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Tonight, one of the most notorious
narcotics traffickers in history, Pablo

Escobar. By the early 1980s, Pablo
Escobar is responsible for 80 % of the

cocaine that is bought and sold in the
United States of America.

He was 100 % ruthless.

He was capable of pulling out a gun and
opening fire without a moment's remorse.

But to others, they saw him as their
savior. He would tell people, you have a

choice. You can take my silver, my
money.

Or my lead?

After years trying to capture Escobar,
he is finally taken down. But there are

still a lot of questions about what
actually happened.

Now, we'll explore the top theories
surrounding the mysteries of Pablo

death and the fortune he left behind.

Who was it that really killed Pablo
Escobar that day? Many say he was simply

executed. It was the Colombian
government.

working against him with a rival cartel.
At the cartel's height, 20 % of all the

U .S. $100 bills in circulation were
somewhere in Colombia.

This guy had billions of dollars in
cash.

And there is a good reason to believe
that some of it, if not a lot of it, is

still buried out there, ready to be
found.

Who killed Pablo Escobar? And what
happened to his fortune?

Medellin, Colombia, 1974.

24 -year -old Pablo Escobar is already a
hardened criminal.

In 1974, Medellin, Colombia, is known as
a hub for smuggling contraband all over

North and South America. And Pablo
Escobar is...

24 years old, and he grew up very poor,
so he is always thinking about new ways

of muscling his way into businesses and
making money.

He has already established himself as a
career criminal, is engaged in auto

theft and fraud and kidnapping, and he's
coming of age at a really important

time for Colombia because cocaine has
taken off in the United States.

And Colombia is a major supplier of that
drug.

In the 1970s in the United States,
people find cocaine to be an attractive

drug because attractive people are using
it.

Models, politicians, people on Wall
Street. And suddenly it became the

drug of the era. And it was insanely
addictive and also highly profitable.

Escobar sees that some smuggling
operators are getting a lot of money

cocaine. The problem is Escobar does not
know how to make cocaine and who to

sell it to.

What Escobar does know is how to muscle
in on an operation.

The one thing Pablo Escobar was very
good at was violence.

And he learned at a very early age in
his criminal activities, with violence

comes control.

He was willing to kill the individual's
families, their friends, abducting.

and murdering to prove a point in that
he is the one that is in control.

He was 100 % ruthless.

He was capable of going from jovial and
friendly to pulling out a gun and

opening fire without a moment's remorse.
So he used extreme violence to take

over the emerging cocaine producers,
small laboratories in the jungle, into a

cartel under his control called the
Medellin Cartel.

Now, Escobar is top dog in charge.

He's the one who is bribing the cops,
judges, and they're afraid of him. He

knows how to kill. His method was often
referred to as plato o plomo, silver or

lead. If you did what he wanted you to
do, you would be handsomely rewarded for

it. And if you didn't do as he wanted,
well, someone would plug you full of

lead.

The Medellin cartel becomes an
incredibly sophisticated organization.

It has a network of cocaine labs shown
all over Colombia. They have airplanes,

helicopters. They also have an island in
the Bahamas that serves as a launch

point for shipments of cocaine to the
United States.

By the early 1980s, Pablo Escobar is
smuggling 15 tons of cocaine into

the U .S. every day.

And pulling in 400 million U .S. dollars
a week.

He is responsible for 80 % of the
cocaine that is bought and sold in the

States of America. So he is swimming in
cash.

We're talking billions of dollars in
cash.

Paper money. It's so much money, they
don't know what to do with it.

They buy property.

Escobar builds this massive estate.

the Hacienda Napoles, there's an
airstrip, there's a soccer field,

mansions, a zoo.

He was spending $2 ,500 a month on
rubber bands to hold the stacks

of money together.

Escobar actually gives millions of
dollars away to the poor to help them

health care, schools, housing, and he
really becomes known as somewhat of a

local homegrown Robin Hood.

At first, Colombian officials were not
going against Pablo Escobar. Many of

them were bought off almost immediately,
and they liked the money. And Colombia

is flooded with Escobar's cocaine money.

