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Griselda Blanco Restrepo [2] (February 15, 1943 – September 3, 2012) was a Colombian drug lord who was prominent in the cocaine-based drug trade and underworld of Miami, during the 1970s through the early 2000s, and who has also been claimed by some to have been part of the Medellín Cartel.
They make what they think is going to sell and what people are going to like. ... How did Griselda Blanco die? Blanco was killed in Medellín, Colombia, in September 2012.
Griselda Blanco was reportedly responsible for most of the murders in South Florida between 1979 and 1981. [13] She was suspected to be behind at least 40 murders, but possibly connected to as many as 200. [ 14 ]
Griselda Blanco was a drug lord who had roughly 100 people murdered during the Miami drug war. On one occasion, she put a contract on one of her hitmen, which resulted in the killing his two-year-old son instead of the hitman in a drive-by shooting. Blanco received a 10-year prison sentence. She was killed in a drive-by shooting on September 3 ...
After Blanco was sentenced to 15 years in prison for drug charges in 1985, authorities also charged her with three counts of first-degree murder.
PHOTOS: The many faces of the real Griselda: See photos of Miami’s ‘godmother of cocaine’ Murder cases Blanco was alleged to have been responsible for the deaths of at least two of her ex ...
Acting on orders of Griselda Blanco, Ayala and his crew killed drug-dealing married couple Alfredo and Grizel Lorenzo in their South Miami home on May 26, 1982. Their killings were the apparent result of a cocaine shipment which the couple had received from Blanco, but failed to pay her for.
During her drug reign in Miami, some estimates claim she was bringing in 1,500 kilos of coke a month, worth up to a possible $80 million -- or an estimated $986 million a year (in today's money ...