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00:10history is full of killer stories people places and events so lethal so downright shocking that
00:20we just can't forget them tonight some criminals are in it for the money
00:28by the 1980s the medellin cartel under pablo escobar is setting off 15 car bombs a day and bringing in
00:35more than 25 billion dollars a year in cocaine others cross the law for the thrill he is the
00:42boogeyman for all of europe he kills with such savagery and suddenness that even his own gang
00:50are terrified of him the most ruthless rack up a big body count along the way
00:57the law isn't making a dent in his rampage which spans 19 states and this goes on for 35 years
01:07these are the criminals so brutal they can only be among history's deadliest
01:20the 1980s sees a whole new class of criminal narco-terrorists the men responsible for a global
01:29drug trade fueled by greed and murder and none of them is deadlier than pablo escobar
01:39on the morning of november 27 1989 avianco flight 203 takes off from bogota colombia skies are clear
01:48conditions are perfect and then just five minutes in the plane explodes
01:56everyone on that plane 107 people dead the future president of colombia was scheduled to be on that
02:03plane and investigators wonder if the explosion of the airplane is somehow tied to a possible
02:08assassination attempt investigators discovered that it was a bomb and it turns out it's at the behest
02:15of the king of cocaine pablo escobar the base of escobar's operations take place in the city of medellin
02:25because that's where he grew up in the 1950s pablo grows up looking for a way to make a dollar
02:30any way
02:31he can he becomes a drug mule but it's just weed it's marijuana
02:37escobar's ambition grows very quickly so he sets his eyes on the cocaine trade as his future
02:45he takes over a rival's drug business in the cleanest and simplest way possible
02:52he murders him
02:55it's escobar's first confirmed kill but there are thousands more to come
03:00he systematically starts to take over these smaller operations until all of a sudden
03:06he now is not only a smuggler he is the smuggler
03:11by the 1980s the medellin cartel under pablo escobar was bringing in more than 25 billion dollars a year
03:17in cocaine and pablo escobar actually makes forbes list of the world's wealthiest men
03:23anyone who gets in his way escobar offers two choices plateau or plomo silver or lead money
03:33or a bullet in the head when escobar's bribe doesn't do the trick he unleashes waves of deadly
03:41violence in 1989 a war erupts between the cartels and the colombian police
03:50at its peak pablo escobar is setting off 15 car bombs a day the biggest of these is outside the
03:57secret police headquarters it kills 63 people and injures over two and a half thousand we haven't
04:06seen about my fistings world war ii at this point the colombian government orders the military
04:13to hunt down escobar but for 16 months don pablo remains out of sight it's not until december 2nd 1993
04:23that authorities were able to track him down and they find him in a residential neighborhood and
04:28as they try to take him out he runs there's the proverbial shootout in the streets he's hit with
04:33multiple gunshots one of which is to the head and that's how the story of the great pablo escobar
04:42ends pablo escobar effectively turned crime into a corporation and he is prepared to grease the
04:52wheels of industry with the blood of his enemies he's responsible for 15 to 20 000 deaths
04:59in his decade and a half as the cocaine king of planet earth
05:07pablo escobar thinks of himself as colombia's robin hood but his greed and brutality bring the country
05:16to its knees he's like his idol a mafia boss who claims to be savior of chicago and unleashes
05:24its bloodiest decade
05:29it's a freezing chicago morning on valentine's day in 1929 four men two in police uniforms and two in
05:36suits enter a parking garage on clark street seven men from what's called the north side gang a large
05:44criminal organization are holed up in this parking garage the policemen they ordered everybody up
05:51against the wall the men had turned their backs but instead of placing handcuffs on them the men pull
05:57out tommy guns and there is a hail of bullets 70 rounds are fired in just seconds leaving all seven
06:05dead the men walk out as calmly as they'd come in leaving behind a scene so gory and lethal that
06:13it is
06:13forever known as the saint valentine's day massacre
06:18thousands of miles away al capone is nestled into a house in miami florida the message he wanted to send
06:24was chicago is mine what i want done will get done
06:31alphonse gabriel capone is born in brooklyn new york in 1899 early on he learns he has a gift
06:39for violence at 14 he drops out of school because he hits a teacher in his later teens he's actually
06:47working as a bouncer at a bar and he gets into an argument with one of the patrons who pulls
06:53out a
06:53knife and they cut capone's face the wound is so deep it leaves a big scar that that ultimately gives
07:01him the nickname of scarface and it happened to gain the attention of johnny torio the most
07:06influential criminal in that area at the time torio now takes capone under his wing and in 1990 the two
07:14of them head out to chicago torio starts a gang called the chicago outfit and their goal is to engage
07:22in bootlegging because in the 1920s we have prohibition torio and capone are making oodles of cash and so torio