But unfortunately with that money came
more violence as well because Escobar by

then had his own army who would kill
anybody who stood in his way. According

official records, Pablo Escobar killed
over a thousand police officers, more

than 200 judges, politicians,
journalists.

He blew up an airliner in an attempt to
kill a presidential candidate.

Pablo Escobar is also accused of the
November 27th bombing of a Colombian

jetliner just outside Bogota. That
killed all 107 people on board.

And at that point, Pablo Escobar had
initiated a war with the Colombian

government. In the United States, the
American government has identified the

drug trade as a major threat to U .S.
national security.

And so President Ronald Reagan formally
declares the U .S. will engage in a war

on drugs.

I am today proposing a massive
legislative program aimed at stepping up

battle on these two fronts, in our
neighborhoods and our schools.

The U .S. government is putting in
hundreds of millions of dollars to

the Colombian effort to break the
Medellin cartel.

Under pressure, the Colombian government
finally turns up the heat.

By 1990, there is essentially a civil
war going on in Colombia between the

cartel and the government.

The Colombian government, they get some
people who are close to him, but they

can't get the man himself. He's
extremely slippery.

So at this point, the United States Drug
Enforcement Agency, the DEA, gets

involved. They partner up with Search
Block, a group of the most elite of

Colombia's national police.

And Search Block has received from the U
.S. this high -tech surveillance that

allows them to track Pablo Escobar's
phone calls.

On December 2, 1993, the Search Block
tracks Pablo Escobar in a two -story

house in Los Olivos, Medellin.

What happens next is in dispute, but we
do know that within a very short time,

news spreads around the world, Escobar
has been killed.

Escobar is declared dead at age 44, but
his story is far from over.

The official word is that the Colombian
National Police were the ones

responsible for taking down Escobar.

The Colombian government wants to assume
responsibility because there's a

perception that if the Americans have
credit for killing Escobar, to come in

kill a Colombian folk hero would be
beyond the pale. The Colombian political

elite want to try to use the killing of
Escobar as proof that Colombia has

reformed its ways.

The Colombian government wants to be
able to take credit. The U .S.

wants to minimize its own involvement
and play up the idea that this was

Colombia's matter. They take care of it.
So the idea that...

Escobar is killed by a member of the
Colombian National Police.

Serves everybody's interests.

In 1993, there is a lot of pressure on
Colombia to capture Pablo Escobar.

They've spent years trying to track him
down. He's been on the run.

There's been a lot of investment by the
United States in providing funding for

this high -tech equipment that
SearchBlock has been able to use to

Escobar's phone calls.

The U .S. government is really putting
the pressure on Colombia to take Pablo

Escobar down.

Pablo Escobar was endeared to his
family, especially his son, Juan Pablo.

He would talk to Juan Pablo almost every
day. He was also talking to his wife.

She was talking to the Colombian press,
relaying his messages. This was a fatal

mistake because his phone calls were
being traced.

Escobar decides that he's going to talk
to his son.

and it's a much longer phone call, so
they're on the phone long enough that

can really track the call to its source.

The search block van, which was the unit
they were using with their equipment,

then went by that location and did a
physical ID. They identified Pablo

standing in a window. To surround the
area, they put troops on the roof across

the street, in the back of the house,
and then they went in.

As soon as they entered the residence, a
shootout occurred.

And Pablo ends up going to the second
story, hops onto a roof, and according

the official story, he's running across
the roof, and he's shot three times,

once in the leg, once in the back, and
he dies from a gunshot to the head.

One of the senior members of the third
block, whose name is Hugo Aguilar, makes

a much disputed claim that he was the
one who delivered the deadly shot that

killed Pablo Escobar.

In order to strike an individual while
running in the head would require a high

level of marksmanship.

So some have questioned whether Aguilar
was actually that skilled and could have

made that shot that killed Pablo
Escobar. In his book, Killing Pablo,

Bowden questions whether those shots
actually are fired by members of the

Columbia National Police.

The bullet went clear through his brain,
from his right ear to his left. That's

a really difficult shot.

There are a lot of people speculating,
well, what actually happened?

And who might have been there?

And could somebody else have fired the
shot?

