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Griselda Blanco’s reign of terror had long since ended in a whimper but like rock and roll, the underworld never forgets.
Her first murder came at just 11 when she and her street pals kidnapped a boy of 10 from a rich neighbourhood. His family didn’t take the urchins’ ransom demands seriously. Blanco had three children with Trujillo before she was 21. Baby daddy was iced in a business dispute with her.In the 1970s and ’80s, American yuppies got hooked on cocaine. For kicks and status, they were hoovering mountains of the narcotic, starlets and stockbrokers alike.And 250 men, women and children were dispatched to the graveyard with chilling precision. Many of them whacked by the volatile vixen herself, often using her gold-plated, emerald-studded submachine gun.
On a personal level, she took another husband who she would eventually accuse of stealing millions from her. The man’s divorce settlement was a slew of bullets fired by the Godmother herself, who took a bullet from his Uzi. And like serial killers, her hitmen almost always took trophies from their victims such as an ear or a finger. If there were witnesses, including kids, they had to die too.“She liked to be at war,” Blanco’s top hitter Jorge Ayala later testified. “Every day she’d say, ‘We’ve got to get so-and-so, we’ve got to get so-and-so.’ It was something she enjoyed.”
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