THE MOTHER, THE SON, AND THE SOCIALITE The True Story of a Mother-Son Crime Spree

Paperback. She was a master of deceit. He was a mama's boy. Together they may have made murder into a family affair. Once mistaken for a young Elizabeth Taylor, the weathered 64yr old Sante Kimes may have lost her movie-star good looks, but she never lost her pathological ambition - to con, steal, possibly murder, and to use her emotionally explosive son as a pawn in her twisted schemes. Friends said Sante Kimes had a Svengali-like psychological hold on her handsome but troubled 23yr old son Kenneth. Completely dominated by his controlling mother, Kenneth would express a Norman Bates-esque love/hate for Sante, who seemed to call the shots in the most notorious and bizarre mother-and-son crime team in history. 82yr old Irene Silverman was suspicious of the surly young man she had just rented a $6000-per-month apartment to in her Manhattan mansion and was planning to throw Kenneth Kimes out. Then she suddenly disappeared without a trace - except for the bloodstains outside of her luxury townhouse. Linked to an unbelievable cross-country crime spree that may have included as many as 4 brutal murders, police finally caught the Kimeses, who were the leading suspects in the disappearance of Irene Silverman. Did this macabre team carve a bloody trail of bodies that finally ended at a posh New York townhouse? Is this the case of an Oepidus complex gone horribly out of control? And would their sensational trial pit mother against son for the ultimate family feud between two warped criminal minds? Illus., Epilogue, Appendices, Exhibits + Notes on Sources. 244pp. p/back. From the library of true crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. Nr. F. with no creasing to covers.