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Podcast: True Crime Uncensored with Burl Barer and Mark Boyer
Episode: Black Caesar: The Rise and Disappearance of Frank Matthews, Kingpin
Description: This is the remarkable story of Frank Matthews, a charismatic drug kingpin from the late 1960s and 1980s who organized a huge criminal enterprise before jumping bail and 1973 with $15 million and a beautiful woman. Nicknamed Black Caesar, Matthews has never been seen again in what has become one of organized crimes most intriguing mysteries.
Black Caesar is a 2013 USA Best Book Award Winner in the True Crime: Non-Fiction category.