Every week Blood on the Sand brings you some of the Darkest True Crime set in some of the Most Beautiful Locations. Hosts Bob Keen, Andre Hashem, and Michael Johnson are here to serve you a Mai Tai with a side of bad guys

We’re here, we’ve made it, after all this crazy s#*t we’re finally finished, Griselda Blanco has come to an end, and what an end it is! Don’t want to spoil anything, but this ends with quite the bang! But before all that let’s set this thang up, so Griselda, you know the murderer, kingpin, drug lord, well she’s going to be released, everyone’s happy right? Wrong, the police, for there credit are rightfully pissed about this, so they try to pin all the other years of crimes that she did, oh were you not paying attention? Yea, she’s only in prison for the little, absolutely minor amount of crime she was doing back in NYC, you know back all those episodes ago, when she was just moving an ounce here and there, back before the 200+ murders she most likely did!

So she’s about to get out of her military prison set up and fly back to Columbia and continue running her already, never stopped running, drug empire, but there’s something she wasn’t expecting: The Law, that’s right The Law is going to catch up with her and she’s lookin at a huge amount of potential time back in prison: 30 Years, nearly the rest of her life! Which she will be serving in 3 concurrent terms of 10 years each, so 10 years, minus good behavior and all the other bs… How does she do it, will she make it to the end of the story, how are her sons doing?!?! All this and so much more here on the weeks exciting Blood on the Sand!

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Griselda might be in prison for the next 15 years, but that isn’t about to get in the way of love! In 1991 Charles Crosby, a small time crack dealer in Oakland, sent her some fan mail. He’s reached the limits of what he could make based on his suppliers in Oakland, but he had his sights on bigger things: Driving corvettes, wearing the finest teals and purples, and Jheri curls!

These are the years that Griselda finds true love… While being locked up in a super-supermax prison located on an active military base, but somehow she still finds time to run her business, keep up with the fam, and pay $1,500 EACH TIME to make sweet love to Mr. Charles Crosby, oh I’m sorry have “Sexual Relations” as he likes to put it, in the most romantic location in the whole prison: a multipurpose room. Later, after Charles gets caught messing around, the man has needs after all, we find out what those other purposes for the room really are. After that we catch up with how the boys are doing, as you might imagine: not good, but they find a clever way to screw over the people who may have harmed them. Lastly we also find out: Who’s been in fact having sexual relations with a white woman, the answer may surprise you! All this and so much more here on the weeks exciting Blood on the Sand!

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There’s a four million dollar bounty on Griselda’s head in Miami and Columbia, so she takes her mom, you know the one she never spoke to again, and takes her to Irvine in Northern California to hide out. Rivi, her and our favorite hitman, is offered $500 grand for information on Griselda, but he turns them down and goes into hiding in Chicago.
This is the beginning of Griselda’s downfall. Here we are, the calm before the storm, all the crazy stuff that Griselda has done, from ordering the deaths of at least 200 people, having children murdered, cutting the throats of anyone who’s come close to her, the time has come and she will now have to reap what she has sown, she has to pay the piper! Like all evil criminals should, she must spend the rest of her life incarcerated for the evils…. Nah I’m just messin with you, she gets 15 years! 15 F#*kin years! Yes, you did read that correctly, for being one of the, if not THE, largest drug traffickers in the WORLD at the time, murdering countless people, ordering the murder of children, accidentally getting a child murdered, she faces: 10 years! How did that all this S#*t-F#*kery happen? Well you’ll need to listen to find out!
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“Who Put This Thing Together? Me, That’s Who! Who Do I Trust? Me!” -Scarface

These are the Miami years, the golden years, the years when everything fell into place, this is when our story takes a sudden and very violent shoot up! Like a bullet in only 6 years Griselda goes from moving 1000 Kilos in a battleship to being able to buy a battleship, and probably would have too because these are some of the most grizzly years we’ve seen in America since the civil war. Bodies keep piling up, and now she’s in Miami, but she isn’t alone, her three sons Dixon, Uber, and Osvaldo,are helping her along with their future ex-stepfather Darío Sepúlveda, and the rest of the gang of hired killers, one of which, Rivi, we actually kind of like. Needless to say, but things go perfectly according to Griselda’s plans, which wouldn’t really be an issue but she is smoking 5 Basucos a day! Which if you’re just tuning in now, are Cigarettes packed with Cocaine! We also take a trip to Cocaine Narnia, find out who owns the “Happy Time Complete Party Supply company”, what a war wagon is, and a few children are brutally murdered, or ruined for the rest of their lives, fun stuff!

