Scott Kimball is officially deactivated by the FBI as an informant.
It’s not clear exactly when or why, but at some point in the fall of 2005, Special Agent Carle Schlaff had been removed from the case.
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Kimball deactivated as an FBI informant
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Federal arrest warrant issued for Kimball
A federal arrest warrant is issued for Scott Kimball for violating his supervised release on his 2001 Alaska check-fraud case.
Kimball’s probation officer says he failed to check in and had left Colorado on unauthorized trips.
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Kimball and girlfriend shoot guns in wilderness
Bryce Canyon National Park. (earthdocumentary.com)
Scott Kimball and his girlfriend, Denise Pierce, go to Bryce Canyon National Park in Utah to shoot guns.
Pierce would later identify the handgun they used as part of a federal firearms case against Kimball.
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Detective Thatcher finds Kimball’s “stolen” trailer
Equipment reported stolen along with the trailer. (Courtesy Lafayette police)
Lafayette police detective Gary Thatcher finds the trailer reported stolen by Scott Kimball the previous December hidden at Kimball’s former Adams County home.
Kimball had already collected $10,000 in insurance claims.
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Last day free: Kimball arrested after California car chase
Scott Kimball leads a contingent of U.S. marshals and Riverside County sheriff’s deputies on a high-speed chase through California’s Coachella Valley.
Reaching speeds up to 80 mph, he cranked Nickelback’s “Rockstar” through the speakers of the Ford F-350 and called his girlfriend, Denise Pierce.
She told Kimball to stop and turn himself in, but he refused, insisting the cops would kill him because he knew too much.
Kimball drove the full length of the valley in a televised chase, eventually turning onto dirt roads, careening through orchards and rolling over irrigation pipes in a farmer’s field in Mecca, Calif., just north of the Salton Sea.
Low on gas, he finally stopped but wouldn’t surrender for several hours.
He has not been out of prison since.
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Lori McLeod finds Kaysi’s work schedule in box of Kimball’s
Kaysi's schedule. (Courtesy of Lafayette police)
In a box belonging to her estranged husband, Lori McLeod find her daughter’s hand-written work schedule for the week she went missing.
McLeod takes it to the Lafayette Police Department, which is already investigating Scott Kimball for check fraud.
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Sentenced: 10 months jail for violating federal probation
Scott Kimball is sentenced in federal court in Denver to 10 months in jail and six months in a halfway house for violating his supervised release in the 2001 Alaska check-fraud case.
He’d been arrested on a federal warrant in the case after a car chase and standoff in California two months earlier.
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Detective Thatcher interviews Kimball for first time
Boulder County Jail. (Camera file photo)
Lafayette police detective Gary Thatcher interviews Scott Kimball for the first time, while Kimball is held in Boulder County Jail for a brief period.
The conversation centers on optometrist Cleve Armstrong’s check-fraud case.
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Connection: Rob McLeod spots Kimball’s name in story on Jennifer Marcum
Rob McLeod (Mark Leffingwell / Camera)
Reading a Westword article about a billboard erected for Jennifer Marcum, Rob McLeod spots Scott Kimball’s name.
McLeod’s ex-wife is still married to Kimball, who lived with their 19-year-old daughter, Kaysi McLeod, when she went missing three years earlier.
McLeod calls Jennifer’s father, Bob Marcum, who mentioned Kimball’s name to the Westword reporter as an acquaintance she stayed with before vanishing.
“Now we’ve got two people missing, and there’s only one commonality — Scott Kimball,” McLeod said.
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Arrest warrant issued in Lafayette check-fraud case
A check forged on Cleve Armstrong's account. (Courtesy Lafayette police)
Boulder County issues a warrant for Scott Kimball’s arrest on suspicion of theft, forgery and false reporting.
The charges stemmed from the theft of $55,000 from Lafayette optometrist Cleve Armstrong.
In the course of that investigation, police also found a trailer on Kimball’s former property that he had reported stolen two months earlier.
Kimball had already collected a $10,000 insurance claim for the trailer.
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Suspended sentence in Montana escape case revoked
Still in jail after his California car chase, Scott Kimball’s suspended sentence in his 2001 Montana theft and escape case is revoked and he is ordered to serve his remaining time — nearly two years — behind bars.
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Connection: Victims’ fathers find out about Terry Kimball’s disappearance
Terry Kimball in 2002. (Courtesy of Karen Johnson)
Bob Marcum, who has flown out to Colorado, meets with Rob and Lori McLeod to search for clues to their daughters’ whereabouts.
They drive to Scott Kimball’s former condo in Lakewood, where Jennifer had left her furniture, and talk to the manager there.
