This new true crime documentary produced by Rachel Maddow covers the real-world investigation into corruption and press intimidation in remote southeast Oklahoma.
It follows a small family-run newspaper, the McCurtain Gazette, as they report on allegations of violence, drugs, and misconduct within the county sheriff’s office.
The documentary’s title comes from a secret audio recording obtained by the journalists, where local county officials were caught discussing hiring hitmen to kill and bury the reporters to prevent them from printing their stories.
Before Tony Montana stormed across the big screen, there were real men in Miami and Bolivia whose lives were already reading like a Hollywood script.
Al Pacino as SCARFACE
The real-life Tony Montana? Mario Tabraue.
In the 1980s, Cuban-born Tabraue became one of Miami’s notorious “Cocaine Cowboys,” building a multimillion-dollar drug empire.
But the money wasn’t the only thing that made his world extraordinary.
His Miami estate reportedly featured exotic animals—including tigers, cheetahs, and panthers. His lavish lifestyle became part of the mythology surrounding the era and has been linked to the world that inspired Scarface.
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