Interpol, a high impact, low profile international organization of law-enforcement, operates in over 180 countries worldwide.
Based in Lyon, France, Interpol's vast criminal databases and highly skilled agents cooperate with governments and law enforcement around the globe, to take on the most baffling crimes and the most ingenious and sometimes dangerous criminals. A license plate number, a stolen passport, or a set of fingerprints from across the world can be the link to solving the most difficult case, whether the crime is murder, kidnapping, art theft, human trafficking or international terrorism. When criminals cross borders, Interpol is there.
Interpol INVESTIGATES takes viewers along in the pursuit of some of the world's most cunning fugitives. Each hour-long episode re-creates an actual Interpol investigation, using vivid dramatizations, eyewitness accounts and interviews with victims and Interpol agents to bring historical perspective and cultural context to these extraordinary cases. Shot in 20 countries on four continents, Interpol INVESTIGATES follows the work of Interpol's international crime fighters as they navigate between different cultures and language to bring these fugitives to justice.
Disc 1
The Serpent
In the 1970s, a dangerous serial killer is stalking and killing Westerners in Southeast Asia. Stealing the identities of his victims, "The Serpent," as he becomes known, eludes law enforcement in Nepal, India and Thailand before Interpol is finally able to stop his rampage.
Body Double
After stealing millions from his clients and colleagues, Albert Walker and his daughter vanish. It takes Interpol, British and Canadian police years to unravel a series of intricate crimes that ultimately leads to murder in a small seaside English village.
Tracks of a Stalker
A murderer spreads terror throughout Europe, as he randomly kills women on the trains in France. British, French and Portuguese police work with Interpol to find the Algerian killer, who uses his keen knowledge of train travel to elude authorities.
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Disc 2
One Way Ticket
A boat carrying over 300 illegal Chinese immigrants runs aground in New york Harbor. Several Chinese die in the icy water, and the others are taken into custody by INS officials and NYPD. The Interpol investigation to find the leaders of the human smuggling operation leads to the gangs of Chinatown and the teeming cities of Asia.
Missing Link
A small automotive repair shop explodes in the early morning hours in Managua, Nicaragua, killing two people and shattering a peaceful neighborhood. under the shop's rubble, police discover a bunker filled with weapons, names of terrorist organizations and files with the names of potential kidnap victims including, Latin America's wealthiest and influential families. Investigators turn to Interpol for assistance.
Rising Sun
When one of the most famous paintings in Paris, a Monet called "Rising Sun" is stolen at gun-point. Interpol tracks the criminals first to Japan, where the thieves are linked to a bank heist, and the theft of almost a million dollars worth of fur coats. The Trail then leads investigators to Singapore, Thailand, Mexico, and finally to a villa on the isle of Corsica, where "Rising Sun: is recovered.
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Disc 3
Deadly Traffic
When one of Mexico's most powerful and corrupt drug dealers, Amado Carrillo Fuentes, aka "Lord of the Skies," flees his native Juarez, Mexican Interpol agents engage in hot pursuit, from the mean streets of Juarez to the mountains of Chile.
Stealing History
A successful ring of art smugglers gets their start in 1991, when an antiquities smuggler stumbles on an astonishing and rare artifact in an ancient tomb outside Cairo. He then smuggles the piece out of Egypt to London, England, where he and a New York art dealer conspire to sell the real antique as part of a fake art collection. tracking the ring requires all the international skill of Interpol.
Fatal Compulsion
After the brutally murdered body of his estranged girlfriend is found in a trunk in his house in 1978, self-styled new Age guru and hippie Ira Einhorn is charged with murder in Philadelphia. But justice is not done, and Einhorn flees the country while on bail. With dogged detective work, Interpol tracks the murderer through Europe, finally catching up with him in a small French village in 1997.
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Disc 4
Terror in the Skies
November 23, 1985, Athens Airport is packed, but despite the crowds, security is incredibly lax. Passengers waiting to board Egypt Air Flight 648 for Cairo don't suspect that among them are members of the terrorist organization Abu Nadal calling themselves Egypt Revolution. The subsequent hijacking of the plane leads to dozen of deaths, making it one of the deadliest such incidents in history.
Lethal Obsession
When the parents of Elizabeth, a promising young college student, are found brutally murdered, suspicion falls on the student and her new-found boyfriend jens. But before they can be brought to justice, the two flee the country, and seemingly vanish. But Interpol is able to track them across Europe with the help of local authorities.
Betrayed
Darnell Garcia, a 10 year veteran of the DEA, and two other agents steal hundreds of kilos of cocaine and heroin from DEA evidence lockers and then launder their profits through local banks, transferring millions of dollars to secret accounts in Switzerland. Indicted for the theft and sale of narcotics, Garcia flees the country, but within a matter of months Interpol is able to capture the DEA agent turned drug lord.
Dangerous Company
Thrill-seekers Craig Pritchert and Nova Guthrie think of themselves as a modern-day Bonnie and Clyde, robbing banks across America. The good looking couple take their show on the road, and elude authorities in several countries before Interpol tracks them down in Cape Town, South Africa.
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