Word: kimeses
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...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...
Murder suspects Sante Kimes, 64, and son Kenneth, 23, can't be real. The FBI must have got together with cops from New York City and L.A. to do a treatment for a road movie starring Kathy Bates and Sean Penn.
...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...
Police suspect the Kimeses may have been trying to relieve Silverman of her multimillion-dollar home. A notary public has come forward to say that Kenneth Kimes and an unidentified woman called him to the mansion to notarize a document that already bore a signature reading "Irene Silverman." When he asked the woman to sign another piece of paper so he could check her signature, she hesitated and he left. When they were arrested, the Kimeses reportedly had Silverman's passport and financial documents with them...