Ellsworth Kelley and the Jones Brothers Gang - Part 1

About this episode

The episode explores Ellsworth Kelley's involvement with the Jones Brothers Gang, detailing their criminal activities in the early 20th century.

Send a message to Monica and Olivia! Ellsworth Kelley became tangled up with the notorious Jones Brothers Gang — a crew of young outlaws, including the elusive Oregon Jones and 20-year-old escape artist Tom Murray, whose lives became a cycle of burglaries, highway robberies, prison escapes, freight-train rides, manhunts, and violence across the Pacific Northwest during the 1910s and 1920s. This story follows hidden loot, prison tunnels, the infamous Oregon Boot, repeated escape attempts from ...

Topics covered

• true crime
• history
• outlaws
• burglary
• prison escapes
• Pacific Northwest
• 1910s

Keywords

• Ellsworth Kelley
• Jones Brothers Gang
• Oregon Jones
• Tom Murray
• burglary
• prison escape
• Pacific Northwest
• 1910s
• true crime

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Jones Brothers Gang

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