On a sunny afternoon in May 1984, Griselda Blanco walked through the lobby of the Marriott hotel in Newport Beach, , unaware that she was being watched by investigators from the United States Drug Enforcement Administration.The infamous drug ‘godmother’, who headed a Colombian cartel bringing a staggering 3,400lbs of cocaine into the country each month, thought she was meeting a money launderer.In fact, the meeting was part of a plan to snare the ruthless Griselda, then 41 and in hiding after death threats from competing drug cartels, who was believed to be responsible for up to 250 murders, including the assassinations of all three of her husbands.
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