Dead End: The Crime Story of the Decade--Murder, Incest and High-Tech Thievery

by Jeanne King

Book Overview

Here is the story of Sante Kimes, a cold-blooded, calculating killer who lived according to her own mad rules, conned her way into millions with logic, cunning, and subterfuge and left a cross-country... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 087131942X
• ISBN13: 9780871319425
• Release Date: March 2002
• Publisher: M. Evans and Company
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

A portrait of pure evil that will give you the ultimate creepy feeling...

This book portrays, not only the murder of Irene Silverman, but also details a long chain of crimes committed by Sante Kimes from late childhood through adulthood. She later brought her son Kenny into the picture and capitalized on his bad temper, basically destroying any chance he had to have a normal life. Sante is the purest form of a sociopath, incapable of feeling anything for others. She managed to manipulate men, businesses, and even a designer store into giving her what she wanted. The most unfortunate of these was the elder Kimes, a millionaire - she stole his happiness and ultimately his life. The thing that I can't get over is her string of repeat offenses, from petty theft to murder (yes, Irene Silverman wasn't her only victim), through her young adulthood all the way through her poor victim Irene Silverman. At every turn she managed to get off without jail time. So, untimately, she was able to manipulate the court systems as well, right up until her conviction for murder, with the exception of a little jail time served for bringing girls to her home from Mexico and making them slaves. I also read the book "Son of a Grifter" about Kent Kimes and his life with his famously evil mother. He makes himself out to the quite the sad victim in his book, but in accounts given for this book by neighbors, Kent was on the edge of evil himself (watching the Mexican slaves and keeping them from leaving and keeping a close eye on the neighbors who even expressed fear of him). While his book is a little more entertaining, this book "Dead End" give a true picture of the real Sante and Kenny Kimes and the pure evil that they perpetrated, as well as the team of detectives who finally caught her and helped put her away. This book gave me a thoroughly creepy feeling that will likely stay with me for quite some time.

Dead End is a cultisac of thrills, chills and truth!

I had the supreme opportunity by chance to sit next to the author Jeanne King at the L.A. courthouse during a pre-trial hearing for the Kimes'. I saw in person for the 1st time both Sante and Kenny Kimes! Speaking with the author Jeanne King was as thrilling as reading her masterful detail of the Kimes' crime spree. Her book Dead End is being read a second time by this reader and is HIGHLY recommended. I read the 'other book' by Kent Walker and found that his memory is a bit self serving where Jeanne's accounts reek of third-party truth objectively with the well done research and 1st hand observations making it one riveting read! Get this book or you will forever regret it I promise you!

Really Entertaining, Really Non-Fiction.

This book grabbed my attention from the first page. It is filled with about a hundred really twisted characters, all drawn right from the trial transcript or the author's personal investigation. These criminals had a life-long story of crime and just rotten behavior. The author had plenty of sensational material and put in all the good stuff. Every page is full of great stories. She explains the intricacies of the law, the trial, and some nice real estate frauds succinctly and accurately. And it seems like she does not ad lib much. It all looks like it is straight from the record, which is satisfying if you like your non-fiction to really be non-fiction. VEry entertaining. I literally read it in one sitting.

Absolute page turner! Couldn't put in down.

I've read all of the books written about this murdering Mother and son duo. The first book by Alice Quinlin was OK. The Son's book was just plain bad. This book is finally got it right. IT'S FANTASTIC! Painstakingly researched and carefully constructed,it takes what could have been just another TV movie subject about a pycho greedy woman, And imstead, writer Jeanne King, turns it into a materpiece of crime reporting about a true sociopath who is willing to do anything to get what she wants,including murder, slavery, emotional incest, and destroying anyone and anything that might get in her way. It's a sad, fasinating story about a woman with a brlliant mind but clearly without a functioning heart who has absolutely no problem knowingly sacrificing her own sons life for her need to live a first class existance. What is so sad, is that you see the woman that she could have been and all that she could have accomplished had she not be consumed with herself and material wants and needs.