Episode 222- Did The Mob Kill Drug Kingpin Frank Matthews?

The Sit Down: A Crime History Podcast

Jeff Nadu

True Crime, Society & Culture, History

4.5 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

In all of my years of covering and looking into organized crime, there is no person more interesting than drug kingpin Frank Matthews. Raised in North Carolina, Frank moved to New York City with a dream of making it. He entered the drug trade and transformed into the biggest trafficker born in this country ever. He cut out the Mafia which was integral in his growth. Then he was arrested in the early 1970's and disappeared with tens of millions of dollars and 50 plus years later, the question is, where is he?

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Jeff Nadu is an American Mafia and organized crime researcher, podcaster and content creator. He has worked at Barstool Sports and was hired personally by Dave Portnoy. His podcast "The Sitdown" with Jeff Nadu has put out hundreds of biographies on various mobsters, gangsters and criminals. He's also personally interviewed mobsters like Sammy "The Bull" Gravano, Dom Cicale, Anthony Ruggiano Jr, Gene Borrello and others as well as US Prosecutor John Gleeson and FBI Agents Joaquin "Jack" Garcia and Michael Campi. He has been personally endorsed by former Gambino mob captain Michael "Mikey Scars" DiLeonardo, esteemed author RJ Roger, and former Colombo Crime Family captain Michael Franzese.

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0:55.2	Welcome in to episode 222 of the podcast. I am your host, Jeff Neidu. And when I think back to all
1:05.2	the people that I've looked into over the years, I have looked into dozens, if not hundreds. In fact, hundreds of criminals,
1:14.6	whether it be gangsters, mobsters, drug dealers, extortionists, murderers. I've looked into
1:20.6	them all. I've even talked to some of them. And the age old question comes up all the time.
1:27.0	Who is the most interesting person you've ever looked into?
1:31.3	And without a doubt, there is no person that I would say over today's subject.
1:37.2	And what's interesting is back in September of 2021, here on the audio side of this podcast, we've actually done a show in this guy.
1:47.5	But I thought it was important to revisit today's subject to do a real kind of further
1:55.0	detailed look into where exactly he is.
1:58.7	The answer to that ageal question about who the most interesting person I've ever looked into is simple.
2:04.4	It's Frank Matthews, the kingpin who literally disappeared without a trace.
2:11.4	We hear about Jimmy Hoffa.
2:13.0	We hear about Whitey Bulger, one of which we know for a fact.
2:19.5	Jimmy Hoffa is deceased. We know Whitey Bulger, one of which we know for a fact, Jimmy Hoffa is deceased.
2:24.2	We know Whitey Bulger's deceased, but for years he was on the run.
2:25.9	He was a fugitive.
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