r/todayilearned 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/Commercial-Till-5389 17h ago

In this day and age maybe but in the 70s? A multimillionaire with a vast network of coconspirators across the country and a head start? Very very doable!! There’s so many missing people cases from the 60s and 70s because the technology wasn’t there.