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a half hour with a little more but for now i'm christine for. the longest big game hunting history. she was trying to stall and they just. put sprung the traps they laid for him. on the radio we have the search walks around the area we're always from the always missing. one shot trying to. cut the global drug industry's godfather became the most wanted trophy of the world's bounty hunters. called the escobar grace hunt and our team. will. bring you the latest in science and technology from around russia.
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we've got the future of coverage. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so for life you think you understand it and then he glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm sorry welcome to the big picture. the mission free accreditation free comes for charges free the maintenance free. three stooges free. download free blog can plug in video for your media projects for free media gone to hard teach dot com.
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a crew kicks. and i heard tell for three days waiting for some response or acknowledgement to the requests to be taught. and distrust me ask a client. but on the fourth day there's a phone call album marina finally agrees to get together at her house. had been asked. or as she puts it was it they shared many secrets and to this day she still has the greatest admiration. knows that i have kept all the souvenirs. one time i picked them up from his various hiding places. escobar also had
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a brother. who was two years old a. video of him from this time is rare but roberto escobar was a key member of the carts now he could also play an important role in his brother's flight from justice especially as he was accounting and his name was roberto escobar claims he would be among the fifteen people who helped organize the finances of the cocaine empire. before taking a leave album marina had claimed her brother can be reached through a contact in the united states. hello would like to speak with. oh if there is a b. or don't roberto to talk about publicly we need to speak with i mean you'd also need to pay some money i don't know how much thought. this is to.
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eventually a deal is reached but the person may actually want to interview the woman agrees to provide his farm number. i low ceilinged all right so that i feel. he's going to. french journalist how do you. find yourself and we meet at your office or some with his community. yeah no problem but can you tell me where we can actually meet them. over the last comma service station i'll have someone meet you in that thank you very much dan rather. the meeting is due to take place in a residential district in central medina the area conditional is no cameras. we nonetheless decide to film the meeting anyway. but. don't roberto has no wish to dwell on the days when he was part of
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a cartel and delving cocaine although he has agreed to an exclusive deal with hollywood producers to sell his life story. the story of pablo's time on the run is something i'm familiar with. in fact i probably know more about it than most. beginning in one thousand nine hundred three i spent most of my time with pablo we were the best of friends two brothers that were inseparable and we did everything together including during the time when he was in hiding with. the remaining fifteen minutes of the interview proved to be less fruitful does it really to tell us though that while pablo was on the run he was always able to stay in touch. from his prison cell roberto use a phone that he had missed t.v. set to communicate with his brother. who. had made a phone in my t.v.
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set i get up and turned it into a tougher. visitors would only see the t.v. . my brother any time. i change my voice and ask. oh brother how you doing or what do you want to do everything all right then. june one thousand nine hundred three one year since i had escaped from the capital a special unit has no idea where he is and he moves around the city out of a very nice. the government decides to tighten the screws. so you see the shia triple the reward and escobar dead or alive is now worth five million dollars . about. the authorities refine their electronic surveillance escobar is one of the first to
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own a cell phone but he knows he has to keep on the move and keep his conversation short to prevent the police from pinpointing his position. because. one day an american technician on the airplane tells us he's got a precise position. he's located the hiding place. they are there is now of course computer. it's in mountainous difficult terrain. we organized a helicopter operation in the utmost secrecy cases and. just a short while later we hear someone willing him on the radio saying for an escort they know where you also go if they're on their way acorn is also by the time we arrived here. it's obvious there's a mole in the unit a traitor who keeps the head of
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a cartel informed the instance the police are about to sweep a colonel quickly ferreting out here to trigger the police you can judge an. informer was a young police exhilarating it was known as a skilled car. skullcap little figures of police mafia you haven't caught that he said he'd hang around with us all the time at the police station and the radio but . the informant was in escobar is paying using the money to rent an apartment in this building just behind the barracks for the cia and. yes you're saying i'll see . you soon as this policeman knew an operation was being organized he used to run home and using a radio call and. left her notes talk code and say things like tell some of the doctor as they used to. live there on their way making straight
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for you so you know basically get out was so when we were heading up towards the target innocent but sometimes the people's getting passed going the other way. that the traitor is eliminated the manhunt can resume unimpeded. it's a little you know i joke now target is a guy called el chapo according to our information he's hiding in this area. or was the terrorists' hands on terrorists who placed on the. front of us and i'm going to i'm going to go but i'm going to be honest this is our photo album with iris operations and suspects. this is the guy we want to catch tonight. as
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a complete change of tactics the idea is to isolate escobar by rounding up his key man one by one by your cast down or alias and chapal is tonight's target. the operation against a chopper is a success and many others follow the senior members of the cartel are eliminated one laughter the other public escobar is severely weakened so towards the end escobar was running without strong. fear begins to creep in and the predator becomes the prey. and a new enemy and so emerge the so-called group of the persecuted bulls american as the pig. the bankers were criminals who were once being a limited cartel collector for one reason or another and they began to challenge
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and then fight escobar. their bosses or to form accomplices of escobar but had enough of his paranoia and cruelty. like the police the papers knew all the secrets of the habits of the leader of the cartel. the bloodletting soon starts as a pick is gone down eighty one that's close to the godfather. so this change the dynamics of this. war now started worrying about his own family. has used the same tactics used by escobar by targeting the family's. case in point the apartment owned by his mother is glover not at the time escobar as wife and children had been inside nobody is hurt but the attack is on.
