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[ Engines rumbling ]

-The Hells Angels,
for a whole generation,

have been known as
a black-jacketed motorcycle gang

with a taste for violence.

-People do not testify
against the Hells Angels,

and people do not interfere
with them.

-That was the way it was.

♪♪

♪♪

-A one percenter
is someone who has dedicated

their entire existence
to living on the fringe,

adhering by no one's rules
except for their own.

-The code is "all on one."

You know,
Hells Angels always ride.

-You think of them
as the worst of the worst,

but I think of them
as the elite.

-We all got guts.

We're not afraid to fight
for what we believe in.

-Everything is about this.

This patch means everything.

Your life is dedicated

to the point where you will die
for it.

-The bikers were
very intelligent businessmen.

-It was high-powered weapons.
AK-47s.

-They were drug dealers.
They were organized crime.

-Cocaine is a gold mine.

-It's an enterprise.

The scope and scale of that
had never been seen before.

-I'd say they could have given
Jeff Bezos a run for his money.

-It's the Wild West out there.

-They were murderers.

-My job is to catch these guys.

-What are they gonna do --
kill us?

-No compunction of slaughtering
their enemies.

But to turn against your own?

-The vote was taken,

and that's when
all hell was let loose.

-It was really out of control.

The Hells Angels embark on an
enterprise worth

upwards of a billion dollars.

-We all felt like we had
a target on our backs.

-It was turn or die.

-It's an untenable situation
to be in.

-I mean, this is biblical.

♪♪

-♪ Gonna call down thunder ♪

♪ And shake the ground ♪

♪ When they call my number ♪

♪ I'll shut 'em down ♪

♪ You can't stop me, no ♪

♪ You can't stop me now ♪

♪ You can bury me
way down under ♪

♪ I'll rise above ♪

♪ I'm gonna call down thunder ♪

♪ Shake the ground ♪

♪ Oh, oh, oh ♪

♪ You can't stop me now ♪

♪♪

♪♪

-In the 1970s,
the United States was in

the middle of a major crime wave
that didn't discriminate.

It went from one side
of our country to the other.

New York City was a mess.

Los Angeles wasn't much better.

Major cities in the Midwest,
like Detroit and Chicago,

were experiencing a fleeing
of residents to the suburbs.

-One detective, as he left
the scene this morning, said,

"We've got good reason
to be nervous these days."

-The cocaine and all
these various drugs coming in.

I had one picture of a guy
who was murdered.

He was lying half out of a car.
I guess he was shot.

Some drug deal gone bad.

[ Siren wailing ]

-In the '60s,
drugs started exploding,

but in a recreational way.

Marijuana. LSD.

But the 1970s
start turning ugly.

It's the beginning of cocaine.

[ Engine revs ]

-Crime took a different
direction in the United States

and became bigger,
more corporatized.

[ Cash register chimes ]

What happened
was the Italian Mafia,

who would never deal drugs when
the old guard was in charge,

realized there was
too much money to be made,

and so heroin was everywhere,
followed by cocaine,

and the profits were huge.

♪♪

-The Hells Angels
were really

at the right time
at the right place.

They were a motorcycle gang,

they were always
into selling drugs,

they were into their power,

but they weren't a serious
organized-crime group.

Suddenly they realized
that what they were doing

as a pastime, selling drugs,

could now become
their livelihood.

-It's a court order
restraining us

from breaking the law.

So I guess we can't break it
while we're here.

-First, you had Sonny Barger,

who was by far
the most influential

and consequential
Hells Angel of his day.

-This man probably knows more

about the Hells Angels
than anyone.

He is Sonny Barger,

who helped organize
the group 21 years ago

and is considered by many

to be the most powerful man
in the Hells Angels.

-Sonny had big vision,
big ambitions.

-In order for them to exist
and flourish over time,

you needed some way

to control membership
and their image.

-I think we all got guts.

We're not afraid to fight
for what we believe in.

-And he realized that, "Yes,
we could be rowdy bikers,

but we need discipline.

