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This story beforehand aired on Aug. 20, 2011. It was up to date on June 15, 2024.
The disappearance of three ladies within the early 2000s led their households on paths full of twists and turns that might show to be the last word assessments of affection and dedication. The circumstances additionally challenged the intelligence and talent of two investigators, one a neighborhood police officer and the opposite a seasoned FBI agent, who had been introduced collectively to unlock the thriller between the circumstances. Their work revealed a killer with the chilling nickname of Hannibal. His final identification would shock everybody concerned.
WHERE’S KAYSI MCLEOD?
For Rob McLeod, checking his daughter’s web site is a every day ritual. He stated he visits “… simply to see her. Only for a sec… After which there’s been actual emotional days that I am unable to probably take a look at her footage.”
That is as a result of his 19-year-old daughter, Kaysi, vanished in August 2003.
Rob McLeod described his daughter as “vivid and bubbly and enjoyable. … She was a really completely happy, straightforward to get together with, eager to please sort of child.”
“She danced and sang on a regular basis … throughout the home on a regular basis,” her mom, Lori McLeod advised “48 Hours” correspondent Harold Dow.
Kaysi was the couple’s solely little one; when she was a toddler, they doted on her.
“Kaysi was introduced up in bubble wrap,” Lori McLeod defined. “We protected her from all the things.”
However Kaysi’s sheltered life did not final lengthy; her mother and father divorced when she was 4 and as she acquired older, Kaysi grew rebellious.
“She was buttin’ heads together with her mother and began smoking and began partaking in habits in highschool that her mother did not approve of,” Rob McLeod defined. “And he or she simply packed her up and moved her right down to her aunt’s in Arizona.”
Phoenix was Kaysi’s new dwelling and it was the place she met greatest pal, Tabetha Morton.
“We had been each turning 16, I consider once I met her,” Morton recalled. “We had been so shut, actually, that we had been virtually connected on the hip. As a result of we labored collectively, we had been going to highschool collectively, and we spent a lot of our private time collectively.”
However after highschool, Morton stated Kaysi fell in with the improper crowd.
“… there was a woman that determined to maneuver in together with her … this lady was heavy into medication and he or she was bringing tons of people that had been utilizing medication to the home very often. Kaysi sort of fell into that,” Morton defined. “After I observed that one thing was improper, I referred to as her aunt. And I stated, ‘I feel that Kaysi’s in some bother.'”
Kaysi was despatched again to Colorado in late 2001.
“It did not change our friendship,” Morton continued. “I feel it truly made it stronger, as a result of she knew I used to be actually looking for her.”
“She had just a few months of drug use however, that is not who she was,” Lori McLeod stated.
As Kaysi settled again into her previous environment, a brand new man, named Scott Kimball, entered her mom’s life.
“He was nice and he was very charming and humorous and good. Very interesting,” Lori McLeod advised Dow.
Now residing with Scott and Lori, Kaysi gave the impression to be getting her life again on observe with new associates and a brand new job. However then got here a surprising disappointment; Scott McLeod discovered medication in the home.
“And once I confronted Kaysi, she swore to me that they weren’t hers,” Lori McLeod stated. “She begged me to get a drug take a look at. And I did not consider her.”
When Lori McLeod threatened to show her daughter in to police, Kaysi took off down the street on her bicycle. When requested what she thought occurred to Kaysi, Lori McLeod replied, “I assumed she took off as a result of I did not consider her … I fearful sick about her … I drove round searching for her.”
At first, Rob McLeod was offended; Kaysi had run away earlier than.
“I used to be fearful about her,” he admitted, “however to not the purpose that I assumed any foul play occurred. I figured she was over … discovered a pal and was crashing over at their place. She’d name or finally simply present up like she had earlier than.”
Two days later, when Kaysi failed to indicate up for her shift at a sandwich store, Lori McLeod grew to become frantic.
“I went to the police and so they advised me that it was not my proper to search out her,” she stated. “‘Kaysi was over 18, she was not a runaway. She merely left.'”
Lori McLeod stated she wasn’t even capable of file a lacking individuals report. “The police will not permit that. They advised me there needed to be blood proof of foul play in an effort to file a lacking individuals report.”
