Serial Killer /// Scott Lee Kimball /// Part 1 /// 382 | Forensic Files

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[Music] [Music] [Music] absolutely I already told you where I knew I told you what I can't I can't say
I already told you what those who want to show you nervous okay room you and do that you know he really lucky I'm
talking to you now so well I'm sorry so so that you know and realize some things
that I think are important that you know are classified and how [Music] Scott Lee Kimball was born on September
21st 1966 in Boulder Colorado his parents were virgil in barb Kimball from what we could find it looks like
Scott was not one of the popular kids at school he attended Lafayette Elementary
in middle schools he was described by a classmate as quiet now barb in Virgil divorced when Scott was 10 years old
barb fell in love with another woman Virgil and Scott's brother Brett moved to Montana and Scott stayed behind in
Colorado but Scott left high school after only one month eventually after a few years he relocated to join his
father and Brett but listen to this captain because we often see this in these types a bad omen a sign that
something is just not right police were called to Scott's home during a strange episode in Scotts teenage years when he
was shooting his father's gun out of one of the windows he was shooting at neighbors homes now it's not clear
exactly what was going on here was he actually trying to shoot someone or was this just some kind of weird thing or
maybe a revenge type thing I don't know but regardless this is a significant event and at the very least
could be categorized as extremely reckless behavior Scott attended High School in Hamilton Montana a town of
4,000 people but he dropped out just shy of graduating he worked as a guide he guided clients on big-game hunting
expeditions he also made some really bad choices not just the shooting at houses
incident Scott was arrested for stupid things like knocking over mailboxes in June of 1988 at the age of 21 he was
arrested and convicted of felonious passing of bad checks his three-year sentence was deferred
however on the condition that he stay above the law Scot like many others he likes spending
money that he did not have he was arrested again in October of 88 for passing more bad checks but because this
felony conviction occurred in a different County his sentence was once again deferred and it didn't activate
his previous conviction so Scot to say it simply got off very easy in both of these situations
he continued to rack up arrests although not all of them resulted in convictions
he was arrested in October of 88 again this time for stealing a fishing pole two rifles and a shotgun and a set of
golf clubs this was from a residence or multiple residences in Broomfield Colorado he was turned loose which is
surprising to me and I'm sure everybody else out there considering that the part
of this theft involved a gun right he was arrested again in March this time for attempted theft and receives a
one-year unsupervised probation and a 232 dollar fine so again this is just really no real
punishment and all for what we're seeing is continued bad behavior right and if you still a gun or you still some checks
and they did slap you on the wrist well why not do it again because you probably
got away with it a couple of times before you actually got caught yeah if if consequences dictate my course of
action it's only wrong if I get caught or if I if I don't like the consequences right he's not really being punished so
Scott continued to self-destruct and actually he even attempted to end his life at one point this was while on a
hunting trip with his brother remember his brother Brett Scott was 23 at this time he went to his motel room and he
put a rifle to his head and he actually pulled the trigger and the gun was loaded the bullet ripped a hole in his
forehead as it bounced off of his skull Scott was in critical condition for many
days of course he was not in a good place psychologically as we can all see this
led to the discovery of years of abuse that took place during his teen years so what would we would we would find out
here captain is that Scott was the victim of a sexual predator this started when he was just about 10 years old
mm-hmm when he and his seven-year-old cousin were tricked or befriended or whatever you want to call it by a 41
year old computer programmer his name Theodore Payton now Payton was a neighbor of Scotts
grandmother's in a trailer park in Nederland Colorado and we know how this goes we know how this typically starts
off right Payton is he he befriends these children and he is taking them places giving them money takes them
bowling you know hanging out playing video games right but pretty soon he started inviting them to his cabin this
one at a time you know you don't want both of them there and now he's doing things that are just downright wrong
he's giving them alcohol this leads to Oh getting out the camera let's take some photographs and of course
eventually this all leads to rape and outright molestation right according to the two boys this continued for years
with the boys and their families being threatened by Payton right so he's kind of controlling them by by not only
molesting and raping these boys but on top of that he's telling them if you say anything I I'm going to hurt you and I'm
going to hurt your family well initially it looks like these crimes of check fraud and stuff are just a crime of
greed and maybe not a call help but now when you dive into this section you go well maybe maybe these
work cries for help but there was no punishment so nobody was coming to his help cry for help or sometimes
unfortunately when these things when somebody's abused in this manner or really many other manners to put it
frankly in their formidable years of coming up as a teenager especially with this stuff starting when he's 10 or 11
years old they could have mind-altering effects that last a lifetime for somebody we
mentioned that he was threatening the boys and threatening their families from my understanding captain that the
