resistant and tamper evident packaging rose up in the wake of these poisonings, and today, you know, we don't have to fear this kind of contamination able to catch this person in some sense, the perfect crime there are. >> i suppose, many unsolved crimes in history, and i'm not smart enough to solve those, let alone this one. i think the tylenol murderer is still out there dancing in the streets the tylenol murders, and in that span of time several suspects and investigators close to the case have died, leaving many to wonder if time has run out on solving this mystery. >> but one thing is certain time stopped on september 29th, 1982 for the victims and their

families. i'm jesse l martin. thanks for watching. >> good night family, i beg for your help my son and i are innocent. >> there is a huge evil cover up going on. the police have made a terrible mistake and are attempting to cover up what they have done to us my son and i were arrested on july fifth, 1998 for a crime that we did not do really happened. >> i'm jesse l martin. it was

july 5th, 1998, when 82 year old irene silverman, a wealthy widow, mysteriously disappeared from her new york city townhouse. while police went on a frantic search to find her, they had no idea that their investigation would unravel. one of the most shocking crimes they had ever seen. a deadly trail of deceit and fraud that stretched from the bahamas to los angeles. this is how it really happened manhattan, july 4th weekend is absolutely dead. >> it's hot weather. >> it' out to long island to be in their houses on the ocean. >> we had three detectives working the uniformed officers had what i would consider like a skeleton crew. we were told that a gentleman was downstairs who was looking to report someone missing and that's where i met mr. jeff feig. >> he was the manager for irene silverman's accounts.

>> irene silverman was known as a manhattan socialite. >> jeff fey is very irene silverman. at the time, he was very insistent that something happened to her. >> he was very, very adamant and credible that she never left the house. if she's not there, there's a serious problem. >> she was an unusual person to suddenly go missing at age 82, when she never left the house alone beautiful home less than a block away from central park. >> it's an extremely wealthy area. she had been in that neighborhood and that house for many years. >> she lived by herself and had a small but very close group of friends. >> she had a certain reputation among people in the arts and show business. >> she's a former ballerina for radio city which is how she met her banker husband. >> irene silverman was married

to sam silverman, who was a mortgage broker, a very successful businessman. >> she was red hair, vivacious, very outgoing, charismatic. >> she had probably around five feet tall, probably 100 pounds, if that after irene silverman's husband passed away, she converted her townhome into individual apartments and she started renting them out. >> she was an early version of an airbnb. >> to me, it seemed not so much to make money as to have company cautious about the people that she rented apartments to. >> you'd have to be affluent affluent and recommended by someone she didn't advertise. a couple of the famous people she had in there was daniel day lewis, chaka khan and other business tycoons in her office at about 1145 in

the morning had been sent off to do some chores and to take the dog up to the roof for a daily walk. >> first order of business is to go around and make sure we went through every nook and cranny we called every hospital. >> do you have an irene silverman? do you have a jane doe with this description? >> we called friends anyone that might have any contact with her, anything at all that may give us any clue as to where irene was at the initial stages of the investigation, there was no forensic evidence as far as a struggle that was not visible at all but as we got further into the investigation, we realized that something was definitely amiss. >> it was noticed that approximately $10,000, which several people knew that she kept, was in fact missing from the closet. >> we interviewed her staff and they told us that a man in apartment one b has been very

suspicious, to the point where irene silverman told them about him apartment one b was located about 20ft from irene silverman's office on the first floor. six foot one, dark hair green eyes, broad shoulders. >> the staff members told us about a woman who would come to apartment one b she was known as eva, and the tenants became suspicious of her as well because she would never look at people, would never talk to anybody. >> she seemed too old to be his girlfriend, but yet she'd spend the night with him. so this was making irene very nervous and scared apartment for approximately silverman's disappearance. >> manny guerin had apparently made arrangements to rent the apartment one b for one month.

