Season 1
Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Dec 2, 2020
Mariana dives into the world of international scamming to understand how it all works and meet the outlaws at the heart of this booming industry. Her investigation takes her from the streets of Montego Bay to the glitzy neighborhoods of Tel Aviv as she pursues some of the biggest phone, lottery and financial scammers in the world and learns why Americans are the perfect targets.
Episode: 1x02 | Airdate: Dec 2, 2020
Fentanyl has turbocharged the deadliest drug crisis in American history. But less understood is how the drug has utterly transformed the black market. Mariana goes in search of the new bosses, new routes, new risks and the American communities paying the price for fentanyl's next wave.
Episode: 1x03 | Airdate: Dec 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. Along the way, she learns that many of these counterfeiting operations are run by criminal families in Lima, who are making a fortune despite the anti-counterfeiting efforts of the U.S. Secret Service and the Peruvian National Police.
Episode: 1x04 | Airdate: Dec 16, 2020
Mariana attempts to understand the vanity, insecurity and greed that's driving the unregulated, billion-dollar black market in body-enhancing drugs.
Episode: 1x05 | Airdate: Dec 23, 2020
In an eye-opening journey through her home state of California, Mariana embeds with pimps, victims, undercover cops and private investigators to understand the ugly business of illicit sex in America. How do pimps recruit? How do they think? Where do they get their power? And just how far will they go to grab their share of this billion-dollar black market?
Episode: 1x06 | Airdate: Dec 30, 2020
Mariana retraces one of the world's most intractable smuggling routes, following cocaine's path from a remote Peruvian valley through Colombia's Caribbean coast, all the way to the streets of Miami. Despite the decades-long U.S. War on Drugs, cocaine production is at an all-time high, and Mariana meets some of the makers, smugglers, drivers and teenage backpackers who risk their lives to deliver America's favorite party drug.
Episode: 1x07 | Airdate: Jan 6, 2021
Mariana tackles what one of her sources calls "the untouchable smuggling story." The black market for tigers and tiger parts is so lucrative, so secretive and so dangerous that few have attempted to uncover its ugly details. Mariana journeys far, and near, to meet the smugglers face-to-face.
Episode: 1x08 | Airdate: Jan 13, 2021 (120 min)
Mariana uncovers a lethal supply chain of American firearms being smuggled into the hands of drug cartels and fueling record levels of gun violence in Mexico. A journey filled with jaw-dropping access to gunrunners, mules, cartel bosses and assassins takes an even more terrifying turn when the son of the world's most notorious drug lord, El Chapo Guzman, is arrested and the cartel that Mariana infiltrates decides to violently revolt.
Season 2
Episode: 2x01 | Airdate: Dec 1, 2021
Mariana van Zeller investigates the dark corners of black market plastic surgery, where sex, greed and social media drive patients toward deadly motel-room operations. In Miami's discount surgery centers, she uncovers a bombshell connection between felons, greedy doctors and patient deaths.
Episode: 2x02 | Airdate: Dec 8, 2021
Mariana journeys from America's heartland to the cafes of Ghana to meet the romance scammers fleecing Americans out of millions.
Episode: 2x03 | Airdate: Dec 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.
Episode: 2x04 | Airdate: Dec 22, 2021
Mariana van Zeller investigates outlaw motorcycle gangs known as 1% clubs, learning about the bonds of brotherhood that fuel these violent groups.
Episode: 2x05 | Airdate: Dec 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.
Episode: 2x06 | Airdate: Jan 5, 2022
Mariana races to expose a global underground movement hellbent on a violent white supremacist future.
Episode: 2x07 | Airdate: Jan 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.
Episode: 2x08 | Airdate: Jan 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.
Episode: 2x09 | Airdate: Jan 26, 2022
Mariana travels to the Amazon to track down the criminal networks behind a slew of killings and the illegal destruction of the rainforest.
Episode: 2x10 | Airdate: Feb 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.
Season 3
Episode: 3x01 | Airdate: Jan 18, 2023
Mariana Van Zeller investigates one of the darkest and most elusive black markets in the world--the illicit trade in human organs.
Episode: 3x02 | Airdate: Jan 25, 2023
LSD is booming because of the growing faith in its healing power. Mariana hunts for the elusive chemists responsible for making the world's supply.
Episode: 3x03 | Airdate: Feb 1, 2023
Mariana is on a mission to expose how ghost guns — untraceable firearms built from kits bought online — are fueling violence across the country.
Episode: 3x04 | Airdate: Feb 8, 2023
Mariana embarks on a journey from Africa to the Middle East to uncover how black-market oil is fueling terrorist groups around the world.
Episode: 3x05 | Airdate: Feb 15, 2023
Mariana investigates how the demand for MDMA here in the U.S. is threatening to turn the Netherlands into a narco state.
Episode: 3x06 | Airdate: Feb 22, 2023
Mariana investigates the global surrogacy market to understand how the dream of starting a family is fueling a babies-for-cash black market.
Episode: 3x07 | Airdate: Mar 1, 2023
Mariana is on a mission to understand how personal and financial data is stolen and sold by a shadowy network of hackers and thieves.
Episode: 3x08 | Airdate: Mar 8, 2023
Violent crime is soaring in Los Angeles to levels not seen in 30 years. Mariana goes inside the Crips and the Bloods to understand why.
Episode: 3x09 | Airdate: Mar 15, 2023
Mariana embeds with a crew of cryptocurrency scammers who show her how they make millions of dollars in mere weeks.
Episode: 3x10 | Airdate: Mar 22, 2023
Mariana investigates underground fight clubs and the push to bring bare-knuckle fighting into the mainstream.
Specials
Episode: S01 Special | Airdate: Jan 13, 2021
Get a behind the scenes look of Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller.
Episode: S02 Special | Airdate: Dec 8, 2021
Episode: S03 Special | Airdate: Mar 22, 2023 (63 min)
Mariana reveals the most intense and unexpected moments from Trafficked.
Episode: S03 Special | Airdate: Mar 29, 2023 (63 min)
An inside look into "Trafficked" and the world's shadow economy.