1. Prologue

A mysterious set of audio tapes arrives anonymously at the offices of Detective, a multi-media production company in Mexico City. On those tapes are secretly recorded phone conversations of Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar. The head of the Medellín cartel used the telephone as a weapon of war, but it would also be the key to his ultimate demise. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices