The Story of El Patron
True Crime
5 Episodes
This is the story of how one man became, for a decade, more powerful than the state that hunted him — and how that same power finally made him impossible to protect. It runs from a childhood in Rionegro to a terracotta rooftop in Medellín on the day after his forty-fourth birthday. It is a story of two Escobars held in one frame: the benefactor who built houses and football pitches for the poor of Medellín, and the narcoterrorist whose war on the Colombian state killed judges, police, politicians, and ordinary citizens by the thousand. The series does not glamorise either one. It follows the record — the rise, the terror, the surrender, the escape, and the sixteen-month manhunt that ran him to ground.
The Story of El Patron
True Crime
5 Episodes
This is the story of how one man became, for a decade, more powerful than the state that hunted him — and how that same power finally made him impossible to protect. It runs from a childhood in Rionegro to a terracotta rooftop in Medellín on the day after his forty-fourth birthday. It is a story of two Escobars held in one frame: the benefactor who built houses and football pitches for the poor of Medellín, and the narcoterrorist whose war on the Colombian state killed judges, police, politicians, and ordinary citizens by the thousand. The series does not glamorise either one. It follows the record — the rise, the terror, the surrender, the escape, and the sixteen-month manhunt that ran him to ground.