When cocaine trafficking kingpin Pablo
Escobar dies from a gunshot wound to the

head after a shootout with Colombian
police in 1993, many in Colombia and the

.S. see it as a cause for celebration.

The Colombian government has been
chasing this guy for years. He's

for just this wave of death and
destruction throughout the country. So

dies, there are countless parties,
including the United States, that are

thrilled about the fact that Escobar has
finally been taken down. But the

question still remains, who actually
shot and killed Pablo Escobar?

According to the Colombian government,
it's the National Police Force,

specifically an elite unit known as
Search Block, that is solely responsible

killing Escobar.

The scene of Escobar's death left us
with a lot of unanswered questions.

There's a lot of chaos, a lot of
anarchy, a lot of confusion as they're

to recover Escobar's body and at the
same time collect any evidence.

You have all of these officers that are
posing with the photo, allegedly

tampering with the body. You have all of
these other people that are there,

plainclothes officers, members of the
media, civilians that are just trying to

walk near the body and pose for photos.
So a lot of people begin to question the

story due to all of the rumors and all
of this activity that's happening near

the body of Pablo Escobar.

Perhaps the official narrative is wrong.

Perhaps the Columbia National Police are
not the ones who fired the fatal shot,

but rather members of some other elite
agency operating in Columbia.

Some people say that it was in fact the
DEA who killed Escobar.

This allegation is not coming out of
nowhere.

DEA not only sent his own agents to
Colombia, they lived in the headquarters

together with the search block. They
participated in many raids.

They were present there at all times
except for that final moment, allegedly.

When it comes to the DEA's involvement,
there are conflicting accounts.

The official narrative is that the DEA
agents were not at the scene. However,

there are members of search block.

who say there were some Americans on the
scene.

Javier Pena and Steve Murphy are the two
leading DEA agents actively working

with the search block to find and
apprehend Escobar.

There is this famous photograph taken of
Steve Murphy right next to Escobar's

body after his death, which makes
everyone think that perhaps they were

in the killing of Pablo Escobar. But he
says he was in the headquarters of the

search block and he could hear
everything happening through the unit's

Murphy says that, yes, I did take this
photo with Pablo Escobar. It is real.

I only posed with the body after I got
to the scene because Colombian officials

wanted me to take a picture with the
body knowing that I had invested all of

these months over a year in trying to
capture Pablo Escobar. They've been

embedded for months with the search
block.

They've been telling them how to do
raids. So after all of this association

the search block, why in the world
wouldn't Murphy or Pena be there when it

finally happens?

But there are some people that speculate
that while maybe Murphy and Pena

weren't there, perhaps there were other
Americans that were on the scene.

In Mark Bowden's book, Killing Pablo, he
theorizes another idea.

These other Americans were actually part
of American special forces.

Army Delta Force.

Delta Force is the most elite U .S. Army
force in existence.

They are quiet, scary, competent
operators who go down to Columbia at the

request of the DEA and start
participating in training Colombian

take down Escobar.

Delta Force goes on countless raids with
the search block up to this point. So

it wouldn't be surprising to learn that
Delta Force is present when Escobar is

finally found.

One thing that points to Delta Force's
involvement in the killing of Escobar is

the kill shot. And the kill shot is a
very, very precise shot. To pull off a

shot like this, you have to be somebody
that has an extensive amount of training

when it comes to marksmanship. They're
also incredibly stealthy.

So... The likelihood that a Delta Force
sniper was on the scene that day and

search block didn't know about it is
very plausible.

Still, it's clear American officials
want the kill attributed to the

not the U .S.

Murphy, in his book, writes, The photo
made it seem that an American had killed

Escobar when all the work had actually
been done by Colombian law enforcement.

U .S. officials want to conceal the
extent of their involvement because they

want to promote the idea that Colombia
takes care of Colombian problems.

People from the search bloc,
particularly its veterans, are offended

idea that it could have been Americans
who killed Pablo Escobar. And it was

disrespectful to the Colombian police
who was supposed to take the sole credit

for his death.

However, there's another story.

that angers these veterans even more.
And it's the idea of Search Block

alongside other criminals to take out
Escobar.

