The Grim Reaper came calling for the Godmother of Cocaine outside a butcher shop in Medellin.
Griselda Blanco’s reign of terror had long since ended in a whimper but like rock and roll, the underworld never forgets.
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.
By now, she was operating out of a Miami mansion where she was throwing cocaine-fuelled orgies in a mirrored room. Blanco had an estimated 1,500 dealers working for her, along with a private air force flying the dope into the U.S.Still, hammering the raw cocaine made her paranoid and a Learjet was always poised to get her out of Dodge — and she did just that as the DEA closed in.On a personal level, she took another husband who she would eventually accuse of stealing millions from her.
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.”And there was the dough. At one point, her U.S.
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