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00:00They know that this drug is taking their life from them slowly, but they are so addicted
00:10that their entire existence is centered around getting the drug that they need.
00:19It was causing the most deaths that I'd ever seen.
00:22Fifty times more powerful than heroin.
00:26It was the first time I had ever heard the name fentanyl.
00:30You'd probably find all kinds of people that think I'm an absolutely worthless human being.
00:35I don't care.
00:36Oh, you think I'm a sociopath.
00:39Okay, I'll be your sociopath.
00:43I think the reason he got into making drugs was because he was asked to.
00:49He was definitely the smartest criminal I ever met in 35 years of law enforcement.
00:56We're going to start blanketing the East Coast with fentanyl.
00:59And there's a lot of money involved, and money makes people do desperate things.
01:03I asked him one day how he made his money, and he said, making drugs.
01:09Loose lips sink ships, as the old saying goes.
01:12Got out of the car with his hands up, and his first comment was,
01:16I can't believe it took you guys this long.
01:20It only ends one of two ways.
01:23You're either dead or you're in jail.
01:25This guy's a death merchant.
01:27Death and destruction follow him everywhere he goes.
01:31I said, I think we're going to get busted.
01:34A high school dropout, a certified genius,
01:37and the most prolific mass killer America has ever known.
01:42This thing was fucked.
01:45Before it turned wicked.
01:49Before it turned wicked.