Chapter 63 third quarter

In July 1985, Amelia Osorio, one of Xiantai's maids in Las Vegas, fled to a neighbor's house over the wall.With tears in her eyes, she asked her neighbor to call the police for her in broken English. Around the same time, another Mexican maid in a Honolulu residence also begged her neighbor, Beverly Stone, to help her escape. "She worked like a cow or a horse slave every day, but the Kemes family never paid her a penny. She had burns on her body," Baviley told the police. At the time, Xiantai and Ken were renting an apartment in La Jona, California. One day in early August, one of their maids there, Moria Viskaz, called her relatives in Santana on the phone to tell her about the inhuman treatment she had suffered at the Kemes home. And asked to call the police for her.The girl, who didn't speak English, didn't even know where she was, and the police had to rely on that phone number to find out her city and address.Moria may be the only maid hired by Xian Tai in the United States.She accepted the job at a job center in San Diego on June 1 of that year, and her relatives and family hadn't heard from her for two months since then until the call came.

On August 3, 1985, less than three weeks after Xiantai fled back to California from Washington, she and Ken were both arrested again in La Jona, and then escorted to San Diego.Slavery was so rare that they struggled to hire lawyers, some of whom had never even heard of it.One of the lawyers they finally hired confessed that he had never taken on such a case, so he had to go to the library to find information.Since 1977, there have been 15 slavery cases across the United States.In California, the last enslavement case occurred in 1982, when 26 Indonesians smuggled into the country were sold by smugglers at a price of US$3,000 each to wealthy families in the Pavillon Villas as servants.

Depending on the seriousness of the circumstances, the judge set a $100,000 bail for Ken Kemes.So after spending three weeks in the San Diego prison, Ken paid the money and was released from prison awaiting trial.But the judge refused to release Xiantai on bail.After negotiations between the courts of Washington, Las Vegas and San Diego, Xian Tai was finally extradited to the famous casino for trial.In view of the lessons learned in Washington last time, the Las Vegas police put Xiantai in shackles and guarded them closely. On Christmas Eve in 1985, Xiantai began to complain to the prison authorities. The symptoms she complained included: headache, dizziness, intestinal spasm, high blood pressure, vision loss, dry skin, swollen legs, vaginal itching, facial numbness, bad breath, toothache, Dislocated toes and more.On the second day of Christmas, the prison authorities sent guards to escort her to Nevada Memorial Hospital for medical treatment. Three days later, Xiantai escaped again.

The FBI, which coordinated the case for the three states, quickly tracked down Xian Tai's whereabouts.The night Xian Tai escaped, she slept in the apartment of a bar girl named Sina Bishop, who told Sina that she was released from prison.Then she called her high school friend Ruth Tenney and said she was going to see her.Ruth's family lived in Reno City, about 400 miles from Las Vegas.Xena Bishop agrees to cooperate with the FBI.A few days later, when Xiantai contacted Xina by phone again, Xina invited Xiantai to the bar where she worked.This time it was Xiantai's turn to be fooled.She was apprehended in the parking lot before she had time to set foot on the threshold of the bar.

The female police officer who escorted Xiantai to the hospital was dismissed for allegedly accepting a bribe of 7,000 U.S. dollars to help the prisoner escape. The hearing of the Xiantai slavery case became the headline news of two local newspapers, and even the three major national TV networks also broadcast the news.To most readers and TV viewers, owning slaves in modern society is a fantasy that could only be found in fiction. Nearly 10 girls who used to be maids under Xiantai took the witness stand and testified for the prosecution with the help of translators.After each of them arrived at Kemes' house, they were forced to sign a contract written in English, which began with the following sentence: "You better be happy with us, because from now on This will be your home from now on, and you will never leave here." The girls unanimously condemned Xiantai for refusing to pay the promised wages and two days of rest every week, restricting their freedom of movement, and not allowing them to be with their families. They are not allowed to use the phone, they are frequently beaten, scolded and physically punished, and they are even not allowed to quit their jobs.Several girls showed the court the scars of Xiantai's burns on their bodies.The following is part of the maid's testimony:

