine w/Toby Muse
The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia fought a guerrilla war against Colombia’s government - as well as against right wing militias and drug cartels - for over four decades before signing a peac…
01:14:13 |
Tue 10 Sep 2024
Venezuela’s Cop Killing Street Gang Tren de Aragua Takes America - Or Does It?
The Tren de Aragua grew out of disastrous regime policies to give gang leaders more power in prisons. Its mysterious leader, Niño Guerrero, soon controlled an entire facility, and installed a prison …
00:50:30 |
Tue 03 Sep 2024
The Westies, Psycho Killers of Hell's Kitchen and the Last of the NYC Irish Mob
In the chaos of 1970’s New York, it took a lot to shock the city. But the Westies managed to leave quite the impression. Dubbed the last of the Irish mob despite being more like an anarchic gang, the…
00:55:30 |
Tue 27 Aug 2024
Sammy the Bull, Nazis and Mormon Killers: How the Gilbert Goons Terrorized a Phoenix Suburb
This year, the Phoenix suburb of Gilbert has been rocked by the death of 16-year-old Preston Lord, at the hands of a group calling themselves the ‘Gilbert Goons,’ jocks and hicks combining forces to …
00:44:55 |
Tue 20 Aug 2024
The 30 Year Old Billionaire Cartel Boss Playing Professional Soccer
In recent years, Sebastian Marset has emerged as the first narco kingpin out of Uruguay. He rose from a mid-level weed dealer to an international cartel boss in less than 10 years, even with half tha…
00:51:51 |
Tue 13 Aug 2024
The Rise and Fall of the Dark Web Fentanyl King
When Mohammed Alaa Allawi, a former US military interpreter, moved to Texas in 2012, selling weed was a side hustle. But when a company asked him to design a website, the young Iraqi soon realised hi…
00:38:46 |
Tue 06 Aug 2024
EL MAYO ARRESTED! Was he betrayed by Chapo's son?!?!
Bombshell out of Mexico, El Mayo (!!!!!) is in US federal custody after arriving on a small private plan alongside El Chapo's son, Joaquin Guzman Lopez. What. The Hell. Is going on. How does the most…
00:48:35 |
Tue 30 Jul 2024
South Africa's Rampaging Murder Rate: Gangs, Corruption and State Capture
When Nelson Mandela and the ANC delivered South Africa from Apartheid in the 90s, hopes were high that the country could become a beacon of freedom and fairness. A generation later, those dreams lie …
00:43:18 |
Tue 23 Jul 2024
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