Little said he heard a gunshot while waiting outside and that he then helped him dispose of Kazdin’s body, according to CNN. A drifter named Sean Little subsequently told authorities he had worked for the Kimeses and had gone with Kenny to Kazdin’s home that March. When the bank began investigating the case, Sante called Kazdin and threatened him, according to a 2000 report by Vanity Fair. Soon after, the house burned down in an arson fire, and Kazdin wound up dead.Ĭalifornia detectives were able to track down the Kimeses to a home in suburban Los Angeles, but when they went to question them, they had vanished without a trace. She’d steal cars.”Īs investigators dug deeper into the Kimes' background, they learned Sante and Kenny were also suspects in the murder of their family friend David Kazdin, whose body was found in a dumpster near the Los Angeles International Airport in March 1998, dead from a single gunshot to the back of the head.Įarlier that year, Kazdin had learned Sante forged his signature and took out a $280,000 mortgage in his name on her home in Las Vegas, Nevada. I could break into houses and get what she wanted,” her eldest son, Kent Walker, told “Snapped.” “All the food we ate was shoplifted. “When I was like 9, 8, Mom would have me crawl through windows. Sante, a single mother and veteran con artist who brought up her two sons in the trade, had a slew of prior arrests for various offenses, including petty theft and slavery charges. "They had locked them up for a fugitive warrant from a stolen car case in Utah," former NYPD detective Thomas Ryan told "Snapped." The two people in custody were Sante Kimes, 63, and her son, Kenny Kimes, 23, who had been apprehended in connection to an unrelated case. “The night before, I had arrested two individuals that had in their possession documentation from Irene Silverman,” Blasse told “Snapped.” These included tax returns, healthcare information, and a property deed. When FBI Supervisory Special Agent Emilio Blasse saw the report, he immediately called the NYPD. When detectives searched Guerrin’s apartment, it was empty, but one of the staff witnesses was able to give a description for a police sketch, which was published by local media covering Irene's disappearance. She didn’t like him at all,” former NYPD detective Thomas Hovagim told “ Snapped,” airing Sundays at 6/5c on Oxygen. “She mentioned to the staff how she’s going to get the guy in 1B out. When entering or leaving the building, he avoided its security cameras or covered his face.Ī week after he moved in, Irene decided she wanted Guerrin gone. The only person allowed in or out was his personal assistant, an older woman named Eva Guerrero. Guerrin didn’t socialize with the other tenants and wouldn’t allow Irene’s housekeepers to clean his apartment. He had moved into the building a month earlier, paying for the $6,000 a month apartment in cash. In talking to Irene's household staff, detectives learned she had recently come into conflict with a new tenant named Manny Guerrin. New York Police Department detectives searched the townhouse and the adjacent properties, but they found no sign of Irene. On Independence Day weekend 1998, property manager Jeff Feig reported Irene missing after her housekeeping staff said she mysteriously vanished from the house. When Samuel died in 1980, Irene converted the townhouse into an apartment building, renting out the rooms. The Silvermans' home was in one of the most expensive locations in the city, and Irene loved to entertain and throw lavish dinner parties in her opulent new mansion. The couple later purchased a townhouse in the Upper East Side neighborhood Manhattan, s ituated just a stone’s throw from Central Park. Irene was a dancer in the corps de ballet at Radio City Music Hall before marrying wealthy real estate man Samuel Silverman in 1941. The body in the duffle bag was that of Irene Silverman, an 82-year-old New York socialite who had lived a charmed life until she met “Mommy and Clyde,” as the press dubbed Sante and Kenny Kimes. Always,” Sante’s son, Kenneth "Kenny" Kimes Jr., wrote in a 2018 piece for Narratively. Kenny, put the body in the f***ing duffle bag.’ I do as I am told. Watch Snapped on Oxygen Sundays 6/5c and next day on Peacock.
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