We need an army."

He sets up rules,
geographic limits,

so each chapter had either
a city or often part of a city.

You couldn't raid

and step on the toes
of your fellow brothers.

-He added a level
of sophistication

to the Hells Angels
Motorcycle Club.

He brought structure to it.

-You also had a situation

where there was
the counterculture,

there was politics,
there was war.

[ Indistinct shouting ]

There was a lot of unrest.

-Why don't you people go home?!

-Sonny Barger was confident,
and he could --

He could speak.
He was articulate.

-Dear Mr. President, on behalf
of myself and my associates,

I volunteer a group
of loyal Americans

for behind-the-line duty
in Vietnam.

-And then you combine that

with this push
by Sonny Barger

to start building the mythology.

-We're a little different.
We ride motorcycles.

And when the police say,
"These guys are killers,

these guys are dope fiends,"
this and that,

it's probably not too hard
for the public to believe.

But we're mostly a bunch
of happy-go-lucky guys

trying to make it in this world,
you know?

-Undoubtedly, Sonny Barger
was a marketing genius.

He was able to capture
public opinion and narrative

about the Hells Angels
Motorcycle Club

while containing
the bad behavior.

♪♪

-So, suddenly, the Hells Angels,
who were always dangerous,

always involved in guns
and drugs and other activities,

it starts turning a lot darker.

Drugs means money.
Money means turf wars.

Turf wars means bombs, killings.

And it just sets the stage
for what will be

four, five decades
of violence.

Sonny Barger will openly say,

"In the '60s,
it was all fun and games.

In the 1970s,
we turned into gangsters."

-The police authorities say they
have become far more than that.

They've gone into
such moneymaking fields

as narcotics and prostitution
and have made millions

using methods even more brutal
than the mafias.

-They have their criminal
enterprise flourish unimpeded

because of the fear

that attaches
to the name Hells Angels.

♪♪

-Sonny Barger
has this vision of expanding

what was a California group
around the world.

He starts by spreading
across the United States,

moving into the Northeast.

-The Hells Angels is divided --
West Coast, East Coast.

So, what happened
on the East Coast

was generally
Sandy Alexander's business.

He was the Sonny Barger,
if you will,

of the East Coast

and therefore had his say
in that territory.

-Sandy Alexander
and the Hells Angels

leveraged the media,
like the Geraldo show,

to put stakes in the ground

about who they were
and what they were about.

-What makes the Hells Angels

different from
other people who --

-A brotherhood of men.

It takes a man
to be a Hells Angel.

-They're busting our balls,
you know,

and they'll do anything
to bust our balls.

You know the man.

-Sandy was good. I liked Sandy.

I thought he was a good leader
running the Hells Angels.

I wouldn't want the job.

The Hells Angels
were my neighbors.

I found this apartment
on Third Street,

got a little studio
set up there.

And across the street was
the Hells Angels clubhouse.

Usually there would be
this huge fellow

with tattoos all over his body

and various chains and things
and a pit bull with him.

And that was Big Vinnie.

Huge, big slab of meat.

He was on TV with Sandy.

-How much do you weigh, Vin?
-320.

-What do you have back here?

-Oh, my knife.
-Uh, what do you use it for?

-Uh, peeling bananas and oranges
and stuff like that.

-And then he asked me
to take a picture.

I said, "Oh, this is great. I'll
get some good shots of him."

It became iconic,

that photograph of him
with a pit bull.

But he was a psychotic nut.

About two months later,
he comes up

and, without saying anything,

he just cold-cocks me
right in the face.

Then I found out he really
liked the photograph.

His way of showing me

that he appreciated
the photograph

was to come and cold-cock me.

This is before he really did
any of the really crazy stuff

that later he was attributed
to doing --

throwing a girl off a building.

I can see him doing that now.

Just trying to do the craziest,
stupidest thing that he could.

Having no empathy.

♪♪

-The Hells Angels
were violent.

They were known
for being violent.

They reveled in their violence.

