For over a decade, a mysterious Colombian drug baron takes the United States by storm with an unprecedented tidalwave of gangland warfare, sweeping from coast to coast. Subscribe to Our History: https://bit.ly/3v5mKBG

The cocaine epidemic gets the attention of the Drug Enforcement Administration. They learn the bloodthirsty crime boss orchestrating the violence is a woman. Griselda Blanco, notorious in cities across the US for her mafialike brutality. This is the story of her metamorphosis into a homicidal sociopath; how the ruthless murder of her many lovers earns her the name The Black Widow; and how, after a decadelong manhunt, the DEA's finest agents bring this deadly matriarchal mastermind to justice.

This film was first broadcast: 2015

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