Still married to Lori McLeod, Scott Kimball starts dating 25-year-old Melissa Anderson, a waitress at a Perkins restaurant in Westminster.
Anderson later described Kimball as “gentleman-like” but also said he had an appetite for rough sex, including bondage.
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Nearly a year after Terry Kimball’s disappearance, Scott Kimball’s father, Virgil Kimball, receives an e-mail at his Idaho home from terrylkimball@yahoo.com.
“In the e-mail, Terry claimed to be living in old Mexico with a woman named Ginger and added that Ginger liked living in Mexico,” FBI agent Johnny Grusing would later write in an affidavit. “Virgil recalled that supposedly Ginger never wanted to return to the United States, so Terry probably would not either.”
Police would trace the account to Scott Kimball’s computer two years later.
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Lori McLeod is arrested in Adams County for violating a restraining order that her husband, Scott Kimball, got against her after claiming she hit him with a vacuum cleaner.
McLeod says Kimball lied about the attack and wanted her in jail so he could bring his new girlfriend, Melissa Anderson, over to the house.
Bob Marcum holds a picture of his daughter at age 8. (Kristen Schmid Schurter/for the Camera)
After trying for more than a year to find the man with their daughter’s belongings, Bob Marcum and Mary Willis fly to Denver and put up fliers of Jennifer Marcum all over town.
Bob Marcum talks again with FBI Special Agent Carle Schlaff, pushing for information about the man with Jennifer’s furniture.
Schlaff won’t give up the man’s name, but eventually gives Marcum a cell-phone number for Scott Kimball.
Ask for Joe Snitch, the agent says.
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The contract found in Scott Kimball's possession, apparently meant for Jennifer Marcum's mother, Mary Willis. He used his FBI alias, Joe Scott, although his handler at the bureau introduced him as Joe Snitch. (Courtesy of Lafayette police)
Hoping to find out more from the man who has their daughter’s furniture, Jennifer Marcum’s parents meet with Scott Kimball, whom they know only as ‘Joe Snitch,’ at Broomfield’s North Midway Park.
Joe Snitch tells Bob Marcum and Mary Willis that Jennifer had been murdered, and he knows who did it and where they left her body. He tells Willis that if she’ll let him into her hotel room that night, he can demonstrate how Jennifer was killed.
Broomfield’s North Midway Park, where Jennifer Marcum’s parents met “Joe Snitch.” (Paul Aiken/Camera)
Kimball shows up at Willis’ Lakewood hotel room that night, but she refuses to let him in.
Police will later find a contract in Kimball’s possession that’s dated for that night and appears to have been meant for Willis. Using his FBI alias, Joe Scott, the contract asks for permission to bind, gag and have sex with her.
Both parents came away from the bizarre encounters with the certainty that they had just looked into the eyes of their daughter’s killer.
“There were no maybes,” Bob Marcum said.
Jennifer Marcum. (Courtesy of Bob Marcum)
Jason Price, an alleged associate in Steve Ennis’ drug ring, tells the FBI that he suspects Scott Kimball was involved in the disappearance of Jennifer Marcum.
Two years earlier, Kimball had told the FBI that Price killed Jennifer and showed him pictures of her dead body.
Price says he only recently realized that Jennifer had gone missing.
Less than two weeks after meeting “Joe Snitch” in a Broomfield park, Jennifer Marcum’s mother, Mary Willis, records a phone conversation with Scott Kimball, referring to him as Joe.
Willis demands to know more about Jennifer but says she won’t strip naked and let Kimball demonstrate how her daughter was killed.
“You had your chance,” says Kimball, who wanted Willis to sign a contract allowing him to have sex with her in an effort to re-create Jennifer’s murder.
He says Willis should return to Colorado and hire an escort on whom he can demonstrate the murder.
“I’ll show you exactly what happened and you can just be a bystander,” Kimball says.
Later in the conversation, Willis asks Kimball if he doesn’t in fact want a “Christian burial” for Jennifer.
“My daughter means everything to me,” Willis says.
“You know what?” Kimball replies. “I saw how much she meant to you when you wouldn’t let me into your motel room.”
Kimball warns Willis that if she threatens him, he won’t talk to her anymore. He said his handler at the FBI, Special Agent Carle Schlaff, will be “obligated to move me, to hide me, or do whatever, so just remember that.”
Kimball can be heard telling Willis that he can’t say too much about the case or he will “blow the lid right off the whole thing.”
He also states that Schlaff tells him exactly what he can or cannot say about Jennifer.