Maria Sharjado - Every time Xiantai goes out, he splits the only phone at home into two halves and hides them in drawers and wardrobes.Once Xian Tai punched her in the face.Maria later smashed open the window and jumped over the wall to escape. Ana Soliaro - On the first day at Kaimes' house, Xiantai took all the documents from her handbag. Once Anna wrote a letter to her family, Xiantai offered to mail it for her, but the letter was withheld.Anna later escaped by jumping out of the window with Mariah. Dolores Viscats - Xian Tai once threatened her with a gun and called her a stupid pig.Once Dolores was beaten for burning bread.Another time when she was sick and unable to work, Xiantai poured hot water on her while she was taking a bath.

Montrebel Ramirez -- Xian Tai used to burn her with an iron, and locked her in a closet overnight. Melodie Coates, the Kemes family's governess, told the court she saw Amelia Osorio slapped and pulled her hair.Melotti said that once Xiantai sent her to Mexico to find maids, told her to choose honest and obedient girls who did not understand English so that she could be disciplined, and taught her how to bring those Mexican girls over from the seaside of San Diego, so that Avoid immigration and customs checks. The witnesses summoned by the defendant are all relatives and friends of Xiantai.They said that the doors and windows of Kaimes' house were often closed and heavily guarded, but that was not to deal with the maids, but to guard against other people.For example, the family of Ken Kaimes has been trying to harm Xiantai and her son Kenny.These witnesses told the story of Xiantai finding a poisonous snake in the car again in court, and how someone entered Xiantai's office one night, wrote threatening words on the wall with blood, and drew a picture of a man hanging himself. picture.According to these witnesses, they have never seen the maids of the Kemes family have their freedom of movement restricted. The maids have the opportunity to tell others about their experiences and have the opportunity to leave the Kemes house, but they did not do so. It's a gang and they're going to court, apparently trying to blackmail the millionaire hard.

As a result, the prosecution invited another witness—Chris Karamolo, the owner of a restaurant near the Kemes home.He said that once, a maid of Xiantai fled to him and asked him for help in Spanish.He heard her tragic experience and decided to help her.When Chris went to Kaimes' house to pick up the girl's belongings, Xiantai claimed that the girl had signed a contract and could not leave casually.It wasn't until Chris threatened to call the police that Xiantai's tone softened.Later, Chris took the girl to the airport and bought her a ticket to San Diego. After 11 days of trial, the jury reached its verdict on the last day of February 1986. Xian Tai was convicted of 14 of the 16 counts of enslavement, torture, illegal possession of slaves, smuggling of illegal immigrants, and escape while in custody, etc.Two other charges were dropped because the maids involved had worked at the Kemes home for less than five days. In mid-April, Xiantai was sentenced to 5 years in prison. At the same time, the court required Xiantai to undergo necessary psychological treatment.Ken Kemes was absent from the trial for health reasons.He was found guilty by a jury, fined $70,000, and remitted criminal punishment.

According to the memories of Kenny's childhood friends, the time when Xiantai was in prison was called by Kenny his "golden age".When Kenny was young, on the one hand, Xiantai handed him over to nanny, servants and tutors, but he ignored his son and ignored him. He goes to kindergarten, goes to school, and he is not even allowed to play with other children.Since the autumn of 1985, when Xian Tai entered the "Federation Club" - Ken Kaimes explained to his son his mother's whereabouts - Kenny was finally able to go to Las Vegas with other children of the same age. Primary school study.The students like to go to Kenny's big house on Geelong Nemo Road to play.The children still remember that Kenny's father looked very old, like the other children's grandfathers.Lao Ken is different from his usual stingy money fan, and he is tolerant and generous to his son's friends.He often took them to McDonald's or Pizza Hut, and once took a few children to Los Angeles by plane, stayed in a luxury hotel, and bought thousands of dollars for the children in the Barville Hills, the richest man in the United States.

