The BEST episodes of Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller
Every episode of Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller!
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#1 - LSD
Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/25/2023
Mariana goes in search of the elusive chemists who make the world's LSD.
#2 - Sextortion
Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/24/2024
Mariana heads to Manila to investigate a new blackmail scam, sextortion.
#4 - Body Parts
Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/31/2024
Mariana exposes how black market operators are profiting from the sale of stolen human remains on secret marketplaces in the U.S. and beyond.
#5 - Fish Pirates
Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 2/2/2022
As much as 30% of our seafood has been caught illegally. Mariana searches for the fish pirates who make billions each year while destroying our oceans.
#6 - Cyber Pirates
Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 3/1/2023
Mariana investigates the lucrative black market for private data.
#7 - Black Market Babies
Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 2/23/2023
Mariana explores surrogacy's dark side; a babies-for-cash black market.
#8 - Meth
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 12/29/2021
Mariana van Zeller follows a meth superhighway from a cartel-run lab in Sinaloa across the border and into the lives of American users.
#9 - Stolen Cars
Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 1/12/2022
Mariana follows a smuggling route of cars stolen from the U.S. to shipping containers bound for West Africa, where the demand is skyrocketing.
#10 - Apes
Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 2/14/2024
Mariana heads to the Congo to investigate the illegal trade in wild apes that have them on the brink of extinction.
#11 - Black Market Surgery
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 12/1/2021
Mariana van Zeller investigates underground plastic surgery, from motel-room operations to a deadly revelation about Miami’s discount surgery centers.
#15 - Cocaine Queens
Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 1/19/2022
Mariana investigates a new breed of narco starting to gain power in cocaine trafficking networks of Colombia and Brazil: las jefas, lady bosses.
#16 - Steroids
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 12/16/2020
Mariana attempts to understand the vanity, insecurity and greed that’s driving the unregulated, billion-dollar black market in body-enhancing drugs.
#17 - MDMA
Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 2/15/2023
An alarming message from her son's middle school about MDMA sparks van Zeller into high gear. She traces the supply chain of "the love drug" within the Los Angeles clubs back to its booming epicenter in the Netherlands, where a mob-infested underworld has recently murdered a well-known journalist.
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#18 - White Supremacy
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 1/5/2022
Mariana races to expose a global underground movement hellbent on a violent white supremacist future.
#21 - Cocaine
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 12/30/2020
Mariana retraces one of the world’s most intractable smuggling routes, following cocaine’s path around the world.
#22 - Counterfeiting
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 12/9/2020
Mariana journeys deep inside the Peruvian underworld to meet the gangster craftsmen who make and sell the world’s finest counterfeit U.S. dollars.
#23 - Caught in an African Coup
Season 4 - Episode 10 - Aired 3/20/2024
Mariana's investigation into how gold mining is funding terrorism gets interrupted by a military coup that strands the team in Niger.
#24 - Fight Club
Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 3/23/2023
Mariana investigates underground fight clubs and the push to bring bare knuckle fighting into the mainstream.
#25 - Black Market Marijuana
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 12/15/2021
Mariana sets off on a wild journey through California’s black market for weed, which has mushroomed since marijuana legalization four years ago.