Venus flytraps are disappearing by the thousands in North Carolina. A black market has sprung up to sell them, but who's behind it and why? Criminal looks into this crime ring with lackeys, middlemen, and a mysterious buyer.
Every year for the past few years, tens of thousand of flytraps have gone missing – from the wild, from gardens, from nurseries. And, really, nobody knows where they go. What’s cropped up in rural North Carolina is essentially a Venus Flytrap crime ring — with lackies, middle men, and a mysterious end buyer who’s perpetuating the market.