At the very least Lori McLeod had the assist of Scott Kimball, who had essential regulation enforcement contacts. “He labored for the FBI,” she defined. “He helped catch unhealthy guys.”
When Kaysi disappeared, Lori McLeod stated she talked to Kimball. He advised her along with his connections with the FBI, “we’ll discover her.”
Determined, Lori McLeod even married Kimball, seeing him as the one hope to discovering her daughter. And positive sufficient, he turned up just a few leads, together with proof that Kaysi had stopped by the home very not too long ago, when nobody was dwelling.
“He discovered Kaysi’s necklace on her bed room [doorknob] deal with,” Lori McLeod stated
Much more promising, Kimball discovered a neighbor who stated he had seen Kaysi weeks after she disappeared. “And the neighbor stated that Kaysi had been on the home together with her boyfriend and his sister,” Lori McLeod recalled.
Again in Phoenix, Morton was additionally frantically searching for her pal. “I referred to as everyone that we knew. I arrange a MySpace web page for her — contacted folks from highschool, handed out flyers.”
Weeks, then months, glided by. When Kaysi nonetheless hadn’t been heard from for over a 12 months, Morton grew to become satisfied that her pal hadn’t run away and that one thing extra severe had occurred.
“It simply grew to become increasingly more in contrast to her to not come up with me in a roundabout way by means of an e-mail or give me a name, one thing like that,” Morton stated.
“Probably the most insufferable factor for me to consider my daughter is that somebody took her — one thing treasured, one thing essential to me, and destroyed it and threw it away prefer it wasn’t essential to anyone,” stated Rob McLeod.
Collectively, Rob McLeod and Morton started to marvel if the important thing to Kaysi’s disappearance may be a lot nearer to dwelling.
In response to Morton, “It was simply this nagging feeling that stored going by means of my head that there was one thing greater than what we had been discovering.”
LEANN EMRY VANISHES
“Over a course of time, you are questioning, ‘The place is she?’ You already know? ‘Is she harm? Is she hungry?'” These ideas tormented Rob McLeod from the time his daughter, Kaysi, vanished in August 2003. What he did not know was that one other Colorado father was asking these exact same questions.
“You marvel, ‘the place is she? Has she been kidnapped?’ You marvel what on the earth has occurred to her,” stated Howard Emry.
Seven months earlier than Kaysi McLeod disappeared, Emry’s 24-year-old daughter, LeAnn, had additionally mysteriously vanished.
Emry has spent numerous hours replaying LeAnn’s life; a life that started stuffed with promise. “She was a straight-A scholar in highschool,” he advised Dow. “… truly graduated a 12 months early in highschool.”
However LeAnn’s life quickly spiraled downwards. Her mom’s extreme well being issues stored Leann from ending faculty, she misplaced her job as a veterinarian’s assistant and he or she landed in an abusive marriage.
“I feel that was nearly the turning level,” Emry recalled. “I feel she had an actual feeling that she actually wasn’t value a lot and he or she could not do a lot.”
In 2002, LeAnn left her husband. However her father was nonetheless involved, as a result of she started a relationship with a prisoner named Steven Holley. Emry hoped a brand new interest would possibly flip issues round.
“What did she like about caving?” Dow requested.
“I feel it was the journey of the unknown,” Emry replied. “When she put her thoughts to do one thing, she would do it.”
On Jan. 16, 2003, LeAnn’s automobile, with its distinctive license plate, pulled out of the driveway.
“The canine she liked probably the most was Dalmatians,” Howard defined. “On her automobile… she had a license plate that stated ‘DalGal.'”
LeAnn stated she was headed for a caving journey in Mexico with associates. However two weeks later, Emry acquired a name that also haunts him; it was the sheriff’s division in Moab, Utah.
“They usually say, ‘Properly, I hate to inform you, however we discovered her automobile deserted within the Canyon Lands in Moab, Utah, simply yesterday.’ They advised me concerning the license plate and I knew instantly, ‘Yeah, that is LeAnn’s automobile.'”
