[DiamondSmiles]

*I remember this woman from, "Deadly Women", and, "America's Most Wanted.*

The convicted Colombian drug smuggler known as the “Godmother of Cocaine,” Griselda Blanco, 69, was gunned down by a motorcycle-riding assassin in Medellin, Colombian national police confirmed late Monday, according to the Miami Herald.

Blanco spent nearly 20 years in prison in the United States for drug trafficking and three murders before being deported to Colombia in 2004, the Herald reported.

Two armed riders pulled up to Blanco as she was leaving a butcher shop in her hometown, and one shot her twice in the head, the Herald reported, citing a report in El Colombiano newspaper.

Family members said Blanco had cut her ties to organized crime after returning to her country, the BBC reported. Police said they were investigating the motive.

Blanco was one of the first to engage in large-scale smuggling of cocaine into the United States from Colombia and set up many of the routes used by the Medellin cartel after she was sentenced in the United States in 1985, the BBC reported.

Investigators told the Herald that they estimate conservatively that Blanco was behind about 40 slayings. She was convicted in connection with three murders: Arranging the killing of two South Miami drug dealers who had not paid for a delivery, and ordering the assassination of a former enforcer for her organization, an operation that resulted in the death of the target’s 2-year-old son, the Herald reported.

Three of Blanco’s husbands were killed in violence related to drugs, the Herald reported, and one of her sons was named Michael Corleone, a reference to “The Godfather” movies.

Blanco is credited with originating motorcycle assassinations, the Herald reported.

“This is classic live-by-the-sword, die-by-the-sword,” filmmaker Billy Corben, who with Alfred Spellman made two “Cocaine Cowboys” documentaries, told the Herald. “Or in this case, live-by-the-motorcycle-assassin, die-by-the-motorcycle assassin.”

2004 Photo From Florida Deparment of Corrections

[DannyDrama]

She looks like a guy that looks slightly like a woman.

[Space Particle]

She actually used to be descent looking.

[ices]

How poetic.

Invents motorcycle assassinations. Dies by one.

[Pac Man]

Here she is dead


another pic

[banana dick]

wtf she looked like rush limbaugh

[DiamondSmiles]

Thank you, Pac Man!

[DiamondSmiles]

Originally Posted by JackiRive26 ↗

She actually used to be descent looking.

I remember her all dolled up in full drag with jewelry galore!

Shit happens!

[Seven Of Nine]

Originally Posted by diamondsmiles ↗

...Police said they were investigating the motive.

...Investigators told the Herald that they estimate conservatively that Blanco was behind about 40 slayings...

Wow, they really need to investigate a motive?

[Brometheus]

id say it was a revenge kill from one of those 40 slayings. otherwise.. why kill someone of that age, who has been out of the game for almost a decade?