threats were as great as as possible murder death threats shooting these kids are shooting their family right the
cousin later told police about the abuse and he said that it happened so often that he eventually lost count of the
number of incidents that took place the situation continued as we said until the
boys reached their later teen years now remember Scott is not living in the area
of his grandmother so his situation is a little different than than the cousin who is also being abused but when Scott
would come back to visit grandma and when he would come back to visit other family the abuse was still taking place
when he would return to that area when you see a lot of children described their predators as the devil so imagine
that the devil was doing these horrible things to you and then on top of that saying hey if you tell anybody I'm gonna
kill you and I'm gonna kill your whole family apparently this situation continued
until the boys reached their later teen years when they were actually able to stand up for themselves but as we said
this did not emerge publicly until Scott was 23 when he tried to shoot himself in
the head right so in light of his and the cousin's allegations which were brought to light by therapy Scott
underwent after the suicide attempt the Boulder County Sheriff's as investigated Paton and they were able
to bring some charges against this man in 1991 a jury convicted Payton of six counts of sexual assault on a child he
was sentenced to seven years apparently he was released after five he returned to the area where he had lived when he
was abusing the boys and lived out his remaining days there in a letter to the court objecting to a sentence reduction
for Peyton Scott Kimball wrote the following quote Ted Peyton denied me my right to a normal healthy innocent
childhood because of Ted Payton's selfishness and his need for sexual gratification
he has damaged my life forever end quote now recovered from his suicide attempt scott relocated to Spokane Washington in
the early 1990s he obtained employment in the timber business out there he brought along with him his girlfriend
this is a larissa hence who he met in Montana in 1993 the two were married Scott is now 27 at this point on our
timeline now this young new couple they had two sons one in late of 1993 and one
in 1996 mm-hmm it doesn't sound like things panned out in the timber trade there because Scott and Larissa filed
for bankruptcy in June of 1996 and the couple divorced in 1997 later Larissa would reveal some details of of her
married life to scott Kimball and says that Scott was not operating within the law
Scott's past of his you know modus operandi of defrauding people and stealing funds continued during the
course of their marriage according to Larissa he engineered scam after scam and had people constantly chasing after
him trying to collect money that he frauded them out of her stole from them and possibly a reason why I moved to
watch in the first place yeah and the other thing though too as we said he always
managed to avoid actual jail or prison time but this would this would end in September of 1997 when he did serve 27
days in jail for unknown offenses I do not know whether the charges were now we're making it how many 27 days isn't
that long well exactly I don't know what the charge would have been it could have
been something that's a hit that's a hiccup that's a vacation pretty minor well yeah not one that I want to take
though we're making it out as though Scott is some kind of low-level con artists who you know just happen to get
away with check cashing scams and fraudulent money-making schemes but what I believe that we will see here captain
that the truth of the matter is that Scott's he's pretty talented as a con artist and I think what we're gonna see
is that his con artist skills might be off the charts and you know everyone who met him even though I'll judge that
determined to see him in prison for the remainder of his days begrudgingly admits that Scott was the best at this
universally he they say he was liked he was jovial friendly and seemingly trustworthy this is how Scott was
described time and time again over and over by these people that that knew him and met him throughout his life well you
can tell even by his later interviews that there is a brain inside his head yeah and what we will see as we go
through this is he truly just he snowed people he befriended people made them feel special build up their trust and
then he cheated them yeah there's no friend cabin now what happens next on the Scott timeline gives us a clear-cut
example of how trustworthy he really seemed to be in the spring of 1999 Scott Kimball agreed to work for the Bureau of
Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms as an informant on a stolen guns investigation yes this is
an agency of our federal government taking on a con man a scam artist a fraudulent check rider into their fold
now it's not really clear how this arrangement came about and it did not result in any arrests
although Scott reportedly gave the ATF some names but not only did Scott get personal satisfaction from being a
trusted informant for the feds he got paid for a grand total of one thousand eight hundred and sixty five dollars the
relationship was over by November of 1999 but Scott Kimball benefited both as we said financially but also in the
terms of establishing goodwill with the feds by December of 1999 it was apparent
that Scott was not only a scam artist but he was also violent on December 8th his ex-wife Larissa reported to Spokane
police that Scott kidnapped her at gunpoint raped her and forced her and the couple's two sons to accompany him
back to Montana no charges were filed for this incident and there's a lot of speculation here as to why there were no
charges filed I don't know that I feel super comfortable getting into it knowing as little as we do about this
situation but we would see this one more time this when Larissa again called police this time on December 18th saying
the sky had broke into her house that night and held her at gunpoint then he made her take a bath and stole money