Brent Tempo, a seasoned investigator and tracker with Utah’s Grand County Sheriff’s Workplace, may inform somebody had picked LeAnn up. “All her garments, stuff like that, was left in her automobile,” he stated.
Tempo took “48 Hours” to the clearing the place her automobile was discovered.
“The automobile was truly pulled straight into [the clearing], such as you drove off this street and pulled in proper right here,” he stated pointing to the spot. “Then the driving force acquired out walked again and acquired in one other automobile.”
“One set of shoe prints leaving this automobile to a different set of tire tracks,” Tempo continued. “Due to that, we had been sort of involved, , that possibly one thing did occur out right here.”
Just like the McLeods, Howard Emry tried to file a lacking individuals report in Colorado, however was shut down. So he determined to play detective himself.
“I needed to know why she was gone. I imply, there’s clearly one million questions right here,” he stated.
Utilizing bank card information, Emry pieced collectively LeAnn’s path within the weeks earlier than she disappeared. He found she did not go to Mexico and he or she was main a secret life.
LeAnn spent the ten days earlier than she vanished touring by means of the western United States writing unhealthy checks and charging hundreds of {dollars} to her father’s bank card.
“I used to be completely bewildered,” Emry stated. “She was both threatened or blackmailed … She wouldn’t have completed this on her personal.”
It appeared Emry was proper. He got here throughout a number of emails that LeAnn had despatched to a cousin simply days earlier than she left. The emails hinted that she was in bother, however was being protected by somebody with a curious nickname.
“She stated, ‘As for “Hannibal,” I feel … I feel I can belief him. He is truly defending me.’ My thought was defending her from what?” Emry stated.
Just a few clues arrived in a number of cryptic letters from LeAnn’s jail boyfriend, Steven Holley.
“Mainly, he advised me that she was in horrible hazard and ‘please name the FBI instantly,'” Emry advised Dow.
Alarmed, Emry went to go to Holley, who advised him that “Hannibal” was a former inmate he had put LeAnn in contact with.
“And I say, ‘Inform me about “Hannibal.” Do you suppose he would harm my daughter?’ He says, ‘Properly, I actually do not suppose “Hannibal” would harm LeAnn … however “Hannibal” does know some those that would not hesitate to kill LeAnn if he requested them to do it.'”
Holley refused to disclose “Hannibal’s” true identification. And when Emry introduced Holley’s story to the FBI, the agent he spoke to dismissed it as pure fiction.
“There is a potential kidnapping right here,” Emry stated, “and but he confirmed no curiosity in any way.”
As time handed, everybody was left with extra questions than once they started; even Brent Tempo, who stored up the search.
“It is arduous to be concerned in a case and never know the whys — why this occurred,” Tempo defined. “These kinda circumstances, it is someone’s little one, a human being, so these are questions you actually need answered.”
However nobody realized “Hannibal” was truly working for the FBI and was married to Lori McLeod.
“Hannibal’s” actual identify? Scott Kimball.
JENNIFER MARCUM DISAPPEARS
Lori McLeod started having suspicions about Scott Kimball after they had been married in August 2003, the identical month her daughter Kaysi went lacking.
“On and off he would say issues that did not really feel proper, and once more, once I would query him, he would make me really feel I used to be dropping my thoughts,” she stated. “And to be completely sincere, I needed to really feel that what I used to be pondering wasn’t proper.”
It wasn’t till two years later that Lori McLeod shared some disturbing data together with her ex-husband, Rob McLeod. “And I am speaking to Lori … and he or she goes, ‘Properly, that entire weekend Kaysi went lacking isn’t fairly what I advised you. There’s a bit of extra to it than that.’ She stated Kimball took off the identical weekend Kaysi did on a solo thriller.”
Lori and Rob McLeod weren’t the one ones asking questions. In early 2006, Scott Kimball grew to become a suspect in a case that Lafayette, Colorado, Detective Gary Thatcher was investigating.
Requested when he had first heard the identify Scott Kimball, Thatcher stated, “It was once I had an officer come to me with this test fraud case. That was the primary time I heard about him.”
