Kent Walker
Appearances
Dateline NBC
Talking Dateline: The Devil Wore White
Well, she's got a big purse, a real big purse. And we're going up and down the aisles. I'm usually a few feet in front of her. And when she comes out, the purse is half full of stuff. Might be oysters, might be lipstick, might be a roast. A roast? Yeah. We got caught one time in Newport Beach. And store manager caught her, dead or rights.
Dateline NBC
Talking Dateline: The Devil Wore White
And she turned around and just, how dare you accuse me of this? After about five minutes, he's apologizing to her. saying, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. We get in the car and she reaches into her purse and pulls out a big roast, not a little roast, a big roast. Some oysters, she loves some oysters. Oysters and a roast, a roast beef. Roast beef. You can put it in the oven and cook it for dinner.
Dateline NBC
Talking Dateline: The Devil Wore White
Sunday dinner. Yeah, we ate well. It's not like six days a week she was a good girl and one week she went bad. No, that was always there. Was it for a thrill, you think? I think in my early years, it was more of a necessity. That's how we ate. I mean, if she didn't do that, we didn't eat.
Dateline NBC
Talking Dateline: The Devil Wore White
You know, you fall in love with the good stuff that she was, and you know that was never gonna be replaced, and it made it too easy to forgive the bad stuff sometimes. You know, you kinda held out hope that maybe she'd calm down, maybe she'd become rational, maybe she'll outgrow this, maybe, you know. Once Shantae Kimes got in your blood, she never left, never completely.
Dateline NBC
The Devil Wore White
Our refrigerator up until that point was peanut butter and tortillas and cheese. That was it. I was lucky if there was some milk in there.
Dateline NBC
The Devil Wore White
I was small. I fit through windows. I knew how to be a decoy. I knew how to make attention happen. So people looked at me and said to her, well, she did her thing. She was training me how to do that.
Dateline NBC
The Devil Wore White
I think the name of the restaurant was a Cock and Bull. It was in Hollywood. I don't think it's there anymore. We were sitting at the bar and a gal came up to her and asked her for her autograph. And mom signed it. Elizabeth Taylor. Elizabeth Taylor? Elizabeth Taylor. She looked that much like Elizabeth Taylor sometimes.
Dateline NBC
The Devil Wore White
She didn't have the eyes, but she had the charisma, the look, the cheeks, the mouth.
Dateline NBC
The Devil Wore White
I mean, we lived in five different oceanfront properties in Hawaii. We had an oceanfront estate in the Bahamas. We had a golf course home in Las Vegas. They were all home. You know, it was almost embarrassing.
Dateline NBC
The Devil Wore White
In the house in Hawaii, we had a secret storage spot in the master bedroom. She had 30 mink coats. I've never seen anyone wear a mink coat in Hawaii. I don't know if you have or not.
Dateline NBC
The Devil Wore White
He didn't mind not having to pay for dresses. He didn't mind not having to pay for Cadillac Baritz Eldorados in our driveway. He fell in love with the getting away with it.
Dateline NBC
The Devil Wore White
She got an endorsement where Ken was actually named an honorary bicentennial ambassador. Well, that's all you need to get mom.
Dateline NBC
The Devil Wore White
She knew the emotions to put onto you. And sometimes she did it in positive ways, with love and affection. And she also knew how to scare the hell out of you.
Dateline NBC
The Devil Wore White
She got mad because I got caught. And she tried to give me, she actually took me to where I got caught and she told me how I should have done it so I wouldn't have got caught.
Dateline NBC
The Devil Wore White
There's probably not another son on this planet who loved his mother as much as I loved mine.
Dateline NBC
The Devil Wore White
When I left for the Army, it was tough. I mean, I will say, I have to be honest with myself, now I ran away. That's when Mom was her worst.
Dateline NBC
The Devil Wore White
I am my mother's biggest disappointment. I was the one who was supposed to be Kenny. Kent knew his mother loved Kenny a little bit differently. He was the prince. He was tutored, never got spanked. He was treated as a golden child.
