03 Sep 2012
Posted by Miss Kissy 
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The drug kingpins of Colombia decided they had no more use for their beloved Cocaine Godmother. So they assassinated her.
Griselda Blanco, the drug kingpin known for her blood-soaked style of street vengeance who was featured on the documentary “Cocaine Cowboys” based upon the drug era of the ’70s and ’80s was shot to death in Medellin by motorcycle-riding assassins Monday, according to Colombian press reports.
Blanco, 69, spent nearly two decades behind bars in the United States for drug trafficking and three murders, including the fatal shooting of a 2-year-old boy shot in Miami in 1982.
Known as “The Godmother of Cocaine,” she was deported to Colombia in 2004.
According to Radio Caracol and two newspapers, El Espectador and El Tiempo, two gunmen on motorcycles unleashed a fatal hail of gunfire as she walked out of a butcher shop in Medellin, her hometown.
“It’s surprising to all of us that she had not been killed sooner because she made a lot of enemies,” former Miami homicide detective Nelson Andreu, who investigated her, said late Monday. “When you kill so many and hurt so many people like she did, it’s only a matter of time before they find you and try to even the score.”
Blanco was arrested in 1985 in a cocaine trafficking case in New York, and she was released in 1998 to Florida authorities. She pleaded no contest in October 1998 to three counts of second-degree murder.
Police estimated she was involved in at least 40 homicides between Miami and New York. She is credited with importing to Miami the concept of the “motorcycle assassin” — killers on bikes who sprayed their victims with machine-gun bullets.
“This is classic live-by-the-sword, die-by-the-die-sword,” said Miami filmmaker Billy Corben, whose Cocaine Cowboys documentaries chronicled her notoriety. “Or in this case, live-by-the-motorcycle-assassin, die-by-the-motorcycle assassin.”
Geesh, They’ve killed Jesus, they killed Biggie, they killed Tupac and now they’ve killed the Cocaine Godmother.. People just don’t have any respect for history.
R.I.P. Cocaine Granny, I’ll never forget you. You were documented in one of the dopest movies ever!
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24 Comments
Damn
Oh my!
She had a good run if you ask me
cant feel bad for a drug dealer
Well, You Took My Line “Live By The Sword, Die By The Sword”… 69 Years Old, WOW.
wow.. they finally caught her.
I thought she was already dead. Heck! Her sons were killed years ago
I’m mad, why they gotta go and kill granny??
wow.. it was coming she killed a lot of folks cocaine cow girl
Ebony.. I agree.. she sure did..& then some
there were so many rumors that she had been murdered so I hope this is valid ( not like that) lol
As many lives as she destroyed I have no pitty
shit Kissy.. she was a COLD COLD piece..
Oh wow!
if there is a death worth talkin bout its michael clarke duncan not this broad
NOOOOOOOOOOOOO
How ironic she died the same way she had people killed
Discovery ID did a piece on her…..she was gangsta w/ it, no doubt.
“Live by the gun, die by the gun”
btw .. she doesn’t need to be in the same sentence as jesus lol
Well it is what it is she murdered so many ppl including a 2 year old child and who knows May be more and she had no guilt on who and how it was done all for drugs and money .(smh) I don’t care what ever you do in life (bad) no matter how many years it always comes back to you.she got back what she dished out !
WOW!!! Took long enough!! Hope the rumor is true. She was probably making a come back.
Damn she be missing in action for awhile now her past finally caught up with her smh
If u life by the gun u die by one plain and simple
No sympathy, this chic murdered innocent babies!!! So what she was a granny…gtfoh!