from her purse again no case no charges were brought forward in this incident as
well now remember the two suspended sentences for convictions for passing bad checks though he go over that again
he broke in later take a bath after another sexual assault and there's and there's no charges whatsoever that's
correct ridiculous again I don't want to speculate as to why there were no charges both of these situations we know
very little about yeah so I mean it could be could be as simple as something as she called to the police and then
later says I don't want to press any charges that's why I don't want to get into the speculation of it I don't I
don't we can't fault the the police department if the the person that notifies them
later then says no I don't want to I don't want to bring any charges well no you can fault him on some level because
there's a possibility that she just doesn't feel safe enough that she can press the charges that don't know.i she
actually presses the charges this guy's an animal and look what he already did to me he
might come back and and kill me I agree but I think that it's irresponsible of myself to lay blame to someone or an
organization with with knowing nothing really about the situation yeah well let's not lay blame to the organization
but let's let's lay blame on the idea that we we know this situation happened and we don't know why it went down this
way well that's why I don't want to let it II because I don't know that background I don't know that it happens
so I want to go back to the two suspended sentences for the the bad checks that took place in 1988 when
Scott was just 21 so he finds himself in jail once again this time in January of
2000 this time for violating his probation remember he got probation for those charges he violated his probation
this is for traveling and also for failing to report now finally a little justice here and this takes place in
April of 2000 I judge threw the book at him Scott was sentenced to 10 years in Montana State Prison
this for violating those probations now five years of this sentence were suspended
but Scott was looking at five years of hard time five years in the clink district judge Henson row of Scott quote
the defendant is impossible to supervise in a community setting you're irresponsible
untruthful and simply do what you want to do regardless of the rules and conditions imposed by this court then
even more charges were brought against him this time for three counts of felony check forgery that occurred in 1999 in
Spokane his additional conviction piled up eight more months onto his prison sentence this is where the story really
starts to gain some momentum here Captain Scott's sentence his five years eight months with the five year
suspended actually only resulted in him serving 15 months in July of 2001 he was
relocated to a pre-release center in Helena Montana he was permitted to get a job on the outside and just report back
to the center when not at work Scott landed himself a job as a cashier at the ez stop gas station but within
just a couple of weeks Scott decided a change of scenery would be nice on July 29th Scott was working alone at the gas
station let's quickly review what the good judge said of Scott remember saying he was impossible to supervise in a
community he's irresponsible untruthful and simply does not he simply does what he wants regardless of the rules well
the district judge Hanson was what we call here in the garage exactly right so while working at the
station alone on the 29th of July Scott lifted six hundred and seventy seven dollars from the register he stole a
work truck and he took off for parts unknown lock your doors I imagine there was several slim jims and a big gulp
stolen from that gas station as well that didn't go report it right and that's the real
I'm here well now Scott you are a wanted man a warrant was issued for the arrest
of Scott Lee Kimball but where did Scott hightail it to on the run from the law in this stolen truck where else but the
furthest place away he could think of Alaska it's not known how Scott managed to get across the Canadian border but
knowing his charisma and charm he probably just sweet-talked his way in there and it didn't really take long for
him to turn up in Alaska captain this is because he could not resist falling back
on his old ways writing bad checks this time Scott assumed the identity of Brett
Kimball his brother in the few months since his escape brett wrote $25,000 in counterfeit checks collected the cash
and had landed himself a fiancee as far as this woman who's name is Katherine Curtis was concerned Scott was a man
named Bret Kimball and they were in love and living in a hotel room where Scott was eventually found and arrested during
a raid along with 11,000 $300 in cash let's this proves that love is the biggest con of all
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your face all right we are going to do a little bouncing around here through a few years on our timeline but while
while this is not going to be in chronological order this order makes sense to me so we're gonna roll with it
because of the activities and Scott's actions I guess what I'm trying to say here captain is pay much less attention
to the actual dates that we say but pay more attention to Scott's actions as we go through this piece of the story Scott
of course was not happy sitting in jail and he managed to come up with some excitement for himself you know always
seeking the limelight and back-slapping from authorities Scott snitched that his
cellmate one Arnold flowers who was in for fraud had asked him to hire a hitman to murder a federal judge a prosecutor
and two witnesses hmm so Scott also named Arnold's girlfriend as a co-conspirator in this whole thing and
sure enough a press release by the US Department of Justice dated March 22nd 2002 states that flowers and his
girlfriend were indicted for plotting to kill a judge a prosecutor and a witness
in the fraud case so according to the Department of Justice release flowers had provided a handwritten note of for
