The chief still has a lot of unsolved cases and questions which Perez likely knows the answers to. "This was a nice middle class community and things like this never ever occurred. Blanco had killed three husbands, organised The ultra-ruthless Cocaine Godmother of Colombia invented What happened to Michael Corleone Blanco? That a woman had managed such success in such a male-dominated business fascinated storytellers in print and on screen. Despite rising to the top of an underworld dominated by ruthless men, Blanco is no feminist hero. Not in this community anyway," Siceloff said. The Cocaine Cowboys touched every part of the community. Over the past few months CBS4 has been tracking the life of Griselda Blanco, also known as the Godmother of Cocaine. According to UPI, Ayala is believed to have killed at least 35 people while in Blanco's service, and those numbers could certainly be higher given that he operated during a drug war and all. mso-style-priority:99; Blanco was assassinated on Sept. 3, 2012, at the age of 69, so theres no way Lopez can model herself after the actual person. Prosecutor Catherine Vogel notes are thorough. But the late womans son, Michael Corleone Blanco, is saying that he has some advice, if only Lopez would pick up the phone. By then, she was a bloated 69-year-old whod paid a physical price for her years of drug dealing, lavish living, and cocaine consumption. Take your pick. At the time Miami Dolphins Head coach Don Shula lived just blocks away from the park. In late September, CBS4 reporter David Sutta reported on how authorities finally caught her after more than a decade on the run and how she managed to escape the electric chair. It was a quick encounter. It is by sheer chance the Orlando State Attorney's office has kept the files. "He was wrapped in a blanket, had a couple of roses and his passport in his hands on top of chest." Her story was the subject of the bookThe Godmother: The True Story of the Hunt for the Most Bloodthirsty Female Criminal in Our Time, by Richard Smitten, and the 2008 documentary, Cocaine Cowboys: Hustlin With the Godmother. "It was just a lose, lose situation for us all," said Andreu. Some speculated the hitman had sabotaged the case on purpose, fearing for his life. CBS4 spoke with his family recently and they said he's still here roaming in South Florida. The instructions to Ayala were go there, get my money. Blancos first three sons met their deaths in their native country of Colombia after they had been deported from America where they had committed their crimes. Michael Corleone spent his childhood with his maternal grandmother as Griselda Blanco and her first three sons were in jail at that time of his life. In November 2012 she was elected State Attorney in Key West. Blanco 's co-defendant Perez remains a free man. So why did Blanco want Castro killed? I think we will see Miguelito behind bars again someday.". Once he was done shooting, Siceloff said the gunman walked to a car and left. Ayala was caught exchanging gifts and having phone sex with secretaries at the Miami-Dade State Attorney's Office. There was very little physical ballistics. It was August, 1982 and Siceloff was 26. She married a criminal while still a teenager, and had with him three children before divorcing himand later ordering his murder. Could anybody have changed? Bodies appeared neatly packed in boxes in Doral where the Dolphin Mall now stands. Abused as a child, she turned early to a life of crime, which included pickpocketing, prostitution, and by some accounts kidnapping a wealthy boy for ransomand killing him when his family refused to pay. Miami's "Godmother Of Cocaine" Gunned Down In Colombia She was assassinated in 2012 in Medelln, Colombia, after returning to her home country following a stint in U.S. federal prison. 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. For roughly a decade the case files against Griselda Blanco has sat buried in the Orlando State Attorney office storage room. Little Michael, 5 years old, was in the backseat. As part of Blanco's plea deal she couldn't be charged with murders that happened before 1985. During these horrific murders the couple's three children sat in a room nearby. mso-style-noshow:yes; There were casings scattered throughout the house," said Andreu. The evidence is actually slated to be destroyed any day now. In 18 months his department saw 111 murders, all of them drug related. "The star witness against Griselda was going to Jorge Ayala. Well that was offensive to Griselda," explained Andreu. He asked her for more drugs and she gave him more drugs to try and sell and make up the whole thing. They were shot multiple times. I hope so. The chief still has a lot of unsolved cases and questions which Perez likely knows the answers to. Blanco was deported in 2004 back to Colombia. Still couldn't come up with the money. He asked her for more drugs and she gave him more drugs to try and sell and make up the whole thing. mso-style-parent:""; And you kill everybody," Andreu explained. She was also a mother of four sons who named her youngest Michael Corleone after her favorite film The Godfather. font-size:11.0pt; Because he declined to help one of her sons. Her three eldest sons were all killed as a result of drug deals gone awry before Griselda Blancos youngest son, Michael Corleone Blanco, even turned 18. He opened the door and peaked below at the roadway to guide him. It didn't help that the child resembled his own. "Ayala told us that he had to pull a gun on Miguelitto and says we are not killing any of the kids and took him out at gunpoint. Griselda was assassinated by two gunmen on 3 September 2012 when she was coming from a shop. I don't know if we had any evidence we could even match at the time," said Andreu explained "So the case rested on Jorge Ayala's credibility and reliability. "That same day Jorge Ayala gets stabbed eight times in the Dade County Jail," Andreu said. He was killed in his children's bedroom. In a plea bargain, Blanco received a 10-year sentence. Griselda Blancos psychotic spiral from drug-fuelled orgies to homicidal paranoia, igniting Miamis cocaine war, is getting a Hollywood glow up, writes Justin Vallejo Yet almost all their suspects and victims from Colombia and Cuba spoke only Spanish. Prosecutors didn't stop there though. I think they were face down if I'm not mistaken. The drugs were either stolen or the money was stolen. With the help of a Colombian arrested in The two were charged with a second case in which parents murdered just feet away from their three young children. Dixon Trujillo: Untold Truth about Griselda Blancos son mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; Griselda Blanco -- a notorious drug trafficker who ran the infamous Medellin Cartel -- was shot to death in Colombia yesterday. If you can't get my money than you kill him. Rashi Agarwal. It was an infamous time in Miami's history where murders happened all across the landscape. "People say who killed her? As they drove down Southwest 168th street in South Dade a van pulled up next to their car and some inside fired on them. Blanco Andreu said he's ran into Perez on the street once. But when she discovered Sepulveda was openly cheating on her, she had him assassinated in Colombia as well, by thugs shed hired to pose as fake cops. According to reports, Blanco was hit Three of them were from her first marriage to Carlos Trujillo whereas her fourth son was from her third and final marriage to Dario Seplveda. The seven boxes are full of the most horrendous crimes you can imagine. 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. The case appeared to be a slam dunk but one box in the bunch shows how it all fell apart. Albeit being incarcerated, Blanco still ran a multi million dollar drug operation behind bars with the assistance of Charles Cosby. Its some kind of poetic justice that she met an end that she delivered to so many others, Professor Bruce Bagley, head of the University of Miamis department of international studies and author of the book Drug Trafficking in the Americas, said to The Guardian shortly after her death in 2012. She had lingering enemies almost everywhere you look. 2012 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved. Andreu was a rookie cop in Miami at the time and was promoted quickly to homicide detective. mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; And at one point her operation is said to have shipped more than 3,000 pounds of cocaine a month to the US. Andreu said he's ran into Perez on the street once. Could he have changed? Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. Among other things, Blanco pioneered the use of human "mules" to carry cocaine into the United States. Griselda was, by most accounts, a Detectives estimate she was responsible for 75 to 150 murders over her lifetime. True story of coke queen Griselda Blanco who killed 3 He then pulled over and checked on his son. Over the course of her violent reign, its estimated that They tried to kill him in jail," Andreu said. 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"When they went back to Griselda and said we missed Jesus but we killed his son by mistake, she was ecstatic. We were a UPS softball team going to play against another department."