S5 Ep5: Santé & Kenny Kimes
What Makes a Killer
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🗓️ 31 August 2023
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Irene Silverman, an 82-year-old New York socialite, was viciously assaulted in her home before being tasered and finally strangled. Her killers were 23-year-old Kenny Kimes and his 63-year old mother Santé.
The Kimes were linked to crimes in 5 separate states following a trail of fraud and suspected murder. By pure chance, a sting operation to apprehend the mother/son duo was already underway at a nearby hotel - the same day as Irene's murder.
Santé was a con-artist who would stop at nothing to keep her crimes under wraps. Over a period of two years, she coerced her son, Kenny, into committing three murders.
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| 0:40.0 | What makes a killer contains graphic details of sexual assault and violence |
| 0:44.4 | and is not intended for all audiences. |
| 0:46.9 | Listener discretion is strongly advised. |
| 0:51.1 | July 5, 1998, Irene Silverman, an 82-year-old New York socialite, |
| 0:57.5 | was viciously assaulted in her home before being tazered and finally strangled. |
| 1:03.9 | Her killers, 23-year-old Kenny Kimes and his 63-year-old mother, Sante. |
| 1:20.3 | The Kimes were linked to crimes in five separate states, leaving behind a trail of fraud |
| 1:26.7 | and suspected murder. By pure chance, a sting operation to apprehend the mother's |
| 1:33.2 | son duo was already underway at a nearby hotel, the same day as Irene's murder. |
| 1:41.6 | Sante was a con artist who would stop it nothing to keep her crimes under wraps. |
| 1:47.6 | Over a period of two years, she coerced her son Kenny into committing three murders. |
| 1:54.2 | She transformed him into a really evil person like her. |
| 1:59.7 | She was like a black widow and he became that way too. |
| 2:02.5 | Most of her victims were obstacles as far as she was concerned that needed to be |
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