intended victims to an intermediary who was to make contact with a hit man of course this intermediary was Scott the
plot went so far as to see the girlfriend go to a hotel room to meet the person she believed to be a hit
and pay him a down payment for the murders the Department of Justice release concludes quote the investigation
leading to the arrest was the result of a cooperative effort of the United States Secret Service Federal Bureau of
Investigation Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms and the United States Marshals Service and quote what what's
really going on here exactly is what we have to kind of look at this situation and kind of examine it right yeah do we
think the Scott just stumbled into a murder-for-hire plot and decided to sing like a bird and rat on his cellmate for
the good of the land I'm thinking probably not mm-hmm so here's what I think probably happened here captain
I think Scott may have figured out a way to kind of orchestrate this whole thing
in a way of saying you know if he starts telling his cellmate hey I I know hitman ER or I know people that will
will kill somebody for for money you know I can put out a contract on someone and this guy who's in sitting in jail
sitting in prison starts mouthing off saying hey I'd like to kill that judge that put me in here oh by the way I'd
like to kill that prosecutor that put me in here and they wouldn't have been able
to put me away if it wasn't for those two witnesses right and I think this this handwritten note I call in a
question - is it possible that the Scott manufactured that note and provided it as some piece of evidence against these
individuals what I'm getting at here is look there there's a good chance that his his cellmate probably did want to
kill these people and had intentions - especially after Scott tells them hey I know how to to set something like this
up but is this this is seems to me more about you know what I'm in prison how can I weasel my way out of here as fast
as possible i'ma turn on this dude and getting good with with the authorities right Scott went on to
testify at the trial which took place in 2003 and the pair was convicted of witness tampering but they were
acquitted of the murder for hire charges now Scott was paid this really sucks Scott was paid $18,000 by the FBI for
his cooperation as a witness in the case against flowers and his girlfriend that's so stupid that's a lot of rolling
papers yeah in October of 2001 this is before it's a lot of Slim Jim yeah this is before the the flowers
murder plot that we just discussed assistant US attorney Tom Wales he's 49 years old he's a father of two he's
killed at his home in Seattle Washington someone shot through a basement window and shot him what while he was sitting
at a desk down there in his basement we know from what we could find that Scott was in the seattle area in the fall of
2001 this was just for a short time this is when he opened up a bogus Wells Fargo
account under the name Brett Kimball his brother's name he would later tell federal authorities
that he had information about the wells murder now I should point out that this case technically is unsolved to this day
the Wells murder case is still unsolved investigators eventually began to suspect that Scott actually may have had
something to do with the murder either himself or through somebody else although if that's true the motive would
be truly unknown it we we could speculate but there doesn't seem to be an obvious motive here now according to
a book written by Scotts cousin the book is titled SLK serial killer Scott was working on a fishing boat in Seattle in
the fall of 2001 and Scott was arrested in Alaska this in November of 2001 he used information about the whales murder
case to lay the FBI gleaning whatever information he could about the case off of the internet he convinced authorities
that he had overheard a couple of inmates talking about the wells case and that he might be able to offer them
information about this wells case so Scott starts feeding the FBI bogus information he strung them along pretty
good meeting with agents a number of times including one three-day meeting in Seattle that took place from February
24th to the 27th of 2003 well let's think about this for a second I need an informant I know that this guy
is a criminal or a career-long conman do you really mess with a conman I wonder how that meeting went down I wonder if
there's two FBI agents one sitting looking at the other one going hey this guy is not to be trusted he is a con man
and the other guy going I don't know I kind of believe him seems like a good guy so what's
interesting here I think is the continued the continued mo of Scott Kimball okay twice he finds himself
behind bars and when he does it seems like he's coming up with these plans of I'm gonna turn on this guy
or these guys and what carrot do I have to dangle in front of the authorities because if you if you go to them likely
looking this is all speculation here but if I'm Scott Kimball and I go to him and
I say hey this guy that I'm in a cell with or these guys that I overheard talking in the yard they're gonna kill
some dude that you've never heard of maybe he's a drug pusher or a check counterfeit or somebody else some dude
you never heard of I have information on that Scott's smart enough to know I need
that's not a big carrot that's not a very big enough carrot to to really help my situation that seems to be all he's
attempting to do what did we see in the first case he's turning on his cellmate saying you know this guy was going to
kill a judge he was going to kill a prosecutor he was going to kill witnesses that the
Department of Justice and the the law enforcement the authorities value the protection of witnesses like you
wouldn't believe and they should very smartly so yeah correct and he said he's gonna kill two witnesses and hire
somebody to and then what is it what do we see once he's at once again in prison
it's oh I heard I might have some information regarding the murder of the assistant US attorney Tom Wales so these
