Verified. Se cree que mat a sus esposos (algo que ella negaba), de ah su apodo Viuda negra, igual que las araas con el mismo nombre, pues mantena relaciones con estos hombres y acababan muertos.[8]. She died Monday at 69 at the . Blanco and her second husband Alberto Bravo posed as successful business people who also worked as suppliers moving cocaine from Colombia to New York City. Vanessa Ferlito as Isabel. By the time she was released from prison in 2004, two of her sons had been killed by rivals in Colombia, and Griselda was deported there as an illegal U. S. immigrant. El 6 de junio de 2004, a la edad de 61 aos Griselda Blanco sale en libertad. Learn more by continuing to read! A street hood from Bogot, Rafael (Rafa) Cardona Salazar, a brutal drug trafficker, understood that the Spanish speaking Mermelstein could serve an important role for the Medelln cartel because of his contacts with American pilots through his human smuggling.[5]. Griselda Blanco, the Cocaine Godmother, was gunned down in front of a butcher shop in Medelln, Colombia on September 3, 2012.