The OG war on drugs: when a 23-year-old Shanghai nurse was busted smuggling US$1 million of heroin into the US

My latest long read for the South China Morning Post weekend magazine is on Maria Wendt, the Shanghai nurse turned drugs mule who smuggled a huge amount of dope into LA, was busted, escaped, recaptured, imprisoned and came to a very sad end while the narcotics ring that lured her in met far more mysterious fates in New York, Mexico City and Shanghai….click here to read

And a pretty cool graphic from the Post mag too….