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Griselda Blanco, The Return Of The Black Widow



"Searching for the Godmother" article in Maxim magazine details one
of the most brutal people ever to walk this earth, and she was a
Colombian woman named Griselda Blanco.

Griselda, born in one of the many poor shantowns in Colombia, reported
to have killed a young boy who was kidnapped for ransom in Medellin
when she was only 13 years old, also named one of her sons "Michael
Corleone" and her favorite German Shepard "Hitler."

She is also reported to have killed three of her husbands hence the
"Black Widow" moniker along with La Madrina and The Godmother, she was
one mean woman. She brought her sons into the family business only to
see three of them get assasinated in Medellin after getting deported
from the US.



Griselda was eventually imprisoned after being named in an indictment
in the US. After her most trusted sicario flipped sides, knowing he had
enough information to put her away for life, she was desperate and
acted out by importing four sicarios from Medellin to kidnap John-John
and hold him for ransom, hoping she could make a deal with the JFK
family for her release from prison. Griselda was known for her absolute
ruthlessness and sociopathic behavior, something that is usually
associated with men. She makes Pablo Escobar look like a saint. It has
been reported that she is responsible for the death of hundreds of
people who got in her way.

Mystery still surrounds her disapperance from the cocaine business
after she was deported from the US back to Colombia. It was thought she
was murdered by any one of a long list of people who wanted to pay back
a dept for the murder of associates, but now comes a new documetary
from the same people who made "Cocaine Cowboys."

Alive or Dead..... she may well be alive in Colombia.

"Hustlin' With The Godmother" is the name of the documentary, which has
yet to be released, which tells the story of one crazy woman named
Griselda Blanco.

Other reports of a HBO series based on "Cocaine Cowboys" is in the
works. And if that's not enough, one of Griselda's former business
partners is said to have a book out, with interest from several parties
on producing a feature film about the life and times with the
Godmother. Besides, the two Pablo Escobar movies in the works, there
seems to be a few other projects in development regarding Cocaine, Drug
Cartels, and Contract Killers in Colombia.

Now, I'm all for a "Killing Pablo" movie by Joe Carnahan, but I think
if all these projects are made including the HBO series and the
projects under development for the big screen, that it would bring back
all the negative images Colombia has tried so hard to get past in
recent years, which I believe will place Colombia back to square one as
a violent country with a history of violence, in the view of many
foreigners.

Griselda Blanco, one mean bitch, coming soon to a theatre near you.

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[ June 6, 2004 news report.... ]

Cocaine queen's deportation spells her freedom, risk

Griselda Blanco, the 'Godmother of Cocaine' blamed for drug-related
violence in South Florida in the 1980s, is being deported to Colombia
after nearly 20 years behind bars.

In her heyday in the 1970s and '80s, Griselda Blanco was known among
fellow Colombian drug smugglers not only as the ''Godmother of
Cocaine,'' but as a psychopath who gleefully settled debts with the
pull of a trigger.

''If she owed you money she'd kill ya, and if you owed her money she'd
kill ya,'' said Nelson Andreu, a retired Miami police homicide
detective who helped nail Blanco for ordering three Miami murders.

Blanco's enemies list grew quickly, and one account says that after
ripping off associates in Medellín, she tried to fool vengeful hit men
by mailing a coffin back to Colombia from Miami that was said to
contain her body.

Such sleight of hand might have saved Blanco's life then, but what can
she rely on now? At 61, having spent most of the past 20 years in U.S.
prisons, Blanco is set to be deported back to Colombia as early as
today, immigration authorities said.

Colombia's pioneering cocaine traffickers were the world's most
dangerous criminals of their time, but even among that lot Blanco was a
standout: a woman, a reputed hands-on killer and a mother who brought
her sons into the wildly successful trade.

Yet three of her four sons went back to Colombia after serving U.S. prison sentences and got assassinated, Andreu said.

So what fate might be in store for Blanco?

''If I was getting deported to the country where my sons were whacked,
I wouldn't feel too comfortable,'' said Bob Palombo, a now-retired
federal drug agent who arrested Blanco. ``It was a family affair; she's
the one who fostered the behavior all those years, and she was probably
hated even more than them.''

Said agent Joe Kilmer of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration's
Miami office: ``She could be in the cocaine business by Tuesday, she
could be dead by Tuesday. When you live by the sword, you die by the
sword. She's one of the most ruthless people we ever encountered in
South Florida.''

