Here's what you need to know about the Cocaine Godmother. A particularly bloody massacre that took place in July 1979 in a Miami shopping centre became known as the Dadeland Massacre.. Griselda Blanco, a world-famous cocaine trafficker living out her senior years in Colombia, was exiting a butcher shop in Medellin when a hit man riding a motorcycle fired two bullets at her head . Get the latest updates in news, food, music and culture, and receive special offers direct to your inbox. Meanwhile, Michael has . Around the age of 14, Blanco moved out of her mothers house in order to get away from the sexual abuse she was experiencing from her step father. ", Griselda Blanco, thought to have ordered scores of murders in Miami's drug wars, is killed outside butcher's shop, Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning, 2023 Guardian News & Media Limited or its affiliated companies. Miami's independent source of Michael admits that it took his mothers assassination for him to turn his own life around. Sentenced by a US court for drug trafficking in 1985, she spent almost 20 years in an American jail before being deported to Colombia in 2004. Brit Who Snorted Cocaine Off Pablo Escobar's Grave Receives Death Threats, Shocking real evidence shown in new Jeffrey Dahmer documentary. Blanco married her third and last husband, Dario Sepulveda, left him in 1983, and later assassinated him in Columbia. Blanco was finally caught up and killed, not by police, but by an enemy who found her with her pregnant daughter-in-law at a Medelln butcher shop at age 69. [CDATA[// >