BEAUTY AND THE BEASTS Inside Mexican beauty contest where drug lords like El Chapo pick brides & queens are kidnapped, murdered & shot by cops Updated: 26 Feb 2021, 16:08 FLASHING a smile as she was crowned Miss Sinaloa 2012, Maria Susana Flores told the audience: “You cannot change your past. But you can choose today what your future will be.” Nine months later, she died in a hail of bullets from Mexican soldiers after getting caught up in a brutal drugs war. 14 Maria Susana Flores was shot dead by Mexican soldiers in a gun battleCredit: AP:Associated Press Maria - known as Susy - is just one of the many winners of the Mexican beauty contest whose coveted crown has led them into a life of drugs, guns and murder.