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25-year-old girlfriend buys Kimball a rifle
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...
View ArticleUnder investigation for Lafayette check fraud, Kimball flees the state
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...
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Searching Kimball’s office, Thatcher finds fraudulent documents
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...
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Detective Thatcher learns of Kaysi McLeod’s disappearance
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...
View ArticleKimball deactivated as an FBI informant
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.
View ArticleFederal 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...
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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...
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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...
View ArticleLast 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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
View ArticleSuspended 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 —...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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Hunter finds human skeleton in Routt National Forest
Routt National Forest, where a hunter found a human skeleton in September 2007. (Courtesy of Rob McLeod) Bushwhacking through a dense section of Routt National Forest in the shadow of Little Haystack...
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Jennifer Marcum investigation leads detectives to LeAnn Emry’s boyfriend
Investigating Jennifer Marcum’s disappearance, FBI Special Agent Jonathan Grusing and Lafayette police detective Gary Thatcher interview Steve Ennis, who shared a cell with Scott Kimball at...
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Agent Grusing calls Howard Emry, who says “Hannibal” killed LeAnn
Howard and Darlene Emry, with a photo of their daughter LeAnn. FBI Special Agent Jonathan Grusing calls Howard Emry at home in Payette, Idaho, and asks to speak to his daughter, LeAnn. “She’s been...
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LeAnn Emry’s boyfriend tells investigators “Hannibal” is Kimball
Steven Holley FBI Special Agent Jonathan Grusing and Lafayette police detective Gary Thatcher interview Steven Holley at the federal prison in Florence, Colo. They learn that his girlfriend, LeAnn...
View ArticleKaysi’s Subway hat found in Kimball’s trailer
Investigators find Kaysi McLeod’s Subway hat in a trailer owned by Scott Kimball. It is found in a black bag containing six zip ties, two rolls of electrical tape, and women’s shoes.
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Agent Grusing learns of body found in Routt National Forest the previous fall
The receipt, found in a box of Kimball's belongings. (Courtesy of Lafayette police) Nagged by a $17.95 grocery store receipt found in Scott Kimball’s possessions, FBI Special Agent Jonathan Grusing...
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Remains from national forest ID’d as Kaysi McLeod’s
Lafayette police detective Gary Thatcher, left, and FBI Special Agent Jonathan Grusing, near the site where a hunter discovered Kaysi McLeod's body. (Courtesy of Rob McLeod) A final DNA analysis at the...
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Search of former home reveals bloodstains in carpet
The vacant Adams County home where Kimball once lived. (Paul Aiken / Camera) In a search of Scott Kimball’s former Adams County home, at 14701 Huron St., investigators find bloodstains in the...
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Lori McLeod’s marriage to Kimball invalidated
Lori McLeod sits near her daughter's headstone at Crown Hill Cemetery in Wheat Ridge in December 2009. (Mark Leffingwell / Camera) Lori McLeod’s marriage to Scott Kimball is declared invalid. Married...
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With guilty plea for theft, Kimball gets 48 years and an offered murder deal:...
Kimball's mug shot. (Rocky Mountain News) Boulder County prosecutors make a deal with Scott Kimball. He pleads guilty to stealing $55,000 from Lafayette optometrist Cleve Armstrong as a habitual...
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Kimball draws map to his uncle’s body
Vail Pass. (colorado-counties.com) Scott Kimball draws authorities a detailed map to the spot near Vail Pass where he left his uncle Terry Kimball’s body. But a search will have to be postponed until...
View ArticleFirst search for bodies in Utah is fruitless
Scott Kimball leads investigators and FBI agents on a hunt for bodies in eastern Utah, where he claims LeAnn Emry and Jennifer Marcum are buried. Kimball and investigators pore over computer-generated...
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LeAnn Emry’s remains found in Utah; still no sign of Jennifer Marcum
The Utah site where LeAnn Emry's remains were found. (Courtesy of Howard Emry) During a second hunt for bodies, Scott Kimball leads investigators to a wash in Bryson Canyon. FBI Special Agent Jonathan...
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Nothing found in third and last search for Jennifer Marcum’s body
Jennifer Marcum, at age 24. (Courtesy of Bob Marcum) Scott Kimball participates in a third search for bodies, insisting that Jennifer Marcum is buried in the same area of eastern Utah that LeAnn Emry’s...
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Without Jennifer Marcum’s body, DA revokes deal
Boulder County DA Stan Garnett. (Camera file photo) Without Jennifer Marcum’s body, Boulder County prosecutors revoke their deal with Kimball. In a December 2008 “memorandum of understanding,” Kimball...
View ArticleBullet fragment found near LeAnn Emry’s body matches Kimball’s gun
A fragment from a brass-jacketed bullet found near LeAnn Emry’s remains in Utah’s Bryson Canyon is determined to be consistent with the .40-caliber Firestar handgun Scott Kimball owned. The bullet...
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Blood found at Kimball’s former home matches “Uncle Terry”
Terry Kimball. (Courtesy photo) Bloodstains found the previous summer in the carpet of Scott Kimball’s former Adams County homes test positive as a match for his “Uncle Terry,” based on a DNA sample...
View ArticleSentenced: 70 months for possessing a firearm
Scott Kimball is sentenced in federal court in Denver to 70 months in prison for possessing a firearm as a felon.
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Terry Kimball’s body found near Vail Pass
When Terry Kimball's body is returned to his family, he will be buried next to his parents in Lafayette Cemetery. (Paul Aiken / Camera) With the snow melted in Colorado’s high country, a search party...
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Murder deal: Kimball pleads guilty to two counts, gets 70 years in prison
Scott Kimball at his sentencing hearing in the Boulder County Justice Center. Camera file photo Scott Kimball pleads guilty to two counts of second-degree murder in the deaths of LeAnn Emry, Jennifer...
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Kimball behind bars: “I won’t spend the rest of my life in prison”
Kimball's DOC mugshot Scott Kimball is sent to Sterling Correctional Facility to start serving his 70-year prison term. He could first be eligible for parole in 38.5 years, at age 81, according to the...
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Kimball’s firearms conviction sentence upheld
Kimball's DOC mugshot The U.S. Court of Appeals in Denver upholds Scott Kimball’s 70-month prison sentence for being a felon in possession of a firearm. Kimball had challenged the June 11, 2009,...
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Still at it: Faked FBI documents found in Kimball’s cell
Katharina Booth, in her Boulder office. (Paul Aiken / Camera) In a search of Scott Kimball’s cell in the Sterling Correctional Facility, an FBI agent finds several fraudulent documents. Claiming that...
View ArticleKimball on TV: “Even a good guy can have a bad side”
In his first televised interview from prison, Scott Kimball tells Fox 31 News in Denver that he’s not a traditional serial killer, and there were reasons for every murder. “I’m a cleaner,” he says. “I...
View ArticleFBI: Kimball eyed in other disappearances
The Denver Post reported that Scott Kimball is a potential suspect in “several” unsolved disappearances. The FBI disclosed the fact that investigators are looking at specific cases after the paper...
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