At this time, Ken Kaimes, who was already in his seventies, secretly transferred a large amount of cash, which accounted for nearly half of his wealth, outside the United States and deposited it in some banks in the Bahamas and Caribbean islands while Xiantai was not in front of him.These banks, like Swiss banks, have a very strict confidentiality system. At the beginning of 1989, Xiantai was released from prison early.The aged Ken could hardly and could not refuse Xiantai to step into the door of Kaimes' house again, even though he knew exactly what this woman would bring to them. Sure enough, the peaceful and harmonious life of the father and son was completely disrupted.The first thing Xiantai did was to let 14-year-old Kenny drop out of Bishop Gorman Middle School, and Xiantai hired a tutor for him again.The second thing is to move. The reason is that she has no face to get along with her old neighbors as a released prisoner, and she needs to start again in a place where no one knows her details.Of course, these changes are not without frequent and violent quarrels. Kenny even fought with his mother for the matter of dropping out of school.Another time, according to Kenny, both Xiantai and Ken drank a lot of alcohol. Xiantai smashed Ken's head with a whiskey bottle and sent him to the hospital for several stitches.But Kenny said more of the altercation was over Kent's money.Kent Walker, the son of Xiantai's second marriage, kept asking her for money, and Xiantai kept putting pressure on Ken.Once Kent took away $100,000, and asked for another $200,000 within half a year.Ken asked him: "What about the 100,000 yuan given last time?" Kent was speechless.Years later, Kent Walker stated in his dictated book "The Son of a Fraudster" that his stepfather, Ken Kemes, was very kind to him. He not only paid for his college education, but also helped him in Las Vegas Established its own vacuum cleaner sales company.

