logo
episode-header-image
Aug 2023
38m 32s

S5 Ep5: Santé & Kenny Kimes

Audioboom Studios
About this episode
July 5th, 1998.

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.

This episode is sponsored by:
BetterHelp

Original music by Daniel Birch, Kai Engel, JOHNWALLY, Kevin MacLeod, Ben Krejci, KRISTIANKULTA, and Magmi.Soundtracks. Sound effects provided by Epidemic Sound.

Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License.
Up next
Oct 2023
S5 Ep13: Bobby Joe Long
In this last episode of season five, we'll examine Floridian serial killer Bobby Joe Long... 1984. Tampa, Florida. A 17-year-old girl named Lisa was on her way home from work, when she was abducted from the side of the road. For the next 26 hours, she was subjected to a terrifyin ... Show More
39m 7s
Oct 2023
S5 Ep12: Christopher Hightower
September 22nd, 1991. Guilford, Connecticut. Early that evening, a mysterious man visited the home of Christine Brendel and delivered some shocking news – her brother Ernest and his family had been kidnapped, and were being held for ransom by the Mafia. It turned out the man at t ... Show More
45m 38s
Oct 2023
S5 Ep11: Vincent Tabak
Christmas day, 2010. A couple was walking their dog along a remote road in Clifton, an English port city of Bristol, when they happened upon the body of a 25-year-old Joanna Yeates. 32-year-old Dutch engineer Vincent Tabak, who was obsessed with violent pornography and rough sex, ... Show More
36m 15s
Recommended Episodes
Sep 2021
James Marlow and Cynthia Coffman
James Marlow and Cynthia Coffman were a toxic couple who went on a murder spree in California in 1986. They both had rough childhoods and they met after Cynthia's boyfriend was housed at Folsom prison with James. They had no regard for their victims and murdered at least five as ... Show More
1h 9m
Oct 2022
The People vs. O.J. Simpson: What the Jury Never Heard
In this Dateline classic, Josh Mankiewicz sits down with O.J. Simpson prosecutor Marcia Clark and other key players and witnesses from the criminal trial that consumed and divided a nation more than a quarter century ago.Additional footage: KCOP-TV, Los Angeles, CAAlso listen to ... Show More
1h 22m
Feb 2023
258: The Murders at Starved Rock (FREE Weekly Episode)
In March of 1960, Frances Murphy, Lillian Oetting and Mildred Lindquist set off for a girls’ trip at Starved Rock State Park in LaSalle County, Illinois. Just days later, the three women were found in a cave bludgeoned to death with their wrists bound. After months of investigati ... Show More
1h 5m
Nov 2016
Melinda and Clarence
SPOILER WARNING: Please listen to Episode 53: Melinda and Judy before you listen to this one. Melinda Dawson found out on the same day in 1998 that her adoptive mother had been killed and that her own husband Clarence Elkins was being charged with the murder. He was convicted in ... Show More
35m 15s
Aug 2019
S3E5: Beautiful Victim or Killer Wife? Mystery and Murder: Analysis by Dr. Phil
Three and a half years after her high-profile trial in which Amber Hilberling was convicted of second-degree murder in the March 2013 death of her husband, Josh Hilberling,the 25-year-old was found dead in her prison cell. Another inmate discovered Hilberling hanging from her bun ... Show More
37m 6s
Apr 2020
StepMonsters: The Disappearance of Charlie Bothuell
In our new series, “StepMonsters,” I’ll share stories of bad stepparents whose actions became true crime news.  In this first episode I'll share the story of a young boy who went missing and was found in a very unlikely place.  Was he the victim of abuse as he would claim and, if ... Show More
27m 27s
Jan 2022
199: True Crime Talk: Elizabeth Short aka The Black Dahlia
[TW: GRAPHIC DEPICTIONS OF VIOLENCE] On this month's true crime bonus episode Kail and Lindsie are covering the murder of 22 year old Elizabeth Short, also known as The Black Dahlia. When Elizabeth Short was mysteriously and violently murdered in January of 1947, the investigatio ... Show More
1h 16m
Mar 2023
Episode 445: The Murder of Kelly Ann Tinyes
Kelly Ann Tinyes was at home babysitting her eight-year-old brother, Richie, on the afternoon of March 3, 1989 when the phone rang. Richie answered, talking briefly to the man on the other end of the line, before handing the phone to his sister, telling her it was someone named “ ... Show More
1h 15m