Griselda Blanco Restrepo (February 15, 1943 – September 3, 2012), better known as the "Cocaine Godmother", "Black Widow" and "La Madrina", was a Colombian drug lord of the Medellín Cartel. She was also involved in the Miami-based cocaine trafficking and organized crime between the 1980s and 2000s. It has been said that she was responsible for almost 2,000 murders as she was transporting cocaine from Colombia to New York City, Southern California and Miami. Blanco was shot and killed at age sixty-nine.