In July 1990, Xiantai insured the Kaimes family's house in Honolulu, Hawaii with Chupo Insurance Company for US$1 million.When filling out the insurance application, she claimed that her name was Kayata Kemes, the daughter of Xiantai and Ken Kemes.In other words, she claimed to be her own daughter. Meanwhile, she hired a lawyer and friend, Ermond Holgreen.Xiantai and Elmon had known each other as early as 1978, when a corner of this Honolulu house was burned down by an inexplicable fire.Elmon is the manager of the compensation department of the insurance company. Thanks to his efforts, the company paid the Kaimes family in full for the loss.Elmon, 59, is a far cry from what he used to be, racked up in debt from a divorce and several investment missteps. During the Labor Day long weekend in early September 1990, Ken Sr. was seen moving furniture in a rented van. In the middle of the night on September 16, the million-dollar mansion was burned to ashes by an unknown fire.Xiantai immediately claimed the fire damage from Chubo Insurance Company, and according to Xiantai, the furniture and other items lost in a robbery before the fire. A few weeks later, Elmon made a drunken gaffe and leaked to his friends that Xiantai had hired him for $3,000 to set the fire.In January of the following year, another law enforcement agency in the United States, the Bureau of Tobacco, Alcohol and Firearms, obtained Elmon's statement and asked him to secretly record Xiantai's conversation about the arson case as evidence.But Elmon couldn't keep his mouth shut. He started telling friends that he might be included in the FBI's witness protection program. At the end of January 1991, Elmon told ATF that Sintai and Ken Kemes had invited him to visit some land in Costa Rica.Before leaving, he had called his son, and Elmon had disappeared since then. No one saw or heard him again, and the arson case of the mansion also cut off the clues.For a long time after that, Xiantai and Ken have been the prime suspects in the disappearance of Elmon Holgreen, but the police were unable to take action due to insufficient evidence. Chubo Insurance refused to pay compensation for the 1978 fire that was still in doubt, as well as Xiantai and Ken's several criminal records.After several failed negotiations, Xiantai went straight from Hawaii to Warren, New Jersey, where Chubo's headquarters is located, and went to the office and the residence of President Ding Auch to make trouble.Once, she falsely claimed to be an ABC program producer under the name Sandra Chubb, and asked to film an episode of a TV series at the Oher family's luxurious residence.Another time, she personally visited Auch's house and delivered a large bouquet of white lilies symbolizing death. Mrs. Auch was so frightened that she hurriedly hired bodyguards to take care of her day and night.A few days later, the bodyguard saw someone sneaking around around 3 o'clock in the middle of the night.The next morning, Mrs. Oher found a huge dead crow next to her car.Soon, Xian Tai learned that Ding Aohe was out for a meeting, so he followed him all the way to San Francisco, and started calling Ding's hotel room non-stop since 4 o'clock in the morning.Finally, one day, Xian Tai sneaked into the office of the president of Chubo Insurance Company. She made up a bizarre story about the underworld in Hawaii to Ding Oher, telling how she was chased by gangsters and how the gang robbed her home. How to burn down her house.She also said that this group of gangsters once killed the 17-year-old son of one of her friends and dismembered several parts of his body, and took one of the parts and sent it to the child's father.And how another friend's 12-year-old son mysteriously disappeared without a trace.The Ohers' sons happened to be 17 and 12 at the time.Before leaving the office, Xian Tai walked up to Ding Aohe, stared him in the eyes and said, "Anyone who dares to get in trouble with the Hawaiian gangsters will be punished." A few days later, Ding Aohe filed a lawsuit in court, accusing Xiantai of harassment.Xiantai was forced to stop demanding compensation in exchange for Ding's withdrawal of the lawsuit. Xiantai soon found out that Ken had transferred the cash overseas, and she also knew that Ken had made a will as early as 1961, leaving all of his life's wealth to Linda and Andrew, which was also part of the divorce agreement between Ken and Charlotte .During the more than 20 years when Ken and Xiantai got along, he never planned to change his will, but in order to meet Xiantai's request to purchase multiple houses and pay for the successive lawsuits, Ken had to sell his motels one by one .Even so, Ken was worth more than $10 million at this time.Ken also owns some lots in a number of nice locations in California, the most valuable of which is the "Santa Maria Properties" in Santa Barbara. In 1959, Ken and his business partner Jon Mueller purchased the site, formerly known as Waite Estate. Ten years later, Ken bought out "White Manor" from Jon and changed its name to "Santamaria Estate".This prime location in the rich area of ​​Santa Barbara can be planned to build more than 170 private mansions, and it was worth more than 3 million US dollars when it was not developed. . After leaving Las Vegas, Xiantai and Ken moved to Santa Barbara.Xian Tai told people that she had two purposes for this relocation. One was to let Kenny enter the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she had studied, and the other was to deal with some real estate matters. Kenny's parents bought him a brand new 4WD Jeep when he went to college.Unlike other students who have specific goals or plans for their future livelihood and choose their majors as soon as they enter the university, Kenny Kemes, a kid from a rich family, just picks a few courses as he likes, including his favorite computer.However, the other young people who lived with him in the student dormitory felt that he studied hard and was fairly honest, without too many dandy habits. At noon on March 28, 1994, Xiantai let Ken and his eldest son Kent Walker wait in the car, and walked into a