It turns out that Griselda Blanco was not the only woman to ever establish herself as a successful drug master. Shashikala Pantankar tended to a thriving kingdom of her own, only in Mumbai, India. Her specialty was dealing a type of meth called mephedrone, known colloquially as Meow Meow. This peculiar street name scored Patankar the nickname, Kitty.
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“Kitty” didn’t start out so powerful though. She started with plain old marijuana until she discovered the goldmine that is mephedrone. Soon, much of Mumbai was crazy for the drug, which helped Kitty carve out a lucrative niche for herself. It all came to an end in 2015, when she was finally arrested.
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The scheme that these women, along with their mother’s assistance, came up with is enough to make anyone sick. They were master pickpockets, and they had one tool to make their plan all the easier: children. The children would serve as distractions while they did the deed. The problem? Those poor children were not their own.
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They kidnapped several children over the course of their unsavory career. Any children who fussed too much risked being killed by the women. In one case, the mother kidnapped a boy who would not stop crying. In a fit of frustration, she beat the child to death with an iron bar. The women eventually got caught when they chose their stepsister as a victim. They were all sentenced to death, although the mother passed away before she could make it to prison.