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He Escaped in a Mattress: The Island Boys' Invisible Kingpin
He Escaped in a Mattress: The Island Boys' Invisible Kingpin
A man folded inside a brand-new mattress walked out of a Colombian prison after more than three million dollars in bribes - and vanished into South America with a false passport. The cocaine pipeline that ran from the Virgin Islands to Augusta, Georgia reshaped neighborhoods, but how did one man build a machine that kept him untouched while everyone around him fell?
In this episode, we tell the story of the Island Boys operation, its route through the American Virgin Islands into Augusta, the people who ran it on the ground, and the…
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