$6,000 for the one month's rent. >> usually she didn't rent out her apartment until she had vetted their references, but she is taken in by the fact that manny guerin has $6,000 in cold, hard cash that he's willing to pay right there for the first month's rent, and he says he's going to get her his references asap but his references never came quickly that manny guerin is sketchy and she should never have let him into her home. >> there was some talk that he was seen right by the door sort of listening for her. >> she had security cameras in her vestibule, and he would duck those security cameras every time he went in and out of the building. >> i've even had video cameras, buty were just used for monitoring purposes. there was no recording devices. it was just where she could look in case the doorbell rang. she could see who in fact, that person

was irene was so suspicious of manny guerin that she did a trace of his face like a sketch, and she even took meticulous notes about his behavior. on july 4th, on a party that she threw she mentioned to jeff feig that she wanted to evict him, and they did make plans that on or about july 6th, that monday, they would serve him with papers to have him evicted. >> she wanted him out. >> on the morning of july 5th, 1998, manny guerin was the only tenant in the building. shortly after irene disappeared, manny guerin was nowhere to be found either. >> we tried to locate him and we couldn't. we did background checks on the name. nothing came back, so we were at a dead end at that point extraordinary things in their

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>> a detective from the nypd working this case received a phone call from the fbi. >> one of the agents saw the press conference. >> as a result of him recognizing the sketch, he conveyed that he in fact, thought that they had manny guerin in custody the fbi had arrested the fugitives. >> the night before. >> the tenant from the millionaire's mansion has been found and is behind bars tonight. >> police think her tenant 23 year old kenneth kimes, is a con artist who gave the fake name manny guerin to live on the first floor of silverman's townhouse. >> kenneth kimes mother, sante kimes, was also arrested sunday night. >> the crimes allegedly rope a car dealership. a bad check for $15,000 in march. >> sante and kenneth kimes were arrested for the bad check just a few hours after irene silverman had been reported missing. after meeting santa for the first time, you would

think she was the best woman in the world. >> i was assigned to sit with her. the first thing she says is that's a beautiful tie. your wife must have really great taste in ties and men. >> they had id on them of irene silverman. they had her passport, her social security card and keys to irene silverman's house santi said irene couldn't have really disappeared because they were going to have plastic surgery together. >> and that's why she had the passport and all these documents. irene trusted her we don't know where she is, but we pray for her the biggest injustice is that there's no crime. >> they don't know where the woman is. they manufactured a crime. >> when my partner and i went to interview kenneth kimes, i said, this kid is the boy next door. clean cut, good looking young man very intelligent, very well-spoken. >> i was a ucsb college student. i had a lot of

friends. i had a fun life. >> he started to get emotional and i thought that he was going to start to talk to us about irene silverman. however, he changed on a dime. he became stone cold and he asked for an attorney as hard sante kimes were forthcoming with any information in regards to the disappearance of irene silverman our first concern, of course, is the welfare of mrs. silverman. >> and if there's any possibility that she is in fact unharmed, that's what we're concerned about your son and this woman was what? >> i met irene in 1994. equitable life insurance man had invited me to new york, and i met her. very friendly. she called me in 1996 and told me that she was worried and that she wanted to sell her apartment, and she knew that i had a lot of connections and could i help her? and i said i'd be happy to. >> did you eventually rent it

or buy it? no. >> your son lived there. we did not rent the apartment son are accomplished con artists. >> authorities think they may learn more about the crimes from evidence found in their car. >> we located a green lincoln continental the car that they paid for with the bad check we sent down. >> one of the best crime scene people this detective spent 24 and 32 hours painstakingly fingerprints hair samples blood testing every inch of the car because right now, it's our feeling that irene silverman may have been transported in that car were being held hostage that was being led across the embassy compound. >> people were running up to me shouting, death to america! >> the iran hostage crisis, how it really happened tomorrow at nine on cnn when i was younger,

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the iceberg background checks as far as kenny was concerned. he had one prior arrest down in florida. but then we had sandy. we found multiple aliases 11 prior arrests. >> sante kimes has a string of arrests dating back to 1961. >> one was for stealing a mink coat down in washington, d.c. at some kind of high end party. another time, she was arrested for slavery in two different states. >> how does someone in 1985 get arrested for slavery >> you die >> she looked like elizabeth taylor. she would even get mistaken for her and would sign autographs. which, of course

she loved. >> she was a very charismatic person effervescent. she was very, very exciting for the outsider looking in. >> we were living the life she wanted money and had anxiety around money. >> she was obsessed with getting it and spending it. she was a very accomplished shoplifter and she had a lot of techniques for getting away with it. >> we drove a lot of nice cars, but none were paid for her millionaire that she's gonna lock down. >> his name is kenneth kimes. he's a very successful motel developer kenneth kimes was a self-made multi-millionaire. >> he was divorced. he had a son and a daughter. and 17 years older than sandy. but he

