Allegedly, on his wiki, bro got snuck down to the Bahamas and bodied by the Genovese family. The reports are apparently still unconfirmed. But, yea, he highkey probably got got.
It was said it was revenge for him kidnapping a made guy over a drug deal rip off. I guarantee it was about getting his money. They saw an opportunity to make a quick score and took it.
Facts. Bahamas too? Unless he was really with it like that, Frank didn't make it off the boat. Dipped out with the people you had beef with too? Nah, it was a wrap.
Too good to pass up for a lot of people, I imagine. Brings to mind the chappelle joke about crossing nyc at 1am w 20 grand in a backpack and then realizing this must be how women feel like all the time walking around w pussy
I also think they would still want people to report him, they wouldnt say hes likely dead because no-one is going to wonder to report on spotting someone thats dead.
When you're in the protection racket you find things to "protect" people from. The NYPD incited, encouraged, and were complicit in a ton of the crime, because it meant they got more and more funding.
Hell, new york ain't even just got one type of mob either. Italian, Jewish, Irish, Russian, Chinese, everybody has a mob in NYC. No surprise a lot of the biggest black kingpins in America came out of New York too.
Yeahhh, whenever I see stories like these my first and strongest suspicion is that the person was killed in a dark place nobody thought to look for them. I seriously doubt many of them made it out the other side unscathed, but if they did then good for them.
Good for them? This guy fucking poisoned children, he peddled heroin like it was fucking candy. He abandoned his wife and kids to run off with all his money with some side chick, he was a piece of shit to the highest degree. He was part of the problem.
He probably had a few people helping him escape who just realized they could kill Matthews and take the money and it would just look like a successful escape. Or the mob. Kidnapping that made guy years prior might have caught up to him.
That’s what I’m thinking too about people double crossing him. After awhile, with this type of motion, damn near everybody around you gone be money hungry as hell.
Lmfao nah fr! Cause it ain’t too many places his black ass could’ve gone in 1973 as far as other countries who DONT have an alliance with the US. Even our enemy states would’ve been hostile towards him just for being black so I think it’s safe to say he ain’t make it 😂
Technically you do not need that big of a safe for 20M. An average size gun/rifle safe would work, the issue really is lugging around 400 pounds of money. Not impossible but you aren’t moving quickly especially if it was put in suitcases. 4-8 suitcases preferably 6 to reduce weight and easily keep track of.
It could hav been cashed out to bond certificates etc
If you were worth that much in 1973 the chances were you had bankers and fin bros in your pocket to neb able to not have to lug around a sack full of twenties
He turned out to be correct lol. Nothing got me more interested or fascinated by drugs then DARE telling me how all these chemicals/substances cause euphoria and senses of well being or laughter.
There's always some positives and negatives but you don't show kids drugs at 10 years old and expect it to prevent them using drugs. Most 10 yr old arent walking around aware of cocaine or heroin but after drug day now they know ppl can sniff shit and recreate that with other powders or real shit if its around.
Charter a plane and fill up suitcases I guess? Especially if airport security was much more lax back then. Could also just fill a van and drive across the border and go from there. I don’t know though
In 1969 the bills greater than $100 were finally all withdrawn from circulation so maybe only 3 years later it wouldn't be too unreasonable that he could still find and had a lot of the $5,000 and $10,000 bills on him, which would drastically reduce his carry on luggage requirement on his flight to a non extradition country. They would still be legal tender too and probably happily exchanged for local currency as physical dollars are usually welcomed everywhere. Part of the reason bills greater than 100 are not common in a lot of currencies now is to make an escape like this harder, along with various other reasons. And laws and regulations that discourage the carrying of and transacting in large amounts of cash hadn't been thought of just yet or were still very new.
Or he could have had some other non cash but liquid cash equivalents stuffed in his shirt. The $20million in cash from his safe might be the writer taking some liberties.
I doubt a drug kingpin would have access to a significant number of 5k and 10k bills.
To start off with, they were rare: If you managed to gather every single 5k bill ever printed, it would only total 36M, and the most recent printing of either bill was 28 years before the guy disappeared.
Additionally, the guy's entire business model was drugs. The number of people buying 5k+ worth of product at one time has to be super small. If you buy $20 worth of product, you pay with a $20. You don't drop a 5k bill and ask for change.
