Jack Lawrence

And eventually, the ghosts of his past would soon catch up with him.

We're going to take a short break, but when we come back, Bill explains the cartel, how he would become entrenched in it, and the go-to guy when someone needed to disappear.

So Bill was working with this cartel but says he wasn't exclusive to the organisation and he would also do freelance work for other criminal entities who required someone with his, shall we say, skill set.

Not only was he moonlighting with these other organisations, but he also found a lucrative opportunity in ironically hunting people just like him.

Bill has now cemented himself as a player in this world, which apparently ruffles some feathers.

But he says he simply used violence, or at least the very real threat of violence, in which to stop things getting out of his control.

His wealth begins to increase, but instead of putting money aside, he was spending it hand over fist.

As fast as it was coming in, it was going back out.

Flash boats, brand new cars, living the high life, wanting for nothing.

That's all we have time for this episode, but coming up, while Bill gets word that an arrest warrant has been issued for him, and yet again, it is time to go on the run.

But on this occasion, there's no escape.

Next time on Wanted.

If you want to find out more about the man who was once Central America's most infamous hitman and now a serving Christian minister in a Panamanian prison, Bill has written a book about his experiences inside Central America's prison system, the details of which are in the show notes of this episode.

What was that like?

Oh, it sucked.

There were cockroaches like crazy.

We couldn't sleep because the cockroaches crawled all over us.

So the first contact I had was even before I was in Bulgarian prison on the very first day when they arrested me, they were holding me and I wasn't even arrested yet, but they had me in the police station.

And I mean, I couldn't get out of the police station.

So I was detained at that point.