Name: Assassins
Genre: Comedy
Duration: 25 min

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Mariana tracks the illicit path of hashish from Morocco into Europe; a world of shadowy dealers, fast smuggling boats and endless wealth.

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Mariana heads to Mexico to investigate the billion-dollar business of people-smuggling to the U.S., a system fueled by cartels and corruption.

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Mariana heads to the Congo to investigate the illegal trading of wild apes that has apes on the brink of extinction.

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Health care costs have pushed millions of Americans to the black market.

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The trafficking of human remains yields billions of dollars globally and remains clandestine; Mariana's investigation reveals the vulnerability of anyone to human remains trafficking.

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Mariana delves into a new scheme called sextortion, where compromising photos are used to extort victims; while searching for the scammer who targeted a young American, she uncovers a scam culture even more terrifying than she had imagined.

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Mariana goes inside the world of contract killers.

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Award-winning journalist Mariana van Zeller investigates new emerging underworlds, including the trade in body parts, hired assassins, sextortion and the smuggling of people across the U.S.-Mexico border, to meet the players and learn the business.

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