Scott Kimball lands back in Montana’s Missoula County Jail, this time for violating terms of his probation regarding travel, conduct and reporting.
He remains in the jail until April 18, 2000, when he is sent to prison.
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Kimball back in Missoula jail for violating probation
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Sentenced: 10 years in Montana prison
Kimball's Montana mugshot. (Courtesy of Boulder County DA's Office)
Scott Kimball is sentenced to 10 years in Montana State Prison for violating his probation on the 1988 Missoula County conviction of issuing bad checks.
Five years of the sentence are suspended.
A judge writes that Kimball has been given three opportunities for rehabilitation since 1988, failing each time.
“The Defendant is impossible to supervise in a community setting,” District Judge John S. Henson writes.
He goes on to quote Kimball’s probation officer: “You’re irresponsible, untruthful and simply do what you want to do regardless of the rules and conditions imposed by this Court.”
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Felony #4: Eight months for 1999 forgery
Scott Kimball, 34, in the middle of his Montana prison term, is convicted of three felony counts of forgery stemming from an October 1999 case in Spokane County, Wash. He had been charged with the crime just a few days earlier.
Kimball is sentenced to eight months in jail.
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Kimball escapes pre-release prison center in Montana
After being moved to a pre-release prison camp in Helena, Mont., Kimball worked as a cashier at an EZ Stop gas station, reporting back to the center at the end of each shift.
While working at the station alone on July 29, 2001, he steals $677 and hits the road in a stolen work truck.
Authorities in Montana’s Lewis & Clark County issue a warrant for his arrest on felony escape charges.
Leo Gallagher, the county attorney there, would repeatedly push for Kimball’s arrest on the escape charge, but the FBI consistently asks for delayed hearings.
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Federal prosecutor killed; Kimball will offer information on the case
Tom Wales (walesfoundation.org)
Assistant U.S. Attorney Tom Wales is shot to death in his Seattle home. Police believe an assailant fired through the prosecutor’s basement window while he was working on his computer.
Scott Kimball will later tell federal authorities that he has information on the murder, which remains unsolved.
It’s unclear what details Kimball claimed to have in the case.
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Using brother’s name, Kimball arrested in Alaska on check fraud
Cordova, Alaska. (city-data.com)
Kimball is arrested in Cordova, Alaska, after writing nearly $25,000 in counterfeit checks using his brother’s name.
He went to Alaska after escaping from prison in Montana, and had gotten engaged to a woman who never knew him as anyone but Brett Kimball.
Police recovered $11,300 in hundred-dollar bills in a Cordova hotel where Kimball and his fiancee stayed.
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Kimball: Alaska cellmate involved in murder plot
Scott Kimball, locked up in the Cook Inlet Pretrial Facility in Alaska, tells a U.S. Secret Service agent that his cellmate, Arnold Flowers, and Flowers’ girlfriend, Sompong Khamsomphou, asked him to hire a hit man to kill a federal judge, federal prosecutor, and two witnesses.
Flowers and Khamsomphou are indicted by a grand jury the next month on charges of murder-for-hire, witness tampering and attempted murder of federal officials.
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Kimball transferred to Colorado federal prison
FCI-Englewood, in Littleton, Colo. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)
Scott Kimball is transferred from the Alaska prison system to FCI-Englewood, a federal penitentiary in Littleton, Colo.
He had told federal authorities that seven Alaska inmates wanted to kill him for cooperating with the government.
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Kimball activated as an FBI informant after saying Colo. cellmate planning hit
The FBI activates Scott Kimball as a “cooperating witness” while he is an inmate at FCI-Englewood.
He tells an agent that his cellmate, Steve Ennis, asked him to kill a fellow drug dealer, and that Ennis’ girlfriend, Jennifer Marcum, would help.
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Kimball released from prison as FBI informant
A fake birth certificate, later found among Kimball's belongings, listed the alias he used as an FBI informant. (Courtesy of Lafayette police)
After claiming that his cellmate, Steve Ennis, asked him to kill a fellow drug dealer, Scott Kimball is released from FCI-Englewood “to actively cooperate with the FBI on the Steven Ennis matter.”
Ennis, Kimball claims, told him his girlfriend — Jennifer Marcum — would help carry out the hit.
As a paid FBI informant, Kimball is given the name Joe Scott and told to keep an eye on Marcum.
His contact at the bureau is Special Agent Carle Schlaff.
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Kimball, aka “Hannibal,” makes first call to LeAnn Emry
After his release from FCI-Englewood as an FBI informant, Scott Kimball calls LeAnn Emry for the first time. He introduces himself as “Hannibal.”
Emry’s boyfriend, federal inmate Steven Holley, knew Kimball behind bars, and asked him to connect with LeAnn to share the details of a plan to help him escape prison.
Holley told LeAnn to listen to Hannibal, that if everything went off as it should, the couple would soon be able to unite in Mexico and start a new chapter in their lives.
Holley writes LeAnn: "You can trust Hannible." (Courtesy of Howard Emry)
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Wearing a wire, Kimball records Jennifer Marcum
Jennifer Marcum at 23 or 24. (Courtesy of Bob Marcum)
Wearing a wire, Scott Kimball meets with Jennifer Marcum and secretly records their conversation in his role as an FBI informant.
