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Corpus Delicti

107: A Woman Scorned: Sante Kimes

Corpus Delicti

CDM Productions

True Crime

4.5608 Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2019

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

This week in our series featuring women who kill, we discuss a mother with such a strong influence over her son she convinced him to kill with her. A lifetime of scheming and conning people turned sour when people started calling Sante Kimes out on her actions, and she decided they simply had to go. Her reign of terror resulted in at least three deaths.

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Sources:
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2000/03/sante-kimes-mother-murderer-criminal-mastermind
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/22/nyregion/sante-kimes-dies-in-prison-at-79-killed-and-swindled-with-her-son.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sante_Kimes
https://archive.is/20130130102903/http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F70610F73B550C778DDDAE0894D0494D81
https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/murder-mastermind-sante-kimes-dead-79-article-1.1799576
https://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/24/nyregion/murderer-reveals-new-details-in-slaying-of-socialite-in-1998.html?ref=santekimes

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0:00.0

Hey, everyone, it's Jen.

0:25.5

And this is Lindsay.

0:26.8

And this is Corpus Delictide, the podcast.

0:29.3

And today we have the most amazing story for you.

0:33.5

This story is pretty crazy.

0:35.8

I am surprised that this one is not more well-. Jen found this one and she sent it to me and I kind of fell in the rabbit hole behind you because I was like, how is this not a bigger deal?

0:50.5

And it's so weird that there's two things that intrigued me in this story. First and foremost, that we did not catch it when we were doing our family ties series. And the second, we just mentioned last series that my dream growing up was to be a rocket. And this has rockets in it. And, you know, I think that's why it just caught me

1:16.3

and just, I was fascinated from the get-go. Yes. And I am going to apologize. Right now, my voice

1:24.1

sounds okay because I am doped up on cold medicine but if it gets gravelly throughout

1:28.7

this I apologize I've been sick and I know that it's hard to listen to sometimes when people's

1:33.0

voices get kind of scratchy so if that happens I'm sorry but here I am I don't know what I'm

1:38.9

going to do with you last week you were mad at the world and this week you're the world got you

1:43.9

sick I mean that was my punishment for whining the you are mad at the world and this week the world got you sick.

1:45.0

I mean, that was my punishment for whining.

1:48.0

They're like, take this.

1:49.3

It could be worse.

1:50.3

It's time to have a positive attitude.

1:52.7

That's right.

1:53.8

So without further ado, let's go ahead and get started with the story of Sante times.

2:00.1

The story of Sante is a little hard to know where to get started because her birth wasn't

2:06.6

really recorded anywhere.

2:08.5

There's a lot of speculation about where she came from, who were her parents.

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