“$20 million in cash, mostly in $100 bills, would be a substantial but manageable amount, weighing around 440 pounds (200 kg) and fitting into roughly 20 standard bricks or several large suitcases”
There was also no luggage restriction back then. If you walked up to buy an airplane ticket with your wife and several large suitcases, nothing would be shady about this at all back then.
Because I flew in the 70’s and it was not like it was now. Yeah you couldn’t show up with a piano but if you had 7 large bags with you, they were all getting in the plane.
Ah okay. I was under the impression the CAB instituted a 2 bag limit in 1970 but it’s really not important enough to continue thinking about. They were probably still really lax for the right incentive.
According to Google, $1,000,000 in $100s would be a stack 2.61”x6.10” wide and 3.58’ tall or 4.47’3 while $20,000,000 would take up a volume of 6266.67’3 or 20m3 with a modern xl suitcase holding about 820’3 on average so it would take roughly 8 suitcases that size. That is for cases adhering to modern commercial flight standards so he could have had a private plane with drug kingpin connections and used 5-6 large duffel bags or something
Does anybody know what the blank between dr and g is? I can’t figure it out, literally no idea. Good thing they censored that letter so I wasn’t exposed to it.
When you get in bed with the mafia, you never win, but in the end, they always do. They ended a search for him, a black man, after over 50 years, but they stopped investigating the Italian mafia guys that he was in business with decades ago. And that's if you believe the fact that they ever truly investigated them in the first place.
In the 70s. Getting a fake passport and ending up in a small country that has little connection to the outside world. But he would have to keep certain connections to maintain his fake identity over the years. Risk increases over the years with digital technology.
He either got killed in 1973 by some random person (or his woman… talk about a double crossing!!) or he in Vietnam with his feet kicked up.
He was killed by the mob.
In NYC in the 70s? Either the mob or the other mob (the NYPD)
Allegedly, on his wiki, bro got snuck down to the Bahamas and bodied by the Genovese family. The reports are apparently still unconfirmed. But, yea, he highkey probably got got.
It was said it was revenge for him kidnapping a made guy over a drug deal rip off. I guarantee it was about getting his money. They saw an opportunity to make a quick score and took it.
A guy walking around with 20 mill cash and no recourse from the law is too good to pass up if you're the mob.
They probably told him $10 million was the cost of the escape route and just killed him and took all the money.
Yup. Make $20 million AND get rid of a potential liability?
Who’s gonna say no to that?
Facts. Bahamas too? Unless he was really with it like that, Frank didn't make it off the boat. Dipped out with the people you had beef with too? Nah, it was a wrap.
Too good to pass up for a lot of people, I imagine. Brings to mind the chappelle joke about crossing nyc at 1am w 20 grand in a backpack and then realizing this must be how women feel like all the time walking around w pussy
LMFAO
How did I know it was over a made man
The fact that there are multiple unverified stories floating around just tells me we’re never getting the real ending.
I’d love to see a documentary though.
There is one from 2012. "The Frank Matthews Story".
There is one, one of those crime boss docs on A an E . Him one on supreme one on Barnes. They all got documentaries.
Naz has a really good documentary on Kenneth mcgriff.
lmao the DEA said this after he got away, I would not believe them.
I also think they would still want people to report him, they wouldnt say hes likely dead because no-one is going to wonder to report on spotting someone thats dead.
Hahaha nah pigs pretend like they can't do shit all the time so they can hide their incompetence and laziness, do not believe them
The Bahamas was not far away enough.
Right? NYC was a wild place back then—everyone had to watch their backs, even the “good guys.”
NYC in the 70s was basically a movie set of chaos. Nobody was safe, not even the folks minding their business.
The documentary “The Warriors” was filmed in real time.
This meme is so unsettling — what’s it from?
Jan 6
The Warriors! Highly recommend it as a super campy film.
The Warriors. Late 1970s movie. There was a pretty decent Rockstar PS2 release that expanded in the movie.
Other than stealing car radios, idk I just didn't like it, that game was amazing.
The game is what made the movie more legendary to younger folks.
can you dig it though
I have relatives who think it’s still like that because of one visit to us in the 70s.
When you're in the protection racket you find things to "protect" people from. The NYPD incited, encouraged, and were complicit in a ton of the crime, because it meant they got more and more funding.
Hell, new york ain't even just got one type of mob either. Italian, Jewish, Irish, Russian, Chinese, everybody has a mob in NYC. No surprise a lot of the biggest black kingpins in America came out of New York too.
