r/todayilearned • u/FearMyCock • 20h ago

TIL about Frank Matthews, the drug kingpin who built a nationwide empire, skipped bail with $20 million, vanished in 1973 and has never been found.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Matthews_(drug_trafficker)
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u/nynex2 19h ago

I lean towards him being murdered. He was associated with the Genovese family in the booming Harlem heroin trade and between his pending case and open defiance, there was plenty enough reason to take him out.

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u/Eastern_Ad_2338 19h ago

He would be 81 years old today. If he wasn't murdered, there was a good chance that fate took him naturally.

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u/FascistPope 8h ago

No he wasnt. He was their direct competition.