But they weren't the only ones.

♪♪

When you're talking about
the world of outlaw bikers,

there are really two groups
that stand above everybody else.

The Hells Angels are clearly
the name on the marquee --

the most notorious, infamous
biker club in world history.

But a close second is
the Outlaws Motorcycle Club,

which is the equivalent
of the Hells Angels

in the Midwest
and down in Florida.

-Their name says it all.
They're proud to be outlaws.

There's no notion
of being "angelic."

So the Outlaws had
no reluctance to use violence.

-The relationship
between the Outlaws

and the Hells Angels
in the mid-'70s

was very bad, to say the least.

-There's been a ongoing war

between the Hells Angels
and the Outlaws

that trace back a half-century.

My sources, and by reading
official court records,

I believe that the war
was started by an altercation

on New Year's Eve 1973
in New York.

[ Crowd cheering ]

The Hells Angels are throwing
a party at their clubhouse,

and you had three
Florida Outlaws

that were in New York
at the time,

and these three guys
showed up at the party.

-Accounts vary,
but one of them

possibly raped
the wife/girlfriend

of the president of
the Hells Angels in New York,

Sandy Alexander.

-And these three guys
got physically attacked

and beaten severely
by the Hells Angels.

I believe one of them
got their vest stolen,

which is, like, sacrilege
in the world of bikers.

After that, the Outlaws
were able to identify

the names
of the three Hells Angels

that had attacked their
Outlaw brothers in New York

on that New Year's Eve,

and they took them
to a construction site

with a gravel pit

and killed them all,
execution style.

And that ignited
the now still-raging biker war

between the Hells Angels
and the Outlaws.

And the actions
the Hells Angels took next

would spread mayhem
across the entire continent,

bring on the rise
of a new Hells Angels king,

and leave hundreds dead.

-So we have three Hells Angels
that had been murdered,

brutally executed
by the Outlaws.

Now the Hells Angels and the
Outlaws just hate each other.

Those two altercations
sparked a biker war,

a bitter, violent conflict
that has yet to cease

or slow down 50 years later.

♪♪

-The Outlaws had already made
a move to come to Canada

in the mid-'60s, late '60s.

-The leadership of the Outlaws

saw that they could
go into Canada

and pick and choose
what biker clubs

they wanted to develop
support arrangements with...

in a lot of cases,
they wanted to patch over.

So they saw it as a ground for
recruiting and for expansion.

And the Outlaws
already had a strong bond

with a group called
the Satan's Choice.

-The Satan's Choice were huge.
They were organized.

They were prolific manufacturers
of PCP and methamphetamine.

They had massive sway.

They had massive presence,
power.

And they were respected
and feared.

They were true one percenters.

In Windsor, Ontario,

there was a cross-border
alliance or friendship

with Satan's Choice
and the Outlaws in Detroit.

-From Downtown Detroit,
you can get to Windsor

in less than five minutes

under a tunnel
or going over a bridge,

and they saw this
as fertile territory for growth.

-The Outlaws were
the exclusive recipients

of the Satan's Choice
methamphetamine.

In exchange, money, guns

coming up across the border
for the Satan's Choice.

-Due to this affiliation,
the Outlaws chapter

in Detroit, Michigan, becomes

incredibly powerful
and important,

and the chapter president
in Detroit

is a vicious biker leader
named Harry "Taco" Bowman.

Taco has an incredibly
powerful position

in the Outlaw's base in Detroit,

and that power
is only gonna grow.

-The Hells Angels know

that they need to control
all of North America,

both because
there are big cities

where you've got a profit base
to sell your drugs,

but also because drugs
can easily flow

across the northern border.

The fact that the Outlaws
have moved north of the border,

have taken over Satan's Choice,
suddenly there's a big dilemma

because now all that money,
all that drugs

north of the border
is up for grabs.

-Hells Angels had to stop
the Outlaws

in one way or the other.

They had to have a presence
to fight them,

to not allow them
to seize control

from under them.

