The bear that died from pure cocaine in Georgia
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A 300-kilogram black bear was found dead with no visible wounds in a Georgia forest in December 1985. Its stomach was packed to the brim with pure cocaine. How did nearly 410 kilograms of drugs end up on the forest floor?
In this episode, we explore the night when Andrew Thornton, a former military paratrooper turned luxury drug dealer, jumped from a Cessna over northern Georgia with bags of cocaine while federal agents pursued him. We reconstruct the aerial interception, the parachute that never fully deployed, and the animal that consumed an impossible overdose. Why was an experienced trafficker wearing Gucci loafers under his bulletproof vest?
Victim: Andrew Thornton (indirectly: unidentified black bear)
Date: September 10-11, 1985
Location: Chattahoochee National Forest, Georgia; Knoxville, Tennessee
Status: Closed - death confirmed by overdose
- Thornton jumped with a reserve parachute that failed, impacting the entrance of an elderly man with Alzheimer's in Tennessee before dawn
- The bear consumed the entire contents of a fallen duffel bag, dying within minutes, 90 meters from the discovery
- The autopsy revealed the stomach "full to the brim with cocaine," earning it the nickname Cocaine Bear
- The taxidermied bear now rests in Kentucky Fun Mall, Lexington, the only physical evidence of the failed operation
Andrew Thornton, Chattahoochee Georgia, 1985, drug trafficking, federal investigation, paratrooper, overdose, criminal mystery, forensic, true crime Spanish
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