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one day they set off a bomb and in the ruined a painting by dali which was estimated to be worth five million dollars as good as wife was devastated. she says they destroyed the bali what are we going to do about it. gradually escobar begins to fear for the lives of his loved ones it will be the reason i was down for. as long as a son and daughter in colombia he cannot relax. he decides to some of them to germany in europe. in the trenches on the november maria victoria from pablo a little manuel a boy a flight from frankfurt and a police escort and filmed by the t.v. crew members. escobar breathes a sigh of relief but although he doesn't know it yet a countdown to his iron man has already begun sure pulls up his wife and kid with
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if leave for a safe country. but there's no country that wants the. plane goes backwards and forwards and eventually returns a colombian no one wanted anything more to do with pablo escobar. on the diplomatic pressure the german government saying the escobar family back home on the twenty nine fiasco bossa back in colombia on the police protection they have no idea they have walked straight into the trap set by u.s. and colombian authorities. tell us a little they are asserting that once they'd been expelled from germany and were back in colombia they'd begin pressuring escobar in a big way. when they land the escobar family is whisked away to a police safe house in bogota. they have become prisoners. at
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the same time the peppers step up the pressure and attack the hotel with grenades over again no one is injured. in his leg escobar hysterical with worry forgets even the most basic security. we're talking every day at search for progress. on that same frequency that's how we started intercept them as communications with. a special investigation unit as it's the turning point of the battle every man has mobilized and every means deployed. in front for vocal reconnaissance vehicles a cruise the streets a mediterranean an effort to locate the godfather as soon as he opens his mouth. the end will be quickly as we were listening in twenty four hours a day by the time in the search sun our units were on full alert ready to intervene whenever a call was intercepted. on the first of december police technicians identify
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five phone calls made by ask about from different locations in the city center plainly and he was always on the move and the calling from a car that was constantly traveling. with the police finally figure out what to ask about his tricks to avoid being tracked down the fugitive had for months been using a simple but effective ruse that of using one of the city's numerous traps but would drive around nonstop while he made brief cool's from his cell phone. after four days spent listening in we were very tired we thought we'd never be able to track him down. most of them then suddenly on day five we intercept his latest phone call and an amazing thing happens it's a signal from a fixed line so we know he's phoning from a house. the
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first police on site confirm the information and brief their superior officer at once. that was easy but he thinks so he tells me that's it i am at the house and right in front of it i think i can see him inside it. is near the window with a tough islands right. it's a confirmed sighting computer advances led by major. close up of us has entered our house which we were cautious when we got to the house the first thing we saw was the taxi which he used to take in that he had a company.
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here school talent get going to help public talking on the phone and he was up on the second floor. so we was hardest i had my rifle i was in front of you see we were moving slowly. absolute silence this was your. leader i see him. to stop us and he was right in front of me bill you're not there but i didn't have a clear shot not if i spat thank you so i quit for that and then he turns around and sees me and he says what's happening and he drops the phone pulls out his revolver and opens fire that. i run upstairs clutching my pistol and i shoot him and him in the shoulder of the assistant the bay with the door and respond. to any policeman behind me takes his rifle and what opens fire is a wonderful seem
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a spot of you know play with some here right in the temple a bullet goes in here and exits the. cylinders and he suddenly throws himself through the window. i jumped out too which was difficult back then the windows were much higher. i mean i would take the gun away from him. and then i take the radio call my bosses and shout. long live columbia i want the public school ablow is dead. within thirty minutes or one thousand member of the special units have a right to the scene. the whole city appears to congregate at the house and at the news of pablo escobar staff some up lord others are in tears.
