Shots in the Dark: The Black Madam

Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller

National Geographic

Documentary, Tv & Film, Society & Culture, True Crime

4.7 • 527 Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

The Black Madam was an aspiring rapper who made her money building a business she believed in—administering illegal silicone injections to give trans (and cisgender) women the bodies they dreamed of. After all, she’d once been in their shoes. But the deadly dangers of the black market caught up with her—and so did the police. Join Mariana deeper into the underground, and don’t miss the TV series Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller Wednesday on National Geographic and streaming on Hulu. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The trafficked podcast with Mariana Van Zeller is intended for mature audiences.
0:06.9	Listener discretion is advised.
0:12.8	One night in a hotel room in Atlanta, I watched a woman, known to me as Miss Tea,
0:18.7	inject a clear substance into another woman's butt.
0:21.6	There's only two folks.
0:23.6	Oh my God.
0:24.6	You ready?
0:25.6	Looks painful.
0:26.6	It was liquid silicone and its purpose to create curves.
0:31.6	So what's that?
0:33.6	Well, I use a little bit of glue to keep the puncture of my clothes.
0:36.6	The problem is this substance is not FDA approved for cosmetic injections and can be very dangerous.
0:45.3	According to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, there were well over 20,000 legal butt enhancement surgeries last year,
0:52.3	and who knows how many more on the black market.
0:55.4	So that's it?
0:56.3	Yeah.
0:56.9	Wait, and now you just get dressed and you leave?
0:58.8	Yeah.
1:00.2	So the whole thing took about 15 minutes.
1:02.8	Yeah.
1:03.8	The injection I witnessed isn't an isolated event.
1:07.6	I was investigating the industry of black market injections
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