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Sante Kimes. Sante Kimes (née Singhrs; July 24, 1934 – May 19, 2014), also known as the Dragon Lady, was an American murderer, con artist, robber, fraudster, serial arsonist and suspected serial killer. Her decades-long crime spree – including throughout her marriage to her second husband, millionaire Kenneth Kimes Sr. – was briefly paused starting in 1985 when she served three years in prison on a conviction of slavery, and eventually ended with her arrest for the 1998 murder of Irene Silverman in New York City. Many of these crimes were committed with the assistance of her son, Kenneth Kimes Jr. In 2000, both were tried and convicted together on 118 charges, including the murder of Silverman. In 2004, Kenneth Jr. made a plea deal in the 1998 murder of David Kazdin in Los Angeles, agreeing to testify against his mother in exchange for neither facing the death penalty. Sante was subsequently convicted of the Kazdin murder. The pair were also suspected of but never charged in a third murder in the Bahamas, to which Kenneth Jr. later confessed. Sante also admitted to her son that she murdered the partner in one of her arsons, Elmer Ambrose Holmgren, who had disappeared in Costa Rica; no charges were brought in this crime. Early life and criminal history. Sante Kimes was born Sante Louise Singhrs in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, on July 24, 1934, the third of four children born to Illinois native of Dutch ancestry Mary Gertrude (née Van Horn; 1897–1969) and herbalist Prama Mahendra "Doc" Singhrs (1889–1940). Sante's father had emigrated from the Indian region of Punjab by way of Canada. She had three siblings: an older brother and sister, and one younger sister. As a teenager, Sante would go by the name "Sandra." Sante would later falsely claim that her father left the family when she was three years old and that her mother became a prostitute. In reality, Sante's father died from heart disease when she was five years old. According to her younger sister, Retha, Sante had an incestuous relationship with their brother, Carl (Karam), and was a pyromaniac who held lit matches underneath Retha's fingers against her will. As a child, Sante would tie up the goats and dogs on her family's farm and use hatpins to mutilate and torture them. When she was a teenager, Sante moved with her mother and younger sister to Los Angeles. There she was allegedly adopted by Edwin and Mary Chambers, along with another boy. She moved with her new family to Carson City, Nevada, where she graduated from Carson High School in 1952. At school, Sante earned a reputation as a bully who frequently belittled and intimidated younger students. In 1956, Sante reunited with a former boyfriend from high school, Edward Walker. They married the following year and had one son, Kent Walker. After a 1961 shoplifting conviction in Sacramento, Sante separated and reconciled intermittently with Walker, but their divorce was not finalized until 1969. Walker was a general contractor who built houses in the Sacramento area; in December 1960, Sante set fire to a house he had built in order to fraudulently collect insurance. She only destroyed the kitchen and received US$10,000 (equivalent to $109,000 in 2025). Over the course of their marriage, dozens of houses that Walker had supervised burned down, and Sante had a number of affairs with his wealthy business associates. After her first divorce, Sante and Kent travelled to Palm Springs, California. In 1971, Sante met Kenneth Keith Kimes Sr., a motel tycoon seventeen years her senior, after reading about his divorce in a magazine article and learning that he had a net worth of approximately $20 million (equivalent to $118 million in 2025). The couple would eventually marry in Clark County, Nevada, on April 5, 1981. They had one son, Kenneth Kimes Jr., who was born on March 24, 1975. Sante spent the better part of her life fleecing people of money, expensive merchandise and real estate, either through arson, elaborate con games, forgery or outright theft. She committed insurance fraud on numerous occasions, frequently by committing arson and then collecting money for property damage. She also frequently introduced Kenneth Sr. as an ambassador, a ploy that even gained the couple access to a White House reception during the Ford Administration. She sometimes impersonated Elizabeth Taylor, whom she resembled slightly. Sante committed many acts of fraud that were not even financially necessary, such as enslaving maids when she could easily afford to pay them. She frequently offered young, homeless undocumented immigrants housing and employment, then kept them as virtual prisoners by threatening to report them to immigration authorities if they did not follow her orders. As a result, Sante and Kenneth Sr. spent years squandering his fortune on lawyers' fees, defending themselves against charges of slavery. Sante was eventually arrested in August 1985 and was sentenced by the ...
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