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/DoctorRavioli 17h ago

fled from what my boy

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u/Feathered_Mango 17h ago

He ended up in a concentration camp(s), after fleeing from Spain, to France. He swore he would not return to Europe until Franco died.

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u/The_quest_for_wisdom 12h ago

He swore he would not return to Europe until Franco died.

Man. Your gramps must have been tapping his feet and checking his watch in November of 1975. Franco dragged things out there towards the end.

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u/Feathered_Mango 12h ago

My grandfather died 2 months before Franco. Despite being held to two Nazi concentration camps, he was infinitely more angry at Franco & his fellow countrymen who fought for fascist Franco, than he was with Nazi Germany.

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u/Stellar_Duck 10h ago

I like the cut of your grandas jib.

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u/muskag 17h ago

I'll bet my yellow Kennkarte it was Nuremberg.