Ten months before narco kingpin Pablo
Escobar is finally taken down, he

one of his worst atrocities.

Previously, the Medellin cartel would
often be almost surgical in its

application of violence against a
specific target. By the early 1990s,

seemed to have abandoned a lot of that
mindset.

Specifically, when they detonated a car
bomb loaded with 100 kilograms of

dynamite in downtown Bogota.

The attack is just one in a campaign of
intimidation run by Escobar since his

escape from jail last year.

At least 20 people were killed.

Many were children being kitted out for
the new school year in this crowded

shopping area.

Escobar sets off this mob as revenge.

His family attempted to leave the
country. They made it as far as the

Frankfurt, and then they're forced to
turn around and go back to Colombia,

they are under guard.

Constantly. So bombing's designed to
send a message to the authorities, mess

with my family and I'm going to get you.

The day after that car bomb explodes,
there is another retaliation, but this

not from the Colombian government.

This is someone else. A car explodes
outside of Pablo Escobar's house and his

mother's home is burned to the ground.

A group quickly takes credit for the
attacks.

They call themselves Los Pepes.

Los Pepes stands for people persecuted
by Pablo Escobar. So these are his

victims, people who've been affected by
his violence, who are coming to avenge

all of the damage that's been done to
victims that they know. Many of the

leading figures in Los Pepes are
themselves.

cocaine suppliers.

The Cali cartel was the main rival to
the Medellin cartel. They're totally

involved in Los Pepes. Los Pepes were
matching the level of violence that

Escobar had been known for. So they were
abducting and murdering any individual

that was associated with the Medellin
cartel. They would kill them, execute

them, hang them from bridges with a sign
saying, this is the work of Los Pepes.

If you work for Pablo Escobar, You will
be targeted and you will be killed.

This death squad places the Colombian
government and these various U .S.

agencies in a bit of a dilemma.

On the one hand, it's nice to see
Escobar getting a taste of his own

so to speak. On the other hand, if it
seems like they are supporting Los

that's also going to look bad because
this is a death squad.

really doing awful things.

The DEA and the Colombian national
government have rules that they must

to. Los Pepes had no rules. The only
rules were to use extreme violence in

to weed out and kill Pablo Escobar.

In 1993, Los Pepes continues their
campaign of killing anyone associated

Pablo Escobar and their families.

And then there are these rumors that
perhaps search blocking the Americans

sharing intel.

with Los Pepes and that Los Pepes were
on the scene of Pablo Escobar's killing

and perhaps it wasn't anyone from the
Colombian government and it wasn't an

American who took the kill shot.

In 2014, so more than 20 years after
Escobar's death, a leading figure of Los

Pepes, Diego Murillo, more commonly
referred to as Don Berna, spoke up from

prison cell.

According to Don Berna, his brother
Rodolfo, who is also a member of Los

is the one that delivers the fatal
headshot to Pablo Escobar with an M16

He implies that it was a good distance,
and it did happen while Pablo was

running.

According to Don Berna...

After Rodolfo fires the killing shot,
the police say get out of here because

Columbia National Police don't want
anyone to know that it's actually a

of Los Pepes that killed Pablo Escobar.

Could Los Pepes have been working
alongside search block at the scene of

Escobar's death?

Several sources raise concerns that
these two forces were directly

for months leading up to the Escobar
raid.

Some of the official records indicate
that there was some collaboration trying

to locate Pablo Escobar.

There's very much a mindset in search
block that the enemy of my enemy is my

friend. If they are collecting
information from groups like Los Pepes

the Cali cartel, they're willing to take
information anywhere they can get it.

So this sharing of information leads...
people to speculate that maybe on the

day that Pablo Escobar was shot and
killed, Los Pepe was on the scene and

possibly could have fired the shot that
killed Pablo Escobar. The idea that the

Colombian government might have been
partnered with a criminal element like

Pepe's to kill a different criminal kind
of suggests that Colombia hasn't really

put aside its violent and corrupt ways.

Soon after Don Baranath made his
statement, someone even closer to

forward to offer another view of how
Escobar died.

