Here's What Happened To The Bodies Of These Drug Lords

The British tabloid The Sun notes that Mexican drug lord Arturo Beltrn Leyva was best known for "his huge wealth." Still, at some point, even money can't protect those in that dangerous profession. The man who smuggled tons of cocaine into the U.S. and earned the nicknames "The Boss of Bosses" and "The Beard," according

The British tabloid The Sun notes that Mexican drug lord Arturo Beltrán Leyva was best known for "his huge wealth." Still, at some point, even money can't protect those in that dangerous profession. The man who smuggled tons of cocaine into the U.S. and earned the nicknames "The Boss of Bosses" and  "The Beard," according to Reuters, eventually had his luck run out. He was killed by Mexican forces in a raid in 2009.

Despite a commercial-size airliner being hired to fly his body back to his home in Culiacán from Mexico City, Beltrán Leyva's funeral was small by drug lord standards. No men attended the service at Panteón Jardines del Humaya cemetery, for fear of being arrested, and the funeral was far from the "raucous" event the locals had expected. However, his mausoleum was anything but subdued. The Sun reports that the 2-story building is more like a mansion, complete with "Wi-Fi, satellite TV, air con, two bedrooms, and [a] kitchen." Reuters notes that these kinds of tombs are also usually "full of photos, plastic flowers, balloons, replica guns, and model cars."

There is a tragic postscript to Beltrán Leyva's story: the raid that took out him and six of his men had another casualty, a young Mexican Marine. The man was buried a week later as a national hero, according to NPR, but just hours after his grieving family returned home from his funeral, they were murdered in their home, a revenge killing by Beltrán Leyva's cartel.

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