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

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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