In 2014, Escobar's son, Juan Pablo,
claimed that his father told him

times that he would shoot himself in the
right ear to avoid being captured

alive.

He's already been shot in the thigh and
the back. He's not going to get up. He's

not going to be able to escape this
time. The best thing to do... According

Juan Pablo, he finishes himself off.

Escobar's mantra was mejor una tumba en
Colombia que una carcel en Estados

Unidos, which means better a grave in
Colombia than a jail cell in the United

States. Given Pablo Escobar's fear of
extradition, it's not surprising that he

would have gamed out what he would do if
he was ever caught.

He was a king. He was an emperor. When
you think about putting him in a cage

the rest of his life for Pablo Escobar,
it was inconceivable.

Supermax prison in the United States is
no picnic.

El Chapo, the famous Mexican drug lord,
is in one now.

He spends 23 out of 24 hours every day
in solitary confinement.

It's a miserable experience.

It's not entirely out of the realm of
possibility that he would have chosen to

take his own life.

rather than be captured, especially once
he knew he was cornered and there was

no way out.

The photos of Escobar on the rooftop the
day he died shows him lying next to his

Sig Sauer pistol.

And that's exactly the same gun that
Juan Pablo said his dad would use to

himself.

Escobar's family claims more evidence
points to suicide.

They say that when his body was exhumed
for DNA analysis in 2006,

Experts say there's no way Pablo Escobar
took his own life. If he did, there

would be gunshot residue, and there
wasn't any. But still, the family is

that Pablo Escobar went out his own way
on his own terms.

Who killed Pablo Escobar is still
debated, but that's not the only mystery

left behind.

In 1993, as authorities were closing in
on Escobar, he was featured in Forbes

magazine's billionaire issue, writing,
We suspect that Escobar will soon leave

this list, perhaps this earth.

By that year's end, Escobar was dead.

But the questions about what happened to
his money live on.

Pablo Escobar is swimming in cash.

We're talking billions of dollars in
cash.

Think about that for a second. Paper
money.

It's so much money, they don't know what
to do with it.

They plow it into all kinds of
businesses, land, buildings, into art,

but they barely make a dent.

It's estimated the Medellin cartel loses
about 10 % of revenues annually.

amounting to $2 .1 billion because its
cash stockpiles are destroyed by pests

and the elements.

We're talking about cash literally
rotting away in these secret stashes.

Rats and insects chew their way into the
bundles.

Moisture ruins the bills.

Mold gets into these bundles as well.

And Escobar is making so much money that
he just doesn't care.

It just gets written off as spoilage.
Just another line on the balance sheet.

When Pablo Escobar died, he was worth
about $30 billion, but only about

$112 million was actually recovered,
which raises the question and the

speculation of...

Where did all of that money go?

The Colombian government can seize all
of the physical assets that are

impossible to hide. So they grab the
houses and they grab the vehicles and

grab the boats and they grab the
airplanes.

But what they couldn't account for was
the enormous volume of cash that had

flown into Colombia.

So it's to be assumed that after
Escobar's death... members of his family

members of rival cartel other members of
his cartel are going to descend upon it

and take whatever they can escobar's
operation was notoriously secretive and

compartmentalized no one knew where
escobar's money was and in fact perhaps

escobar himself didn't know because
there was so much money coming in for 10

years and he was hiding it in so many
places that possibly he forgot about

of these places There are many rumors
about his money still being up for

so lots of treasure hunters begin to
search all the places where he spent

time. One of those places where you
might look was the prison that Escobar

built to house himself, La Catedral.

In 1991,

The government is so tired of chasing
Escobar. So they agree to a really crazy

deal that Escobar proposes to them.

Escobar comes up with what he sees as a
perfectly reasonable compromise.

As long as he's allowed to build his own
jail, he promises to stay there. And so

Colombia can take credit for having
imprisoned him. And amazingly, the

government goes for it.

In June of 1991, Escobar surrendered to
Colombian authorities.

and is subsequently jailed in a lavish
prison called La Catedral. La Catedral

a fortress. This is how Escobar can
protect himself, not only from the army

the state, but also from the rival drug
traffickers.

