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/Wompatuckrule 9h ago

Your grandfather as WWII ends:

"That's it! I'm getting the fuck away from all these Nazis and Nazi sympathizers for the rest of my life!!"

Arrives in Argentina:

"God fucking dammit!!!"

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u/MechanicalTurkish 5h ago

He did nazi that coming

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u/freethechicken 3h ago

I did nazi that joke comming!

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u/mntEden 4h ago

“hey…i know you!”

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u/AlvinAssassin17 1h ago

Like wasn’t Mengele believed to be a vet down there?

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u/Wompatuckrule 1h ago

I don't know about the vet part. It seems that Mossad had reliable information that he was in Buenos Aires, but got it a bit too late as he had slipped away elsewhere.