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his face hit the american agent stephen murphy makes his way through the crowds of soldiers he wasn't about to let the culmination of sixteen months work go by on a recognized everybody is very happy everybody's very exhausted. you just can't imagine the pressure that we felt had been lifted off our shoulders. much less how to climb a national police must be from. one thirty pm on the second of december one thousand nine hundred three marks the end of the largest manhunt in history. was the escobar is buried the next morning just outside reading in ten thousand people show up for the funeral for many as scott had been idle.
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come. off the one corner of the female members of the family almost crushed as the crowd tries to touch the coffin one last time. sixteen years off of the death of the most wanted man on the planet one mystery remains unresolved what happens in the middle godfathers fost for sure where did he hide the five billion dollars that legend has it he was worth. taking a year c.b.s. done before i think is finally has most of the money because
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a lot of money was ever found the whole idea that if he really had all those millions the idea and even if he probably didn't know how much exactly even if it was just worth coffee duffels he and his wife and children would have to be multi-millionaires today and tina would be. we wanted to check general masses comments. one is our ace but havel of argentina. after a stethoscope was widow area victoria and her two children subtle here and some comfort they changed identities and blended into the background maria victoria changed her name to maria is about one partner was better known today as sebastian marroquin. it took us more than a week to try to come down here ask about family now dabbles in real estate and maria victoria has set up an interior decorating company along with a song in the heart of palermo
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a trendy part of the city. where outside and decided to make some phone calls. to the studio good morning. because of us american place he's not in you know when he might be back is he in town i think is on a trip i don't know where exactly is going abroad. but ok well thanks very much. forced to wait it seems a good time to find out more about the activities of the escobar family in argentina we spoke to a journalist who has been reporting on the family since they first arrived on. the seven hundred placing. on the first day here they started hanging out with the locals in particular an account of the beginning maria victoria and he were just friends but then they became lovers monies they both an apartment and it became
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a bad love nest. the apartment becomes the center of maria victoria and her love as money laundering operation. in the media the accountant begins to travel back and forth to colombia carrying trunks followed by this. you know increasingly your luggage has a fault possibly contain as much as four hundred thousand dollars between ninety five and ninety nine and with barely over four years it's been proved they smuggled in at least two million dollars so there are some estimates that it could be more than ten million. but maria victoria's love as soon betrayed the accountant is really only interested in the money you become greedy and effectively blackmails mrs escobar for no less than five years. in one thousand nine hundred ninety as a dramatic development as the entire escobar family is arrested maria victoria a song from pablo as well as the blackmailer. they're released almost immediately
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the judges were never able to prove their wealth came from the drugs trade. said stan lee accountant has mysteriously disappeared and mary of victoria has never been seen in public. the next move is to head towards escobar as office building. but days tick by without years. by day four we are in our car acting on a tip from from our boat has just arrived back and what desirous i would like to meet up. there's no mistaking who is father was they look so similar in profile because father son is wipe the past from his slight. these days he's
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a successful designer in argentina. we had two hour meeting with the son of the godfather equipped with a hidden camera. the man who's trying to rebuild his life is notoriously shy of the media so our meeting is significant. i call you sebastian owen pablo. said. to me as ancient history that was my life before. now your father built up a considerable fortune what happened to his money where you able to use any of it. the answer is simple. the war cost a huge deal of money. my father was immensely wealthy but he stopped dealing in
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drugs and invested all of his money into the war. the weapons and the manpower cost enormous amounts of. the on the cost of the weapons and explosives a considerable amount of money was used to corrupt people. so the whole country off. the whole country all of it. i remember very well being in my father's office once i saw an endless stream of important people for example he was inside meeting with an official and outside the policeman scolding him or keeping out after their boss had finished they went in to be paid and that's the way it always was one day policeman another day politicians and i even saw a former president of the republic he would pay off everybody that would say here's a check thanks very much. argentine justice eventually threw up the case but as the only son of pablo escobar there are many who have doubts of
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where his money came from. you know we've been accused of laundering maybe what was a figure about a million dollars over a period of five years. what i can say is if it's true then we must be the west money don't reason history since if you try and load the money that comes from a cocaine trade. one million dollars is nothing just pocket money for a cup of coffee. so what did happen to ask about these billions probably a number of accounts or buried underground somewhere. or are they just a legend. nobody knows about maybe from this one maria victoria my dream chapattis widow. she refused to talk with us i merely images we have of these few seconds in the
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streets and what has areas. she has the key to some of the secrets. but he died of not maybe in a rooftop in one thousand nine hundred three a pro escobar the greatest drug traffic of all time took some of his secrets to his grave.
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