Where is Scott Kimball now? He once convinced the FBI to make him an informant however he used to be in reality a killer. ABC's '20/20' investigates.
In December 2002, Scott Kimball used to be sitting in a Colorado prison called Englewood. He used to be in there for test fraud, but he had a plan that might help him get out early.
According to the The Atavist Magazine, Kimball had in the past helped the FBI two times prior and was once having a look to lend a hand them once once more.
Elsewhere in Colorado, an FBI agent named Carle Schlaff had grown uninterested in the "low-level drug cases" he most often worked on, and wanted something with a bit more meat on the bone.
Kimball would give him that, and extra.
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Schlaff described Kimball as a "typical wise guy" who "had an answer for everything." Because Kimball didn't have any violent offenses on his record, Schlaff felt comfortable reactivating him as an informant.
This time, his tasks would briefly take him out of jail, which is when the murders began.
How did Kimball move from FBI informant to serial killer, and where is he now? ABC's 20/20 has the story.
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Where is Scott Kimball now? He is the subject of a '20/20' episode.
According to the Federal Bureau of Prisons, Kimball is these days serving time at USP McCreary, a maximum safety jail in Pine Knot, Ky. His projected unlock date is Jan. 7, 2082. At 56 years previous, Kimball must make it to the ripe old age of one hundred fifteen ahead of strolling free. In all probability, he will die in jail. So, how did he get there?
In Colorado, FBI agent Schlaff was once investigating violent crimes and working as a liaison to Englewood jail when he realized that a prisoner had some intel a few homicide plot. He then met with that prisoner, who came about to be Kimball.
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Kimball told Schlaff that his Englewood cellmate, a young drug dealer via the name of Steve Ennis, used to be looking to orchestrate the deaths of any witnesses who would testifying towards him. Kimball offered to assist, and so he and Schlaff devised a plan. Ennis ended up purchasing the entire scheme. Ennis even recommended Kimball meet his girlfriend, who would introduce him to his drug dealing partner with a view to procure a gun. The girlfriend was once named Jennifer Marcum, and she or he would transform Kimball's 2nd sufferer.
On Dec. 18, 2002, Kimball walked out of Englewood. "The FBI and the Department of Justice had persuaded a judge to free him on a $10,000 unsecured bond," in step with the Atavist. He had to begin with been transferred to Colorado from Alaska while the FBI had investigated what he'd found out as an informant there. This time round, in Colorado, operating with Schlaff may just scale back his sentencing for the charges he faced in Alaska.
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Scott Kimball would go on to dedicate several murders
His first sufferer was once LeAnn Emry, every other girlfriend of an Englewood prisoner. When he used to be out, he and Emry went on a fraud crime spree in combination. Per the Atavist: "All told, they committed at least $15,000 in fraud, though neither of them would be linked to the crime until much later."
With Marcum, Kimball was trying to bait her into confessing that she was going to assist him kill witnesses testifying against her boyfriend. It by no means happened. On Feb. 17, 2003, she disappeared. Her frame was never discovered.
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Then there used to be Lori McLeod, who met Scott Kimball at a casino in Colorado in 2003. She used to be 39 years previous, twice divorced, and was trying to assist her 19-year-old daughter Kaysi kick her meth dependancy. Kimball used to be pushing his mother in a wheelchair, thus making him look kind and helpful. He and McLeod hit it off. Kimball even told her he used to be operating for the FBI.
When Kaysi disappeared in August 2003, it came about while Kimball was once on a looking trip, or so he instructed her. McLeod contacted police who refused to list her daughter as missing person because, in their phrases, she was once adult and will do what she desires as long as it isn't illegal. Despite all this, McLeod agreed to marry Kimball and shortly after took out a lifestyles insurance coverage in her identify with him listed as the beneficiary.
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The marriage used to be no longer great, and was made worse by means of Kimball's emotional abuse towards McLeod and the two sons he had from a prior marriage. In July 2004, the couple was once home with the boys when one of them, Cody, instructed McLeod to name 911. His brother Justin was once harm. Although she called for an ambulance, Kimball took his son to the health center himself, but if he arrived, Justin's injuries had been worse. Kimball informed docs his son by accident fell from the automotive, however Justin was once actually pushed via his father. Ultimately police had to let it move as there was once no proof of the crime and Justin had some mind injury.
The closing victim of Kimball was once his personal uncle Terry Kimball, who had come from Alabama to help maintain Cody while Justin used to be in the hospital. Kimball used the fact that Terry used to be a disrespectful houseguest to his advantage. When he instructed McLeod that Terry unexpectedly won the lottery and left for Mexico with an exotic dancer, she didn't mind one bit. Later, FBI would to find suspicious process on Terry's bank accounts that was traced back to Kimball.
For more in this story, song into 20/20 Friday, May 12, at 9 p.m EST on ABC.
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