The Mother, the Son and the Socialite: The True Story of a Mother-Son Crime Spree (St. Martin's True Crime Library) Book

THE MOTHEROnce mistaken for a young Elizabeth Taylor, the weathered, 64-year-old Sante Kimes may have lost her movie-star good looks, but she never lost her pathological ambition-to con, steal, possibly murder, and to use her emotionally explosive son as a pawn in her twisted schemes.THE SONFriends said Sante Kimes had a svengali-like psychological hold on her handsome but troubled 23-year-old son Kenneth.Home-schooled and completely dominated by his controlling mother, Kenneth would express a Norman Bates-esque love/hate for Sante, who seemed to call the shots in the most notorious and bizarre mother-and-son crime team in history.THE SOCIALITEPetite, bubbly 82-year-old Irene Silverman was suspicious of the surly young man she had just rented a $6000/month apartment to in her Manhattan mansion. After only three weeks of his living there-and at least one angry shouting match between the two-Silverman was planning to throw Kenneth Kimes out.Then she suddenly disappeared without a trace-except for the bloodstains outside of her luxury townhouse.THE CRIME SPREE OF THE CENTURYLinked to an unbelievable cross-country crime spree that may have included insurance fraud, arson, major financial cons, and perhaps as many as four brutal murders, police finally snared the Kimeses.Now the duo are the leading suspects in the disappearance of Irene Silverman.Did this macabre team carve a bloody trail of bodies that finally ended at a posh New York townhouse?Is this the case of an Oedipus complex gone horribly out of control?And will their sensational trial pit mother against son for the ultimate family feud between two warped criminal minds?Read More