Thatcher realized that Kimball’s “job” with the FBI was as a paid prison informant. He was additionally a con artist who had spent most of his life wracking up felony convictions and jail time all around the western U.S.
However when Thatcher went to search out Kimball, he was gone.
“Properly, it was January of 2006… Initially, I used to be speaking to Lori about the place is Scott Kimball after which she dropped that on me — is that Kaysi’s lacking and he or she’s suspicious of Scott,” Thatcher stated. “You already know, that was the attention opener. The test fraud is essential right here, however there is a a lot larger image to this investigation.”
A warrant was put out for Scott Kimball’s arrest. Two months later, U.S. Marshals tracked him down. After a dramatic, high-speed chase by means of California’s Coachella Valley, they arrested the con man.
With Kimball safely in custody, Thatcher made a vow to Rob McLeod.
“And he says, ‘Rob the place there’s smoke there’s fireplace.’ He says, ‘I cannot overlook Kaysi. I cannot relaxation till we discover out what occurred to her,'” Rob McLeod advised Dow.
As Thatcher dug deeper, he realized from the FBI that Kimball was linked, years earlier, to yet one more lacking Colorado lady named Jennifer Marcum.
“And so now it was only one other thing added on to the pile of suspicion,” he stated.
Jennifer Marcum was a struggling single mom who labored as a stripper. On Feb. 17, 2003, she visited her boyfriend, drug seller Steve Ennis, in jail. Shortly after that go to, she vanished.
Like the opposite fathers, Bob Marcum was stumped about his daughter’s disappearance.
“Simply complete nervousness … starting to marvel, ‘The place is she?'” he stated. “And all you are able to do is hope possibly she’d been arrested, one way or the other put in jail and that that is the place she’s at.”
Marcum went by means of that for a 12 months. Then at some point, his cellphone rang; it was an FBI agent named Carle Schlaff.
“They requested if Jennifer was there. I stated ‘No,'” Marcum defined. “At that time, he stated that one thing unhealthy could have occurred to her.”
Schlaff revealed that Jennifer’s automobile had been discovered deserted on the Denver airport.
“It was after some time that we discovered that that they had discovered it a 12 months earlier than and no one had contacted us,” Marcum stated. “I could not consider it.”
Marcum stored urgent Schlaff for solutions. So the agent arrange a gathering along with his informant who had as soon as shared a jail cell with Jennifer’s boyfriend. That informant was Scott Kimball.
“He advised me he knew. He advised me he knew the place she was, how she died, the way it occurred, all the things,” stated Jennifer’s mom, Mary Willis.
Willis got here with Marcum to a park to fulfill Scott Kimball. He advised them that Jennifer had been killed by a few of her boyfriend’s drug associates. Kimball stated he had even seen footage of her lifeless.
“He advised me she was strangled. She was tied up and he or she was strangled from behind. And he or she put up a combat,” Willis advised Dow. “I used to be pondering, ‘How may he know this?'”
Then, Kimball made Jennifer’s mother and father a chilling provide.
Marcum defined, “Once we had been completed with the dialog, gettin’ prepared to depart, then he got here up and stated, ‘ If you happen to keep till tomorrow, I am going to go up within the mountains with you and take you up within the mountains to indicate you the place she’s at.'”
Neither Marcum, nor his ex-wife, took him up on the provide.
“Once we acquired completed talkin’ on the picnic desk and stuff, I would already determined that Scott Kimball had killed my daughter,” Marcum defined. “I assumed that if we went within the mountains with him the subsequent day that they’d by no means see us once more.”
When Jennifer’s mother and father introduced their suspicions to Schlaff, he dismissed them and defended his informant.
“He trusted Scott Kimball and by no means ought to have trusted Scott Kimball … I at all times had the impression that the FBI had us meet Scott to make it so we’d really feel badly about what Jennifer was doing and the way she had been residing her life. And I did not care, as a result of I liked Jennifer,” Marcum stated, overcome with emotion. “And it doesn’t matter what she did, we would like her again. They usually, I feel, they actually thought that by doing this we’d turn out to be one of many households that might simply flip round and get into an airplane and go dwelling. And Jennifer would simply be disappeared.”