was intrigued by her. >> my mother could make any man in the room feel like the most important man on the planet. and can eat it up. >> his favorite color was white. she always dressed in white from that moment on. he loved the scent of gardenia. she walked around in a cloud of gardenia perfume. she thought of herself as irresistible santi would mold herself to be his dream girl. >> she's seducing him, babying him she's keeping him drunk. she's filling his cocktail glass over and over. and then on the flip side, he's terrified of her. >> sometimes her personality was fearsome. on the good side and the bad side. you never knew. >> ken recognizes who santi is, so he's always a little bit suspicious of her. >> ken also was fairly paranoid, man, but he was also kind of cheap for a

millionaire. he didn't like paying for stuff. it was his money and he knew it that was his power. and he knew that if mom had access to it, he'd lose his power. and that's why he made sure card and never had a checkbook. never had access to the money when kenny was born. >> this baby is her lockdown millionaire baby. he can't leave her now because she's had his son, who she names kenneth kareem kimes. they call him kenny because what's more, rich person than having a staff? so they would drive down to mexico or central america to find girls from poor families who didn't speak a lot of english, and they would present them

with this amazing offer. this american dream. we're gonna pay you so much money that you can send money home to your family. and then they would put the girls in the trunk and drive back over the border when they arrived, the nightmare would start. >> they were being kept locked in rooms. they worked seven days a week. >> she never paid them a cent. she would say, if you go to the police, they're going to rape you. she poured boiling water on one of them. she had another one with a coat hanger. she had a gun that she wasn't afraid to wave around. one of them did eventually manage to escape and run to the authorities. >> suspect sante kimes and her husband were arrested for violating u.s. slavery laws for smuggling and abusing four central american women from san diego to las vegas ken takes a plea deal, but santi does go to trial for the slavery charge. >> santi was sentenced to five

years. however after three years, she was released million civil suit against her and ken. >> santi eventually gets her insurance company to pay it. how coercion, threats she actually was threatening one of the ceos of one of the insurance companies and they found a dead raven in the front seat of his car. >> that's what she could do >> irene was still missing. so as we're looking for irene herself, we learned more and more about santi and kenneth kimes. >> police say in new york city. kenneth kimes and his mother may have been scheming to defraud the wealthy former socialite. police in los angeles have a similar suspicion about the couple in a murder case. >> david kazdin was a friend of

kenneth kimes senior. they had some business ventures together, and that's how the connection grew between santi and david. >> i first met david about 1971. it was a casual slash business relationship. i would say david was very sharp, very quick, good sense of humor. he had come from new york, so he had what in california we would call a new york attitude when david wanted to know something, he asked you are you available? and i said, sure. we went out to lunch. he said, you remember sante kimes? he said, i have a little issue going on. a few years ago, i left her and her husband put my name on a piece of property on a house over in las vegas. she didn't want it in her name, he says. so i let her put my name on it and now i find out that my name's been forged on some loan documents and as if this

isn't shady enough, the house burns down and there is so much gasoline on it that the arson investigating dogs are just going wild. he said these people will do anything 14th. >> david's body was found in a dumpster by lax. he had a gunshot wound in the neck and no shoes. and his green jaguar was found parked a few blocks away. >> i was contacted by lapd, and i think my first response was i think i know who your first suspect should be but by the time they contacted me, i think maybe shanti was already in new york

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found out that sante kimes was involved in insurance fraud and one of the cases was with a man named elmer holmgren. back in 1991. colt gray admitted setting fire to a residence belonging to the crimes and admitted he had been paid $3,000 by the crimes to set that fire. >> sante had asked him to do that so they could collect the insurance money on the house wherever sante had owned property there was the whiff of arson, insurance fraud. >> he was interviewed by atf. they were going to have him wear a wire. he calls the atf the night before and says, hey, we got to change it because i found out what's going on. they know i'm talking to you. >> elmer is going to report sante. and somehow sante finds this out so she says, let's go on a trip. >> elmer. hallgrim decided to

go away with sante and kenneth kimes senior elmer has a really bad feeling about this, and he tells his son, if you don't hear from me in three days, go to the authorities and nobody ever hears from elmer, ever again. i believe that sante was definitely responsible for elmer holmgren's disappearance and probably murder the chances of finding irene silverman alive were slim to none. >> the chief of detectives would call every day. what's going on? so the pressure was on, especially when you have the suspects in custody we had an entire room full of evidence police say they found a mountain of evidence in the suspect's green town car. >> and in a gym bag that was stored at the plaza hotel. >> there was an unknown fluid that was determined to be a

