Dust Toll Episode 10 - The Long Road Home

Description

The Kimes saga outlives its own legend. After Matt’s death in 1945, George is left to carry the name—and the weight. Episode 10 follows the long arc from grief and regret to one last escape, a year in the free world under an alias, recapture, and—after three decades behind bars—parole and a hard-won, ordinary life. Along the way: Nellie’s troubles, a burned homestead, a prison art studio that becomes sanctuary, and a final farewell written by a man who’s seen too much dust settle. The road ends in California, 1970—but the echoes stretch from McAlester’s walls to the red dirt backroads that made the Kimes brothers famous.

New here? Start with the Trailer → Episode 1.

Extras: Two bonus episodes—The Unseen Hand and Where Did All the Money Go?—are available for subscribers at DustToll.com and on Spotify.

Chapters

00:00 — Previously on Dust Toll

03:40 — After Matt: Doubts, denials, and the press reckoning

11:50 — Brushes with Notoriety: Nellie’s collisions, fire at Red Oaks

15:03 — Canvas Behind Bars: George the prison artist

20:37 — July 1948: The Escape from the Hound Kennels

23:50 — Eleven Months Free: Oregon work, baptism, and capture

26:39 — Solitary & Sentence Add-On: Paying for the run

28:19 — Parole at Last (May 1957): Ranch job and a second life 29:33 — “Cousin George” Speaks: The farewell letter

32:48 — A Quiet Drift West: Idaho arrest dismissed; California years

33:24 — Final Curtain (1970): George’s death and the sisters’ last notes

34:33 — What the Kimes Name Means Now: Legacy and cost

36:22 — Bonus Episode Previews

🎵 Theme Music: A Lazy Farmer Boy by Buster Carter and Preston Young, 1931

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Tags

Dust Toll, Kimes Brothers, Matthew Kimes, Oklahoma History, True Crime Podcast, Historical Crime, Bank Robbery, Beggs Oklahoma, 1920s Outlaws, Phantom Bandit, Dust Toll Podcast