. >> it was like harry houdini. every single time we got close, the chopper would escape. >> it was beyond imagination. >> to catch the bad guy, you have to become the bad guy. >> you are inside this real life thriller. >> this is it. he is there. >> he is there. >> it was like living in a movie. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> hello, and welcome to dateline. he was the infamous kingpin who inspired fear amongst criminals and law enforcement, on both sides of the border. his name was el chapo. for over a decade, he evaded authorities by disappearing into a secret network of tunnels built under his many safehouses. but one man was determined to capture the fugitive and would lead his team to great lengths, even risk his own life to get the job done. here is lester holt with inside the hunt for el chapo. >> he was hiding. somewhere in these forbidden mountains. or, in this sprawling city. or, in this sun-splashed beach resort. somewhere. somewhere, in mexico. he was the most wanted drug lord in the world, implicated in hundreds of murders,

houdini, misled the bank employees, saying that she had lost the key to the safe deposit box, paid at box for a large sum of money , left the bank, and so it could have ended up, well, of course not, after 3 i sold this apartment to some girl for a month, but the scammer’s vanity let her down and she got burned by her own... video blog, so opraksina is bragging about her stock exchange accounts. investigator anna dugina compared the six-figure sums with those indicated in the victims' statements and immediately demanded an arrest. at during her arrest, personal belongings were found in her possession, including a mobile phone, upon inspection of which, they discovered all sorts of, yeah, financial applications, so we established where she disposed of the stolen amount of money, part of it. myself, earlier you could buy something for your children with this money, now i can’t do anything, that is, you can’t buy housing now, but as prices rose, there is another problem, the stolen apartments already have new buyers and return them to their rightful owners only the courts can, how long

he's sort of houdini, every effort to hole him accountable he gets out of it.it. it makes a mockery. >> i would ask marion harry about this. his whole motive is to delay it. use the process to make sure that it's delayed so justice is denied. >> correct. >> and so i think to outside observers who are not lawyers it does look like he's using that. >> successfully. >> successfully and seems like it's a problem with the legal system that it can be manipulated like that particularly with frivolous claims. i'd love to hear if there's some kind of legal response to that to just kind of dismiss it outright. >> mary. >> yes, so i think this does expose what normally i think the procedures and the rules are designed to make sure that people charged with crimes get due process, right? they have ample opportunity to prepare for trial. they have ample access to the evidence that will be used against them. time to amass their own evidence, ample time to file motions, legal motions, in the case of immunity which is very similar to sort of double jeopardy, the idea is you sho