Escobar's prison has jacuzzis,
televisions, waterfalls, hot tubs.

You name it, he has every luxury he
wants in there.

From within those walls...

He can continue to operate the cartel as
normal. His subordinates come and go.

He is still getting money delivered to
him by his associates on the outside.

How are they able to get it past the
guards? Well, they're doing that by

stashing the money in milk cans.

It is rumored that as much as a million
dollars in cash is stuffed into these

milk cans and using the cover of the
Mountain Morning Fog.

that is surrounding the cathedral. They
use this fog as a way to sneak into the

prison to bury these milk cans in the
ground.

Although being in La Catedral gives
Escobar a sense of safety from his rival

gangs, it also starts making him
paranoid.

He starts believing that some of his
associates are being disloyal to him,

he has them killed right there in the
prison.

Of course, this is a bit of a problem
because he's got guards outside.

According to one report, he burned the
bodies and holds a barbecue outside in

order to mask the smell.

Colombian authorities could no longer
ignore the fact that Escobar was running

his business as usual and killing people
in La Catedral. The Colombian

government makes a decision to move
Escobar to a different prison.

And as the army approaches, Escobar, of
course, finds out about it, and he

escapes one night in July of 1992.

Escobar's hurried exit raises a
question.

What happened to the cash they've
supposedly been burying for 13 months?

It is reported that this was not
something that Escobar saw coming.

So he did not have a whole lot of time
to prepare his escape.

He gathered up what he could and headed
for the hills.

The moment Escobar escapes, it basically
is left abandoned.

And when it's abandoned, the treasure
hunters come with pitchforks, with

shovels, with sledgehammers, and they
search for money everywhere, but they

out empty -handed.

It seems obvious that there should be
milk cans full of cash still on the

premises. Why they haven't been found is
a real mystery, which leads to the

possibility that there's still a whole
lot of money out there to be grabbed.

One person specifically says he knows
where it is, and that person is the

man of the organization and also Pablo
Escobar's brother.

In October 1992.

While Colombian authorities desperately
search for fugitive drug lord Pablo

Escobar, they get something of a
consolation prize.

His brother, Roberto.

For a lot of Escobar's career, his chief
money man was his brother

Roberto. And in 1992, Roberto decided he
was tired of all the violence.

He gave himself up and was sentenced to
prison.

Roberto Escobar spent 14 years in jail,
but he's not away from the violence

entirely. There is a letter bomb that's
delivered to him in prison, and it

severely injures him. He is blind in one
eye. In 2009, shortly after his release

from prison, Roberto Escobar publishes
his memoir, The Accountant's Story.

The book provides various clues as to
where Escobar's treasure could be.

According to Roberto Escobar, the
Medellin cartel wasn't laundering that

money. Instead, they were stuffing it in
plastic bags and burying it all over

the countryside of Colombia.

We're talking about an amazing amount of
cash.

In fact, it's estimated that at the
cartel's height...

20 % of all the U .S. $100 bills in
circulation were somewhere in

Colombia. There has to be a good chunk
of it still scattered out there in these

remote hiding places.

Part of the reason that people don't
know where to look for the money is that

Pablo was so secretive about where he
hid it. The DEA agent Steve Murphy says

that Escobar would have subordinates
shrink -wrap huge stocks

of money, hide them somewhere, and then
he would have them killed so that others

wouldn't find out where the money is.

Pablo Escobar didn't keep maps because
he didn't want anybody to find these

locations, and he certainly didn't share
that information with a lot of people.

And his brother, the accountant, he
didn't know as well.

In 2009... Around the same time Roberto
publishes his memoir and 16 years after

Pablo's death, over $5 million is found
in the Colombian jungle near one of

Escobar's hidden cocaine labs.

A few months later, $10 million is
located on the grounds of the Hacienda

Napoles, which is about 90 miles outside
of Medellin and is one of Pablo

Escobar's more famous country estates.
But it isn't until...

2015 that the biggest find takes place.

65 -year -old farmer Jose Mariana
Cartolos was digging a trench

in his land to irrigate it and came upon
something buried in the field. He

encounters a bunch of big blue barrels.
He opens these up and they're full of

cash. $600 million.