-And the Hells Angels
had their eyes set

on a group of bikers

that they had originally met
at a biker rally

in Laconia, New Hampshire.

[ Engines rumbling ]

-Laconia is the oldest,

longest-running
motorcycle race event.

It's in New Hampshire.

It's an annual
gathering of people

who wanted to watch the races
with like-minded people.

It's like the annual pilgrimage,

the hotbed
for inter-club mingling.

It was at Laconia
that the Quebec clubs

and the New England clubs
really started

to meet each other.
for the first time.

People would party
with each other,

make friends, make alliances,
make deals,

get in fights,
sometimes kill each other.

[ Indistinct shouting ]

[ Siren wailing ]

We have these crazy
French Canadians wreaking havoc

hand in hand with
their American counterparts.

The border
didn't matter anymore.

Now it was just like,

"We're all, you know,
motorcycle brothers."

That's a really important moment
for the Hells Angels.

They needed guys
to be able to fight the Outlaws,

and they saw
the Popeye Motorcycle Club

as the number-one choice.

And don't let the name fool you.

The Popeyes were a hardcore
and serious motorcycle club.

♪♪

♪♪

[ Indistinct conversations ]

-If you want to become
Hells Angel,

you need to communicate.

Me, I don't speak good English,
but I try.

[ Laughs ]

I came to Montreal with,
uh, five guys that I know,

and we bought bikes.

And in 1965, '66,
we decide to go to Laconia.

And we had a patch made --
just a small patch --

because we want to look like
a motorcycle club.

It said "Popeye le Cruiser."

One member, one of the brothers,

he asked me, he said,
"Why do you use that name?

It's a funny name.
Why using Popeye?

It's a comic."

"I'm gonna tell you something.

You look at Popeye on TV...

he's always in trouble.

He fight all the time.

Don't forget --
He win all the time."

[ Popeye grunts ]

[ Laughs ]

"Okay. Now I understand."
[ Laughs ]

-They were violent.

They weren't afraid to get
into fights with the police,

to attempt to kill
or wipe out their enemies,

whether it was Satan's Choice
or the Outlaws.

-At their peak,
they were well over 200 members

across six chapters,

and there was a well-established
drug network

that had been set up by
the Popeyes and their allies.

So they were a big deal.

They were respected,
eventually feared.

-And this was something
that attracted the Hells Angels

to wanting to patch them over.

They viewed them
as the perfect counterbalance

to the alliance
that was forged

between the Satan's Choice
and the Outlaws.

If the Hells Angels
were going to compete

with Taco Bowman
and the Outlaws,

they were gonna need
a very strong leader up north.

One of the Popeyes' presidents,
Yves Buteau,

who went by the nickname
"The Boss,"

fit the job description
perfectly.

-He's, I think, one of the best
and one of the smarter bikers

that they had at that time.

A cerebral guy.

-Buteau never had a beard,
and he had blond hair.

-He was a true biker
in every sense of the word.

-He was a well-known brother
in the States

by mostly
the East Coast members.

-Buteau wanted to make money,
and he knew

that the best way to do so
would be selling drugs.

♪♪

-Everyone around him,
by all accounts,

gravitated towards him
because he was level-headed.

He was intelligent.

-Lots of people,
including Sonny Barger,

were very impressed by Buteau.

-And he was smart enough
to know

you're gonna make
better partners in the future

if you don't resort to threats
immediately.

-He had an idea.

He wanted to corporatize
the biker gang

to make money from it.

He instructed his bikers
not to wear their colors

unless it was a ceremony,

to look like regular members
of society

when they weren't holding
an event.

It was a whole new type of biker
that followed Yves Buteau.

-He could see far away,
you know?

The future.
He could see.

Yeah. Yeah.
Me too.

[ Laughter ]

-The Outlaws had already
planted their flag up north,

and Yves Buteau realized

that in order for the Popeyes
to exist,

they had to cease to exist.

They'd have to patch over
to become Hells Angels.

-Generally, when it comes to
patching over a new chapter,

they needed a unanimous vote

of all the important
Hells Angels.

