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Killer Psyche

Matriarch of Murder: Sante and Kenneth Kimes' Trail of Death, Part I

Killer Psyche

Wondery | Treefort Media

True Crime, Exhibit C

4.64.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Retired FBI agent and criminal profiler Candice DeLong walks us through the sinister activities of Sante and Kenneth Kimes, a mother-son duo whose criminal exploits shocked the nation. They were jailed for, among other crimes, the murder of 82 year old Irene Silverman in 2000, after Sante plotted to kill her to take ownership of her Upper East Side mansion. Candice explores the complicated and potentially incestuous relationship between mother and son, and what might have led them down this trail of death.

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A listener note, this episode contains adult content and is not suitable for everyone.

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Please be advised. Social life Irene Silverman was enjoying a festive dinner with two friends in the kitchen of her Bow Arts mansion on the Upper East Side on July 4th, 1998.

0:38.0

When the 82 year old woman looked up at the closed circuit security monitors on her wall, she

0:45.4

grew agitated. There was her newest tenant ducking his face from the camera. Again. The wealthy widow regretted renting an apartment

0:58.0

in her luxury building to the young man. A week after his arrival, she became suspicious of his secretive behavior and asked

1:07.5

him to leave. But he refused. Next, she cut the phone service to his apartment, but he would not budge.

1:17.0

Silverman's friends worried about her safety and Silverman's staff voiced their concerns about her

1:24.4

staying there alone while they were off for the holiday.

1:29.6

But Silverman was not easily intimidated.

1:33.0

She felt everything would be resolved that coming Monday morning, July 6th,

1:38.0

the day her business manager was going to serve the difficult tenant and eviction notice.

1:45.0

But the feisty widow did not understand what she was up against,

1:50.0

and within hours, Irene Silverman would vanish off the face of the earth.

1:57.0

Life makes sense if you know where you come from. I've had my birth identity stolen from me.

2:07.0

If you are born from violence, would you want to know? I will not carry the shame and horror of what you chose to do. I chose truth and justice

2:17.0

over a lifetime of not knowing who I really am. I am Daisy and this is my story listen now to the second victim only on

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2:34.0

Matt if we had a bingo card, what would be on there?

2:36.5

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