Latest Drugsmuggling Podcast Episodes
Escape from Argentina - 20
Locked Up Abroad - December 15, 2020 10:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★ - 1.5K ratingsLucy Wright has her entire life pulled out from under her when her boyfriend of five years leaves. She turns to cocaine to ease her pain. Addicted, and desperate, she takes a job smuggling cocaine from Argentina to the UK. When things go completely awry, Lucy ends up a fugitive running ...
Son of Saddam - 19
Locked Up Abroad - December 08, 2020 10:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★ - 1.5K ratings23-year old Iraqi soldier Latif Yahia is summoned to meet with Saddam Hussein. He’s a near-exact physical match for his son, Uday, who demands Latif become his body double. Latif is given no choice, and trains to walk, talk, and behave exactly like his new master. Latif knows his only c...
Bangkok Underworld - 18
Locked Up Abroad - December 01, 2020 10:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★ - 1.5K ratingsAustralian teacher Tim Schrader goes to Bangkok to teach English. He loves his job but isn’t making enough to pay for the lifestyle he enjoys. He takes a job smuggling heroin from Bangkok to the U.S, but he’s set up, caught with more than a hundred times the amount that would garner a d...
Bogota Belly Bust - 17
Locked Up Abroad - November 24, 2020 10:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★ - 1.5K ratingsTabitha Richie is juggling her last year of college and being a single mother. She lets loose one night, and tries cocaine. She’s soon addicted and a shadow of her former self. She’s desperate to change, and accepts an offer from friends to stay in Bogota and get clean. She’s soon betra...
Not Without My Baby - 16
Locked Up Abroad - November 17, 2020 10:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★ - 1.5K ratingsSusan Haglof and her husband Medhat are desperate to be parents. The agency doesn’t give them any official paperwork but the joys of parenting take over. When Susan wants to take the child, Marko, on a trip to the U.S. to visit her mother, she and Medhat are convicted of human trafficki...
Dangerous Liaisons - 15
Locked Up Abroad - November 10, 2020 10:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★ - 1.5K ratingsStephen Comiskey takes his dream job as a nurse in Saudi Arabia. He doesn’t realize that, as a gay man, he risks execution if he’s discovered. After eight months, he’s lonely and strikes up a relationship with a British man there. When it ends, he’s dating again. This time he gets invol...
Cocaine Mule Mom - 14
Locked Up Abroad - November 03, 2020 10:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★ - 1.5K ratingsRuthie Lambert was deep in the abyss of a midlife crisis, debt and foreclosure on her home when friends suggest that she can make a quick $10,000 by bringing drugs back from Peru. The appeal of easy money brings her back again and again. After a few successful jobs she decides it’s time...
Backstabbed in Thailand - 13
Locked Up Abroad - October 27, 2020 09:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★ - 1.5K ratingsArmy Veteran Kim Hood soon realizes that her trip to Thailand with her friend, Lisa Taylor, was a coverup for Lisa to smuggle heroin.Sentenced to death in a squalid Thai prison, a betrayed Kim wonders if she will ever see home again. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and ...
Colombia Ambush - 12
Locked Up Abroad - October 20, 2020 09:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★ - 1.5K ratingsMark Wedeven was adopted by an American couple when he was a baby. Upon graduating college he wanted to find his birth family, so he planned a trip to his native Colombia. He and his friends begin their journey through Colombia, ignoring all warnings, which lead to harrowing consequence...
The Orchid Hunters - 11
Locked Up Abroad - October 13, 2020 09:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★ - 1.5K ratingsTwo young British backpackers, Tom Hart Dyke and Paul Windor and searching for orchids and adventure when they’re kidnapped by Colombian Guerrillas as they try to cross the notoriously dangerous Darien Gap. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice a...
Philippine Terror - 9
Locked Up Abroad - September 29, 2020 09:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★ - 1.5K ratingsGreg Williams’ life was turned upside down in 1996. Seeking a new start and greater meaning he agreed to go Manilla as a missionary. Soon after arrival he is kidnapped by terrorists with connections to Al Qaeda, and he begins a terrifying journey home. See Privacy Policy at https://art...
Tokyo Takedown - 8
Locked Up Abroad - September 22, 2020 09:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★ - 1.5K ratingsJackie Nichols grew up in Los Angeles in the mid-1970s. While working at a nightclub in LA, she had a chance to work at a club in Japan. A vacation to nearby Nepal turned into a job smuggling hashish back into Tokyo. More jobs followed. Jackie was caught, and her trip back to freedom tu...
Buried Alive - 7
Locked Up Abroad - September 15, 2020 09:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★ - 1.5K ratingsIn 2004, 20-year Navy veteran Roy Hallums was working as a contractor in Iraq. A routine trip to the office turned into a fight for his life when 20 armed Iraqi insurgents stormed the compound and took him and his colleagues hostage. He was sealed in an underground room. This is how he ...
Kidnapped in Iraq - 6
Locked Up Abroad - September 08, 2020 09:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★ - 1.5K ratingsCanadian war correspondent Scott Taylor covered Iraq for many years, frequently crossing paths with Turkish journalist Zeynep Tugrul. They entered dangerous territory, believing their history and contacts would keep them safe. They were captured, and their courage and bond kept them bot...
Mexico Money Machine - 5
Locked Up Abroad - September 01, 2020 09:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★ - 1.5K ratingsJeremy Khinoo had a happy life: girlfriend, child, and a good job. When his girlfriend left him out of the blue, he didn’t know where to turn. He joined a friend smuggling steroids over the US border from Mexico, but Jeremy pushed his luck one too many times. See Privacy Policy at http...
