Former FBI Informant Scott Kimball Pleads Guilty to Killing Three Women and His Uncle, Gets 70 Years
Kimball knew all four victims. One woman's body has never been found, and the district attorney said he had bragged of "dozens" of murders.
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Scott Lee Kimball was released from prison to work as an FBI informant, and within two years four people he knew were dead. On October 8, 2009, he pleaded guilty in their deaths.
Kimball, 43, entered his plea in Boulder County District Court under an agreement with prosecutors and was sentenced to 70 years in prison. He was already serving 48 years for theft and as a habitual criminal. The victims were Kaysi McLeod, 19, of Westminster; Jennifer Marcum, 25, of Aurora; LeAnn Emry, 24, of Centennial; and his uncle, Terry Kimball, 60. Authorities said he killed them between January 2003 and August 2004. McLeod was the daughter of a woman Kimball later married, and Emry and Marcum were girlfriends of his former cellmates. Three of the victims' remains were found in remote areas of Colorado and Utah. Kimball led authorities to Emry's remains in Utah's Book Cliffs area, north of Moab, and said he had buried Marcum there too, but her body has never been found.
"Scott Kimball has destroyed our lives," Bob Marcum, Jennifer's father, told the court. The case was brought in Boulder County partly because prosecutors there had built a file on Kimball in a 2005 check-fraud case in Lafayette. District Attorney Stan Garnett said Kimball had bragged of committing "dozens" of murders, but that there were no solid leads on others.
KSL reported that Kimball pleaded guilty to four murders, while the Daily Camera reported that he pleaded guilty to two counts of second-degree murder covering the four deaths.
Sources
- DA: Kimball bragged of committing 'dozens' of murders, Boulder Daily Camera (Denver Post)
- Colo. serial killer pleads guilty to 4 murders, KSL.com (AP)