CeCe McNair

I just see Sante Kimes as the ultimate femme fatale, seducing lovers, lawyers, husbands, her son. This is someone who gets what she wants.

She fluffed her hair. She tilted her head. She batted her eyes. This onslaught of flirtatious energy.

I think Sante was one of the most fascinating people I've ever met.

She came down a long hallway. She's wearing sort of a gray tracksuit. Her hair was black, thick black eyebrows. And you could see that she really was a beautiful woman. I was there with Matthew Wiseman, who was one of the four lawyers. And Matthew Wiseman was immediately the focus of her attention. She fluffed her hair. She tilted her head. She batted her eyes.

This onslaught of flirtatious energy.

We are being framed. You've got to help us. Sante was never anything less than self-assured, absolutely certain of what she was saying. And this is someone who gets what she wants. because I watched her, and she manipulated me. She would appeal to me as the only other woman on the case. The men just don't get it. You get it.

You're going to save me and my darling Kenny from the greatest injustice in history of the United States.

It just feels a little unnatural to anyone on the outside.

She continued to proclaim her innocence and that they were framed.

There was the interview on 60 Minutes. Everybody was talking about it.

Sante and Kenny were sitting way too close together and they were holding hands. And it just didn't look exactly normal for a mother and son to be sitting that close or holding hands. And there was the gushing about how beautiful his mother was.

I asked her about it. And she said, oh, honey, how could anybody ever say something like that? I only held Kenny to my breast when he was a baby to keep him warm. It's disgusting.

But maybe there is such a thing as an emotional incest where they're so close that it just feels a little unnatural to anyone on the outside.

I think the DA presented 130 witnesses.

You have to go and pick up the bag at the Plaza. You have to go, you have to go, hundreds of times.

just rang out in the courtroom over and over and over again, guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty.

I expected tears. I expected hysteria because of her volatile personality. And instead of that, she threw her arms around me and she just said, we have to start on the appeal.

He was absolutely gray. Ashen is the perfect word. He could not believe what had happened because hadn't his mother told him a thousand times, we're innocent, we're innocent.

I got her in the bathtub, and he had his hands around her throat, and he said, I didn't know how long to squeeze.

Sante was wheeled in in a wheelchair. This was for dramatic effect, which is, if you know Sante, her life is dramatic effect.

He then told the story of murdering David Kasdan. Sante was in front in the wheelchair and you could hear her sobbing, crying.

His mother came into Irene's bedroom, turned on the television. They hit her with a stun gun. They got her in the bathtub. And he had his hands around her throat. And he said, I didn't know how long to squeeze.

It was horrifying to hear. I was viscerally affected by this description.

I went up to see her, and you would think she would claim that her son had turned against her by confessing. And instead of that, she said, Kenny saved my life. He saved my life. But we didn't do it. This is the greatest miscarriage of justice in American history.