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Sante Kimes
Status
Identification Status	Identified
Personal Information
Birth Name	Sandra Louise Singhrs
Born	July 24, 1934 Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States
Died	May 19, 2014 (aged 79) Bedford Hills Correctional Facility for Women, Bedford Hills, New York, United States
Gender	Female
Race/Ethnicity	White
Occupation	Con artist
Spouses	Edward Walker (m. 1957; div. 1969) Kenneth Keith Kimes Sr. (m. 1981; 1994)
Children	Kent Walker Kenneth Kimes Jr.
Criminal Information
AKA	"The Dragon Lady"
Offender Type	Suspected Serial Killer
Motivation Type	Hedonistic
Motive	Financial
Accomplice	Kenneth Kimes Jr.
Convictions	Murder (x2) Robbery Slavery Forgery Over 100 other charges
Criminal penalties	Life imprisonment (New York State) Life imprisonment (California)
Victims	2-3+
Countries	The Bahamas United States
States	California New York
Date apprehended	July 1998
Imprisonment	Bedford Hills Correctional Facility for Women — Bedford Hills, New York

Victims

Confirmed victims

Name	Age	Disappeared	Body Found	Cause of Death
David Kazdin	63	March 9, 1998	March 1998	Shooting
Irene Silverman	82	July 5, 1998		Strangulation

Suspected victims

Name	Age	Disappeared	Body Found	Cause of Death
Elmer Holmgren	50	August 2, 1991	Never found	Bludgeoning
Jacqueline Levitz	62	November 18, 1995
Syed Bilal Ahmed	46	September 4, 1996		Drowning

Bibliography

Literature

• Havill, Adrian (1999). The Mother, The Son, And The Socialite: The True Story Of A Mother-Son Crime Spree, St. Martin's True Crime. ISBN 978-0312970697
• McQuillan, Alice (200). They Call Them Grifters: The True Story of Sante and Kenneth Kimes, Onyx. ISBN 978-0451409072
• Walker, Kent (2001). Son of a Grifter: The Twisted Tale of Sante and Kenny Kimes, the Most Notorious Con Artists in America: A Memoir by the Other Son, William Morrow. ISBN 978-0060188658

Articles

• Suzanna Andrews (March 1, 2000). The Story of Sante Kimes: Mother, Murderer, and Criminal Mastermind. Vanity Fair.
• Sante Kimes. Biography (November 23, 2018). Archived from the original on November 23, 2018.

Documentaries

Television

• Dateline NBC S18E5: The Grifters (Oct 14, 2009) on IMDb
• Diabolical Women S1E1: Sante Kimes (Mar 18, 2015) on IMDb
• Snapped S27E20: Sante Kimes (Aug 30, 2020) on IMDb

Podcasts

• Sante Kimes - Part 1. Serial Killers with Greg Polcyn & Vanessa Richardson.
• Sante Kimes - Part 2. Serial Killers with Greg Polcyn & Vanessa Richardson.
• Sante Kimes - Part 3. Serial Killers with Greg Polcyn & Vanessa Richardson.

In popular culture

Gary Indiana's novel Depraved Indifference (2009) is substantially based on the Kimeses case.

Film/TV adaptations

• Law & Order S9E7: Venom (Nov 18, 1998) on IMDb, is based on this case.
• Like Mother Like Son: The Strange Story of Sante and Kenny Kimes (2001) on IMDb
• A Little Thing Called Murder (2006) on IMDb
• Cold Case S5E5: Thick as Thieves (Oct 21, 2007) on IMDb, is based on this case.

Links

• Sante Kimes at Wikipedia
• Sante Kimes on IMDb
• Sante Kimes. Radford University.
• Sante Kimes on the Criminal Minds Wiki