S3 Ep10: The Black Widow, Griselda Blando

Devils in the Dark

True Crime, Comedy

4 • 835 Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

She was known as The Cocaine Godmother - notorious for her prominent role in Miami's Cocaine Cowboy Wars. Griselda terrified anyone who knew her name, ordering assassinations for everyone that crossed her path - loved ones or not. Helen and Danni dive into her life and learn how her reign of terror and success crumbled.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to Devils in the Dark with me Helen Anderson and me, Danny Howard.
0:04.2	We're two best friends entering the world of true crime.
0:07.6	We'll be sharing the stories of some of the worst and wildest true crime cases in history,
0:12.4	and we're taking you along for the ride.
0:14.4	In this episode, we're looking at Griselda Blanco, the Black Widow.
0:35.0	All the documentaries of what she's Colombian.
0:39.5	And so a lot of the, like,
0:42.5	there's just that accent.
0:44.7	And so I really, I'm upset.
0:48.3	I love Spanish-speaking cultures.
0:49.2	Yeah.
0:52.9	And when they speak English, they just sound so sexy. Great.
0:53.9	When I was in, like, dramatic sexy. Great. When I was in...
0:54.7	It sounds so, like, dramatic.
0:56.7	I know.
0:57.5	When I was in Texas on my Texas trip, I was with Daniel, who was Mexican, and the guy that
1:03.5	was in charge of the trip, he was Spanish, but he lived in Abu Dhabi, and they talked
1:08.9	together in Spanish quite a lot.
1:10.5	And I was like, asking them questions, like, do you speak the same kind of Spanish?
1:14.3	Or is it different because you're, you're from Mexico and you're from Spain?
1:17.4	And you're like, oh, it's a bit different.
1:18.5	But we understand each other.
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