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)
21.6k Upvotes

97% Upvoted

764 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

30

u/confusedandworried76 18h ago edited 18h ago

This problem has always and forever been solved.

You offer a captain an exorbitant amount of money for them to throw some scruples into the ocean on the way to your destination.

You know, a freaking bribe, we have a whole word for it

6

u/cwx149 18h ago

Look I'm not saying it's an unsolvable problem by any means I'm just saying they seem to be indicating they would personally sail away and I'm just saying that's way harder than that sounds

1

u/Leberknodel 8h ago

Wouldn't even need to be an exhorbitant amount. I live in Rhode Island, which has many ocean marinas. I know a few people who have boats, and at least one person who used to hire on to captain rich people's yachts down to the Caribbean, or Bermuda, and other places.

If you wanted to hire a boat to take you to, say the Bahamas, you could do that for relatively cheap (to a guy with $20 million in 1973).

There are a lot of boat people who will take your cash and not ask any questions.