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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