07:32decides he's had enough he retires to sicily and he hands the keys to the castle to al capone
07:39at 26 capone now controls one of the largest bootlegging operations in the country with capone at the
07:49helm the chicago outfit makes about 100 million dollars a year which is equivalent to over a billion
07:58dollars in today's currency the name of al capone becomes a household name so when he goes out to
08:06dinners and he goes out to sports events people aren't there to see the players the baseball players
08:11when al capone walks in the stadium it's known he's there he's portraying himself to be a man of the
08:16community the guy who opens up soup kitchens the guy who gives back to the community but underneath
08:22this is a man who is a cold-hearted killer capone continues to have his competition murdered witnesses
08:33silenced there's this one story capone hears that three of his lieutenants are plotting against him so
08:40what does he do he invites them to dinner during the dinner capone breaks out a baseball bat and
08:47proceeds to beat all three of these men to death while everyone else at the table just looks on
08:56no charges or accusations seem to stick to capone however in 1931 authorities finally find a pretty
09:06surprising way to get al capone tax evasion
09:13al capone is found guilty and he is sent to alcatraz a year later he is diagnosed with
09:21neurosyphilis and it leaves him weak and disoriented in 1939 al capone is released from alcatraz he goes to
09:31florida and in 1947 at the age of 48 he dies a broken man everybody believes he was responsible for
09:39nearly 400 murders and he created the model on how to run the mob and that is the true deadliness
09:47and legend of al capone's life
09:53the criminal who murders more than any other serial killer in american history starts out in florida
10:02january 1st 1971 on route 27 just outside of miami a man and a woman are enjoying an intimate
10:09celebration in a car the woman's name is mary brosley and the gentleman's name is samuel little
10:16a 30 year old cemetery worker and what mary doesn't know is that samuel is about to make her his
10:25very
10:25first murder victim and strangle her to death it turns out samuel little has dreamt about choking
10:34women from a very early age he's only five years old when he develops a fetish for choking his
10:41kindergarten teacher has a habit of rubbing her neck and he is fixated on this as a teenager he starts
10:50going down the wrong path shoplifting he's still in cars he's doing burglaries he's starting to get
10:56into juvie then he's in prison but when he's released he figures out as long as he keeps moving
11:04and lives a nomadic life he can get away with just about anything starting in 1977 he goes on a
11:11rampage
11:12that lasts 35 years samuel little is the pale rider of the apocalypse everywhere he goes death follows
11:22him his wanderings take him to 19 states at least he targets women marginalized by society living on
11:30the fringes that he thinks no one will care finally in 2012 little is arrested in louisville kentucky
11:38on a narcotics charge they do a cheek swap and put it into the dna database almost instantly the dna
11:48matches three separate murders two years later samuel little is convicted and sentenced to life without
11:57parole at this point samuel little is 78 years old he's never going to get out of prison so he
12:04starts
12:04talking about all sorts of murders that he committed what year did marianna occur oh 72 got seen her down
12:13at the guard on 17th avenue i met her in a nightclub in new orleans that's the only one that
12:22i ever killed my
12:23child in through his confessions and his drawings detectives are able to help discover the remains
12:31and close 60 cold cases and over time little tells the police that he has killed 93 women
12:42making samuel little the most prolific serial killer in u.s history
12:52criminals like samuel little are the most feared today but not long ago it's pirates like blackbeard
13:00and captain kid who spread the terror and in an ocean of violent male pirates the deadliest of them all
13:08is a woman from china
13:14it's the late 1700s in guangzhou in southern china and in this particular port city there's a floating
13:21brothel with a very famous courtesan named ching xi she's very intelligent well-spoken very charismatic
13:30and this means that she has a lot of experience working with really powerful men from a very young
13:36age in the early 19th century that famous pirate jung yi comes in for her legendary services and falls in
13:47love with her they get married and they become partners co-leaders of yi's pirate fleet the red flag fleet
13:57this pirate alliance terrorizes the waters off southeastern china near vietnam they ramp up the
14:04attacks on english and portuguese merchant ships and they also sink 35 vessels of the chinese navy
14:11as the fearsome reputation of the red flag fleet grows the pirates suffer a major setback
14:21in 1807 their entire pirate fleet is engulfed in this wild sea storm
14:29and zhong yi is washed overboard and drowned
14:38the leader of this entire operation is gone
14:42but ching xi she steps up and takes command of the entire fleet
14:48she builds this confederation into an even bigger and wealthier and deadlier force to be reckoned with
14:56ching xi commands a fleet of 2 000 pirate ships 80 000 men by 1808 xi has gained control of
15:08the
15:08waters off china's southeastern coast then she decides to head inland sailing up the pearl river
