The Underworld Podcast
1) Sweden's Brutal Gang Civil War: The Kurdish Fox vs Strawberry
In the last few years, Swedenâs gang wars have erupted into a brutal battlefield of shootings, bombings, and shifting allegiances even worse than the decade before. At the center is the Kurdish Fox, a...Show More
2) The Super Cartel King: Daniel Kinahan
In the wake of the EncroChat bust, swaths of the worldâs biggest narco traffickers have been swept up by European cops â from Balkan tough guys to Camorra capos. Somehow, though, the man who connect...Show More
3) Sweden's Gangland Child Soldiers
Starting in the mid 2010's, Swedenâs gang wars transformed from neighborhood disputes into a national crisis, driven by splintered immigrant-area crews who now recruit teenage hitmen willing to kill f...Show More
4) War in Venezuela?!?! Narcoterrorism, Maduro and Trump
With gunboats parked in the Caribbean, fast boats blown up, and the White House threatening to invade, we unpick some of the narratives surrounding Venezuelaâs regime â and its gangs. Is the Tren de ...Show More
5) Mafia NBA Gambling Rings & The Louvre Robbery: A Thanksgiving Special
In this special Thanksgiving episode, the guys are in the studio together and do a deep dive on the insane Louvre Heist of the French Crown Jewels. They also get to the bottom of the Mafia rigged poke...Show More
6) Cattle Rustlers to Cocaine Kings: Los Cachiros
When feds convicted Honduran cocaine kingpin Juan Matta Ballesteros in 1990, authorities hoped it would spell an end to the Central American nationâs growing reputation as a narco state â a status tha...Show More
7) The Tijuana Cartel's Bloody Rise and Fall
When the godfather Miguel Ăngel FĂ©lix Gallardo got busted in '89, he divvied up his empire from a prison cell and handed the coveted Tijuana plaza to the Arellano Felix Brothers, who transformed it in...Show More
8) The Cartel Puppetmaster: Juan Matta Ballestero
Juan Ramon Matta Ballesteros began life as a pickpocket in his hometown of Tegucigalpa, before heading out on the perilous border roads of Latin America as an emerald smuggler. Soon he was making frie...Show More
9) The State Line Mob: Redneck Mafia
Along the blood-soaked border between Mississippi and Tennessee, a ruthless crime empire ruled the night where whiskey flowed, dice rolled, and anyone who crossed the wrong person disappeared into the...Show More
10) The Cartel World's Donnie Brasco w/ Ian Frisch
Starting at the tail end of the wild cowboy days of 1980's Miami, undercover FBI agent Martin Suarez didnât just infiltrate a cartel...he nearly rose to the top. As a smuggler, he helped move a billio...Show More