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Season 5 / Episode 4 and airs on Aug 10, 2025 01:00
Armed with National Geographic's trademark inside access, Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller takes viewers on a journey inside the most dangerous black markets on the planet. Each investigation in the eight-part series embeds with Peabody and duPont Award-winning journalist Mariana van Zeller as she explores the complex and often violent inner workings of a smuggling network. While she dives deeper and deeper into these underworlds, Mariana reveals - with characteristic boldness and empathy - that the people operating these trafficking rings are often a lot more like us than we realize.
What drives a person to make a living out of killing? Mariana goes inside the dark world of contract killers.
Mariana heads to Manila to investigate a new blackmail scam, sextortion.
Mariana exposes how black market operators are profiting from the sale of stolen human remains on secret marketplaces in the U.S. and beyond.
The high cost of prescription drugs has pushed millions of Americans to the black market and into hands of criminal syndicates looking to cash in.
Mariana heads to the Congo to investigate the illegal trade in wild apes that have them on the brink of extinction.
Mariana heads to Mexico to investigate the billion-dollar business of people smuggling to the US a system fueled by cartels and corruption.
Mariana tracks the illicit path of hashish from Morocco into Europe a world of shadowy dealers, lightning-fast smuggling boats and endless wealth.
Mariana, an investigative journalist, looks into a fraudulent scheme deceiving senior citizens in the United States. She hopes to uncover how the scam operates and who is behind it.
Mariana investigates a nefarious scam that tricks elderly Americans into becoming unwitting drug mules.
Mariana's investigation into how gold mining is funding terrorism gets interrupted by a military coup that strands the team in Niger.
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