A woman who has been called one of the most “bloodthirsty” female killers in history was also involved in a plot to kidnap John F. Kennedy Jr.

Her name was Griselda Blanco. Law enforcement also called her the “godmother of cocaine.” Colin McLaren and investigative journalist James Robertson, who co-host the podcast “Fatal Voyage: The Death of JFK Jr.,” said the notorious woman, one of the most feared in crime history, has her sights on the famed scion of JFK.

In a recent podcast,  Robertson describes Blanco as “murderous” and “bloodthirsty,” noting, “I think she had hits out on the likes of [notorious drug lords] El Chapo and Escobar. She was that level.” He reveals that Blanco’s lifetime of crime began at just 11 years old when she kidnapped a boy from a wealthy neighborhood near her hometown in Medellín, Columbia, and shot him in the head when the ransom she demanded was not paid. “She was a monster,” Robertson says.

“Our estimates are she was responsible for anywhere from 50 or 100 homicide murders throughout the world, primarily in South Florida,” former Miami homicide cop and chief of police at the West Miami police department Nelson Andreu explains. He says she built “a billion-dollar empire” in the 1980s before a raid was conducted on one of her hideouts in Irvine, California, in 1985. She was eventually arrested by DEA agents and imprisoned and sentenced to over a decade in jail on drug charges. During her time in jail, she had a relationship with Charles Cosby — the man Andreu named as an informant for the FBI in the kidnapping plot against JFK Jr.

Blanco planned for Cosby to have someone “kidnap somebody very prominent,” Andreu explains. “And hold that person ransom in exchange for Blanco’s release from prison and return to Colombia. But the plot never materialized.” At some point, it seems JFK Jr. became the target of this plan. Detective Andreu was the main investigator for the JFK Jr. kidnapping investigation, and he said on the podcast installment, “They were trying to figure out what was the best way to be able to get their hands on JFK Jr.”

But why would JFK Jr. make a good target for the ransom plot? “John Jr. had no real serious security around him,” Andreu told his listeners. He also suggested that  security JFK Jr. did have at the end of his life may have been “rotten.” 

The podcasters went on to say that the plan fell through because Blanco’s advisors thought kidnapping JFK Jr. would result in “a massive military response from Colombian armed forces” that could destroy their entire drug operation.

At some point, Cosby seemingly went from a man willing to do Blanco’s bidding to an informant for the FBI. Andreu pondered if he might have turned on his lover out of “some kind of patriotic loyalty to the Kennedy name” or possibly out of self-preservation. “Kidnapping JFK Jr. would effectively mean starting a war with every law enforcement agency in America,” he says. “And what exactly would he get out of the deal?”

What Become of the World’s Most Feared Female Drug Lord?

In July 1995, Blanco was indicted by the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office for three murders, and Cosby was subpoenaed as a witness for the prosecution. He was set to testify against his former lover when the entire trial tanked. A critical witness was found to be having an affair with the lead prosecutor’s secretary, and accusations of conflict derailed the proceedings. The state attorney’s office had to enter into a plea negotiation in which Blanco pleaded guilty to the murders and was sentenced to serve only the time leftover in her federal sentence — she was given fifteen years in prison in her federal case and ultimately got out in 2004. Blanco was deported to Medellin, Colombia, after her release from prison — five years after JFK Jr.’s tragic death.

But her story does not end there.

Blanco got her just desserts when, after being “off the grid for years,” she was shot to death during a drive-by execution in her home country in September 2012. As for Cosby, the lover who betrayed her, no one knows what became of him.

“He seems to have disappeared off the face of the earth,” Andreu says. “He was always involved in drug activities. So, I suspect that he probably still is if he’s still alive.”