Thornton died suddenly when he, his unopened parachute and $1 million of cocaine, impacted on the driveway of an astonished Tennessee homeowner. Thornton, it seems, and two childhood friends, all three children of privilege and wealth, used their positions of power and their soldier-of-fortune skills to become drug kingpins, running weapons to Columbia, and there exchanging them for drugs, which they smuggled into the U.S.

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