Seeing stories like this just proves one thing learn from the past so you don’t end up in anything this risky.
Its the same mob.
I prefer the mob over the other mob any day.
If the mob was involved, that would explain why the whole thing just vanished without answers.
The Vietnam mob?
He says while pulling that straight from his ass
1973 was a great time to nope out to Vietnam.
/s I know, I know.
This guy:
Last Chopper out of Saigon:
https://preview.redd.it/txki0qsh8p6g1.jpeg?width=1600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e178cf87763b91458230063c9f78b28a4619242e
5 the goat
Yeahhh, whenever I see stories like these my first and strongest suspicion is that the person was killed in a dark place nobody thought to look for them. I seriously doubt many of them made it out the other side unscathed, but if they did then good for them.
Good for them? This guy fucking poisoned children, he peddled heroin like it was fucking candy. He abandoned his wife and kids to run off with all his money with some side chick, he was a piece of shit to the highest degree. He was part of the problem.
Sure this particular guy sucks, I was speaking in broad terms.
Prop Joe
Buy for one, sell for two.
Sell for tew*
I’m no history buff, but I feel like something was going on in Vietnam in the early 70s. Maybe Iran Contra?
Crazy history right here. It’s a reminder that the smartest move is always choosing a better path before things go too far.
Holy shit we found him
He probably had a few people helping him escape who just realized they could kill Matthews and take the money and it would just look like a successful escape. Or the mob. Kidnapping that made guy years prior might have caught up to him.
That’s what I’m thinking too about people double crossing him. After awhile, with this type of motion, damn near everybody around you gone be money hungry as hell.
He was def killed in Vietnam
When a high-profile wanted individual is never seen again they are almost certainly not walking God's green earth any longer.
Lmfao nah fr! Cause it ain’t too many places his black ass could’ve gone in 1973 as far as other countries who DONT have an alliance with the US. Even our enemy states would’ve been hostile towards him just for being black so I think it’s safe to say he ain’t make it 😂
20 million dollars still a lot of money TODAY!!!!
yeah like my great-gma would say “that’s a lot of money back now”
I love this...that is officially my new saying. Thank you!
Mama H would be delighted!
The elders always had the real perspective. Twenty mil back then was generational and then some.
It still is lol
I used to think $20mil was a lot of money. I still do, but I used to, too.
using usinflationcalculator.com, he would’ve had $146,306,306 in today’s money.
Back then yes, but not over time if he didn’t spend it…it’s actually the reverse if he just sat on it without spending or reinvesting
20M back then is like ‘retire three generations’ level wealth.
He just had that lying around in his safe? That’s a couple hundred pounds in $100 bills?! How big is that safe?!?!?
You skip over the “drug kingpin” aspect?
No…but a walk-in safe… I’ve only seen that at the bank. I guess bro was the bank.
Technically you do not need that big of a safe for 20M. An average size gun/rifle safe would work, the issue really is lugging around 400 pounds of money. Not impossible but you aren’t moving quickly especially if it was put in suitcases. 4-8 suitcases preferably 6 to reduce weight and easily keep track of.
It could hav been cashed out to bond certificates etc
If you were worth that much in 1973 the chances were you had bankers and fin bros in your pocket to neb able to not have to lug around a sack full of twenties
Would be $146 million today.
In the 70s at that... You could definitely disappear and start a new life
For real. I can live off that in some non extraditing country and never come back. Much less 20 mil in 1973
With that kind of money back then you could disappear just by choosing not to be found. Whole different era.
No internet on a wide scale yet. No database to look you up in when you’re in another country
Internet wasn't a thing till 1993.
Oh silly boy, internet was way before that.
Folks don’t realize how far a dollar stretched in the 70s, you could’ve lived like royalty in half the world.
No internet, no digital trails… if you dipped right, you were GONE gone.
He probably disappeared to death in the Bahamas though
Just as likely paid for that rumour to be released
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You can... Definitely harder to get gone... Especially once you're wanted
What's important for public safety is censoring the 'u' in the word drug.
Here's me thinking he wasn't just a G, he's a Dr G
Dr. G bringing a whole new meaning to the term "street smart"! 😂
"East side!" W https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWX1vhXqe_w
...my dumbass thought it was DRAG kingpin and was like "That's incredible he made so much doing shows!"
LMAO me too - drug never even crossed my mind, depsite it being an obvious source of huge illegal wealth.
THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!!!
My uncle used to say D.A.R.E. meant:
Drugs Are Really Excellent
He turned out to be correct lol. Nothing got me more interested or fascinated by drugs then DARE telling me how all these chemicals/substances cause euphoria and senses of well being or laughter.
There's always some positives and negatives but you don't show kids drugs at 10 years old and expect it to prevent them using drugs. Most 10 yr old arent walking around aware of cocaine or heroin but after drug day now they know ppl can sniff shit and recreate that with other powders or real shit if its around.
Maybe the guy "unalived himself". God I hate the current level of censorship on the internet.
nah he was a drag kingpin. he ran the biggest drag shows in the country
I thought his nickname was Dr. G...
So they only get flooded with the regular bots in the comments and not the drug bots too.
Everything is TikTok Clown Shoes now.
2025 internet is some fucking pussy shit
If he isn’t living it up somewhere giggling at this I’ll be surprised
He got be a minimum 70, if not pushing 80. If he’s alive and still has a penny of it then he WON
Is the math that hard?
Some say the equation still hasn't been solved back now
Nice callback to the other comment lol
This man 100% got whacked by the mob. You don’t disappear for 50 years with 20 mil and not pop up anywhere.
U got me 🤭
Oh see you heard me calling for you 😂
How the fuck do you take $20 million with you somewhere? I’m guessing he didn’t put it all in his pockets.
Private jet money. Probably knows a smuggler or two
Charter a plane and fill up suitcases I guess? Especially if airport security was much more lax back then. Could also just fill a van and drive across the border and go from there. I don’t know though
In 1969 the bills greater than $100 were finally all withdrawn from circulation so maybe only 3 years later it wouldn't be too unreasonable that he could still find and had a lot of the $5,000 and $10,000 bills on him, which would drastically reduce his carry on luggage requirement on his flight to a non extradition country. They would still be legal tender too and probably happily exchanged for local currency as physical dollars are usually welcomed everywhere. Part of the reason bills greater than 100 are not common in a lot of currencies now is to make an escape like this harder, along with various other reasons. And laws and regulations that discourage the carrying of and transacting in large amounts of cash hadn't been thought of just yet or were still very new.
Or he could have had some other non cash but liquid cash equivalents stuffed in his shirt. The $20million in cash from his safe might be the writer taking some liberties.
I doubt a drug kingpin would have access to a significant number of 5k and 10k bills.
To start off with, they were rare: If you managed to gather every single 5k bill ever printed, it would only total 36M, and the most recent printing of either bill was 28 years before the guy disappeared.
Additionally, the guy's entire business model was drugs. The number of people buying 5k+ worth of product at one time has to be super small. If you buy $20 worth of product, you pay with a $20. You don't drop a 5k bill and ask for change.
In his suitcase. You have no idea how easy it was to take things on planes in the past.
That would be a lot of suitcases though. 20m is probably more than you would think in physical form.
“$20 million in cash, mostly in $100 bills, would be a substantial but manageable amount, weighing around 440 pounds (200 kg) and fitting into roughly 20 standard bricks or several large suitcases”
There was also no luggage restriction back then. If you walked up to buy an airplane ticket with your wife and several large suitcases, nothing would be shady about this at all back then.
Why do you think there were no luggage restrictions in the 70s? But anyway my only point was that it would be a lot of suitcases.
Because I flew in the 70’s and it was not like it was now. Yeah you couldn’t show up with a piano but if you had 7 large bags with you, they were all getting in the plane.
Ah okay. I was under the impression the CAB instituted a 2 bag limit in 1970 but it’s really not important enough to continue thinking about. They were probably still really lax for the right incentive.
Google tells me one suitcase can hold 2-5 million in $100 bills. Get some big suitcases and you’d only need a handful
I’m not the smartest person, but even I wouldn’t check a suitcase full of money through baggage. Playing with fire there.
He hid it under a rock that has no earthly business in a Maine hayfield. Piece of black, volcanic glass.
20 mil would be 20k 100's so you could probably fit that in a few suitcases. Then just hop on a plane or boat out of the country.
According to Google, $1,000,000 in $100s would be a stack 2.61”x6.10” wide and 3.58’ tall or 4.47’3 while $20,000,000 would take up a volume of 6266.67’3 or 20m3 with a modern xl suitcase holding about 820’3 on average so it would take roughly 8 suitcases that size. That is for cases adhering to modern commercial flight standards so he could have had a private plane with drug kingpin connections and used 5-6 large duffel bags or something
200k 100s
This is how I used to get my brother in hide-and-seek! “I’m not looking for you no more” he comes out and I tag his behind…They still looking!