Sonny, the people in New York,
they all had to say yes.

-On the 5th of December 1977,
we went to New York City.

I had a hard time
to cross the border.

I had to do a few tricks.

[ Laughs ]

But we were all there.

And all the members,

they represent all the chapters
in the U.S.

They were in New York,
and they took a vote for us.

Maybe be around 4:00
in the afternoon, 4:30,

they come out and they say,
"You are Hells Angel now."

The first chapter in Canada.

Montreal became the first one.

♪♪

I came back
on the 24th of December

at night with a box
with the patch.

And everybody, they were waiting
for me in a place in Montreal.

So when I came in the place,
I was like Santa Claus.

[ Laughs ]

♪♪

We had somebody there to put
the patch with the machine.

Everything right on the --
on the spot.

[ Laughs ]

And it starts from there.

-Once they become
Hells Angels,

1977, Yves Buteau
becomes chapter president.

-And then went on to become
the national president

in pretty short order.

-And he imposes
some of the same rules

that Sonny Barger does.

He imposes discipline.

The second thing he does
is he goes to war.

He goes to war
against the Outlaws.

-And it just escalated.

-Within two months,
three Outlaws were killed.

-The conflict, the war between
the Outlaws and the Hells Angels

naturally follows
wherever they go,

anywhere in the world.

So once they set up shop,

both clubs were immediately
at war.

♪♪

-The Popeyes now becomes part
of a global struggle,

like Russia
and the United States,

where they move into a country

and each of them support
a faction.

So now you have the Outlaws
and you have the Hells Angels,

both of them fighting for
control north of the border.

And that battle will go on
for decades.

[ Indistinct conversations ]

-When it came to
traditional organized crime,

they would commit a murder
not at a distance.

They would go up to the person,
eliminate him,

put three, four bullets in him,
and nobody else will get hurt.

The bikers, however, started
using bombs, remote bombs,

and this is where it became
very dangerous,

because you're putting
the rest of the population,

innocent people, in danger.

[ Siren wailing ]

-A lot more is at stake.
There's money. There's guns.

You've got an army behind you.

♪♪

-Meanwhile,
you had this young,

up-and-coming biker
in a steel town in Ontario,

right outside of Toronto,

and he would go on to become
a major recruit

for the Hells Angels

and change the trajectory
of the club forever.

A guy by the name
of Walter Stadnick.

-I'm probably gonna get
into trouble for this,

but Walter Stadnick, I think,
is my favorite Hells Angel.

You could see this guy
is really smart, right?

A businessman and a planner.

Walter Stadnick grows up
in Hamilton.

-It's sort of a dying
Rust Belt town.

It was a steel town,
and the industry

attracted all kinds
of immigration,

including one Sicilian town
that just packed up

and all of them moved
to Hamilton.

And that's how the Mafia
started there.

And ever since, it's been

sort of a center
of organized crime.

-Stadnick got into
the crime game early.

He was moving hash
and marijuana

all the way back in high school.

-And that's how he got
his nickname.

"Nurget" is slang for nugget,
like a nugget of hash.

And because he was
physically small,

he was also known as that.

-I think he's like 5'4",
160 pounds if he was wet

in his biker getup.

-He was very much enamored
with the biker life.

-From a very early age,
Walter Stadnick

had his eyes on becoming
a big-time player

in the biker underworld.

He was going across Canada

trying to find the right fit
for him in the biker landscape.

-In his early 20s, he had
just graduated high school.

He tries to get into
the Satan's Choice,

which are the dominant club
in Canada at the time,

and he was denied
because he was too small.

-Walter didn't stand a chance
with people

like the Satan's Choice
because he was 5'4".

That was a huge barrier
to most clubs.

-Once he was denied entry
into the Satan's Choice,

he was like, "Well, now I'm
gonna go for the Hells Angels."

I guess he had a lot of heart
and he really wanted it badly.

