Not every day does one get the opportunity to meet a man who is personally responsible for murdering over 250 people and torturing thousands more. In this RT special we meet John Jairo Velásquez Vásquez, a.k.a. Popeye, he is a local celebrity in Medellin, Colombia and can be found walking around the streets in broad daylight enjoying the attention he receives.Back in the 80's when the city of
From mobile phones to weapons and narcotics, inside a prison these are all items that can get you into some serious trouble but demand is higher than ever, pushing up the price on the inside and creating entrepreneurial opportunity for those that want to make some money smuggling or dealing in such contraband. "Current" takes us inside a large American prison to get a first hand glimpse at th
An actress turns up dead at the home of Phil Spector and the music legend is charged with murder. Crime writer Aphrodite Jones uncovers videotape that Spector hoped would clear his name, but instead is a damning self-portrait.
When a beautiful young bride was murdered on her honeymoon in South Africa - allegedly on the orders of her British husband - it made headlines around the world. Nearly three years on, the truth about Anni Dewani's killing remains a mystery, while in July a British judge ordered Shrien Dewani - still sectioned under the mental health act in the UK - should be extradited to South Africa to stand tr
Former England footballer Jermaine Jenas sets out on a journey to explore the rise in knife crime that is devastating lives across the United Kingdom and although this knife crime is a problem across the nation Jenas wants to take a closer look at Nottingham in particular as this is where he grew up.Jenas want's to understand how this knife crime has become such an issue in his home city and h
On August 21, 1992, a place known as Ruby Ridge located in Northern Idaho would become infamous as this particular day marked the beginning of an eleven-day siege which took place between six heavily armed U.S. marshals and Randy and Vicki Weaver and their children.Randy had been previously charged with selling two illegal sawed-off shotguns to an undercover agent but failed to make an appe
This series tells the true stories that would be any traveller’s worst nightmare – when a holiday in paradise becomes a journey into hell that ends up in prison abroad.Through graphic dramatic reconstruction, each film tells the story of someone who’s been arrested and thrown into a foreign prison. It could be for smuggling drugs, falling foul of local corrupt policemen or for being duped into
AlphaBay Market was a market that was hosted on the Dark Web accessible only via the onion routing service known as Tor network. On 13th July 2017, AlphaBay was shut down after law enforcement executed Operation Bayonet against it in the United States, Canada, and Thailand. The Dark Web site was said to have been making anywhere from $300 - $500 million a year.AlphaBay was launched in 2014,
The actor investigates the boom in piracy on the world’s oceans, traveling to some of the planet’s biggest trouble spots to discover the problems faced by potential targets and those trying to protect them. He begins in London, where he discovers the economic impact of hijackings on global trade, before joining a Royal Navy anti-piracy ship in the Gulf of Aden off Somalia. Than he explores the imp