Exactly, why announce they stopped looking for him, who does that serve.
Meanwhile I'm over here like who's Dr. G
Glad I wasn't the only one
Does anybody know what the blank between dr and g is? I can’t figure it out, literally no idea. Good thing they censored that letter so I wasn’t exposed to it.
A kingpin! Must’ve been big in the bowling racket.
Someone from Stephen A Smith's family tree has knowledge of his whereabouts
Why u say that?
Hairline, face, general resemblance.
A) its a lot easier to go incognito in the 70’s
B) that mf is probably dead
By now, 50 years later? With that 70s lifestyle?
The irish goodbye.
When you get in bed with the mafia, you never win, but in the end, they always do. They ended a search for him, a black man, after over 50 years, but they stopped investigating the Italian mafia guys that he was in business with decades ago. And that's if you believe the fact that they ever truly investigated them in the first place.
I Heard he got killed by the mob after meeting them.
Why do they act like you can’t say the word “drug” on the internet?
What the hell is a doctor g?!
Drug Kingpin that was poorly and unnecessarily censored.
Oh! Lol, I feel so dumb!
Don’t be, it’s a ridiculous censor.
It's not as bad now but you get flooded with bots if you say things like drugs, shirt, hacked, etc
i really want a goodfellas style movie about this dude
In $100 bills, that is over 400 pounds of money
He either dead or living in Africa/Asia.
It’s understood by anyone who’s done even a little research that he was whacked
Not me reading the censored drug as drag 🙈
he'd be poor if he came back to NY with that little money
Weird censorship of the word drug
Wow, them drag kings getting away with murder, what next?
TF is a dr-g kingpin? A drag kingpin? Oh shit, is that him on the right in the 2nd pic!?
I wonder how he is
Gotta know when it’s time to say enough. 20Ms is good enough
lol, Dr. G, doing his best to heal the streets! Who knew he had a PhD in finesse.
Oh, he’s dead.
He dead.💀
In the 70s. Getting a fake passport and ending up in a small country that has little connection to the outside world. But he would have to keep certain connections to maintain his fake identity over the years. Risk increases over the years with digital technology.
He moved one town over and started going by tom lol. In 1973 thats where all the men went. And they never found people lol
For real! History's lessons hit harder when you see the risks people took back then. Stay woke.
Gave the govt their $40m in taxes & fees then VANISHED
Disappearing in 1973 easy mode.
Waste disposal business mightve needed to empty out some old drums
He’s in Somalia.
I'm stupid. I didn't realize they were censoring the word "drug."
I thought this man's nick name was Dr. G. Who was a kingpin.🤦🏾♀️
20 million in 73 is so much fucking money jesus christ.
tbh, Definitely! History's lessons are vital. It’s wild how some just repeat the same mistakes.
$20 million dollars in $100 dollar bills would weigh over 450 pounds. He must have been a beefy guy with a very big safe.
I really don't like how the dumb TikTok self-censorship has spread to other platforms.
Right? Just imagine the suitcase game he had going on. That’s some next-level planning!!
I’d watch a movie about this!
So we glorifying him or what cause I'm lost
First ever passport bro
Probably left the country and the US didn’t care enough to look for him.
He is in Bali.
In Bali, living his best life!
Right? Gotta have connections if you’re moving that kind of cash. Wouldn’t want to risk it on a regular flight.
IF it was in all 100 dollar bills that's still 440 lbs to lugging around.
How the fuck you carrying around 20 million?
That’s like 10 duffel bags
Those goddamned drag kingpins.
(Fuck SaycheeseDGTL for their censorship)
Ironically I had to censor myself because BPT doesn't allow terminology related to cats here.
Either he's dead, scott-free, or the CIA pulled him in for a job...
Why was I trying to figure out what a Dr. G kingpin is?
"ain't making no movie bout me!"
honestly though how do you travel with $20mill.. or even fly.
dude probavly bought an island
That was a very large safe to hold that much money.
…….. what does $20m in cash look like? What did he escape in? A box truck?
That mufucka dead. He dead
Bro probably in Brazil or something smoking cigars and shit. Or he's dead. Most likely he's dead
Wait I know this guy