On this day - 2 December

Pablo Escobar was a Colombian drug lord and one of the wealthiest criminals in history. He was in hiding when he celebrated his 44th birthday on December 1st. On December 2nd 1993 he was located by the Colombian Police and shot while trying to escape on the building's roof.

Phone tracing technology had been used to located Escobar. Escobar had tried to get his family out the country, but they were deported back to Columbia and held by the Colombian authorities. Escobar repeatedly contacted them, pretending to be a journalist, and normally keeping calls beneath 2 minutes to prevent tracing. On this occasion, one of his calls went over the 2 minute mark.