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“New York City: If You Can Make it Here, You Can Make it Anywhere”

Like a gunshot Griselda is off and panting a hard foot in America, and like many immigrants before her she lands in the city that never sleeps, New York City! Hot off her international incident smuggling 994 Kilos, Griselda takes New York. First thing on the agenda; how to get more product in? Well, she has all these women lying around, might as well start strapping cocaine girdles on them! In an exciting story we like to call “The Sisterhood of the traveling Cocaine pants” We also find who invented the first crack pipe, and the invention of the female orgasm, all this and so much more!

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Before there was Pablo Escobar, there was Griselda Blanco. Coming from a…let’s say “circumstantial” (or circumspect) upbringing in Columbia to become one of the deadliest women in modern day history, listen as we bring you the first episode in our latest series of psychos from the tropics. today’s episode focuses on the early years, the come-up years, of Griselda; we dive way deeper than we should, and uncover one hell of a bloody episode, a period of time called La Violencia which is still not extreme enough, to Griselda’s first forays into kidnapping, murder, and a whole lotta sex and drugs….come with us as we sift through the BS and pull out some Columbian Drug Lord gold! We’re gonna get murdered!

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“There is no doubt some of Read’s stories are embellished, polished or in some cases, stolen, but there is also no doubt that through the 1970s and 1980s he was one of the most dangerous men in Australia.”

So here we are, this is it! We have made it to the finale of Mark Brandon “Chopper” Read, we sift through all the truth and lies and finish this story in a way we feel would’ve made Chopper proud. But outside of that we get into what Chopper was capable of doing once he honestly, truly was capable of retiring from a life of crime, Chopper for all intents and purposes has left the life behind him and focuses of his children, painting, producing several albums, a live show featuring standup, stories, writing many books, some of which twice, being featured on television and films, and just doing anything and everything he could. It’s really inspirational, in a psychotic way. This final episode really shows all the potential Chopper could’ve had given a different upbringing, and we finish with his final “death bed confession” interview where he clears the air and gets into the “truth” of a lot of his stories, given 7 days before passing away.

“Dangerous gangsters feared Read because he was a local version of an underworld terrorist. For many years, he saw himself as a street soldier who didn’t care if he lived or died.”

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“I have a lucrative speaking career now. Why would I ruin it with being hasty and violent?”

Bang, we come in on chopper leaving prison, we know you’ve heard that before, and this time he promises that he’ll be good, we also know you’ve heard that before, but unlike all those other times, this time, it’s actually (mostly) true! We say mostly because, there might have been a little, well you really should listen to the full episode to learn about that one! But yea, that’s right Chopper is now on the up and up, by the time he leaves prison he has sold an insane amount of books, 300,000 and in Australia he’s kind of a regular celebrity, he gets asked onto television shows, mostly drunk, gets interviewed by journalists, mostly drunk and hangs out with celebrities, mostly to drink. We gotta tell you, once Chopper got that taste of fam he did not want it to go anywhere, but will that lead to his downfall? Will Mark Brandon “Chopper” Read’s story be met with some insane poetic irony and eventually lead to his final judgement for all the wrongs he’s done? Well tune in and listen till the end to hear the thrilling conclusion to one of the most interesting psychos we’ve ever heard about!

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February 11th 1998, Chopper gets out of jail, 1998, he’s sold at least 300k books. Hell, he sold 260k by the end of his appeal because they reference his literary career as his reason for being safe to release into society. 

These are the books he releases in prison:

Chopper 2: Hits And Memories: More Confessions Of Mark Brandon Read 1992 

Chopper 3: Hell Hath No Fury Like a Mate Shot in the Arse 1993 

Chopper 4: For The Term Of His Unnatural Life: More Confessions Of Mark Brandon Read 1994

Chopper 5 Pulp Faction 1995 

Chopper 6 No Tears for a Tough Guy 1996

Crime journalist John Silvester wrote the forward for a re-release of Chopper: From the Inside and said:

“It was a series of books on the life of Chopper Read that many consider to be the greatest crime against literature in the history of the written word,”