Augusto Pinochet overthrew Chile's elected government on September 11, 1973, ruled for seventeen years, killed or disappeared over three thousand people, tortured tens of thousands more, and died in 2006 without ever serving a day in prison. His regime became the defining case study in how dictators use constitutions, amnesties, and claims of ill health to escape accountability for mass murder.

This episode traces Pinochet from his unremarkable military career through the coup against Allende, the state terror of the DINA secret police, the economic reforms that divided opinion, and the decades-long legal battle that pursued him to his deathbed.

• Pinochet's undistinguished military career and the coup that put him in power
• The Caravan of Death, the DINA, and the systematic state terror that killed thousands
• The Chi ...