The murder of children is never an easy thing to stomach. It is even harder to accept when those children were hurt by people who are supposed to protect them, like relatives. In this case, a woman by the name of Diane Downs killed one of her children and severely injured her other two. She even went as far as to stage the murder scene to look as though she had been attacked in a carjacking gone wrong.
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Downs shot herself in the forearm and carefully devised a story to share with medical personnel and police: that she and her children had been brutally attacked by an unknown assailant and that she was desperate to get to the hospital. Unfortunately for her, eye-witness accounts of the incident didn’t quite match up with Downs’ version. Her eight-year-old daughter was fatally shot and her other two children survived but sustained serious, life-changing injuries. Downs was sentenced to life in prison. Her motive? She was deeply infatuated with a man who stated he did not want children.
4. Griselda Blanco
When most people think of hotshot drug lords, they probably picture muscly men with cryptic tattoos and a stone-cold face permanently set in a fearsome frown. They might be surprised to learn that one of the most infamous drug lords of all time was actually a woman. Her name was Griselda Blanco, and she represented one of the most unrelenting cartels of all time, the Medellin Cartel.
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Griselda Blanco was so feared and so well-known that she eventually earned nicknames such as The Cocaine Godmother, La Madrina, and The Black Widow. She was at the top of the world, raking in dirty money. Blanco orchestrated countless attacks on rivals. Often, these attacks resulted in death. Her kingdom came toppling down in 1985, when she was arrested in Miami. She met her death when she was shot by an unknown assailant riding a motorbike, after being released from prison. The Black Widow was responsible for the murder of three of her husbands.