Griselda Blanco: A Brief Story Of A Serial Killer

When you hear the name “Black Widow,” you would more than likely think of the spider. Perhaps you might imagine the comic book character. Griselda

Blanco is neither the arachnid nor the fictional characters. Her legacy of fear, murder, and paranoia are very real. With 250 (known) she either paid for, sponsored or executed personally, she has been coined one of the most savage and murderous people in organized crime.

Griselda Blanco, “The Godmother” (later known as the “Black Widow”) was born February 15, 1943 in Cartagena, Colombia. At the age of three, her mother,

Ana Lucia Restrepo moved the two of them to Medallin, Colombia to a tent-style home along the mountainside. It is here where Blanco developed very early a numbness to crime, death and

She allegedly motorcycles, a practice she was said to have invented,” (Tikkanen. Para 3.

2018).

At the same time as her moving and distributing massive amounts of cocaine, the level in which she was feared grew. Doing business with her came with the risk of one day you, your family, and anyone you could have ever held close to you l, becoming targets. Even something that to the average that would appear small, could land you in a body bag when it came to Griselda Blanco.

There were no rules when it came to engaging business with her because in an instant she could shift and either it made difference if you were a stranger or considered family, if you crossed her you could guarantee your life would soon be over. Both her 2nd and 3rd husbands found themselves at the end of her gun for “disrespecting or betraying” her. Whether she killed herself or hired the hit put on them, she made sure they were dead and took pride in the talking of a life.

According to a former associate and lover of hers, Charles Cosby, Blanco once stated that she was the, “Baddest b**** to take a breath.” When you pause and think on the mindset of a person who proclaims such a statement, you