date rape drug syringes, rubber gloves, guns, wigs and the suspect's handwritten notes detailing their alleged crime. >> notebooks journals of what they'd done, what they planned to do, shopping lists such as buy milk, large garbage bags stun gun two masks from the movie scream. >> a number of blank social security cards, and blank. power of attorney forms but the most important piece of evidence was the forged deed with irene silverman's name on it. >> once we recovered that forged deed, we knew we had motive right there. >> they were intending to transfer mrs. silverman's multimillion dollar townhouse to themselves in fact, mrs. kimes posed as mrs. silverman to get one of the documents notarized santi, dressed in wigs a hat, played the part of

a frail woman. >> it would be comical if it wasn't so tragic new york city became so enthralled with this case. >> it was everywhere. >> the tabloids just loved it. they were calling them the grifters from los angeles. >> mommie and clyde. >> it was dragon lady. >> people were just fascinated by it attorneys representing the mother and son team say their clients have been wrongly linked to the disappearance. >> it seems that the public now has an impression that these individuals are responsible for the disappearance of this elderly woman. and there isn't any good hard >> this is a case of a witch hunt and persecution by god. >> the obvious question is why you and your son? >> because we just happen to be there at the apartment, and they made the worst mistake in

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when kenneth kimes sr. >> died back in 1994. kenneth kimes sr. dies while waiting in a car while santi ran into a bank. >> ken died of an aneurysm. took about 15 seconds to die and afterwards she couldn't find a will. >> he only has this old will that gives everything to his first two children. from a previous marriage santi decided to keep him alive sign the checks and make the withdrawals. >> he had money in various banks all around the world. she was forging checks and getting money out of these various accounts. so whenever anyone would call and ask to speak to her husband, santi would say he was traveling. he was in the shower, or he had laryngitis.

>> kenny doesn't find out for three months that his dad is dead. but ken's two children from that previous marriage don't find out for about two years. >> the difference in the relationship between mom and kenny from the time before ken died to afterwards. incomparable they were two totally different people. >> and he suddenly becomes very very close to his mother. >> she encourages him to drop out of college in 96, and this partners in crime literally as part of our investigation we did come across some information about them being involved in a homicide in the bahamas bahamas on the beach in the bahamas, had an appeal to cannabis because of the offshore banking. santi and kenny are trying to get money

out of ken's offshore account. >> but the problem was the bank was going belly up little suspicious with certain transactions. >> kenny and santi took the banker to dinner the banker was never seen again accused of the murder of 82 year old millionaire irene silverman. >> santi and kenny are finally slapped with this huge indictment. 84 counts. it's against them. and so they're finally charged with second degree murder of irene silverman i felt more and more confident in each day. >> and so did the district attorneys that this is worth a

shot and kenny did an interview with 60 minutes steve kroft. >> well, i would describe myself as a mom. i'm married to a wonderful man who has a big old irishman. kenny looks a lot like him. >> i would say that i'm a son of a very wonderful beautiful mom. >> i think she's a beautiful person spiritually and intellectually and physically many people have suspected or alleged that it was a sexual relationship. >> they held hands throughout the entire interview. it was very, very strange. >> kenny is a momma's boy and that's how i looked at all of that. >> their trial starts in 2000 on valentine's day. >> they wanted to be tried together

of that house. how did they get her out? if they got her >> not just that. >> there was no blood evidence and no body, but there wasn't even a trace. >> not a trace. >> the strongest pieces of evidence for the prosecution was irene silverman's id being recovered from sante and kenneth kimes. in addition to the forged deed, the mansion was worth millions and millions. >> the sale price was so low as to be laughable, but it was supposed to be transferring ownership challenging thing in terms of the defense. >> the prosecution referred to the notebooks as a roadmap to the crime. everything santi and kenny wanted to do thought they should do in order to ideally get irene's mansion. but

ultimately kill irene. >> they also recorded phone conversations that they made to irene, listening to those cassettes. we learned that they apparently tapped into the phone lines, and they were able to listen in on irene's conversations. they tried to get number. she knew something was up. she did not provide them with that social security number. and that was evidence that was on the tape santi insisted that they were being framed. the evidence was being planted. the police were corrupt. >> i used to believe in this country. >> i don't believe in this country anymore americans are endangered. >> trust me, it can happen to you. >> the prosecution had over 100 witnesses at the trial that testified. >> and the defense had one. nobody could say they had seen santi and kenny when they were purportedly dealing with irene

silverman. >> but santi wanted to testify that judge stopped me from taking the stand. >> we had a defense we were ready to tell a brainwashed jury what happened past of arson and shoplifting. >> but particularly the slavery charge. >> there was no defense. >> all the jury had heard were lies today in manhattan. >> a jury found sante and kenneth kimes guilty. >> kenny came down the hall and his face was gray. he never thought they would be convicted. >> the eight women and four men finding sante and kenneth kimes guilty of murder, robbery eavesdropping, weapons possession and >> kenneth and his mother were each sentenced to more than 100 years in prison