Vegas Mobster - 4
Locked Up Abroad - August 25, 2020 09:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★ - 1.5K ratingsIn the 1970s, Chicago Outfit enforcer Frank Cullotta led one of the largest organized crime syndicates in the U.S. In 1978, FBI agent Dennis Arnoldy led the investigation that eventually brought Frank down. In this story, Frank shares secrets from his life in the mob and the jewelry hei...
My Dad the Smuggler - 3
Locked Up Abroad - August 18, 2020 09:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★ - 1.5K ratingsScott Campbell joins his estranged father, Lockie, on a trip through China on the Silk Road, hoping to reconnect. He soon discovers that Lockie intended for Scott to be his partner in taking 20 kilos of illicit drugs into the country. An unexpected turn brings their relationship to a ne...
Hasidic King of Coke - 2
Locked Up Abroad - August 11, 2020 09:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★ - 1.5K ratingsSamuel Leibowitz lived a cloistered life in his religious community until he was lured into the dangerous underworld of drug smuggling. Samuel quickly rises through the ranks and become a major drug kingpin in Brazil. A devastating event throws his world for a loop, but it’s still not e...
Somali Pirate Hostage - 1
Locked Up Abroad - August 04, 2020 09:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★ - 1.5K ratingsSouth African couple Debbie Calitz and Bruno Pelizzari decided to follow their dreams and sail the world. After a stop in Tanzania and getting robbed of all their money and supplies, they accept an offer from a wealthy businessman that they hope will get them home. What follows is 20 mo...
New Episodes of Locked Up Abroad
Locked Up Abroad - July 27, 2020 08:00 - 1 minute ★★★★ - 1.5K ratingsSeason Two of Locked Up Abroad will be available on this feed starting August 4th. You can also hear all of Season Three exclusively on Wondery+ now. Listen to Locked Up Abroad and all your Wondery favorites early and ad free by joining Wondery+ in the Wondery App today : https://won...
Busted and Pregnant - 10
Locked Up Abroad - May 06, 2020 04:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★ - 1.5K ratingsZara Whitaker grew up in poverty in South London. When she gets pregnant at 18 she’s desperate for a way to provide for her family. She’s offered a trip to Barbados to smuggle drugs back to the UK. Once there, she finds out she’s pregnant with her second child, but she’s in too deep to ...
Locked Up Abroad: New Episodes!
Locked Up Abroad - August 08, 2019 08:30 - 37 minutes ★★★★ - 1.5K ratingsThe newest season of Locked Up Abroad can be found exclusively on Luminary. Listen at luminary.link/lockedup
15 | Teen Smuggler
Locked Up Abroad - May 29, 2019 19:05 - 37 minutes ★★★★ - 1.5K ratingsEl Paso, 1989: Alex Silva is a bored and disaffected teenager whose life is going nowhere fast. But instead of keeping his head down, Alex is distracted by some wealthy Mexican customers. Chasing the scent of money, he discovers that they are drug smugglers who bring marijuana into the US from Me...
14 | Saudi Whiskey Run
Locked Up Abroad - April 23, 2019 07:05 - 35 minutes ★★★★ - 1.5K ratingsScottish chef Gordon Malloch arrives in Saudi Arabia to start a new life as a catering manager but quickly finds himself a profitable side-line as a bootlegger. His homemade hooch makes him the toast of the ex-pat party scene. But when he is caught red-handed, he is sentenced by the religious pol...
13 | Raving Arizona
Locked Up Abroad - April 23, 2019 07:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★ - 1.5K ratingsWhen Englishman Shaun turns to Ecstasy as a relief from the stresses of his new life as a stockbroker in Phoenix, Arizona, he soon finds himself seduced by the money and glamour of dealing the drug on an industrial scale. It proves to be too little too late when, one morning, there's a knock at t...
This is Locked Up Abroad
Locked Up Abroad - April 23, 2019 04:00 - 1 minute ★★★★ - 1.5K ratingsWhen travel dreams turn to nightmares, from the creators of Dr. Death. This show is joining Luminary. For more, go to LuminaryPodcasts.com
Introducing The City
Locked Up Abroad - November 05, 2018 11:10 - 5 minutes ★★★★ - 1.5K ratingsThe City tells true stories of how power works in urban America. Season 1 begins in Chicago, 1990. After years of disinvestment, highways are rebuilt, old buildings demolished, and new skyscrapers erected. All that rubble has to go somewhere, and its destination isn’t a landfill—it’s a pair of v...
Introducing Imagined Life
Locked Up Abroad - November 05, 2018 08:00 - 4 minutes ★★★★ - 1.5K ratingsWhat is it like to be famous before you’re famous? What is it like to walk in the shoes of another person? Each episode of IMAGINED LIFE takes you on an immersive journey into the life of a world-famous person. It’ll be someone you may think you know, even admire -- or maybe the opposite. You’ll ...
Interview with Billy Hayes
Locked Up Abroad - October 17, 2017 21:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★ - 1.5K ratingsListen to Locked Up Abroad host Jim Clemente's fascinating conversation with Billy Hayes, bringing you a more in depth look into his experience in Turkey and his escape from prison. We also hear about what Billy has been doing since his return and insights into his life then and now. ...
Caribbean Nightmare - 12
Locked Up Abroad - September 12, 2017 21:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★ - 1.5K ratingsJayne Blaydon is working as a stripper in West Yorkshire, England, when she is presented with a proposition to teach lap dancing at a new club in the Caribbean. She and her husband, David, arrive in Guyana, for what starts out as a dream vacation, but soon realize they have be tricked i...
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