So, due to the nature of this episode, listener discretion is advised.

This episode includes discussions of physical assault, abuse, and slavery.

We advise extreme caution for children under the age of 13.

Sante Kimes had one guiding principle throughout her life.

Why pay for something when she could take it for free?

As a child, she had plenty of reasons to think that way.

After all, she had to steal to survive.

But as time went on and her circumstances changed, Sante stopped lifting loaves of bread

and started cribbing mink fur coats and catalax.

Overconfident and unrelenting, she pushed the limits of what she could pilfer.

Until one day, she crossed an unforgivable line.

And she could never turn back from.

I'm Vanessa Richardson, and this is Serial Killers, a Spotify podcast.

This is the second episode in our three-part series on Sante Kimes, last time we met her

as a child in Dust Bowl, Oklahoma, who developed a craving for a more lavish lifestyle.

To get that upgrade, she shoplifted ran insurance schemes and eventually ensnared her very

own millionaire sugar daddy.

Today, we'll dive into Sante's first set of violent offenses.

We'll examine how she lured immigrant women across the border with the promise of a better

life, only to force them into servitude.

Next week is the final piece of the story.

We're going to focus on Sante's relationship with her son.

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