He claims Jennifer and her boyfriend, federal prisoner Steve Ennis, are plotting to kill a member of Ennis’ drug ring.
Jennifer doesn’t solicit Kimball to kill anyone, but she does say the drug dealer is a “scumbag” who “deserves to die.”
In the first six weeks of 2003, Kimball meets with Jennifer a dozen times and speaks with her on the phone daily.
He convinces her that he can help her stop stripping by setting her up in an espresso-cart business in Seattle.
Ennis tells his girlfriend she should trust Kimball and try a career change.
Excerpt from a July 10, 2003, affidavit by FBI Special Agent Carle Schlaff.
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LeAnn Emry buys Kimball a laptop
LeAnn, in a photo found on Kimball's laptop. (Courtesy of Lafayette police)
LeAnn Emry uses her debit card to buy Scott Kimball a $1,685 Toshiba laptop computer at Best Buy in Lakewood, Colo.
When investigators search the laptop years later, they find a photo of LeAnn, dated 11 days before her death.
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LeAnn Emry on “Hannibal”: “He’s a major blessing in my life.”
E-mailing her cousin, LeAnn Emry wrote that "Hannibal" was a major blessing in her life. (Courtesy of Howard Emry)
In e-mails to her cousin, LeAnn Emry writes about her relationship with “Hannibal,” the alias Scott Kimball used with her. She claims they’re having sex, and makes vague references to criminal activity they’re involved in.
“I need him to get what I want and desperately need,” LeAnn writes. “He doesn’t ask much in return, and he never abuses the situation that I am in, even though he could very easily.”
“He’s a major blessing in my life. Major.”
But she knew he had a dangerous side, too.
“Hell, if Hanable knew I was talking to you, he’d fucking have me killed in a second,” she wrote the same cousin four days earlier. “Plus, he’d have you killed too.”
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LeAnn Emry leaves home on secret trip with “Hannibal”
LeAnn, in a photo later found on Kimball's computer.
LeAnn Emry leaves her home in Centennial, where she lives with her parents, Howard and Darlene Emry.
She tells them she is going on a caving trip to Mexico with friends.
Instead, she secretly leaves on a whirlwind voyage through five states, intermittently meeting up with Scott Kimball, aka “Hannibal.”
Before heading out, LeAnn called her younger sister, Michelle, with a message: If anything bad should happen, Michelle should know her sister loved her.
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On the road: LeAnn Emry writes bad checks, buys gun
LeAnn's Super 8 receipt (Courtesy of Howard Emry)
During a two-week trip across the West, LeAnn Emry writes a cascade of bad checks, overdrawing her account by $4,000.
She bounces checks in Laramie, Wyo., Baker City, Ore., Vancouver, Wash., and Reno, Nev., leaving a paper trail that her father will piece together after her disappearance.
Investigators later place Kimball in some of the same spots at the same time, but he also goes to Seattle on FBI business.
At a pawnshop in Hermiston, Ore., Emry buys the .40-caliber Firestar handgun that will become her murder weapon.
She is back in Colorado by Jan. 27, when she checks into a Super 8 motel in Grand Junction.
She checks out two days later.
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Kimball’s cell phone goes dead for 29 hours
Scott Kimball’s cell phone records no activity from 8:15 p.m. Jan. 28 until 1:13 a.m. Jan. 30.
Kimball tells FBI Special Agent Carle Schlaff that he’s going to California to see his brother.
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Leann Emry disappears
Utah’s Bryson Canyon, where Scott Kimball killed LeAnn Emry. (Courtesy of Howard Emry)
After checking out of the Super 8 motel in Grand Junction, Colo., LeAnn Emry is never heard from again.
Kimball later told a fellow inmate that he killed LeAnn after telling her they were going for a hike in Bryson Canyon in eastern Utah.
According to that account, Kimball told her to strip nude and to kneel down before shooting her in the head.
Kimball has since claimed that members of a drug gang executed LeAnn and he was only a witness.
LeAnn, 24, was shot with the gun she bought a few days earlier.
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Kimball gives LeAnn Emry’s credit card to hooker
(moneywalks.com)
Scott Kimball hires a prostitute in Indian Wells, Calif., a golf-resort town in the Coachella Valley.
Police believe he paid for her services by giving her LeAnn Emry’s credit card.
The card is soon used fraudulently in the Los Angeles area.
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Kimball meets Kaysi’s mother, Lori McLeod
The Lodge Casino at Black Hawk. (blackhawkcolorado.com)
Scott Kimball meets Lori McLeod at the Lodge Casino at Black Hawk, where the 39-year-old mother is a regular at Boston 5-card poker.
McLeod is taken with Kimball, who is pushing his mother around in a wheelchair and attending to her every need. He has an easy smile, and pleasant demeanor.
McLeod, who lives in Westminster with her 19-year-old daughter, Kaysi, gives Kimball her number at the end of the night. “Wait,” she jokes, “You’re not a felon or anything, are you?”
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