User:Green Atlas1/sandbox

Walter Hartwell White Sr. (September 7th, 1958 – September 7th, 2010), also known by his alias "Heisenberg", was an American chemist, school teacher, and drug lord from Albuquerque, New Mexico, whose drug empire became the largest meth operation in U.S. history. Widely considered the most notorious criminal in modern American history, White's destructive two-year criminal career and its ramifications spurred reevaluations of the Drug Enforcement Administration and played a key role in the escalation of the war on drugs.

White was born in Riverside, California. Before entering the drug trade, White was co-founder alongside Elliott Schwartz of Gray Matter Technologies, a multi-billion dollar research firm. After selling his shares to the company, White moved to Albuquerque and became a chemistry school teacher. White and his family struggled to make ends meet, and after passing out at a part-time job he was diagnosed with stage-three lung cancer. White soon after turned to drug manufacturing.

Recruiting his former chemistry student Jesse Pinkman as an assistant, White initially struggled to find his footing in the criminal underworld and faced several close-calls with local gangsters and kingpins as he searched for a distributor. White's methamphetamine product, nicknamed "Blue Sky", over time came to dominate the local drug market. Under his alias "Heisenberg", he quickly rose up the criminal hierarchy.

With the assistance of criminal lawyer Saul Goodman, White eventually partnered with Gustavo Fring, a Chilean-born businessman and co-founder of the restaurant chain Los Pollos Hermanos, who was in secret a major drugs distributor in the employ of the Juárez Cartel. Their relationship soon deteriorated, however, and a series of murders culminated in Fring's assassination by White with the aid of Hector Salamanca, a patriarch of the Juárez Cartel.

Now self-sufficient and inheriting many of Fring's assets and connections, White began the construction of his own drug empire, and over the course of several months accumulated a total of US$80 million dollars, with his meth product reaching as far as the Czech Republic. White coerced his wife Skyler into laundering the earnings through a purchased car wash.

White's activities drew the attention of the DEA early on in his criminal career, in particular his brother-in-law Hank Schrader, who was an agent. In what the media described as a "tragic game of cat-and-mouse", Schrader led the investigation against Heisenberg and—unknowingly—his brother-in-law. Schrader ultimately revealed White's identity, but was murdered alongside his partner Steven Gomez by White after a botched arrest attempt. Soon after, White went into hiding, beginning a nationwide manhunt. Several months later, a call from White was reported from rural New Hampshire, and a week later he was sighted in Albuquerque again. White was later found dead in a meth compound by the Albuquerque Police Department, alongside the entirety of a local Neo-Nazi gang that White had ties with.