Weaving webs, neutralising prey; it's no real surprise that cocaine boss Griselda Blanco, who was linked to 250 murders and sentenced to 35 years in prison for her part running a drug empire, was given the nickname of America's most venomous spider.
The ruthless drug trafficker known as Black Widow (as well as the Cocaine Godmother) made as much as $80 million a month in late Seventies and Eighties Miami – a surprising arc for a five-foot woman born into poverty in Colombia just a few decades earlier.
