🎧 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