-Because of
the repeated rejections

and, really, the humiliation
Walter suffered,

he didn't just have
a chip on his shoulder.

He had a whole lumberyard.

-It's just how somebody
gets in that way of life.

You've got to have a need

to have a group of supporters
around you.

Ironically, I think it's they're
afraid of facing life alone.

-In 1977, Walter Stadnick
is riding with the Wild Ones.

-The Wild Ones were
just regular street toughs.

They were like a street gang
but on motorcycles.

Leadership of the Mafia
in Hamilton

didn't want to deal with bikers,

but a lot of the lieutenants
would, sort of on the sly.

And the Wild Ones,

their sort of signature
was bombing.

A lot of Italian-owned
businesses would be bombed

if they didn't pay protection
money or use certain suppliers.

-But Walter's aspiring
to bigger things.

He didn't see a big enough
future with the Wild Ones.

He wants to patch over his club
to the Hells Angels.

-In 1978,
he takes off to Montreal

with a goal to endear himself
to the Hells Angels.

-And he gets an early taste
of what it's gonna be

because he gets caught up
in an attempted massacre.

-They came to the clubhouse
early in the morning.

They came at 10:00,
11:00 in the morning.

-Their clubhouse is only
a stone's throw away

from the Bar Salon Tourbillon.

It's basically a strip club.

-So they keep asking all day.

"I would like to go to the bar.
We'd like to go to the bar."

Finally, we went.

-Stadnick, the Wild Ones
members, and the Hells Angels

show up to Le Tourbillon.

They're all gathered around
a big round table,

having some drinks,

just enjoying themselves,
having a good time.

-And there was two guy

sitting near the wall
close to the stage

where the girl was dancing.

Normally, all the guys
go to the bar, the dancers.

They're all like that.
[ Panting ]

But one guy sit -- his back...

He didn't look at the girl.

He look at the door.

-They were dressed
in a little more clean-cut way,

what you wouldn't expect
from the usual clientele.

-So I told that to my brother

in front of me.

I said,
"Hey, check these two guys."

-They got up,
hadn't even touched their beers,

walked over to the table,

picked up their guns,
opened fire.

-Bang, bang, bang everywhere.

Killed the guy
that's sitting in front of me.

And one was saying, "Hey,
come on. Let's go, let's go."

And the other guy, I heard
he put a new clip in his gun,

and he came back.

So me, I took a table --

I was on my knee with the table,
and he was shooting on me.

But he never touched me.

♪♪

-Two of the Hells Angels
members,

they were hit in the head
right away, died instantly.

-And Walter was smart enough
to slide under the table,

and he was not hit,

but three other bikers
were dead.

-And remarkably,
Walter Stadnick will live.

And despite all the bloodshed
that will continue,

Walter Stadnick is one
of the few Hells Angels

who is alive to this day.

-It was a mass shooting.
Three dead. Three wounded.

And they never caught the guys
that did it.

But it's widely accepted
the shooters were

two Outlaws
from Detroit and Miami.

-The fact that Stadnick
was there...

survived...

certainly, you know,
put him up a notch

in the Hells Angels' eyes.

So then he started
to prospect for them.

He kind of gets his foot in
the door at that critical stage

where Buteau is still around.

The Hells Angels are traveling
everywhere.

They're on a conquest to get

as many alliances fortified
as they can.

-You got to remember
in the late '70s, early '80s,

this was when
that recruiting war

between the Hells Angels
and the Outlaws was at its peak.

Bodies were dropping daily.

And this mayhem is about to hit
a Hells Angels king

where he lives.

-Yves Buteau realizes the need
to absolutely crush his enemies.

There is testimony that he is
involved in the assassination,

the bombing death,
of an Outlaws rival.

But he'll pay for that.

-At this point,

things were being blown up
on a regular basis.

And just like now,
you didn't really know

who your friend was
and who your enemy was.

-McDonald's doesn't mind
competition.

I mean, they may not like it,

but they're not gonna try
to blow up Wendy's.

The Hells Angels are not
that kind.

