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A: Yes, but it's a lot harder. Recent cases, like the conviction of grifters Kenneth and Sante Kimes for killing New York City widow Irene Silverman, have involved circumstantial evidence. But you also need to show where a crime is likely to have occurred--a problem in the Levy...
1. Convicted killer Kenneth Kimes held a reporter hostage with:
...dime novel. This mother-and-son grifter team has conned, robbed and even enslaved. But the real problem, as an acquaintance observes, is that "the people they deal with keep coming up dead." The most famous of these may be Irene Silverman. This clunky but engrossing account of the Kimeses' relationship with the wealthy Manhattanite leaves us where the New York Police Department is now: with a seemingly notorious murder, but no body and only circumstantial evidence. Still, the book's catalog of doctored passports and errant blood drops shows why this tale may eventually have a Hollywood ending: life...
...missing former dancer, he made a point of law. "You do not need a body to charge someone with murder." No, but you do need forensic evidence, argues Sante Kimes' lawyer Jose Muniz, "and there is nothing." Still, charges of credit-card fraud were added to the Kimeses' resume on Friday, and Safir predicts additional charges this Thursday...
It will be interesting to see whether this true perpetrator, once located, also happens to have been in the company of the Cayman Islands banker who disappeared after a 1996 meeting with Sante Kimes in the Bahamas--or of David Kazdin, 63, a Southern California businessman who turned up dead...