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Michael Joseph Legar Investigators pressed him for information, but he seemed reluctant to give any. Finally, a few months in, he asked a strange question: What if one of the girls disappeared on federal forestland?
Jonathan Grusing remembered a receipt that had been in evidence for awhile. It was dated August 24, — the day after Kaysi disappeared. Grusing talked to park staff, who said hunters had found a skull in the forest in the fall of It was confirmed by cell phone records that Scott was in the area around the time Kaysi was last seen. Even worse, he and Lori had honeymooned in the forest just days after Kaysi went missing. So now investigators knew where Kaysi McLeod was, and that Scott was almost certainly involved in her death.
But what about the other three missing people connected to him? A deal was eventually struck: Scott would plead guilty to second degree murder and get a 28 year sentence if he led police to the bodies of Terry Kimball, Jennifer Marcum and LeAnn Emry. At first, investigators felt like Scott was leading them on a wild goose chase. But in March , with his help, they found the skeletonized body of LeAnn Emry. A bullet fragment found near her body matched a gun Scott owned at the time she died.
Howard Emry believes his daughter was killed just after she was last seen. In January of that year, Scott had drawn investigators a map to the remains of his uncle, Terry Kimball. Her body has never been found. At first, Scott claimed Steven Ennis killed her. A reddit user who goes by strigoi82 suggested around that Scott may not have actually killed Jennifer, but falsely confessed to get a better deal. In , he plead guilty to second degree murder and was sentenced to 70 years in prison, where he remains today.
The Boulder County District Attorney claims Kimball bragged about committing dozens of murders , and his victim count has been estimated to be as high as Catrina Powell. On October 25, , the body of year-old Catrina Powell was found near a dumpster behind a mall in Westminster, Colorado.
Another source said she was She had no ID on her, but was identified pretty quickly by her sister-in-law. Catrina was a prostitute, and there were houses near the dumpster where she was found. If you have any information about the murder of Catrina Powell you can contact the Metro Denver Crime Stoppers at Be sure to reference case number Lina Reyes-Geddes. She was reported missing by her husband a few weeks later.
She had died of a single gunshot wound to the head and her body had been wrapped in a sleeping bag, plastic bags, duct tape and a play mat. Even before she was identified, Scott Kimball was a person of interest in her murder. His son, Justin — the one he allegedly tried to kill years earlier — said he played on a mat similar to the one Lina was found wrapped in around the same time her body was found.
After they had pieced their information together and had a clear picture that three people with a connection to Scott Kimball had disappeared without a trace, Rob McLeod and Bob Marcum went to the FBI.
After a bit of prodding, they eventually convinced the FBI to take their information and allegations seriously. During that meeting, Kimball had said that he knew precisely where Jennifer's body was buried, and that he could take them to the location in the mountains because he wanted her to have a "good Christian burial. According to the former cellmate, Kimball had asked him if he thought that fake breasts could be traced.
The cellmate replied that the name of the manufacturer and the serial number were located inside the implants to allow tracing in the event of liability lawsuits. During that conversation, Kimball had reportedly said, "I know a guy that will pay you to cut implants out of a dead body.
He apparently had not mentioned which state she was buried in, and while it was not known whether he had dismembered Jennifer Marcum's body when he disposed of it, the implication was that the breast implants and IUD had become a concern to him.
Although it was not known how Kimball had learned of Jennifer's breast implants and IUD, it was possible that he had learned of them during his dealings with her former boyfriend, Steve Ennis.
At one point, however, Kimball related information implicating another man in Jennifer's death, and said that it had been the killer who had been willing to pay Kimball to remove her breast implants and IUD.
Her mother and father, Howard and Darlene Emry, last saw LeAnn on January 16, , when she packed her suitcases into her car for what was supposed to have been a spelunking expedition to Mexico.
Exploring caves had been one of her favorite pastimes, and had seemingly helped her get through a short and unhappy marriage. Although she had faced difficulties with a bipolar disorder throughout much of her young life, her parents recalled being happy for her as she set off on the trip from which she would not return. Two weeks later, however, a sheriff's deputy from Moab, Utah, called her parents to report that her car had been found abandoned along a dirt road near Book Cliffs.
As such, there would not be an investigation, unless a body was found, although her purse and some other belongings had been found inside her car. Her credit cards, however, were missing. With the help of banks and credit card companies, Howard and Darlene Emry were able to recreate a day trail of gasoline charges that led through Colorado, Wyoming, Oregon, Washington, and Nevada.
It was clear that she had not gone to Mexico, and her parents were left wondering whether she had made the charges to her cards of if someone else had done so. The main purchases made with them had been gasoline.
LeAnn's E-mail Eleven days after leaving home, LeAnn called her parents for the final time, saying that she would be staying in Mexico a little longer. Based on what he had already learned from putting together a timeline based on her credit card charges, her father knew that her comment about being in Mexico was not the truth.
He eventually learned that the call had been placed in Colorado, and that she had mailed a gift certificate to her sister from the same location. Then a glimmer of hope surfaced. Howard Emry learned that one of LeAnn's credit cards had been used in California a few days after her car had been found abandoned, leaving him with the thought that his daughter was still alive. However, his hopes were dashed when he obtained the credit card receipts and found that the signatures on them were not LeAnn's.
It also turned out that the credit card charges in California had been made by a prostitute who told investigators that she had received the credit card in question from a man as payment for sexual services. A short time later, her parents learned that she had been corresponding with a relative in Idaho via e-mail a few weeks before she disappeared.
In one of those e-mails she wrote: "I have to hide Plus, he'd have you killed too. They considered that she may have been trying to protect them from whatever it was that she was involved in.