He was shocked to find it. What's more
shocking, though, is the fact that he

contacted the authorities and informed
them about this money and gave it to

them. This farmer was just out doing his
annual planting.

He had no connection to Escobar. He had
no idea that this stuff was planted on

his property, but there it was. And that
tells us a lot about Escobar's

treasure. This leads some people to
believe that some of it, if not a lot of

is still buried out there, ready to be
found.

When it comes to Pablo Escobar's money,
the Colombian government has a very

simple message for its citizens.

Keep digging.

But farm fields and caves aren't the
only potential hiding places for

cash. In 2020...

Another discovery has people thinking
that there's a lot out there in various

safe houses that Escobar was known to
use.

In 2020, 27 years after his death, Pablo
Escobar is once again making headlines

across the world when his nephew makes a
surprising claim.

Nicholas Escobar comes forward. He's
been living in one of Pablo Escobar's

former estates. He's Pablo Escobar's
nephew.

And he says that he has this vision that
Escobar is telling him to look for some

of the stashed riches in one of the
walls.

One day he goes and he takes apart the
walls in this one particular part of the

mansion. And lo and behold, he claims
that he unearthed $18 million in cash.

This got treasure hunters excited all
over the world because they know that

there are so many houses that used to
belong to Pablo Escobar. That money is

found inside of structure.

And Escobar, we knew, liked to bury
money and maybe hide it in caves. But it

turns out he's also hiding it inside
ordinary buildings.

And this is an age -old way of
concealing cash that gangsters have been

since time immemorial.

But that means any property that Escobar
spent any time at at all might be the

hiding place for untold riches.

Just within Colombia, Escobar owned 140
different properties, but he was also

known to own them in all sorts of other
places, including the United States, by

the way. He hadn't been to the United
States in a long time for obvious

but he owned them.

And maybe those places have money
stashed in them.

Pablo Escobar had to be hopping from
property to property just to elude

authority. So chances are he's probably
stashing cash at each place he's going

to because he has so much of it. The
theory that money could be hidden in the

walls and floors of the places that
Pablo Escobar stayed and his houses is

confirmed by his brother, Roberto, who
said that that was something that he

especially when he was on the run.

Roberto says in addition to all the
properties that Pablo owned within

there are safe houses in Los Angeles,
Chicago, Miami, New York City. All of

these could conceivably have large
amounts of cash on the premises.

And Roberto Escobar is not the only one
who's confirming this. Juan Pablo, Pablo

Escobar's son, says he also witnessed
his father stashing money in some of the

walls and floorboards of the different
safe houses where he stayed.

After Escobar's death, Juan Pablo says
his family went back and looked in some

of the places he knew that his father
had hidden money and it wasn't there

anymore. So he believes it was taken by
others.

But that hasn't stopped other treasure
hunters from buying up former Escobar

properties and searching for loot.

One of the properties that has been
linked to Pablo Escobar's drug

activities was a mansion in Miami.

And the owners found hidden safes in
that house. But when they opened them,

were empty. But this is an important
find because it goes to show that Pablo

Escobar could have other properties in
Miami or New York.

California, in which safes or hidden
compartments could have money inside

We don't know how thorough the Colombian
government was in searching for Pablo's

money, cash, in these various safe
houses. But Pablo Escobar had so many

properties that we don't even know where
all of these safe houses are. And the

people living in these homes now
probably aren't even aware that Pablo

stayed there.

So this may be one of those George
Washington slept here scenarios where he

stayed at hundreds of different places
and may have stored cash there.

There's probably billions of dollars
sprinkled all across Colombia and other

places that were central to the drug
trade still waiting to be found.

Pablo Escobar's famous mugshot can still
be found on T -shirts and knickknacks

across Colombia and, in fact, the world.

and 15 ,000 people live in housing he
built for the poor in a section of

Medellin still known as Barrio Escobar.

Despite all the suffering and damage
Pablo Escobar caused, many people remain

fascinated by his life and will continue
to search for answers surrounding his

death and for the money he allegedly
hid. I'm Lawrence Fishburne. Thank you

watching History's Greatest Mysteries.