The call ends with Kimball telling Willis to let him talk to her daughter, Tammy, about how her sister was murdered.
In its final recorded payment to Scott Kimball, the FBI gives him $50 to cover expenses.
In another polygraph test about Jennifer Marcum, this one administered by the FBI, Scott Kimball is asked if he caused the disappearance of Jennifer Marcum.
His answers are categorized as deceptive.
Scott Kimball rented this Lafayette house, at 12632 Flagg Drive, in the fall of 2005. (Cliff Grassmick / Camera)
Scott Kimball moves from the Adams County home he shared with Lori McLeod to a small rental at 12632 Flagg Drive in Lafayette.
His landlord, Wendy Phillips, said Kimball was “adorable” and a “perfect tenant,” until his rent checks started to bounce.
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Scott Kimball, when he returned Jennifer Marcum's furniture. (Photo by Bob Marcum)
In a second face-to-face meeting, Scott Kimball returns Jennifer Marcum’s furniture and belongings to her parents, Bob Marcum and Mary Willis.
Kimball, who’s had Jennifer’s items since she disappeared in February 2003, is accompanied by FBI Special Agent Carle Schlaff.
They all convene in a strip mall parking lot in Broomfield for the exchange.
Scott Kimball is sentenced to three years in prison for escaping from a pre-release center in Helena, Mont., in 2001 and stealing $677 from the gas station where he worked.
The prison sentence is suspended, and Kimball goes free on supervised release.
Scott Kimball meets Denise Pierce, then 30, while visiting his brother, Brett Kimball, in California’s Coachella Valley. They begin dating.
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Investigators later found this fake lien release in Kimball's office. (Courtesy of Lafayette police)
Scott Kimball wrecks his 1999 Jeep Cherokee and receives $10,799.16 in insurance proceeds 11 days later.
Investigators would later discover fake lien-release documents Kimball used to fool the insurance company into believing that he owned the vehicle outright.
And Lori McLeod would tell police that she heard her husband talking about purposely wrecking the vehicle to collect insurance money.
A trailer reported stolen by Scott Kimball. (Courtesy Lafayette police)
Scott Kimball goes to the Lafayette Police Department to report that his white box trailer — filled with grilling equipment and coolers — has been stolen from outside his office at 801 S. Public Road.
He later collects $10,000 in insurance claims on the trailer.
Using pilfered personal financial information from family friend and Lafayette optometrist Cleve Armstrong, Scott Kimball begins moving thousands of dollars over the phone from Armstrong’s money market account to Armstrong’s checking account.
Over the next three weeks, he transfers $83,000 between accounts, then uses several accomplices to forge nearly $55,000 worth of checks to Kimball’s companies: Rocky Mountain All Natural Beef and Rocky Mountain Cattle Company.
When Armstrong returns from vacation in mid-January, he will immediately point police in the direction of Kimball, who had an office in the basement of the 801 S. Public Road building shared by Armstrong and Kimball’s mother.
Melissa Anderson, Scott Kimball’s 25-year-old girlfriend, buys him a .22-caliber Winchester Model 70 rifle at a Wal-Mart in Thornton for $437.
Anderson, of Thornton, fills out the paperwork, and Kimball lays out the cash.
He told Anderson he would teach her how to hunt, but once she buys the gun she never hears from him again.
Once Lafayette optometrist Cleve Armstrong calls police about his missing money, Scott Kimball leaves the state.
He ends up in California’s Coachella Valley, where he stays in a rented casita with Denise Pierce, his 31-year-old girlfriend.
Scott Kimball’s basement office at 801 S. Public Road. (Courtesy of Lafayette police)
Lafayette police detective Gary Thatcher searches the basement of 801 S. Public Road in Lafayette, where Scott Kimball had been running a beef business.
He finds sheets of practice signatures; bogus subpoenas regarding the assault case against Kimball’s wife; and a counterfeit lien release for a Jeep — complete with company letterhead and an altered seal from his mother’s notary stamp — that Kimball had used to cash in on insurance proceeds after wrecking the vehicle the previous month.
Kaysi McLeod, at 16. (Courtesy of Rob McLeod)
In investigating Scott Kimball for stealing $55,000 from optometrist Cleve Armstrong, Lafayette police Detective Gary Thatcher interviews Kimball’s now-estranged wife, Lori McLeod, and learns that her daughter has been missing for more than two years.
Lori McLeod says she has long suspected that her husband played a role in Kaysi’s disappearance.
