Dust Toll Episode 9 - The Final Reckoning

Description

After 17 years behind bars, Matthew “The Kid Outlaw” Kimes makes his boldest bid yet to walk free. Backed by wardens and good-conduct claims—and shadowed by victims’ families and lawmen who refuse to forget—Matt steps before the parole board in 1944. What follows is a brief, controversial taste of liberty: a 60-day leave, rumors of a Hollywood payday, whispers he broke a prison dope ring…and then a trail of traffic stops, holdups, and a Texas bank job allegation. The manhunt ends not in a shootout, but under the wheels of a poultry truck in Little Rock. In the aftermath, funerals, denials, and hard questions collide: Was Matt on the brink of redemption—or proof that the legend could never outrun the life?

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Chapters

00:00 — Previously on Dust Toll

02:12 — The 1944 Clemency Push: Files, favors, and fierce opposition

06:18 — Postponed, Then Denied: The board says no (for now)

06:51 — July 1945 Hearing: A smile, a speech—and a 60-day leave

08:24 — The Secret Informant?: Breaking the prison dope ring

09:44 — Trouble on the Outside: Tickets, rumors, and the Morton bank job

11:14 — Leave Revoked: Manhunt across the Southwest

12:24 — December 1, 1945: Accident in Little Rock

14:12 — Hospital, Alias, and FBI Custody

15:28 — December 14, 1945: Death and two funerals

18:09 — Aftermath & Doubt: Innocence claims, no inheritance, policy tightens

21:47 — Episode 10 Preview

🎵 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