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We've received your submission.The wealthy widow watched on the closed-circuit monitor of her Upper East Side townhouse as her gangly young tenant snuck across the marble floor of her foyer, sticking close to the walls and hiding his face from the camera.She was right to be suspicious. Tags: The mother-son swindlers turned out to be serial killers, guilty of a cross-country spree of homicides, disappearances, arsons and frauds.Kenneth told that LA jury that his mother zapped Silverman with a 3,000-volt stun gun, then instructed him: “Do it.”He did as mommy instructed, strangling the 4-foot-10 Silverman and stuffing her small frame into garbage bags, then into a duffel bag, then into the trunk of their teal, dark-windowed, 1997 Lincoln Continental.They drove the Lincoln, purchased with a bad check in Utah, through the Holland Tunnel to New Jersey, where Kenneth heaved the corpse into a trash bin somewhere in Hoboken.But the Kimeses had not planned on getting caught within hours of dumping the corpse — with Silverman’s keys, cash and identification still on them.They’d left lying around piles of notebooks planning the theft and murder, a cache of cassette recordings of their wiretaps on Silverman’s phone, practice forgeries of her signature, and an arsenal of assorted guns, brass knuckles, syringes, drugs and plastic handcuffs, along with a stack of their own false IDs under multiple aliases.The exhibits filled five of the big, metal shopping carts that prosecutors use to wheel evidence in and out of a courtroom.NYPD investigators still remember, with pride, how back in 1998 they avenged Irene Silverman, by crafting an airtight, yet entirely circumstantial case, with no eyewitness, no confession, no murder weapon save for an empty stun gun box, no forensics, and most notably no body.In 2002, over the course of three months, Manhattan prosecutors would present 129 witnesses and 400 exhibits to a jury who convicted the evil pair in just four days.“It was the first conviction in New York State without a body or any direct evidence,” remembers retired NYPD detective Tom Ryan.“There was never any doubt they did it,” Manhattan’s DA at the time, Robert Morgenthau, told The Post recently.“But it was a substantial battle, whether we could prove the case.
“She was charismatic. She was deeply intelligent. A son who whose mother was raped and killed in Westchester is pleading to keep her killers behind bars. Did your wife pick that out?’”Mary Tyler Moore played Sante Kimes in a 2001 TV movie about the killer mother-son grifters.“She was enormously engaging,” her defense lawyer, Michael Hardy, said. They were not allowed friends and nobody was allowed to visit.