Although the Emrys contacted their local law enforcement and the FBI, no one wanted to open an investigation to the mystery that surrounded LeAnn's disappearance. Five Years Later On October 30, , Grusing contacted the Emrys after they relocated to Idaho and asked to speak to LeAnn about a possible suspect in an ongoing homicide investigation. Howard Emry explained that LeAnn had been missing for nearly five years. The following day, Grusing and Detective Thatcher followed up on some of the information obtained from Howard Emry, including the fact that LeAnn's boyfriend at the time of her death was an inmate who had been housed on the same cellblock as Kimball in late His mother ran an insurance office on South Public Road in Lafayette.
By late , police say, Kimball was pulling a check-fraud scam involving an optometrist who shared office space with his mother. During that period, he also lived on Huron Street in Broomfield -- in a house where police now believe he likely killed his uncle. Robert McLeod, father of victim Kaysi McLeod, said there is a lot of time during which police and investigators have no trace of Kimball's whereabouts.
His "gut feeling" is that Kimball's victim list is longer than anyone now knows. Scott Lee KimballAs Scott Lee Kimball languished inside a Montana prison during the early years of the new millennium, he bragged to his fellow inmates that he was a hit man, a tough-guy persona he may have adopted in part to elevate himself within the inmate hierarchy.
For some reason, he also liked to call himself "Hannibal," after the serial killer character from the Thomas Harris novels. Although his hit man description was a stretch, Kimball did kill people—especially women—but the authorities did not yet know that about him.
Serving time on a variety of charges including theft, passing bad checks and forgery, Kimball nonetheless had hatched a plan to put him back on the streets. His scheme included talking to the authorities about a murder-for-hire plot that involved his former cell mate, Steve Ennis, and that cell mate's mate's girlfriend, Jennifer Marcum, 25, of Denver, a stripper and the mother of a 4-year-old child who, police would learn, had befriended Kimball. At the time, the FBI was investigating a sizeable ecstasy operation in the Denver area, and Kimball assured investigators that he could join up with the drug ringleaders and provide information to the FBI.
The FBI agreed, in part, to Kimball's proposal, becoming involved because of the possible murder-for-hire scenario. Marcum, it turned out, had been a potential witness in a Drug Enforcement Administration methamphetamine case against Ennis, and Ennis allegedly wanted another potential witness against him killed and made plans to use Marcum to get the job done.
Before the year ended, Kimball's plan had worked, and he was back on the streets, minimally supervised. Within a few months of Kimball's release, Jennifer Marcum disappeared.
Terry Kimball was originally from Georgia, but was believed to have been living with his nephew in Colorado at the time of his disappearance.
Grusing and Lafayette Police Department Detective Gary Thatcher were among the primary investigators involved in clearing the difficult, convoluted case. They were assisted by several federal, state and local law enforcement agencies in Colorado and other states.
Grusing came on board on November 9, , after Kimball had become a suspect in the four murders, when he was assigned by the FBI's Denver office to investigate the murder-for-hire allegations surrounding the disappearance of Jennifer Marcum. During his review of the FBI's case file on Ennis, Grusing learned that Kimball had told Carle Schlaff of the FBI's Denver office on June 29, , that Marcum had been murdered by one of Ennis's associates because of the fear that she would testify against Ennis in the methamphetamine case.
Kimball also reportedly had stated that he had been asked by an Ennis associate to dig up Marcum's body, which he claimed was located somewhere near Rifle, Colo. Whether or not the story was true remained to be seen, but investigators soon came to think that Kimball was concerned that the items might link Marcum's body to him rather than to Ennis's associate.
As Grusing continued his review of the case file, he learned that Jennifer Marcum's cellular phone had last been used on February 17, at p. Follow-up inquiries made by the local police revealed that Marcum had not been scheduled on any outbound flights although Kimball later claimed that she had traveled to New York City to purchase a handgun that supposedly was to have been used to shoot the federal witness who was planning to testify against Ennis.
It seemed noteworthy to Grusing and others that cell phones belonging to Jennifer Marcum and Scott Kimball had not been used from February 17, to February 20, , even though both of their phones had been used significantly to call each other prior to February 17, When Kimball was later asked about his whereabouts on those dates, he claimed that he had taken a trip to the mountains near Craig, Colo.
He remained evasive about what he had been doing in that area. Meanwhile, according to ABC News, the fathers of Jennifer Marcum and Kaysi McLeod began their own inquiries into their daughters' disappearances due to what had seemed to them to be a lack of interest by law enforcement in the missing person's cases: Jennifer worked as a stripper and had ties to a known drug dealer; Kaysi had a history of drug problems and had left home a number of times after she had turned Bob Marcum, Jennifer's father, and Rob McLeod, Kaysi's dad, took matters into their own hands to move their daughters' cases along.
Bob Marcum began posting billboards with Jennifer's photo that asked for information about the missing young woman, and appeared on television news programs to further publicize her mysterious disappearance. Rob McLeod immediately began searching for additional information about Kimball, and in June discovered a news article about Jennifer Marcum's disappearance. After reading in stunned disbelief that Jennifer had last been seen with Kimball, McLeod began tracking down Jennifer's family, who resided in Illinois.
A short time later, the McLeods and the Marcums met to compare information about Kimball and his relationship to their daughters. Lori McLeod told Bob Marcum everything she knew about Kimball and what he had said about Jennifer, and the two families drove together to a number of locations that they believed to be connected with their daughters' disappearances. Hoping for a clue that could shed some light on what had happened, they nonetheless came up empty-handed.
However, during one of their discussions, the two families realized that a third person connected to Kimball had gone missing—Terry Kimball, Scott Kimball's uncle.
Lori McLeod related how Terry had moved in with her and Scott, but that Uncle Terry had inexplicably left on September 1, , never to be seen again.
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