15:17she embarks on a bloody campaign they sack and steal murdering 12 000 people in order to fill the holds
15:27of
15:27her ship with stolen treasure and ransom payments the chinese government tries to fight these pirates for
15:33years but without much success and it gets so bad that international trade is suffering so the chinese
15:40government ultimately wants to cut a deal with ching xi in 1810 the government offers amnesty to the
15:48pirate queen and her buccaneers in exchange for their surrender but she drives a hard bargain
15:56she demands that she and every single member of her entire pirate fleet get a full pardon and she also
16:03demands that she's able to keep up to 70 percent of all of the loot that they've managed to steal
16:10shockingly the chinese government agrees to all of the terms
16:16so the most successful and merciless pirate in history has a peaceful retirement until her death in 1844
16:25and she never really suffers any consequences for the tens of thousands of people she killed over the years
16:35imperial rome is dangerous the kind of place where political conflict can end in murder
16:47in ancient rome the most gifted practitioner of the dark arts of poisoning your enemies is a woman by the
16:55name of lacusta and she becomes incredibly valuable to the roman elite
17:03by the year 54 lacusta is arrested and accused of poisoning multiple people
17:09lacusta lacusta is in prison but suddenly her skills are needed not just by anybody but by agrippina the
17:19younger this is the most powerful woman in the roman empire and she wants her husband dead
17:29she's married to the current emperor claudius but she has a son by her previous husband that son is
17:36nero the famous nero the famous nero so she is on the lookout for a way to bump off her
17:42husband and
17:43ensure that her son nero can gain the empire when agrippina hears of lacusta she has her released from
17:51prison and orders her to come up with a plan to kill emperor claudius lacusta says give him his favorite
18:00meal
18:01mushrooms they put the poison in the biggest most delicious mushroom on this plate claudius takes the
18:09poison mushroom and begins to feel the symptoms minutes later the emperor suffers horrible stomach
18:17cramps and runs off to use the restroom they start to get worried that not enough poison is left in
18:23his system with the instruction of lacusta agrippina encourages the husband he needs to vomit his doctor
18:31comes to tickle his throat with a feather to help him vomit this feather has been specially prepared by
18:39the poison master lacusta and within two hours claudius he is a royal corpse as nero ascends the throne
18:48lacusta becomes the unofficial poisoner or the regime and the new emperor has a job for her
18:56now nero's concern is that britannicus claudius's 13 year old son might make a play to become emperor
19:03so he essentially schemes up a plan with lacusta to take the kid out at the royal banquet nero
19:10serves britannicus a scalding hot beverage they want to evade detection by taste testers so it's
19:18this beverage that the taste tester checks that checks out okay it's not poisoned what they do is
19:24they put the poison in cool water knowing that britannicus will call for water to dilute and to cool
19:31down his hot drink so effectively they've gotten britannicus to call for his own death
19:39the poisoner continues killing people quietly but her fortunes change in 68 a.d nero is out of favor
19:49with the senate and he is forced to flee rome once nero is deposed history catches up with lacusta
19:57and nero's successor galba leads her in chains through rome and has her executed her sentence is
20:03condemnation to beast she is torn apart and eaten by lions in the arena
20:14even though people say lacusta was history's first serial killer it's very likely that we
20:20underestimate her body count if lacusta does her job well many of her victims are unknown to history
20:29nearly 2 000 years after lacusta kills for nero an american criminal fills the same role this time for the
20:40mafia
20:44it's 1960 it's jersey city there's two men in a car watching a man in a park
20:51the only thing that's apparent about the man is that he's homeless one of the guys gets out of the
20:57car walks up to the man doesn't say anything pulls out a gun and shoots him in the back of
21:02the head
21:04the shooter is richard klinsky who is a worker in a film lab the other occupant in the car roy
21:12de mayo who
21:13is notorious gambino organized crime figure that wasn't just a cold-blooded murder that was a job
21:19application and guess what he now had a job over the course of a long and deadly career
21:26kuklinski will murder dozens for payment but he actually commits his first murder at the ripe old
21:34age of 13. he's taking a beating from a bully at school a guy named charlie lane and in that
21:40confrontation he decides to fight back he grabs a large wooden dowel and he beats him to the point
21:45where he kills him he picks up the body throws it over a bridge and charlie lane his body is
21:53never found
21:56so as klinsky enters his teenage years he's imposing he's six foot five three hundred pounds
22:03he has hands like bear paws he is just perfect for the job he's about to take on
22:09he's creating a gang advancing into burglary and armed robbery and car theft
22:15but in the 1950s kuklinski gets married has kids and keeps up a regular job in a film lab
22:23but what isn't known is that this film lab it's actually a video piracy racket to distribute