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mother. >> and her world is me. and she is my world what's the new york case was over wit sante and kenneth kimes now had to face murder charges out in california for the killing of david kazdin. >> we all knew california was a death penalty case, and they would have been the first mother and son to face the death penalty kimes did an interview at an upstate prison called dannemora. >> i was a freelance producer at court tv on october 10th, 2000. i had a planned interview with kenneth kimes and right away i noticed there was something really off about him. he was acting very strange, very fidgety and, um, if i may ask, uh could we take a break and maybe 5 or 10 minutes? >> um, how about two minutes? >> sure. better. what do you need a break for?

>> oh just a little. >> put a little water on my face and then he said to me, i'm really hungry. >> do you mind if you get me something? the only thing left in the vending machines was a snickers bar. and a bottled water. and i handed him these things and before i knew it and he said to me, this is a hostage situation hold on. >> one black cameraman back. >> he took a ballpoint pen and held the pen to her neck. the guards were watching. no one knew what to do. >> he demanded to be extradited to canada. i really didn't think i was going to make it out that day alive. i was extremely terrified he threatened to kill her for four hours. i cried with him and i finally said to him, do you know how to pray? and he looked at me and he said, yes. like he really wanted to. so he actually said the lord's prayer together, and it gave me lots

of comfort and i saw it, gave him comfort. one of the hostage negotiators said to him, okay, kenneth, let's end this now. this is my business card and kenneth went to grab it and i found that moment and just took advantage and ran. and i heard everybody just pounce on him. and i just thanked god that he had let me go angeles times announced that kenny was going to confess he was going to betray his mother, something he had always been terrified to do. >> trained not to do he appealed to the la dea and said, i will tell every detail of the murder of irene silverman and the murder of david kasten. >> if you take the death penalty off the table for me

and my mother i was in the courtroom when he described the murders, and i think my heart stopped. i had heard this person proclaim his innocence thousands of times, and here he was talking about gruesome details july fifth, he left his apartment. >> he met irene out by the office and asked her for a newspaper. i think he used that opportunity to see was irene alone? kenny then returns to his apartment and now she happens to be standing right outside his door. >> kenny flings open the door, grabs irene, and pulls her inside, and shante yells at kenny, do it!

around irene's throat and he strangles her to death the trunk of his car and driving her out to new jersey where he said he dumped the body in a dumpster david kasdim as a result of david wanting to go to the police because of a out on his name. >> kenny drove to david carson's house and david carson had known kenny for years because he'd been friends with his father friends with santi. he opened the door, said hello to kenny, invited him in for a cup of coffee, and kenny shot him in the back of the head on the way home, after disposing of david kasdan's body, kenny decides this calls for flowers. >> he spends $100 on a bouquet of flowers. he goes back to his mother and say, mom, we did it

kenny also admitted to the killing of mr. ahmed in the bahamas. >> kenny confessed to drowning him in a bathtub and throwing his body into the caribbean. finally, the truth was out. santi was softly crying and then kenny was manacled and trying to stop the tears on his face i don't think that kenny ever turned and looked at his mother during this recitation of events sent back to new york state and kenny was kept in california and they weren't ever again. >> over the years, i've been involved in about 1300 homicide investigations i'd say it's the most complex and strange mother and son murdering people it boggles the mind why do they do

it? >> she's a multi-millionaire wife. this pathological? it's a sickness. >> her answer to resolve things was violence. that's the way she took care of loose ends. >> santi was the mastermind, you know. it was her idea to kill saeed. it was her idea to kill david. she was the one who found out about irene silverman's existence >> she has ruined countless lives including her own son's mom was evil from day one, no doubt about it kenny made her more dangerous. >> kenny didn't care about people and put the two together. there were that lethal sante kimes died at the bedford hills prison in 2014. >> she was 79. kenneth kimes is currently serving life without parole in a california state

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