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.

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

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

Description

A funeral furlough turned to gunfire. A lifer who somehow ran the prison from the inside. Sisters who couldn’t stay out of headlines. In Episode 8, Influence and Infamy, the Kimes name shifts from back-road robberies to front-page spectacle: Matthew becomes a powerful “trusty” inside McAlester, George pleads for mercy with a heartbreaking letter, and Nellie and Jackie spiral through arrests, rumors, and bad company. Quail hunts, prison rodeos, forged paroles, and a public furious at the idea of clemency—this is the uneasy calm before the next storm.

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Chapters00:00 — Previous episode recap

01:25 — The Shadow Lingers

03:45 — “Most Powerful Behind the Walls”

07:10 — The Quail Hunt Leave

08:22 — Voices of the Victims

10:25 — Misidentifications, arrests, and George in solitary

13:39 — Pilfering charges, Matt loses trusty status, and George’s desperate letter

18:52 — “Fighters, Incarcerated”

23:35 — Toward the Door Marked Clemency

23:57 — Preview of Episode 9

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

🌐 More at DustToll.com

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