So Marcum took issues into his personal fingers and put up a billboard subsequent to the strip membership the place Jennifer had as soon as danced. “We needed to try to discover out if somebody would come ahead with some details about her,” he stated.
And it labored.
“June of 2006, this might [have] been a pair months after Scott was apprehended, I am studying within the newspaper about Bob Marcum placing up a billboard for his lacking daughter, Jennifer Marcum,” Rob McLeod advised Dow. “And as I am studying the story, I come throughout Scott Kimball’s identify within the story. He’s the final one Jennifer is spending time with. My coronary heart about leapt out of my chest.”
“When Rob referred to as he stated, ‘We’ve one thing in frequent,'” Marcum recalled. “And he stated, ‘My daughter disappeared. And my ex-wife is married to Scott Kimball.'”
Hungry for extra data, Marcum went to see Lori McLeod.
“After which I requested Lori, ‘Is there anybody else that you can imagine that you have been round, you and Scott, that you have not ever seen once more,'” Marcum stated. “And it was similar to a light-weight bulb went off in her head. She sat again within the chair. After which she goes, ‘Oh, my God.’ She says, ‘Uncle Terry got here and lived with us for a pair weeks. After which he left. And we have by no means seen him once more.'”
Scott Kimball’s uncle, Terry Kimball had vanished from their dwelling in 2004.
“I instantly knew that I lastly had one thing that I may go to the FBI with,” stated Marcum.
So collectively, Marcum and Rob McLeod — two fathers with lacking daughters — marched into the FBI’s Denver workplace and revealed their suspicions about Scott Kimball to the brand new supervisor.
“And the very last thing we advised him was, ‘You guys have a selection. You can be the hero or the zero. You may both look into it or you can be the zero and ignore it,” Rob McLeod advised Dow. “I feel they took it as, ‘Wow, possibly there’s something right here. We would higher look into it.'”
INVESTIGATING SCOTT KIMBALL
Within the fall of 2006, simply weeks after Bob Marcum and Rob McLeod met with the FBI, Particular Agent Jonathan Grusing was assigned to research Scott Kimball.
“If you happen to needed to decide one factor that drives Scott Kimball, what’s it?” Dow requested Grusing. He replied, “Greed, most probably … and never solely greed for cash, however he craves consideration, and he craves energy as effectively.”
Becoming a member of Grusing on the case was Det. Gary Thatcher, who was already a 12 months into his personal investigation of Scott Kimball. Collectively, they launched into probably the most advanced cat-and-mouse recreation of their careers as they started to interview Kimball, who was nonetheless in jail pending fraud fees.
“You already know, he is superb with developing with tales,” Thatcher identified. “And so once you’re sitting there listening to him, you are pondering, ‘How do I show this? How do I disprove it? How do I substantiate this with details?'”
One in all Scott Kimball’s tales was that his Uncle Terry, now lacking for 2 years, had gained the Ohio Lottery and moved to Mexico with a stripper.
“The Ohio State Lottery by no means paid out to Terry Kimball, he was by no means a winner,” Thatcher stated.
The investigators suspected Terry was murdered when Scott Kimball found he had come into some cash from a divorce.
“Terry was carrying round hundreds and hundreds of {dollars} in a briefcase he would not let go of,” Grusing stated. “For me, that is sufficient motive for him to kill Terry.”
Subsequent, Grusing and Thatcher centered on Jennifer Marcum. She had first come to Scott Kimball’s consideration when he shared a cell together with her boyfriend, Steve Ennis, in 2002.
“Scott Kimball noticed footage of Jennifer up on the wall, and he or she was a really engaging lady. And he made such feedback to Steve that he may discover her a very good job when he acquired out of jail,” Grusing defined. “His actual motive was to have Jennifer for himself.”
The con man additionally needed to get out of jail, and he had a plan. Kimball satisfied the FBI that Jennifer Marcum was a part of a murder-for-hire plot.
“No data that I’ve says that she even knew about this plot that Scott was spinning when he was there in jail,” Grusing stated.