They scope out his former Adams County property, and a nearby field where Kimball had run cattle. A pit on the property contains the bones of slaughtered cows.
Convinced that Kimball has claimed more victims, Marcum asks the others: “Is there anyone else Scott Kimball has been around who you’ve never seen again?”
In fact, Lori McLeod responds, Scott’s uncle Terry had vanished a couple of years ago after living with them for several weeks.
“She said it like she had never thought about it before,” Marcum said.
(Date is approximate.)
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Victims’ fathers meet with FBI
Bob Marcum.
Rob McLeod.
Bob Marcum and Rob McLeod meet with Lafayette police Detective Gary Thatcher, who is investigating Kimball for check fraud, about their missing daughters.
They ask to have a bone pit on Kimball’s cattle pasture searched for human remains, but police find nothing.
The two fathers also meet with the FBI at the bureau’s Denver office and explain the similarities in their daughters’ cases. They tell the FBI about Terry Kimball, too, saying they don’t buy that he ran off to Mexico.
“You can look into this and see if it goes anywhere, or you can choose not to,” McLeod tells the bureau. “It’s your choice.”
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FBI assigns agent to investigate missing-persons case
FBI Special Agent Jonathan Grusing. (Marty Caivano/Camera)
After Bob Marcum and Rob McLeod meet with the FBI about their missing daughters, Special Agent Jonathan Grusing is assigned to investigate the missing-persons cases surrounding Scott Kimball.
Working with Lafayette police detective Gary Thatcher, Grusing launches an exhaustive investigation, looking for clues that Kimball had transitioned from a white-collar criminal to a serial killer.
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Kimball’s rifle, handgun recovered
A rifle and handgun belonging to Scott Kimball are recovered at a friend’s house in Indio, Calif.
His girlfriend, Denise Pierce, identifies the handgun as one she saw Kimball shooting recreationally on an outing. The rifle was purchased for Kimball at a Thornton Wal-Mart by another girlfriend, Melissa Anderson, in December 2005.
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Kaysi’s date book, grocery store receipt found
The receipt. (Courtesy of Lafayette police)
FBI Special Agent Jonny Grusing and Lafayette police Detective Gary Thatcher find a receipt from North Park Supers grocery store, dated Aug. 24, 2003 — the day after Kaysi McLeod vanished — in boxes of old documents and receipts belonging to Scott Kimball.
They also find Kaysi’s date book and a map of the North Park area.
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Landlord admits he lied about seeing Kaysi McLeod
Kaysi McLeod, 2001. (Courtesy of Rob McLeod)
Dale Stewart, Scott Kimball’s former Adams County landlord, admits to investigators that he lied when he told Lori McLeod he had seen her daughter driving around the property after she disappeared in August 2003.
Stewart said Kimball asked him to lie.
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Indicted: Felon in possession of a firearm
Scott Kimball is indicted in federal court in Denver on a charge of Felon in Possession of a Firearm.
Earlier in 2007, two guns belonging to Kimball had been found at a friend’s house in California. Kimball was prohibited from owning firearms according to the terms of his federal probation on an earlier check fraud case.
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Search of Kimball’s laptop reveals rape photos, searches on Jennifer Marcum
Investigators found this photo of LeAnn Emry on Kimball's laptop but did not yet know who it was. (Courtesy of Lafayette police)
In a search of Scott Kimball’s Toshiba laptop, the FBI finds a search of the term “Jennifer Marcum missing” and pictures of various women, including LeAnn Emry, although investigators don’t yet know who she is.
They also find 291 graphic images “depicting women clothed and unclothed, being assaulted, forced into violent sexual activities or raped, bound and gagged, feigning or posing as being dead and threatened at gunpoint or knife point.”
The search finds that Kimball logged into Internet sex sites as “Beefman1996″ and visited multiple rape video Web sites, including “Brutally Raped Young Girls,” “Rape Island TGP,” and “Japanese Girl Rape.”
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Kimball to investigators: ‘I wish I could be honest with you’
Kimball's Montana Department of Corrections mug.
Scott Kimball is interviewed by FBI Special Agent Jonathan Grusing and Lafayette police detective Gary Thatcher at the Cascade County Detention Facility in Great Falls, Mont.
Asked about the disappearances of Jennifer Marcum, Kaysi McLeod and Terry Kimball, he offers to provide information about Jennifer and his uncle if given immunity for his white-collar crimes. Kaysi, he tells the investigators, is still alive.
During the six-hour interview, Kimball makes statements like: “I can’t incriminate myself any further” and “I wish I could be honest with you.”
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