Dateline NBC
The Devil Wore White
He had a very unusual upbringing, your brother. Kenny didn't have a chance. He didn't have a chance.
Dateline NBC
The Devil Wore White
The anger is like a warm bath sometimes. It's just like everything else in her life, elevated, elevated, elevated. And so the maids then became the enemy in the house.
Dateline NBC
The Devil Wore White
Last day here. It's been a great vacation. Thanks for everything, guys.
Dateline NBC
The Devil Wore White
They won't fix him. They won't fix him. They won't fix him. And at the time, I'm not putting two and two together, and she hangs up.
Dateline NBC
The Devil Wore White
There was just no doubt. That they were guilty. Yeah. I didn't want that. I wanted so much for them not to be guilty of this, you know. But I just, I had to be honest with myself. What was it that made you, about this, that made you so sure? Well, things had gone terribly wrong. And I had become fearful of them.
Dateline NBC
The Devil Wore White
Fearful enough to where I didn't want to be around them, and I didn't want them around me, because I knew, nor to the scope of this, but I knew they were heading for a fall. I should have seen it coming, I didn't.
Dateline NBC
The Devil Wore White
Shoplifting, and I'm not condoning that. I mean, it's bad stuff, don't get me wrong, but there's a far cry from stealing some lipstick or picking up a stereo and killing someone.
Dateline NBC
The Devil Wore White
I think she's a beautiful person spiritually and intellectually and physically.
Dateline NBC
The Devil Wore White
I don't believe, and it's not because I don't want to believe it. I know it didn't happen. And I will say this, their relationship was not normal at all. It was short of sexual, let's put it that way. I mean, was it intimate? I'm sure it was intimate. But I don't think it was anything sexual.
Dateline NBC
The Devil Wore White
I think at the time they found Silverman, I think they'd gotten away with so much up to that point. where they didn't have a fear of going for that big score. They really thought they were going to get away with it.
Dateline NBC
The Devil Wore White
I was in Kenny's ear, and I was telling him, you're not going to win this one. You got the death penalty. Do not put me in the position where I have to explain to my kids that you've been executed. Don't do that.
Dateline NBC
The Devil Wore White
She just had that power over me. I was mom's first protege. I was supposed to be her cohort in crime. Your mother instructed you to kill people.
Dateline NBC
The Devil Wore White
And... On the way home to see Mom, Kenny stopped and bought a $100 bouquet of flowers to give to her to celebrate the job accomplished. Kind of a window of how sick their minds were.
Dateline NBC
The Devil Wore White
His confession was not exoneration. It was purely self-serving. It was, you know, the best he could do at the time.
Dateline NBC
The Devil Wore White
I knew I was the only person on this planet that would feel pain from it. And no one else could understand why. And, you know, one thing I'll never apologize for is loving my mother.
Dateline NBC
The Devil Wore White
I still carry a lot of guilt with Kenny. I mean, it's my biggest regret not trying harder to pull him from that grass. But I was outmatched. Mom's stronger than me in that department.
Dateline NBC
The Devil Wore White
I still don't believe he has regret for what he did, which is hard for me.
Dateline NBC
The Devil Wore White
How do you tell the story and not be over the top? She was over the top.
Dateline NBC
The Devil Wore White
Life among the cons is a lot more exciting than life among the marks. And I'm looking back now, 25 years later, it feels good to be bored once in a while. It's okay. It's a normal state of things. Yeah, I didn't know what normal was. My normal was different than everyone else's. I like it this way a lot better.
Dateline NBC
The Devil Wore White
When they first got arrested, it is no exaggeration within the first 10 days, I had 100 news agencies attack my office looking for me. You guys, NBC, ABC.
Dateline NBC
The Devil Wore White
The original story was that she was born in Oklahoma. was one of the Okies. She ended up in Hollywood.
Dateline NBC
The Devil Wore White
Mom was on the streets for the most part, what mom said. Supposedly her mother was a prostitute. We'll later find out that's not the case. So she made up a story? Oh, my mother's entire life's made up. You know, you get that one little germ of truth. She always started out with that kernel that you can believe is probably honest.