However the FBI purchased Scott Kimball’s story on the time, and when he was launched in December 2002, he went to work as an informant within the phony case; two months later, Jennifer vanished.
However whereas Grusing was making an attempt to determine what truly occurred to Jennifer, he acquired an surprising lead.
“So I interviewed Steve Ennis about Jennifer’s disappearance, and on the finish of the interview, after we had been about to wrap up, he stated, ‘Oh, and one different factor. There was one other man down right here within the jail that had a girlfriend disappear that Scott may need had one thing to do with.'”
That inmate was Steven Holley, LeAnn Emry’s boyfriend.
Grusing stated, “I spoke with Mr. Emry and stated, ‘I am doin’ an investigation. I am tryin’ to talk with LeAnn Emry.’ And he stated, ‘We have not seen LeAnn since 2003.’ That did ship a chill down my backbone. As a result of I knew then that this was gonna be one other sufferer of Scott Kimball.”
Investigators, together with Boulder County Prosecutor Amy Okubo, felt they may show that once they discovered LeAnn’s image, her hair dyed brown, on Scott Kimball’s laptop computer.
“Oh my God, the final individual that Kaysi was recognized to be with was Scott Kimball. Oh my God, the final individual that Jennifer Marcum was recognized to be with was Scott Kimball. Oh my God, LeAnn Emry was the final individual that Scott Kimball was with. And so, little by little, piece by piece, it grew to become obvious simply how harmful he was,” Okubo stated.
However there have been nonetheless no our bodies and the con man was admitting to nothing. Investigators stored pushing, and at last in April 2008, Scott Kimball dropped a touch.
“And he stated, on this assembly, that there was a woman who died of a drug overdose that was on nationwide forest land,” Grusing stated.
Grusing had a receipt displaying Kimball was in Walden, Colorado, close to a nationwide forest, the identical weekend Kaysi McLeod went lacking. The FBI particular agent referred to as the forest service.
“And I requested if that they had any lacking folks up there,” Grusing defined. “I ended up talking with, mainly, the cellphone receptionist, and he or she stated, ‘No, however a cranium was discovered up right here final winter. So possibly you possibly can test on that.'”
A hunter had stumbled throughout the cranium. Grusing ordered a DNA take a look at on the stays and so they proved to be Kaysi McLeod’s. Lastly, the Scott Kimball case was an official murder investigation.
“He went to nice lengths to hide these our bodies,” Grusing stated. “And I consider he thought nobody would ever discover them.”
After 4 lengthy years, Rob McLeod lastly had a solution to his prayers. “A method or one other she’s coming dwelling. She’s not misplaced anymore.”
And Lori McLeod’s worst nightmares had been realized.
“What do you suppose actually occurred?” Dow requested her.
“I consider Scott planted the medication to set all the things up,” Lori McLeod replied.
“To get her out of the home so he can get her?”
“To separate us, sure …”
“You discover out that the person you married, the person who stated he was gonna enable you discover Kaysi, you now discover out that he could have been the one who killed her?”
“It is not possible to explain realizing you’ve got married your daughter’s assassin.”
However with no proof of how Kaysi died, and with no different our bodies, prosecutors fearful they nonetheless didn’t have sufficient to place Scott Kimball on trial for homicide.
“Assembly after assembly after assembly and briefings and continuous, ‘This is all of the proof that we’ve. Do you suppose we’ve sufficient but?’ After which if not, ‘What can we do to guard the group and return the family members our bodies?'” Okubo stated.
In December 2008, prosecutors acquired one step nearer to placing Scott Kimball away for good when he was sentenced to 48 years on his current non-violent crimes. However lead prosecutor Katharina Sales space needed extra.
“What we needed him marked for, in fact, is the violent, , assassin that he’s,” Sales space defined.
So prosecutors made a troublesome choice and supplied Scott Kimball a deal. There could be no fees of first-degree homicide if he would make them the three lacking our bodies. He accepted, and within the winter of 2009, led authorities to the distant canyons of jap Utah, the place he claimed they might discover the stays of LeAnn Emry and Jennifer Marcum.