Florida corrections officers turned Blanco over to federal immigration
authorities Wednesday. Her custody release date is today, but officials
would not say what day she would travel, citing standard security
procedures.

HER CRIMINAL PAST

Police characterized Blanco as the ''epitome of the cocaine cowboys''
in 1995 when she was indicted for the three Miami slayings, all from
1982. They included the shooting of a 2-year-old boy killed in a
car-to-car assassination attempt.

At the time, police estimated she was involved in at least 40 homicides
between Miami and New York. She is credited with inventing the
''motorcycle assassin,'' who rode by victims and sprayed them with
machine-gun bullets.

At its peak, Blanco's organization shipped as much as 3,400 pounds of cocaine a month by ship and plane.

Blanco was reportedly a big fan of the movie The Godfather, which
depicted a lifestyle of organized crime, brutality and family loyalty.
She named her fourth son Michael Corleone, apparently after the
character played by Al Pacino in the film.

Blanco's weaknesses included shopping and beauty salons. Police linked
her to a 1979 submachine gun attack at Dadeland Mall that immortalized
the ''cocaine cowboy'' phrase.

Palombo, the retired DEA agent, spent days in 1984 tracking a group of
Colombian hit men through Broward County malls as they tried to catch
her unawares.

When agents finally arrested the men at the Galleria Mall and searched
their attaché cases, they found a MAC-10 semiautomatic assault rifle
with a silencer and high-powered 9mm weapons, Palombo said.

Despite her vanity, the long years behind bars have not been kind to
Blanco. Florida corrections records list her at five feet two inches
and weighing 196 pounds.

Most astonishing is her gray hair, cut extremely short.

Blanco has been in custody since Palombo arrested her on Feb. 17, 1985,
in a cocaine trafficking case out of New York. A conviction in that
case, and a guilty plea in a Miami-based trafficking case, kept her in
federal prison until the end of 1998.

RUTHLESS KILLINGS

She was transferred to the Florida prison system after pleading no
contest in Miami in October 1998 to three counts of second-degree
murder.

Two involved arranging the killings of drug dealers Alfredo and Grizel
Lorenzo in their South Miami house, as their three children watched
television in another room.

She also pleaded no contest to the fatal shooting of 2-year-old Johnny
Castro. The murder target was his father, Jesus ''Chucho'' Castro, a
former enforcer for Blanco's organization, but machine-gun fire struck
the toddler twice in the head as he rode in a car with his dad.

Jorge Ayala, one of the hit men who performed the murders and later
turned government witness, said in a sworn statement Blanco wanted
Castro killed because he kicked her son in the buttocks.

''At first she was real mad 'cause we missed the father,'' Ayala said.
``But when she heard we had gotten the son by accident, she said she
was glad, that they were even.''

Palombo said that once prosecutors indicted Blanco for the Miami
murders, ''We thought for sure she'd be visiting Old Sparky,'' the
nickname for Florida's electric chair.

But a scandal at the Miami-Dade state attorney's office scuttled the
case. Blanco wound up getting three concurrent 20-year sentences, of
which she had to serve only about one-third because of guidelines in
effect at the time of the murders.

Special prosecutors from Orlando took over the case and struck the plea
deal after it was revealed that Ayala -- the professional hit man --
had engaged in phone sex with prosecutors' secretaries and sent money
and gifts. After an investigation, three secretaries were fired and a
veteran prosecutor resigned.

AN UNCERTAIN FUTURE

Nathan Diamond, Blanco's defense attorney, declined to say where she
planned to go or what she would do after returning to Colombia.

''There are no charges pending against her there, so certainly she
would be free to live her life in Colombia,'' he said. He said she had
communicated with relatives.

The Colombian embassy in Washington, D.C., and the U.S. embassy in Bogotá both declined comment on Blanco's release.

Palombo, now a consultant to the DEA, said agents never verified
Blanco's purported immense wealth, though her sons talked about
structuring money-laundering accounts in Panama. Also, the DEA
transferred more than $1 million into her offshore accounts during an
undercover investigation that was never recovered.

''But after 20 years, how much of that is still around and wasn't
chewed up by legal fees or consumed by her sons after their release, I
don't know,'' he said.

''Even if she has a ton of money, in a place like Colombia with a price on your head, you can run but you can't hide,'' he said.

Said the DEA's Kilmer: ``What she's got going for her is she never
cooperated. What she doesn't have going for her is she gave orders that
got a lot of people killed. It's going to depend on how long people's
memories last.'
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Her'es Part 1 for reference
Its a 10 part youtube series that introduces her later