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Sante Kimes Research Paper

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PSYCHOLOGY FINAL.
Q1: WHAT CHARACTERISTICS AND PERSONALITY TRAITS MAY HAVE LED THIS PERSON TO A LIFE OF CRIME?
Sante Kimes background is filled with a lot of intrigue. Much of her past is skewed with stories woven with pathological lies, hard to discern from the real truth. One of Sante’s claims is that her mother was an Oklahoman prostitute driven to Los Angeles by the Dust Bowl, and so Sante ran amok in the streets of L.A. However, court documentation and “close acquaintance” corroboration point her to being “Sandra Louise Singhrs” from Oklahoma City, hailing from a respectable family who was fed up with her “wild child” antics (shoplifting, petty theft). She was adopted by a family from Carson City, Nevada, and she went to high school there. …show more content…

After going to prison, Sante started to start killing witnesses to her crime, with the help of her new partner, her son Kenny. They killed three witnesses to their crimes total: David Kazdin (who was her friend and legitimate business partner), Elmer Golmgren, and Sayed Bilal Ahmed. The duo, however, weren’t caught until the murder of wealthy, elderly, New York socialite Irene Silverman. After conning Silverman into letting them tenant in her apartments, they decided they wanted to steal her fortune using their usual conning methods. Silverman was suspicious, and wrote notes on the two and how she feared for her safety with them nearby. She even made comments to some of the cleaning ladies who worked for her about them. The night before she was to have the duo evicted, she mysteriously vanished. There was no traces of forensic evidence to support murder, not even a body to find. However, with their previous track records, Sante and Kenny were taken in as suspects, and eventually arrested with eyewitness testimony to their character and the notes Silverman took on the two. They argued their innocence, saying they were wrongfully accused in court. After more pressure, however, Kenny confessed to the murders, saying his mother helped in them too. Sante continued to deny any sort of connections to the murders, saying

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