Miami's "Godmother Of Cocaine" Gunned Down In Colombia First published on November 20, 2012 / 11:38 PM. mso-style-priority:99; Griselda Blanco "The star witness against Griselda was going to Jorge Ayala. Miami had nearly 30 homicide investigators but only a handful spoke Spanish. Michael Corleone Blanco With their parents dead, Perez had his gun trained on the children. If you can't get my money than you kill him. But it didn't turn out the way La Madrina had planned. On September 3, 2012, Blanco, then 69, was leaving a butcher shop in Medellin when two motorcycle hitmen roared by, guns blazing. Ayala and his team of henchmen were looking for Castro for days when they happened upon him driving in South Dade. Griselda Blanco | Biography, Crimes, & Facts | Britannica "When they went back to Griselda and said we missed Jesus but we killed his son by mistake, she was ecstatic. Griselda Blanco Ayala was caught exchanging gifts and having phone sex with secretaries at the Miami-Dade State Attorney's Office. He turned away my son what better way to get even than to kill his son.' When we asked if Perez should have gotten out after 25 years in jail Andreu had this to say,"I don't think Miguelito should be out on the street. Over the past few months CBS4 has been tracking the life of Griselda Blanco, also known as the Godmother of Cocaine. In November 2012 she was elected State Attorney in Key West. Jorge Ayala - Wikipedia mso-style-parent:""; Andreu was a rookie cop in Miami at the time and was promoted quickly to homicide detective. Griselda Blanco died the way she lived: gunned down by two hitmen racing by on motorcycles on a street outside a butcher shop in her hometown of Medellin, Colombia, in 2012. She was shot at Cardiso butcher shop on the corner of 29th Street, after having bought $150 worth of meat; the middle-aged gunman climbed off the back of a motorbike It was one of his first child death investigations. As part of Blanco's plea deal she couldn't be charged with murders that happened before 1985. mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; This earned her another nickname, Black Widow. Pablo Escobar's 'Cocaine Queen' killed three husbands and had In the early 1970s, she teamed up with drug trafficker Alberto Bravo, professionally and personally, later marrying him. He was dead. Despite taking the fall for something that wasn't her fault prosecutor Catherine Vogel continued her career. Blanco 's co-defendant Perez remains a free man. He decided to kick back his seat and floor it. The New York Post reported that court records from the time revealed Blanco was a drug addict, forced both men and women to have sex at gunpoint, and counted as her favorite possessions a machine gun, Eva Perons pearls, and a tea set once owned by the Queen of England. "He took the child home, cleaned him up. Already serving time for using a bayonet to murder a man at Miami International Airport, a judge ordered Perez's sentence for the Lorenzo case would run concurrent with that one.
