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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

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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

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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

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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

🎧 Dust Toll – Episode 7 : Vengeance Unveiled

Blood debts, buried truths, and the shot that refused to stay silent.

The winter of 1932 brought the Kimes family to another breaking point. Nellie Kimes’s near-fatal shooting—first dismissed as an accident—exposed a darker betrayal and set her outlaw brothers on a collision course with vengeance. From hospital whispers to a deadly New Year’s Eve showdown in Seminole, rumors of justice, revenge, and cover-ups tangled together until no one could say who really pulled the trigger.

As investigators and eyewitnesses clashed, the Kimes brothers once again walked the thin line between punishment and protection—shielded, perhaps, by the same officials sworn to keep them caged. By the time the smoke cleared, another man lay dead, Oklahoma’s newspapers blazed with scandal, and the legend of the Kimes family deepened its shadow.

Episode 7 traces the twisting aftermath of the Noland killing, the conflicting testimonies that followed, and the bizarre public fascination that saw the notorious brothers play baseball games under guard while rumors linked them to Pretty Boy Floyd. In Vengeance Unveiled, retribution blurs into survival, and the Kimes legacy becomes harder than ever to untangle.

Chapters:

00:00 – Story Recap

01:04 – The Truth Behind Nellie’s Wound

02:38 – Vengeance and the Trap : George Noland’s End

04:52 – Conflicting Accounts and the Cover-Up

11:11 – The Unfolding Year : From Vigilante Justice to Public Spectacle

14:51 – Episode 8 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

The Kimes family’s story twists ever tighter.

Even with George and Matthew Kimes locked behind McAlester’s walls, their name still carried the echo of gunfire and scandal.

Episode 6 follows the aftermath of the Beggs murders and Matt’s death sentence, the brothers’ long years under a new warden’s reforms, and the chaos that continued to orbit their sister Nellie—whose every attempt at a normal life seemed doomed by the weight of her family’s infamy.

From courtroom reversals and prison “watermelon feasts” to a mysterious automobile crash involving an escaped killer, The Ties That Bind…and Entangle traces how loyalty, notoriety, and tragedy kept the Kimes name in Oklahoma headlines long after the guns went silent.

The episode closes on one of the family’s darkest years—1932—when Nellie’s near-fatal shooting and another family member’s sudden, tragic death drew the brothers out of prison once more, setting the stage for the next storm in the Kimes saga.

Chapters:

00:00 – Episode 5 Recap

00:51 – Matt Kimes Saved from the Electric Chair

04:18 – Life Behind Bars – Reform under Warden Van Dyke 06:57 – Nellie Kimes and the Weight of Notoriety

09:52 – The Ada Accident and an Escaped Killer

11:54 – Nellie’s Near-Fatal Shooting

13:37 – Another Tragic Kimes Death

15:11 – Episode 7 Preview – Storm on the Horizon

About Dust Toll:

A 10-episode true-crime audio series uncovering the untold saga of the Kimes family - a story of loyalty, consequence, and the American outlaw spirit. Every episode draws from realy newspaper archives of the era.

New episodes released regularly.

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Theme song: "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

Even with both George and Matthew Kimes behind bars, the shadow of their name still loomed over Oklahoma. In this episode, the focus turns to the Kimes sister Nellie — and to the father whose own tragic fate would deepen the family’s legacy of crime, sorrow, and survival.

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📜 Chapters

00:00 – Episode 4 Recap

01:00 – Nellie’s Ordeal

02:07 – The Dying Farmer

04:49 – “Just a Girl, but Badly Abused”

08:40 – Trial and Release: A Family Under Fire

10:09 – The Liquor Raid

15:24 – Conflicting Accounts and Shady Lawmen

17:45 – Wrap Up and Episode 6 Preview

📜 About Dust TollA 10-episode true-crime audio series uncovering the untold saga of the Kimes family—a story of loyalty, consequence, and the American outlaw spirit.Every episode draws from real newspaper archives of the era.

🎙 New episodes released regularly

🔔 Subscribe for the next chapter → @DustToll

Theme song: "A Lazy Farmer Boy" by Buster Carter and Preston Young, 1931

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

The manhunt peaks, the legend grows.

Matthew “the Phantom Bandit” Kimes slips through disguises and roadblocks, kidnaps a marshal at shotgun point, and vanishes into the Osage Hills—only to reappear on the rim of the Grand Canyon. His capture ignites a media frenzy, a motion picture, and a trial that decides his fate - for now.

🩸 In This Episode

🕰 Chapters

00:00 – Previous Episode Recap

01:00 – The Phantom’s Elusive Game

05:21 – The Oilton Buick and the Baby · Marshal McAninch Abduction

07:50 – Manhunt in the Osage Hills

09:58 – Grand Canyon Sting – “I Quit, Fellows”

12:42 – The Journey Back to Oklahoma

14:16 – The Phantom Bandit on the Silver Screen

16:20 – The Beggs Trial – Alibi vs. Eyewitness

22:08 – Verdict and Sentence

23:36 – Next Time on Dust Toll

📜 About Dust Toll

A 10-episode true-crime audio series uncovering the untold saga of the Kimes family—a story of loyalty, consequence, and the American outlaw spirit.Every episode draws from real newspaper archives of the 1920s Midwest.🎙 New episodes released regularly

🔔 Subscribe for the next chapter → @DustToll

Theme song: "A Lazy Farmer Boy" by Buster Carter and Preston Young, 1931

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

A mother’s last wish. A town under fire. A phantom bandit who refuses to disappear.

After months on the run, Matthew Kimes—Oklahoma’s infamous “phantom bandit”—pushes his luck with a streak of daring robberies and narrow escapes that leave lawmen baffled and headlines blazing. From the daylight chaos of the Beggs triple bank heist to the quiet tragedy of Lilly Kimes’ final days, Episode 3 of Dust Toll plunges deeper into the Kimes family’s spiral of violence, grief, and legend.

🩸 In This Episode

🕰 Chapters

00:00 Story Recap

01:17 Matt on the Run

01:52 Sapulpa and Cushing Robberies

03:43 The Luther Bishop Murder

04:43 The Beggs Triple Heist

07:13 Another Lawman Gunned Down

09:40 Close Call in Wewoka

10:36 Frankie Hall Abduction

13:14 A Devasting Family Loss

17:11 Outro / Next Time on Dust Toll

📜 About Dust Toll

A 10-episode true-crime audio series uncovering the untold saga of the Kimes family—a story of loyalty, consequence, and the American outlaw spirit.Every episode draws from real newspaper archives of the 1920s Midwest.🎙 New episodes released regularly

🔔 Subscribe for the next chapter → @DustToll

Theme song: "A Lazy Farmer Boy" by Buster Carter and Preston Young, 1931

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