Mexico

Netflix docuseries in which actress Kate del Castillo reveals her clandestine 2015 encounter with fugitive drug lord El Chapo and the 17-month Mexican federal investigation that followed.

Netflix docuseries about four men sentenced to 50 years for a 2015 kidnapping in Tabasco, Mexico, after a minor traffic collision — and the fight that freed them.

Netflix documentary series about the Cassez-Vallarta kidnapping case in Mexico: a French woman convicted, a staged arrest, and a justice scandal that fractured Mexico-France relations.

Netflix documentary series about the Florence Cassez–Israel Vallarta kidnapping affair in Mexico, a judicially and diplomatically explosive case first exposed in 2005.

Netflix documentary series about Zona Divas, a Mexican web escort platform that masked a human-trafficking ring linked to the femicides of five migrant women between 2017 and 2018.

The El Chapo case is a landmark U.S. federal prosecution of Joaquín Guzmán Loera, leader of the Sinaloa Cartel, convicted in 2019 of drug trafficking, racketeering, and murder conspiracy spanning three decades.

The Vallarta–Cassez case is a Mexican kidnapping prosecution made infamous by a staged televised arrest, a diplomatic crisis between Mexico and France, and nearly two decades of contested justice.

The Zona Divas femicides are a cluster of five murders of women advertised on the Mexican escort website ZonaDivas.com, carried out between 2017 and 2018 in Mexico City, Nuevo León, and the State of Mexico.

The Florence Cassez affair is a Mexican kidnapping case in which French national Florence Cassez and her partner Israel Vallarta were accused of running a kidnapping ring — but their arrest was staged for live television, tainting the prosecution.

The Colosio assassination is a Mexican political homicide case from 1994, in which presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio was shot dead at a campaign rally in Tijuana by Mario Aburto Martínez.

LeBaron, Muerte en la Tierra Prometida is a ViX documentary series about the brutal 2019 massacre of three women and six children from the LeBaron, Langford, and Miller families in Sonora, Mexico.

Joaquín 'El Chapo' Guzmán, leader of Mexico's Sinaloa Cartel, orchestrated two dramatic prison escapes before his 2016 recapture and extradition to the United States. In 2019, a federal court in Brooklyn convicted him on all charges and sentenced him to life in prison plus 30 years.

Four Americans were kidnapped in Matamoros, Mexico on March 3, 2023, after being mistaken for Haitian drug smugglers by members of the Gulf Cartel. Two of the victims were killed, while two survived. The Gulf Cartel itself moved to apprehend five of its own suspected members.

On October 4, 1997, vault supervisor David Ghantt stole $17.3 million from a Loomis Fargo & Co. vault in Charlotte, North Carolina. What followed was a textbook criminal investigation that exposed the conspirators' spectacular inability to hide their newfound wealth.

The Arellano-Félix family built one of Mexico's most violent drug trafficking organizations, the Tijuana Cartel, responsible for thousands of deaths including the 1992 Christine nightclub massacre in Guadalajara that claimed the lives of three journalists.