They want to be
the only joint in town.

-By 1983, Yves Buteau
had been waging a brutal war

against the Outlaws
for five years.

-Dozens of bikers
have been shot,

dozens more killed,
and Yves Buteau

and the Hells Angels
are quickly becoming

the most dominant club.

So Taco Bowman
and the Outlaws knew

in order for them to succeed
in Canada,

they needed to get rid of
Yves Buteau.

But you got to remember,

just as ruthless
as Yves Buteau is

is as smart as he is.

He knows it's better
to make friends than enemies.

So in September 1983,

he decides to extend
an olive branch

to the remaining
Satan's Choice bikers

and give them an opportunity
to become Hells Angels.

[ Engine revving ]

He meets one of them
at a bar to negotiate,

but he soon realizes that
his enemies are a lot closer

than he originally thought.

♪♪

-He was in the bar with
a Satan's Choice and his wife,

and there was two guys
in the other side of the bar,

and his kid brother.

-Did the Outlaws know
that this negotiation

with the Satan's Choice
was going down?

Did they know that Buteau
was gonna be present?

Still, nobody knows for sure.

-The kid went outside, so Boss
went outside to talk to him.

-As the story goes,

this guy was desperate to become
a member of the Outlaws.

In order to become
a full-patch member,

he would have to do
some dirty work.

And that dirty work meant
murder.

-And he pulled a gun,
and he shoot Yves Buteau.

♪♪

-Once Buteau was killed, they
lost their bearing in a way.

It put them into disarray a bit.

All the expansion that he'd
been working so hard on --

kind of cooled that.

-It took time for the club
to come back on their feet.

Buteau and me were really close,
so it hurt me bad.

When he died,
it was hard for me, you know?

And for everybody.

-And at his funeral -- It's one
of the first big biker funerals.

Two thousand people show up
to pay tribute.

He's become a hero to hundreds
of bikers around the world,

and it'll really set the stage
for other big biker funerals

but also other big and
even scarier, smarter leaders

north of the border.

[ Shutter clicking,
siren wailing ]

-It would take a few years

for a new leader to emerge
at the forefront

of the Hells Angels in Canada.

But at this time,
Walter Stadnick is finding

an incredible amount of traction

as he climbs the ladder of power
within the Hells Angels.

-He became very tactful.

He was known for seducing
other gangs

rather than taking them over
by force,

and they reacted
to his diplomacy

rather than his toughness.

-He's smart,
and people can see it.

His fellow bikers respect him
and fear him,

and he might even have
a pathway to the top.

But the hand of God deals him
a nearly fatal blow.

-Walter was actually on his way
to a memorial for Buteau

about a year after he died.

And it happened to be
the same day

that the pope was coming
to Canada for the first time.

-You can't make this stuff up.

It's September 1984.

The head of the Catholic Church
is coming to Montreal.

There's a priest, among many
who are making their pilgrimage,

driving into Montreal.

Meanwhile, Walter Stadnick,
a Hells Angel,

wants to pay tribute
to his leader, Yves Buteau.

-We leave from the clubhouse,
and we were riding fast.

♪♪

I was the second bike
on the right side,

and Nurget was just after me.

The road was like a T,

so I could see a car coming
on the right side.

He saw, so he put the brake,
but he just blocked the road.

I couldn't pass,
so I put my bike on the side...

and my bike jammed
under the car.

[ Tires screeching,
glass breaking ]

And the gas was leaking
on the road.

And me, I'd fallen in the ditch
the other side.

But Nurget, he was after me.

So he put his bike on the side,

but his bike jammed
in my bike -- and him too.

His bike slide on the road and
make sparks and light the fire.

A big, big, big mushroom fire...

[ Explosion echoes ]

...50 feet in the air.

♪♪

And he was in that fire.

[ Flames crackling ]

The driver of the car
was a priest.

♪♪

When you're riding a motorcycle
and you get in a crash,

it'll almost always be 1-0
for the car,

not you on the motorcycle.