22:31pornography pornography through the film lab is what puts him on the radar of organized crime in
22:36the region because pornography is their racket they track klinsky down and they give him a good old
22:41fashion beat the thing is roy de mayo watches this beat and realizes this guy could take a beating
22:47maybe i'll have a use for somebody like this with de mayo as his mentor kuklinski goes from street thug
22:55to professional hitman for the five major crime families in the new york area in 1981 there's a guy
23:04named louis maskey that the mafia was dead kuklinski sets up a meeting with this guy and kills him
23:13two years later maskey's body is discovered in a park wrapped in plastic and when police come across
23:19the body his body is not decomposing they determine that it's been dead for about two weeks medical
23:25examiners try to establish a more specific time of death and are puzzled when they take a closer look
23:33under the microscope they find is something that's called these ice crystal artifacts the only way that
23:40this would be in your body is if you had been under extremely cold temperatures after killing maskey
23:49kuklinski actually puts him in an industrial strength freezer for two years because he understands that
23:54when the police find it they won't be able to determine the proper time of death which further
23:58makes it difficult to identify who and how this man was killed that is how kuklinski gets the nickname
24:06the iceman the iceman leaves a path of destruction through america's underworld finally in 1986 clues from
24:17a string of unsolved murders point to kuklinski in december of 1986 the new jersey task force successfully
24:25arrests kuklinski in front of his house with his wife and takes him in kuklinski is charged with the
24:32murders of five men on april 22 1988 he's found guilty and given two consecutive life sentences
24:43once he goes to prison he confesses to upwards of 100 murders
24:53it's hard to imagine when you look at those photographs of him as a boy that he is going
24:57to grow up to be one of the deadliest hitmen of all time in the 1930s the great depression ushers
25:09in
25:09a new breed of criminal they're broke they're desperate and they're deadly they are bank robbers
25:16and there's one of them who uses his trigger finger to get what he wants and he'll take down anyone
25:23in his way
25:28lester joseph gillis is born in chicago in 1908 as a preteen he joins a gang
25:35committing petty theft by the time gillis is 13 years old he's arrested and put into a juvenile facility
25:43for stealing a car it's during this time that he's given the nickname babyface
25:49he's about five foot four and he's got a very cherub-like face in 1932 in california babyface
25:58meets john chase a bootlegger who becomes his partner in crime babyface starts to put together
26:05a super gang basically his most promising associates and they start going on this bank robbing spree
26:12across the midwest places like indiana minnesota michigan it's during this rampage that nelson's
26:19new partners start to get a sense of his hair trigger temper in april of 1934 babyface nelson and
26:28some others are at a lodge called little bohemia in wisconsin during a card game the lodge owner
26:35notices that all the guests are carrying guns and he tips off the police when fbi agents show up they
26:42see a car driving away and they shoot they kill the driver and badly injure two of the passengers
26:50all three men in that car innocent civilians when the gangsters hear the fbi open fire out the front
26:57door they exit out the back but not babyface nelson instead nelson moves towards the gunfire
27:06after a brutal gun battle nelson escapes into the woods and he holds up in a cabin that's about
27:11a mile away as the fbi start to close in on him he just kicks open the front door and
27:17starts opening
27:18fire on all of them he kills one fbi special agent he seriously injures others and then he steals their
27:25fbi car and drives away the fbi raid is a disaster under public pressure fbi director j edgar hoover declares
27:37babyface nelson public enemy number one and gives shoot to kill orders there's even a 5 000 reward on
27:46his head but for months nelson evades captured finally on november 27 1934 two fbi agents spot babyface nelson
28:00nelson driving in a stolen car in barrington nelson is with his wife helen and friend chase when the fbi
28:09finds him there's a wild five minute gunfight in public it becomes known as the battle of barrington nelson
28:18nelson is supposedly shot 17 times and still like the terminator nelson is still able to fire back at
28:29the agents and continue walking toward them he shoots one special agent in the head and leaves another
28:36mortally wounded once the firefight is over chase grabs nelson and drives off
28:44later that evening the fbi discovered nelson's body wrapped in a blanket near a cemetery in skogey
28:50illinois the 1930s is full of criminals and gangsters who make headlines but none are nearly as deadly
28:57as babyface nelson he is the one man who has killed more federal officers than anyone else in the history
29:04of the united states nelson's death ends a crime spree that leaves a trail of blood across america 400
29:16years earlier another cold-blooded killer terrorizes europe his crimes are so shocking that some believe
29:24he's in league with the devil in 1540 we meet perhaps the most horrific criminal of the 16th century
29:37peter nears he's born to a peasant family and he actually joins a gang of highway robbers when he's 20.
