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 Wild Cowboys of Washington Heights: NYC's Most Dangerous Crack-era Gang
New York City in the late 1980's and early 1990's was a war zone. The crack era ushered in a record number of murders, topping 2,000 some years, as gangs battled for control of million-dollar corners…
00:48:12 |
Tue 15 Feb 2022
Colombia's Narco-Soccer: Pablo Escobar, Los Pepes, and the Murder of The Gentleman
In the early Nineties Colombia had one of the world’s best soccer teams. Some even tipped them for 1994’s World Cup in the USA. But the country’s narco mayhem would come crashing down on the squad lo…
00:52:45 |
Tue 08 Feb 2022
Glasgow's Ice Cream Wars: Drugs, Police Framing, and Soft Serve
As badly-planned 1960s projects pushed Glasgow's poorest people to the city's fringes, ice cream vans became a lifeline, delivering food, drink and cigarettes. Before long, gangsters got in on the ac…
00:59:23 |
Mon 31 Jan 2022
The Raskol Gangs of Port Moresby: Tribal Wars, Street Battles and Homemade Guns in Papua New Guinea
The ‘raskol’ gangs that terrorize Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea’s chaotic capital city, have their roots in the isolated, rainforest conflicts of dozens of tribes vying for control of lucrative mine…
00:46:42 |
Tue 25 Jan 2022
SPECIAL PROMO: From Deep Cover: Who Was Bob Cooley?
SPECAL PROMO: Deep Cover tells true stories of crime and corruption. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jake Halpern reveals dark underworlds most of us know nothing about. The new season, Mob Land, t…
00:10:43 |
Mon 24 Jan 2022
The Punjabi Mafia and the Indian-Canadian Celeb Hitman Bindy Johal
In Vancouver and the little known city of Surrey, violent gang wars between rival factions in the Indo-Canadian Sikh community has seen upwards of 200 young men killed in the last 25 years, as bloody…
00:49:52 |
Tue 18 Jan 2022
El Mencho and CJNG: Mexico's Most Wanted and Sadistic Narco
He’s a recluse, a cockfighting high-roller, a former cop and a maniac. But will Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, aka El Mencho, do what he’s been threatening for years and become the most powerful cartel …
00:53:00 |
Tue 11 Jan 2022
Born To Kill: The Vietnamese Refugee Gang that Terrorized the US
In the late 1980's, a new gang threw asian immigrant communities across America into chaotic spurts of violence. They were brutal, they were vicious, and they weren't going to play by any of the rule…
00:59:18 |
Tue 04 Jan 2022
Sergeant Smack, Frank Lucas, and the Bangkok Heroin Corpse Connection
Leslie "Ike" Atkinson rose from Army sergeant to international casino hustler, to Bangkok bar owner and quarterback of one of the biggest heroin smuggling rings in history. Recruiting disillusioned b…
00:50:33 |
Tue 21 Dec 2021
50th Episode/holiday Q+A Special!!!
We meant to get this up a few episodes back for the 50th episode special but figured it would work for the holidays. Danny and Sean go through all the questions they've received from listeners about …
00:56:01 |
Tue 14 Dec 2021
Can a Former Gangster Rapper Stop Belize's Deadly Bloods vs Crips Wars?
In Belize City, rival factions of Bloods and Crips clicks have turned the south side of the city into one of the most violent cities on earth in an endless cycle of retaliation. The violence in Beliz…
00:55:23 |
Tue 07 Dec 2021
How Meth Turned New Zealand's Biker Gang Scene Upside Down: Mongrels, Black Power and Killer Beez
For decades, New Zealand's biker gangs fought each other for turf, cash and kudos. Violence between its two biggest outfits, the Mongrel Mob and Black Power, often turned deadly, and acts of cruelty …
00:56:48 |
Tue 30 Nov 2021
West Africa's Cocaine Empire: Guinea Bissau's True Narco State Status
Does any country deserve the title of narco-state more than tiny Guinea-Bissau? The West African nation has become the beating heart of the global cocaine trade, with political leaders serving as lit…
00:49:03 |
Tue 23 Nov 2021
The Gangs Controlling Haiti: A Dead President, Amish Hostages, and a Psycho Named BBQ
A President assassinated. Amish missionaries from Ohio held for million dollar ransoms (per person!). A former cop named Barbecue turned vicious gang leader in the slums claiming to be a revolutionar…
00:52:28 |
Tue 16 Nov 2021
Gangs of England: The Real Peaky Blinders and the Racecourse Wars
On the smog-filled streets of industrial Birmingham, groups of ‘Peaky Blinders’ earned a reputation as Britain’s most feared gang, terrorizing anybody who stepped in their paths with bats, blades and…
00:47:23 |
Tue 09 Nov 2021
The Rise and Recent Capture of Colombia's Most Brutal Narco, Otoniel, w/ Toby Muse
Out there in the jungle, something evil and powerful grows. This is the story of Dairo Antonio Usaga, better known as Otoniel, Colombia’s most wanted drug trafficker for a decade. A communist guerril…
01:05:02 |
Tue 02 Nov 2021
The Out of Control Arab Israeli Crime Clans Driving the Murder Rate Sky-High
In the last 5 years, murders in what's known as Israel's Arab sector have increased 50%, setting new records every year as criminal clans and organized crime have turned cities and towns into fiefdom…
01:11:32 |
Tue 26 Oct 2021
The Burmese Heroin Jungle Kingpin & the Transgender Opium Queen
Khun Sa was a mercenary, a rebel, a warlord and a freedom fighting drugmaker who all-but created the modern heroin industry in the wake of the Vietnam War’s smack epidemic. At one point, the Shan her…
00:51:01 |
Tue 19 Oct 2021
NY’s Chinatown Wars: Ghost Shadows, Hong Kong Triads, Tongs, and the China White Heroin Connection
When Nicky Louie stalked the streets in the 1970's, he was the first gangster to scare Chinatown in decades. At only 22-years-old, he led his gang of gun-toting teen hitmen known as the Ghost Shadows…
00:59:47 |
Mon 11 Oct 2021
BONUS PATREON EPISODE: Knives, Drugs, and Albanian Takeovers in London with Max Daly
Something a little different this week: No regular episode but we've decided to put the patreon bonus episode up for free. Max Daly, based in London, is the Global Drugs Editor for VICE. The Orwell P…
00:55:12 |
Thu 07 Oct 2021
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