Griselda Blanco was born February 15, 1943 in Cartagena, Colombia, and she died on September 3rd, 2012 when she was sixty-nine years old, she also emigrated in the United States with her second husband in 1970 and she had four sons. Giselda Blanco had a lot of nick names but one that they would call her the most was “La Viuda Negra” which stands for “black widow”. They would call her that because she was married 2 times and she killed all her husbands; she would confess that she killed them because she wasn’t scared of anything. When she was eleven years old she killed a child in her neighborhood she then left her house when she was fourteen years old because her mom was abusive. After she left her house she was in prostitution, she then married for the first time to Carlos Trujillo when she was twenty years of age and had three sons with him and the names of their child’s were Dixon, Uber, Osvaldo and Michael. …show more content…
When Griselda Blanco was in Miami there was this thing called Miami drug war and Griselda was involved in it during the 1970 and 1980. When Griselda was in Miami she was willing to kill anyone who disrespected her and she would also kill her competition in selling drugs. Griselda earned $80 million every month but she had $2 billion dollars .The Lady of the Mafia which is Griselda Blanco was responsible for 200 murders and she got arrested for that in February 20, 1985, when she went to jail she still was selling cocaine while being in jail. When she was in jail they were going to kill her in jail because she had killed a lot of people. But they found her not guilty of three murders out of the 200 so they deported her to Colombia in