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Blanco was killed in Medellín, Colombia, in September 2012. Colombian national police confirmed her death according to the Miami Herald, NBC News reported at the time. She was 69 years old.
In a 2008 feature about Blanco and her career, the Miami News Times confirmed that her eldest sons—Dixon, Uber, and Osvaldo—are all dead. According to the story, "Blanco's three other sons ...
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Griselda Blanco Restrepo was born in Cartagena, Colombia, on the country's north coast.She and her mother, Ana Restrepo, [7] moved south to Medellín when she was three years old; this exposed her to a criminal lifestyle at an impressionable age, as Medellín was enduring years of its own socioeconomic, social and political troubles.
Blanco was caught and sent to prison, while her children were targeted by their enemies. In the series finale, Blanco finds out that her three eldest sons had been killed while she was in prison.
Sofía Vergara has opened up about how the murder of her brother helped inform her portrayal of notorious drug lord Griselda Blanco in the Netflix miniseries Griselda.. The 52-year-old Modern ...
This notorious Ochoa crime family's role in the Colombian drug trade, depicted in Netflix's 'Griselda,' has also been explored in 'Narcos.'
CBS News, in a 2012 article featuring a former Miami police chief and a documentarian that worked with Blanco directly, reported that two of her sons had been killed.