Keith Morrison

Instead, without telling Kasdan, she came up with a scheme to turn a problem into a money-making solution.

For her, at least.

She went down to a bank, Mrs. Kimes did, and she's the one that tricked the bank into taking a loan out of Mr. Kasdan.

I don't know how she did it.

I don't know how the bank allowed her to do it.

Shante got ready to walk away with $280,000, and Kasdan was on the hook for it all.

And then he discovers he's got to pay back all this money.

Yeah, he gets this thing in the mail with 360 payments, and you owe this much money every month, and he was just flabbergasted.

Kasdan ignored the warning, and the bank launched an investigation.

And then what do you know?

A suspicious fire destroyed that Vegas mansion, and Sante, claiming the house was hers, tried to collect the insurance.

She was constantly thinking, how am I going to get the next dollar back?

It was obvious to detectives that Sante Kimes needed to be questioned about the murder of David Kasdan.

And they learned that she and her son were staying in that Brentwood house.

So my partner and I went to the house that night and just missed them by hours.

They had left L.A.

in Sante's preferred mode of transport, a Lincoln Town Car.

P.I.

Doty traced it to a dealership in Utah, where Sante bought it, sort of.

And she'd trade in her old car, an older Lincoln, and then give the guy a check for the difference.