“Day-after-day he was stuffed with vitality,” Grusing famous. “And he gave us a to-do checklist, , every day of, ‘Did you get satellite tv for pc imagery? Did you get a aircraft to fly me over?'”
Kimball spent days main the FBI and the Grand County, Utah, Sheriff’s Workplace on a fruitless seek for LeAnn. However then, Agent Grusing noticed one thing.
Grusing discovered some bones close to an enormous boulder. When requested what he noticed, he defined, “There was a rock to the left and I lifted up the rock there was a hair clip with hair. So I knew that was her.”
Leann Emry had been left on the lonely canyon ledge for six years.
“She had a excessive potential and he or she took a improper flip … acquired concerned with the improper folks. And — however, she did not deserve this,” her father stated choking up.
Discovered close to her bones was a spent bullet that matched Kimball’s gun.
“We consider that Scott marched her up right here and executed her,” Grusing advised Dow on the website the place her stays had been discovered.
“Why do you suppose Scott Kimball murdered LeAnn?” Dow requested.
“LeAnn had been dragged into laundering cash for Scott. So, I consider that LeAnn had served her objective and that he was completed together with her, and that is why he took her up right here and killed her,” Grusing replied.
Now just one lacking lady remained. However is that this suspected serial killer lastly able to reveal what occurred to Jennifer Marcum?
UNMASKING “HANNIBAL”
After taking investigators to the physique of LeAnn Emry, Scott Kimball advised them the place to search out the stays of his uncle, Terry Kimball. However his leads about Jennifer Marcum’s physique in Utah turned up empty.
“I feel Scott enjoys manipulating folks … he is superb at twisting the reality,” Grusing stated. “We not solely searched it with Scott right here, we got here again and searched it with Grand County, with Okay-9 items. We searched it with a geologist. We have flown over it with airplanes. And nothing’s right here.”
“Do you suppose he has a cause for not taking regulation enforcement officers to the place the place Jennifer’s stays or her physique is?” Dow requested.
“I feel there’s in all probability some emotional attachment to Jennifer with Scott,” Grusing replied.
Dow requested Scott Kimball, “are you aware precisely the place she is?” He replied, “I do know the realm. We’ve to appreciate I used to be on the location one time. It was darkish. OK. I used to be there as soon as.”
Scott Kimball insisted he was making an attempt to assist discover Jennifer. However was it simply one other con?
“I’ve made each effort to assist them with Jennifer,” he stated. “I advised them I would take a polygraph to verify I am being truthful within the instructions that I’ve given them, what I keep in mind.”
Grusing described Kimball as “very methodical. He is very cautious the place he places his victims, and I give it mainly zero likelihood that he has forgotten the place Jennifer Marcum is.”
However, in October 2009, the households of Scott Kimball’s victims gathered in courtroom.
“It was good to have the ability to be there to look him within the eye and, , watch him take some accountability,” Thatcher stated.
The con man had been charged with second-degree homicide.
JUDGE: Scott Lee Kimball brought about the loss of life of Terry Kimball… Scott Lee Kimball brought about the loss of life of Jennifer Marcum, LeAnn Emry, and Kaysi McLeod. How do you plead. Responsible or not responsible?
SCOTT KIMBALL: Responsible
And with the phrase “responsible,” a monumental, six-year case lastly got here to an finish.
“You by no means gave up for these households,” Prosecutor Katharina Sales space stated. “As a result of you possibly can solely think about the torture they went by means of and their misery and disappointment.”
And now, Bob Marcum and Rob McLeod, the 2 fathers whose dedication pressured the FBI to research what occurred to their daughters, addressed the courtroom.
“Kaysi McLeod was my firstborn daughter,” Rob stated. “I used to be current proper there, the very first second she took her first breath. Scott Kimball was there to take her final.”
“Scott Kimball has destroyed our lives. Our lives won’t ever be the identical,” Marcum stated. “What number of different persons are lacking because of his life?”
And Howard Emry lastly confronted “Hannibal.”
“My daughter was a younger lady with emotions and goals and to deal with her like trash is despicable,” he stated. “He’s a liar, a deceiver, a assassin,” he stated.
