Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller
The companion podcast to National Geographic’s Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller. In season two, investigative journalist Mariana van Zeller goes deep with masterminds behind black markets and underground economies, including illegal plastic surgery, meth labs fueling America’s addiction crisis, and a global marijuana smuggling empire built by high school surfers. Each episode pulls back the curtain on the player at the center: how they became involved, what it felt like to live in the shadows—and how it all crumbled in the end. Join Mariana in the underground, and don’t miss the TV show Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller on National Geographic and Hulu.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 36 minutes
- Episodes
- 14
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2022
Trafficking Hate: The Story of Frank Meeink
Frank Meeink was once one of the most prominent neo-Nazis in the U.S. and inspiration for the character played by Edward Norton in the 1998 film American History X. At 17, he was hosting a neo-Nazi c…
00:46:58 |
Wed 05 Jan 2022
Meth in the Badlands: The Story of Pastor Al Peratt
Al Peratt’s trafficking career started when he was in the military: legal clerk by day, hashish dealer at night. The gig turned to heroin, and after a lengthy prison sentence, to dealing meth in San …
00:43:30 |
Wed 29 Dec 2021
Brotherhood to Betrayal: Frank D’Alesio’s Story
By the 1980s, Outlaw Motorcycle Clubs had been deemed “organized crime on wheels” by federal agencies. This was the world that Frank D’alesio entered as a rookie ATF agent, when he began the string o…
00:40:56 |
Wed 22 Dec 2021
High Tide: The Coronado Company
Just off the coast of San Diego, a group of high school surfers and their former Spanish teacher get involved in an unusual extracurricular activity: international weed smuggling. They called themsel…
00:43:30 |
Wed 15 Dec 2021
Trust Me: The Story of Derek Alldred
Derek Alldred could have been an actor. He first invented characters to fuel an addiction, putting on costumes and playing trustworthy roles that put people at ease and got him what he wanted. But as…
00:34:14 |
Wed 08 Dec 2021
Shots in the Dark: The Black Madam
The Black Madam was an aspiring rapper who made her money building a business she believed in—administering illegal silicone injections to give trans (and cisgender) women the bodies they dreamed of.…
00:37:18 |
Wed 01 Dec 2021
Coming soon: Trafficked Season 2
The companion podcast to National Geographic’s Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller. In season two, investigative journalist Mariana van Zeller goes deep with masterminds behind black markets and under…
00:02:11 |
Mon 22 Nov 2021
The Young Gun & The Old Ammo: David Packouz
Mariana talks with David Packouz, one of the two notorious young men who inspired the movie War Dogs. He made headlines when he sold illegal ammo to the US government in what was called “The Afghan C…
00:46:16 |
Thu 07 Jan 2021
Cocaine Captain: The Story of JC Perez
Cocaine production is at an all-time high, but it came to fame in the Miami Vice era of the 1980’s with the help of the “Cocaine Cowboys.” In this episode, Mariana sits down with JC Perez, who pilote…
00:49:16 |
Thu 31 Dec 2020
The Hollywood Madam: Heidi Fleiss
Heidi Fleiss is perhaps best known as the “Hollywood Madam.” Despite having started her business at just 22, she developed a star-studded list of clients, all meticulously organized in her red Gucci …
00:38:18 |
Thu 24 Dec 2020
The Art of the Steal: The Story of Michel van Rijn
Mariana dives into an underground world of subterfuge, heists, counterfeiting, smuggling, and organized looting with Michel van Rijn, one of the world’s most prolific artifact smugglers. In a career …
00:37:01 |
Thu 17 Dec 2020
All-Star Dealer: Tony Bosch
Mariana breaks down how a major player made it big—and lost it all—in the dangerously unregulated, billion-dollar black market of performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs). Tony Bosch’s Biogenesis of Americ…
00:44:26 |
Thu 10 Dec 2020
An Outlaw and Oxy: the Story of Struggle Jennings
Oxycontin has sparked the deadliest drug crisis in American history. Struggle Jennings, an outlaw country rapper — and the grandson of country music legend Waylon Jennings — once got busted for tryin…
00:38:23 |
Thu 03 Dec 2020
Coming soon: The Trafficked Podcast with Mariana van Zeller
The official companion podcast to National Geographic Channel’s new series premiering Dec 2, Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller brings us one step closer to understanding the lives of traffickers. Jo…
00:02:09 |
Thu 19 Nov 2020
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