Welsh carriage bank by himself.By the time she finished her work, 77-year-old Ken Kemes had stopped breathing.Xiantai mother and son immediately called an ambulance to send Ken to the hospital, but the doctor announced that Ken was dead.Afterwards, Xiantai threatened to sue the ambulance company for not arriving in time and delaying the rescue. The life of Ken Kaimes is a sigh.Some people say that if he hadn't been so harsh on his first wife, Charlotte, maybe the rest of his life would have been better.Ken was once a World War II veteran, and even a self-made millionaire through his own efforts.But since he got together with Xian Tai, not only the money he worked so hard to earn, but also the family property he snatched from Charlotte in the divorce lawsuit that took two years, was taken away by Xian Tai. Ty squandered a lot and was blamed for a crime.Although not ruined, it also ruined the fame of the first half of his life.After Ken Kaimes passed away, Xiantai's shadow still lingered and continued to hang over him. Old Ken's death means that the will becomes effective, and for Xiantai and Kenny, the mother and son, it means that they are isolated from the Kaimes family's property.Therefore, Xiantai makes use of Ken's death certificate to make a big fuss.She lied about Ken having attended four years of college, spelled Ken's father's name Charles as Kathy, and spelled Ken's mother's name Neoma as Naomi.In the column of the deceased's address during his lifetime, she filled in a post office box in Las Vegas.What's even more bizarre is that she put the social security number of a living person with the same name and surname as Ken Kaimes in Los Angeles who is still alive—the equivalent of a Chinese resident ID number—on Ken's death certificate. This trick really worked.For quite a long time, Ken's family, relatives, friends, and even lawyers did not know that Ken was no longer alive.If someone asks about it on the phone or in person, Xiantai has already made up a lot of reasons, such as "he lives in the Bahamas", "he went to Japan to run a project", and he just said "he is very sick" Heavy, the doctor won't let me disturb you."Xiantai desperately needs this time to play tricks on Ken's property.She even felt understaffed, so she let Kenny drop out of school again.She also needs Kenny's computer skills. Xian Tai unreservedly passed on to his son the deception skills he had learned in almost his entire life.She taught him how to forge real estate documents, how to deal with and deceive insurance companies, how to defraud bank loans with property that did not belong to him, and then transfer the debt to a third party, how to impersonate others, and so on.Xiantai also found a friend in Las Vegas, Nanette Wikowski, paid her to obtain a notary license, and helped her open a notary business, and paid her 250 US dollars a month .From then on, Nanetti became Xiantai's personal notary, and stamped notarization stamps on many documents forged by Xiantai. Xiantai and Kenny first searched for bank account information in the old Ken's business files. Once they had an account number, they could forge Ken's signature on the withdrawal slip to withdraw cash, or transfer large sums of money to the bank by electronic transfer. another account.They were careful not to transfer these funds directly to their own names, otherwise, once Kaimes' legal heirs, Linda and Andrew, learned that their father had passed away, they would easily find these mistakes when checking the estate.In order to launder money, Xiantai and Kenny made a special trip to several countries in South America and secretly opened several bank accounts under false names. In this way, they worked without anyone noticing for nearly two years. At the beginning of 1996, the Gulf Union Bank in Nassau, the capital of the Bahamas, became aware of the abnormal fund transactions in the three accounts of Ken Kemes in the bank.Its parent company, First Koman Bank located in Koman Island, then sent its vice president in charge of auditing, Saed Pilar Al-Amoud, an expert in overseas banking law of Arab descent, to investigate.In order to win over Saide, Xiantai's mother and son registered and established a company called "Caribbean Internet Business", allowing Saide to join him as a "most favorable trade partner". On September 4, 1996, Saide flew to Nassau again to meet with Xiantai.The Radisson Hotel where he stayed was less than 200 yards, or about 180 meters, from where Xiantai and Kenny lived.Beforehand, he had told two colleagues of the Gulf United Bank that he would have dinner with Xiantai and his mother at the nearby Anzocia Steak and Seafood Restaurant that night.According to the information provided by the Radisson Hotel's electronic key card usage records, the door of Seide's room 507 was opened once at 6:33 pm on September 4, and the door was opened again at 7:34 the next morning.At 8:47 in the morning, the cleaners found something unusual when they entered the house to clean.The security guard of the hotel opened the door at 10:42 to check. There was not a single piece of Saide's luggage left, and the entire room seemed to be unoccupied. However, computer records showed that Saide had never checked out. Syd Pilar Ahmoud disappeared together with his luggage.On the evening of September 4th, Seide was seen at Xiantai's residence, and the employees of Anzosia also confirmed that they had dinner together.A receptionist at the front desk of the Radisson Hotel later recognized Kenny from a photo shown by the police, saying that Kenny had falsely claimed that he had lost the key and asked the receptionist for a spare key.The receptionist declined Kenny's request at the time because he knew Seid.According to the information provided by several witnesses, the Bahamas police immediately listed the two Kemes as the main suspects in the disappearance case. At this time, Xiantai and Kenny were gone, and they never set foot in the Bahamas. Soil. In fact, they did not go far, but returned to the mainland of the United States, and settled in Florida, which is the closest to the Bahamas, only 50 nautical miles away.