For the deaths of 4 folks, Scott Kimball is sentenced to 70 years. He insists he is not a serial killer.
“I am only a man,” he advised Harold Dow. “Individuals who name me chilly blooded, chilly hearted – you will discover dozens of people that will simply say the alternative. ‘He’ll provide the shirt off his again.'”
Kimball freely admits solely to the homicide of his personal uncle and spoke in riddles concerning the three younger ladies.
“I did kill Terry Kimball. I did. And for the opposite three, I used to be a mechanism. I used to be a part of the mechanics … Mechanism may very well be many issues,” he stated.
“Mechanism may very well be the individual pulling the set off,” Dow famous.
“It may very well be. It may very well be the individual that organized for the hit or the loss of life or no matter you wanna name it. I imply there’s quite a bit it may very well be.”
“If there have been different folks concerned who dedicated the murders, you are not gonna reveal who it was?” Dow requested.
“By no means will I reveal who it was. I am not the FBI. I am not the police.”
Investigators stated Scott Kimball will not identify accomplices for an excellent cause: they do not exist.
“I feel the murders of those ladies are very non-public to him. I consider there was some type of sexual attraction for him as effectively, that he would not like to speak about,” Grusing stated. “I consider that is why he is capable of take duty for Uncle Terry’s loss of life, ‘trigger it was purely for monetary achieve. However there was one thing else concerned with Scott and these three women.”
No matter darkness fueled Kimball’s murderous rampage, the victims’ households are grateful the FBI lastly helped unmask the killer.
When requested if anybody on the FBI ever apologized to him, Rob McLeod stated, “Repeatedly. They stated we’re sorry this all occurred, he hoodwinked us, he is fooled everyone.”
But they continue to be offended on the system and Agent Carle Schlaff, whose negligence, they stated, gave Scott Kimball the liberty to commit the murders.
“If somebody had been watching Scott, Kaysi would nonetheless be right here as we speak,” Lori McLeod stated. “Jennifer was the individual he was let loose of jail to observe and he or she went lacking nearly instantly.”
Jim Davis, now answerable for the FBI’s Denver workplace, stated the company can’t continuously monitor prison informants.
“We will not management them 24 hours-a-day, we do not have the sources to do this and we actually haven’t got the authority to do it,” he defined. ”
“This case is a tragedy. It is a tragedy for the victims, it is a tragedy for the victims’ households,” Davis continued. “However to be clear, the person accountable for that’s Scott Kimball. And it isn’t the FBI, it isn’t – it isn’t anyone else. It is him. He did it.”
“I assume you had been coping with the satan on this case,” Dow remarked.
“He is as shut as I’ve seen,” stated Davis.
What stays are shattered lives, however at the least two misplaced daugh”ters have lastly come dwelling.
“So long as I am alive, her reminiscence is at all times gonna be there, Emry stated. “And I’ve to reconcile myself to the truth that I will not ever see her once more.”
“So long as I am alive, her reminiscence is at all times gonna be there, Emry stated. “And I’ve to reconcile myself to the truth that I will not ever see her once more.”
“Kaysi’s loss is just like the background noise of my life,” stated Rob McLeod. “I can discover pleasure and happiness and really feel regular a whole lot of the time. However when it is quiet, she’s that background noise that is at all times there.”
Nevertheless, the seek for Jennifer Marcum continues. As her father waits for information which will by no means come, he takes some solace in the truth that it was his perseverance that helped put his daughter’s killer away.
“The chance as we speak exists that you could be by no means know the place she’s buried,” Dow famous.
“That is true. I actually want to have my daughter’s physique again,” Marcum stated. “However realizing that Scott Kimball is in jail and that he is not going to be getting out of jail for at the least 35 years means extra to me than you possibly can think about. And to me, my daughter’s soul is in heaven. And wherever her physique is, it’s going to be joined again together with her soul sometime.”
In 2017, Scott Kimball was charged with solicitation of homicide and tried to flee from jail.
In 2020, 4 years had been added to his earlier 70-year jail sentence.
Produced by Lourdes Aguiar; Discipline Producer, Cindy Cesare.
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