This 1983 documentary special exposes the brutal world behind America’s most dangerous biker gangs. What began as a culture of rebellion and freedom — the Hell’s Angels, Outlaws, Pagans, and Bandidos — had by the 1980s become a network of violent drug cartels hiding behind the myth of the open road. The documentary recounts the murder of two dealers, Tommy Forrester and Lonnie Gamboa, dumped in a mine shaft after crossing the Outlaws. T
Insider Butch Crouch, Who eventually was imprisoned for manslaughter, details how biker chapters were used to traffic methamphetamine and pills across the U.S. and Canada, enriching the gangs and turning their “brotherhood” into a corporate criminal empire.
Women were central to this machine — not as equals, but as pawns. Iris Gohagan, once an “old lady” for the Outlaws, shares how women were beaten, branded, and forced to traffic drugs or prostitute themselves under threat of death. She and others who testified now live in hiding, hunted for turning on their abusers.
The film also tells the horrifying story of Betty Callahan, kidnapped and raped by Outlaws associates as payment for a drug debt her boyfriend owed — a man later found murdered in a North Carolina mine shaft.
These stories shocked the nation and forced the FBI to escalate biker gangs to top priority status, citing ties to the Mafia and nationwide organized crime rings. For the first time, America saw what these “free riders” had really become: narcotics traffickers, enforcers, and executioners.
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