The Return of George Kimmel

The Shocking Details

Vincent Caldoni

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary, History

4.8 • 737 Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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The mysterious disappearance of a Kansas banker turns even stranger years later when he suddenly re-appears. His friends and family don't agree on whether it was really him. The strange return of George Kimmel tied up the courts for eleven years, and even today the story has yet to be solved. (Plus: Spanish gold in Oregon & the Ballad of Turkey White!)

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0:00.0	Cool. All right, here we go.
0:03.1	Featuring Joe Sweeney from Thinking Sideways Podcast and filmmaker Vincent Calderney.
0:09.8	This is The Shocking Details.
0:13.7	Hey there, welcome to another episode of The Shocking Details.
0:18.8	I'm Joe, joined as usual by Vincent Caldoni. Yes. And this week we're going to
0:25.0	talk about the disappearance of one George Kimmel of Arkansas City, Kansas. And I know, just another
0:32.7	disappearance. But actually, this one actually turned into one of the strangest and longest lasting insurance cases in U.S. history.
0:40.7	This one bounced around the courts for like 11 years, believe it or not.
0:44.8	I know.
0:45.3	It is, yeah.
0:46.8	So George Kimmel was 31 years old.
0:49.5	He worked as a bank cashier in Arkansas City.
0:52.4	On July 29, 1898, he left on a business trip.
0:57.7	He stopped in Topeka, Kansas, and delivered $9,000 in bonds to the office of the Kansas
1:03.2	state treasurer.
1:04.7	A lot of money back then.
1:06.0	Yeah.
1:06.8	And it's kind of funny, too.
1:07.8	That's just the way they did things back in those days.
1:09.8	You know, nowadays, you just, you know, make a little entry on a spreadsheet and push a button.
1:14.8	But, yeah, he put him in a dasha-chae case and transported them himself.
1:20.6	Then from there, he telephoned a bank in Kansas City, Missouri, and arranged for them to have $530 in cash delivered to him in Kansas City the
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