Remarkably,
Walter Stadnick survives,

but he's badly scarred.

-All the other brothers,
they took Nurget from the fire,

and at the same time, a pickup
truck arrived on the site.

♪♪

So we leave to go
to the hospital,

and I'll never forget --
His hat was melting in his face.

♪♪

He was screaming like crazy
all the way.

♪♪

Maybe a month later,
I went with two other members

to see Nurget at the hospital
in Hamilton.

♪♪

All this nose was gone.

You could see the bone.

He was in a bad, bad shape.
Bad, bad shape.

I couldn't recognize him.

♪♪

♪♪

-Stadnick was badly injured
for the rest of his life.

Severe damage.

He lost some fingers,

and he was burned so badly
that his face changed.

-Nurget was so badly injured
in this accident,

a lot of people were predicting
the end of Walter Stadnick.

Ultimately, though, it only
proved to be a speed bump

on his path to the throne.

♪♪

Walter Stadnick becomes
the most shadowy...

organized-crime figure.

He is like the boogeyman
combined with Don Corleone

combined with Clay
from "Sons of Anarchy,"

all kind of rolled into one.

And Stadnick is this kind of
Wizard of Oz puppeteer

that is heard from a lot
but not seen a lot.

During that stretch of time,

when Walter's Stadnick
is behind the scenes,

it leaves what appears to be
a power vacuum,

at least publicly.

This leaves an opening

for another Hells Angel
to emerge as a powerhouse --

A guy by the name
of Maurice Boucher,

who people called "Mom."

♪♪

-Mom Bouchet was a tough guy.

And he was described as a psycho
very early in his life

because of the amount
of violence

he always had around him.

He was in and out of jail
most of his life.

-He used a lot of drugs,

but he realized
that this was business.

There was a lot of money
to be made.

And he got clean

and decided to make a real play
for the business in Quebec.

-Maurice "Mom" Bouchet
was a crime lord.

And I think
his leadership style,

his approach
to the biker underworld

was really ahead of its time.

I don't think he was somebody
that really cared much

about riding motorcycles.

Mom Bouchet wanted to be a boss,
a crime lord,

and he saw the Hells Angels
as his best way to achieve that.

♪♪

-You had Walter Stadnick,

who had the cold, calculating
business sense of Sonny Barger.

Walter Stadnick will expand
the Hells Angels

north of the border.

But you needed
a cold-blooded general.

♪♪

Maurice "Mom" Boucher
had that willingness

to absolutely eliminate
his enemies

and eventually do something

that Sonny Barger
would never do --

take on the state,
take on judges, politicians,

prison guards.

So you needed that combination.

You needed Walter and Maurice.

That's what made
the Hells Angels so powerful

north of the border.

-To this day, there are people
that can debate for hours

about who was really
the number one

and who was really
the number two.

Was Mom Bouchet over
Walter Stadnick,

or was Walter Stadnick
over Mom Bouchet?

But there's no doubt
when these two guys met up

and put their heads together
that it was going to be magic

for the Hells Angels
going forward.

♪♪

-Yves Trudeau was notorious
for being the best killer

for the Hells Angels.

-The Hells Angels embark
on an enterprise.

It involves the bikers, the
Mexican cartel, and the Mafia.

It will end up being worth
upwards of $1 billion.

-They've expanded.

This is the McDonald's
of organized crime.

Walter Stadnick,
he was the brains behind it.

Mom was the brawn.

-Mom Bouchet, power got to his
head, and he just lost it.

-Suddenly they could kill
anybody anywhere.

-His cocaine abuse got worse,
and he just became more unhinged

and more reckless
as the time went on.

He got a...
[Engine revs]

...from a hooker he picked up
who didn't have any teeth.

-Since 2009, there's been
over 100 murders in this world.

And I'm not gonna come
and tell you again.

The next time,
I break your head.

They have no idea
they have the Jeffrey Dahmer

of the Hells Angels.

-The hit involved separating
this man's head from his torso.

-That's essentially
decapitation.

This shit's real.