National Geographic goes to Liverpool - but they investigate the darker side. Using the port as the foundation for a criminal empire based on drug dealing, Scouse villains started to import drugs on an unprecedented scale. Exploring run-of-the-mill provincial crooks to some of the wealthiest gangsters in British history. We chart the rise of the drug pioneers. Plus, find out how a supergrass helped bring down two of the country's biggest and richest criminals.
Before the fictional Hannibal Lecter there was a select group of real life monsters that terrorized our neighborhoods. Albert Fish, Andrei Chickatilo, Jeffrey Dahmer, Ted Bundy and John Wayne Gacy. Between them their reigns of terror claimed over 150 lives.
One of the world's most gruesome and notorious serial killers, Ted Bundy, suggested in an interview with a Christian evangelical, only hours before his death in the electric chair, that pornography had been his influence to kill.
In the winter of 2006, prostitutes working the streets around Ipswich Town's football stadium began inexplicably to disappear. At first the story was hardly reported in the local media, swept aside by the town's pre-Christmas festivities – that is until the bodies of five murdered women began to turn up, abandoned in the brooks and woodland of the surrounding countryside. With each gruesome discovery, the streets of Ipswich emptied; the town becoming ringed by police cars, cameras and the media. It soon became clear that one of the largest police operations in recent history was hunting for a serial killer.
It is one of the most dramatic police gun battles ever waged on American soil. On February 28, 1997, two notorious criminals - dubbed the High Incident Bandits - carry out an armed robbery inside a Hollywood bank. They are spotted by undercover officers, and police act quickly to surround the bank. But the bandits are armed with thousands of imported steel-plated bullets, full body armor and five machine guns, including three AK-47s. Go inside the violent stand-off.
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