29:45this particular gang specialty is robbing travelers in the alsace region between france and germany
29:51nears hills with such savagery and suddenness that even his own gang are terrified of him
29:59he is the boogeyman for all of europe
30:06there are claims that he's able to commit these crimes and escape because he uses black magic others
30:12swear that he's a cannibal in 1577 nears executes one of the deadliest robberies of his career his gang
30:24hides out in a dark forest near neumarkt and he ambushes an entire caravan of merchants
30:33they offered no resistance and he slaughters them all just the same
30:39pamplets and posters are describing nears's physical appearance and they're posted all over
30:45western europe nears is robbing and killing spree continues for four more years finally in 1581
30:55his luck runs out he goes to an inn and there other guests notice his similarity to the pamphlets
31:03describing his appearance upon his capture peter nears is interrogated and tortured
31:08he admits to the killing of 544 people including 24 pregnant women he's sentenced to death
31:18and they do it in gruesome style nears his punishment is a three-day event on day one
31:27they cut strips of flesh from his body and then they pour boiling hot oil into those open rooms
31:33on day two they cover his feet in grease and then they plunge his feet into hot coals literally
31:40searing and burning the souls off of his feet on the third day his executioners strap him
31:47to a device called the braking wheel by tying up his hands and feet he's completely vulnerable
31:56and his punishers batter him with these heavy wooden clubs
32:03and they break almost every bone in every limb to finish him off the authorities quarter him
32:09and they cut him into four parts they display the dismembered chunks of peter nears
32:16on four different major roads so that everybody can see that justice has been done and the reign of horror
32:24is over
32:30the windy city is no stranger to murder but one 19th century killer is so vicious they'll call him
32:38the beast he's born in 1861 in new hampshire and his real name is herman mudgett and even as a
32:51kid
32:51he exhibits an affinity for death he's obsessed with skeletons he's dissecting small animals
32:57as he gets older he actually goes to the university of michigan to study medicine
33:02while he's in medical school he comes up with a somewhat brilliant scheme he takes the cadavers
33:08from the medical school then he takes out insurance policies for non-existent people
33:12and when the bodies are discovered he's the bereaved beneficiary and now he's collecting all those
33:17proceeds
33:21he makes his way west to the city of chicago and he decides to change his name to h.h
33:28holmes
33:29it doesn't take long before he comes up with his new scam he purchases a lot of land and now
33:35he
33:36starts to build this building that will be known as the castle
33:41holmes booby traps the castle with the assistance of a man named benjamin pite cell who's a skilled
33:47carpenter that also has a bit of a criminal record from the outside the structure looks like any
33:53middle-class property on the south side of chicago but its hidden passageways will serve a dark purpose
34:00he starts inviting creditors and business associates to the castle and he locks them in a small room and he
34:07forces them to sign these life insurance policies that say that if they die the insurance money will go
34:12to him
34:13after getting the signature on the life insurance docs he takes shocking next steps
34:20according to some there are these holes in each one of the rooms that he pipes in carbon monoxide
34:27that essentially serves as an airtight vault to suffocate the victim within the hallways of the castle there are
34:34trap doors that will just suddenly open underneath someone who's standing on top of them and they are
34:38sent directly down to the basement
34:40inside in that basement there are tables set up for dissections
34:47there's even a kiln down there which is really almost a makeshift crematorium
34:55in 1893 a major attraction comes to chicago the world's fair the exhibition showcases achievements
35:04from 46 countries it brings 27 million people to the city holmes's castle is four miles south from
35:13jackson park where the world's fair is taking place and people are looking for a place to stay from may
35:19to
35:19october of that year a number of people last seen entering holmes murder castle go missing
35:27some of the people that go missing include holmes's secretary you have an actress you have a wealthy
35:34tourist and other people as well in july of 1894 the police get suspicious about the disappearances
