All Comments on '48 Hours on Blue Bayou Pt. 16: Albert'

Very well written and presented.

Is that it has dragged on WAY too long. By the time you post something new, what has happened in the past is a distant memory. We're at the point of not knowing who is doing what to whom because we don't remember and we just don't care. 1 star.

A well written explanation as to how Albert started. Disquieting in that it is probably not too far away from real life, which makes it all the better.

Really boring.

It is good to know Albert story

The Genius Behind the Slave Empire

Meet Albert. He's a slaver. His enterprise is built on taking vulnerable females and reselling them. His agents use the means created by the information age to hack their way into medical records to target their "units." They hijack cruise ships. Kidnap women at interviews. Sometimes, there's a bonus is the girl comes with a friend.

What would happen if the girl showed up at the interview with her mother? Would he take both? Albert does not report any interest in selling household slaves or companions.

Certainly this is an interesting story.

The Foundations of a slave empire

Slavery is Albert's business. He knows how to locate and harvest prospective subjects. His product is mostly female, but there re some males taken. His prey is sexually active and daring.

He avoids female sailors, too tough, members of large families, someone might come looking, and married women.

He knows how to manage the captives: women are kept naked; men are allowed underpants.

The thought that went into the protocols reveal the seriousness with which Albert pursues his art. Like a good businessman, the bottom line is profit. Abuse of captives is limited to that necessary to encourage compliance.

Behind the balance sheet

On the balance sheet, they are "units." Albert breaks away from a slaver organization with the quasi social service purpose of linking poor children with new parents. The overhead had become too great. They had resolved the problem of loses per unit by volume.

Albert takes the concept of utilizing the isolation of an off shore island to create an enterprise dealing in a new product, young women. Creating a new business plan with specific protocols Albert divides the business into Acquisitions, Training, Distribution and sales. Identifying the desired unit requires elimination of certain types, divorcees with children, women from large families, people likely to be missed.

There are specific procedures for dealing with slaves taken from cruise ships. To obtain compliance, women are held naked, men in undershorts. Female crew members are not enslaved.

Slavery is a business. The objective is to maximize profits and discourage resistance. The bottom line must govern.