2012

S3.E1 ∙ Juan Ramon Matta Ballesteros

Mon, Jan 18, 2016

By connecting the Mexican and Colombian drug cartels, Ballesteros became a powerful drug lord south of the border. But state lines mean nothing to U.S. law enforcement when he orders the torture and murder of one of their own.

0 /10

S3.E2 ∙ Dustin Honken

Mon, Jan 25, 2016

In the 1990s, a new drug took America by storm, crystal methamphetamine. In small town, Iowa, a mastermind chemist took advantage of the situation. Dustin Honken made and sold a deadly concoction of the drug, turning this farmboy into a gangster. But the federal government would accuse him of much more than that when two of the key witnesses in the case against him suddenly disappeared...

7.5 /10

S3.E3 ∙ James Spencer Springette

Mon, Feb 01, 2016

James Spencer Sringette was a drug dealer like no other. In 2002, he found himself on the FBI's top ten list of most wanted fugitives, right next to Osama bin Laden. He started out selling juice to tourists on the island of St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands and ended up distributing thousands of kilos of cocaine into the United States. With a strategic base for importing and exporting drugs, he became a middleman - and virtually a made-man - for Colombia's Medellin Cartel. His crew, the Island Boys, helped him build his multinational, multi-thousand kilo, million dollar organization. But it was his crew that would ultimately lead to his downfall...

8.5 /10

S3.E4 ∙ Ludwig Fainberg

Mon, Feb 08, 2016

In the 1990s, Ludwig "Tarzan" Fainberg became a middleman between two of the most dangerous criminal organizations in the world, buying abandoned Cold War vessels from the Russian Mafiya and selling them to Colombia's Medellin Cartel.

9 /10

S3.E5 ∙ Demetrius & Terry Flenory (BMF)

Mon, Feb 15, 2016

Over 15 years, Two brothers from Southwest Detroit grow from small time street dealers to the biggest cocaine distribution gang the United States had ever seen, the Black Mafia Family. From the suburbs of Atlanta, to the Hollywood Hills, the Flenory brothers, Big Meech and Southwest T, controlled cocaine in major cities across the country. But when Big Meech moves from the shadows of the underworld to the spotlight of the Atlanta hip hop scene, the two brother's relationship, and BMF begin to unravel.

8.6 /10

S3.E6 ∙ Alex Rudaj: The Patriarch of the Sixth Family

Mon, Feb 22, 2016

Throughout the 1990s and early 2000s, Albanian immigrant Alex 'Uncle' Rudaj carved a name for himself in New York - a city already dominated by organized crime. But unlike the Mafia, this self-made crime boss didn't follow traditional rules. He formed his own crime family, known as "The Corporation", and muscled in on gambling territories owned by the five Mafia families. In doing so, Rudaj was able to do what no other gangster had done before - or since - turn The Corporation into a sixth family. But this distinction didn't last long - it was only a matter of time before the FBI and local authorities discovered the trail of violence Rudaj and his cohorts left behind. Their joint investigation would eventually lead to the largest federal racketeering case against an Albanian crime syndicate in the United States.

8.6 /10

S3.E7 ∙ Best Friends Gang

Mon, Feb 29, 2016

In 1986 Detroit, Demetrius Holloway quickly rose to become one of Detroit's most notorious drug kingpins with the help of a gang started by four brothers, Rockin' Reg, Boogaloo, Ghost, and Wizard Brown, known throughout Detroit as the Best Friends. But when the Best Friends decide to go into business for themselves, it becomes all-out war between Holloway and the brothers. Childhood friends become bitter enemies, and the resulting bloodshed would transform the Motor City into Murder City.

0 /10

S3.E8 ∙ Rances Ulices Amaya

Mon, Mar 07, 2016

In the wealthiest and most populated area of Virginia, lies a deeper and darker world of a violent, international gang called MS 13. As a shot caller for MS 13, Rances Ulices Amaya aka "Blue," enslaved the lives of juvenile girls by recruiting them into a life of prostitution. Joining the gang at 13 years old, he and his gang were known to terrorize the streets with their weapon of choice, a machete. His reign of terror would come to an abrupt end as the number 13 would prove to be prophetic in his life, his 13th crime would prove to be the last.

0 /10

S3.E9 ∙ Mery Valencia

Mon, Mar 14, 2016

Mery Valencia was a queenpin with a story made for the movies. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, she ran a sophisticated organization comprised of mostly female lieutenants, who helped her distribute more than 13 tons of cocaine worth $180 million throughout the U.S. The drugs were coming in from Colombia, and specifically the Cali Cartel. One of the few women to rise through the ranks of the dangerous cartel, Valencia first ran her business through a store in Miami and stash houses in California, Texas, Florida and New York. The mastermind became a fugitive in 1992 and remained elusive, continuing her illegal operations under the nose of authorities throughout the U.S. for years, until she made one crucial mistake....

0 /10

S3.E10 ∙ Cheng Chui Ping

Mon, Mar 21, 2016

From her base in New York City, Cheng Chui Ping ran one of the most sophisticated and largest human smuggling operations of all time. Over the course of two decades "Sister Ping" made some $40 million dollars capitalizing on the hopes and dreams of immigrants looking for an escape from Communist China to America. Transported via cargo ships with very little food or water, her customers were human cargo, imprisoned until all their trip fees were paid. In 1993, one of her ships ran aground with nearly 300 passengers, prompting the FBI and INS to launch an investigation attempting to capture the woman who became known to authorities as, "the mother of all snakeheads."

8 /10