35:42in the neighborhood holmes and his accomplice peitzel promptly flee chicago
35:49they go to philadelphia and that's where holmes comes up with his next scheme this one's going to
35:55be hey partner we are going to now fake your death to collect insurance money peitzel agrees but what
36:02he doesn't know is the back end of holmes's plan holmes is actually going to kill peitzel he suffocates
36:10him with chloroform and then he burns the body to make it look like peitzel died in a fire the
36:15insurance
36:16company pays holmes the money but when the use of chloroform is discovered in a post-mortem autopsy
36:22that's when the police are alerted and on november 17 1894 holmes is tracked down to boston massachusetts
36:29where he is charged with murder the trial is a national sensation the beast of chicago was convicted
36:37of murdering not only peitzel but also his three children were in holmes care h.h holmes is sentenced
36:47to death after his sentencing he confesses to upwards of 23 homicides but some historians that
36:53have researched holmes they believe that he may actually be responsible for more than 100 murders
37:00on may 7 1896 h.h holmes is hanged in a philadelphia prison holmes's crimes are so sensational that it
37:10all
37:10but guarantees that his legacy as the beast of chicago will go on long after his death
37:23treason is a capital crime in america that doesn't stop one cia worker from turning traitor during the
37:31cold war aldrich ames is born in 1941 into a healthy middle class family in fact his father is actually
37:39a
37:39cia officer and aldrich starts working for the cia in 1962 ames learns to speak russian and slowly but
37:47surely climbs the cia ladder over the next two decades in the 1980s he's a case officer specializing in
37:54the recruitment of soviet agents ames's job is to find individuals who are willing to sell state
38:01secrets and in april 1985 he decides to sell classified documents himself
38:10he sets up a meeting with an official from the soviet embassy in washington d.c and offers him some
38:17minor state secrets in exchange for the princely sum of fifty thousand dollars it marks the beginning
38:24of ames career as a soviet mole less than a month after ames first approaches the kgb he starts telling
38:31them about soviet informants who are working for the u.s government for the exposed spies it opens a world
38:38of pain in july 1986 kgb agents burst into an office in moscow and put a very surprised russian general
38:47in a
38:47chokehold and there's video footage of this it's major general dmitry polyakov a high-ranking officer
38:55in gru the soviet's military intelligence agency polyakov is also a spy for the cia two years later
39:05polyakov is sentenced to death by this time the cia knows that there has to be a mole but they
39:13don't
39:13actually suspect aims he's actually promoted to a new position as the head of cia's soviet
39:19counterintelligence division he becomes the person in charge of finding the mole when he himself is
39:25the mole he compromises at least 100 cia operations and betrays many russian agents who are working for
39:33the u.s at least 10 of those men are arrested and then executed in the early 1990s
39:42ames flashy lifestyle begins to attract the attention of his colleagues he buys a house for
39:50500 000 in cash and he's driving a new jaguar to work co-workers start to notice his new designer
39:57suits and the dental implants that he got and that's when they start to get suspicious
40:02in 1993 the fbi decides they need to spy on the spy and set up a surveillance operation that continues
40:13for 10 months
40:17in february of 1994 ames and his wife are leaving their home in arlington virginia and as soon as they
40:22step across the threshold fbi swoops in and arrests him he's tried for treason and to escape the death
40:30penalty he pleads guilty and the deadliest double agent in american history is currently still
40:36carrying out a life sentence the death count we know of is really just a small fraction of what
40:43likely existed because the whole soviet union existed behind an iron curtain at the time what we do know
40:49is what ames himself received from the russians a total of 4.6 million dollars which makes him both
40:56the deadliest double agent in american history and the highest paid double agent in american history
41:05a lot of criminals resort to violence to get what they want but it's a special breed who kills without
41:14hesitation from a remorseless hitman to a twisted con man to pirates thieves and gangsters these are the
41:22cold-blooded killers ranked among history's deadliest
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