are big carrots that he's coming up with and I it's almost like to me like you pointed out it's like why would you why
would the FBI why would these organizations get involved with this guy who clearly is a con man it clearly is a
scam artist he's what he's one of these people that he's behind bars because of what they would call paper cases where
you can easily put together evidence against this individual because everything he stole or frauded people
from was the result of paper a paper trail that he put together himself that you can apply to him and get the
conviction what we have here though is somebody going look we can these are this is a big cases this is a big to do
this is violent this is murder this is judges prosecutors US attorneys this is big a big deal maybe we deal with this
little paper case guy because we we need to prevent these big things from taking
place right we we're after bigger fish is what I think you think is happening at the time now as we said the whales
case is unsolved apparently it sounds to me like investigators suspect that this Scott
Kimble may have actually could have possibly been the shooter there there's some speculation as to that captain I
don't want to get too far into that but I think the reason why they think that there
was a strange letter that shows up to the seattle FBI office okay this letter was postmarked from las vegas and dated
january third in this letter the writer said that he was the killer of tom wales
he said a woman hired him to shoot whales we will get into this much much more later but there is some good reason
to possibly believe that scott was passing through Las Vegas in January of 2006 so there's a chance that he wrote
and mailed the letter I I I'm getting a little confused in the story here as to what I believe is likely I don't know
that that he may have been the shooter or if he's really just manipulating the system because as said it seems to me
like all the information he was able to provide to the authorities regarding the
murder of whales he could have found all that on the internet right which if he's
sitting behind bars and he gets use of a computer at the you know when he go to the library or wherever that he could
have he could have found all of that information in fact we stood together with some of these cells these days that
might have computers right in their cell well keep in mind like one of the one of
the biggest problems that we have in some of these prisons is the prisoners want to sneak in cell phones they want
to get a cell phone in there one cuz they can call whomever they want whenever they want but also imagine you
can get some kind of internet service as well right well I know I have a friend that was complaining because it was
they're turned they have a relative that's in jail and it was their turn they all decided as a family to help
this individual try to reform and and better his life that they would get cable for his cell so they pay like a
monthly fee for this little TV that gets cable in the cell so it's basically like
a flix netflix and chill' behind bars mm-hmm yeah I just be sitting in there watching reruns of Monk in the office
costly I think we solve mysteries real punishment you know and I don't want to get in a whole debate of what prisoners
should have and what they shouldn't have because I actually I actually believe depending on what type of prison you are
are in and what type of offender you are that should vary maybe there's like a tear process but it at least the the
worst of the worst when they have cable that angers me so badly I think that the
the real the real bad guys you know what real punishment is c-span baby you can watch c-span for that's all you
get to see and you get maybe 45 minutes of it a day tear your eyes out yeah I think we
should start off with genital mutilation and then work up from there you know to
really punish people well so what does the Tom Wales murder in Scott Kimball's telling the feds that he had information
on this case have to do with the bigger picture let's just say that his cooperation and this is key this is key
to our story here captain his cooperation with the authorities on the Wales case and also the flower's case
that we already went through this is what would lead the FBI to turn him turn to him again in another case down the
road and we will see that that will have devastating consequences all right captain so for those of you following
along at home and for those of you who are completely lost what we have here is we have Scott Lee Kimball who has spent
the last few years in and out of prison he's been arrested for multiple different charges and even in different
areas as well so regarding the the order of this let's go to 2002 because there's
going to be something very significant to the story that takes place in 2002 this remember Scott was arrested in
Alaska for forging checks and because he escaped from that prison pre-release in Montana in June he is transferred to
federal prison in Littleton Colorado this is because he told authorities that his life had been threatened by multiple
inmates this is because he's a snitch by this point he's snitched on his cellmates
especially the we're talking about the flower's case here so scott's history of cooperating with authorities would soon
earn him another informant role and a prison release in the fall of 2002 scott reported to the FBI that his cellmate a
steve Ennis had asked God to murder another drug dealer this guy's name is Jason price who was going to testify
against Steve Ennis anis was doing 10 years in federal prison on drug charges for running a massive ecstasy
distribution network and the DEA was monitoring his activities carefully now it's unclear what if anything Steve
Ennis was really cooking up again is this something that Steve Ennis was actually putting into place or is
something that Scott Kimball is manufacturing and providing bogus information in regards to it seems
possible that Steve might have made some noises about wanting this guy dead and then Scott acted on that it's unclear
what Steve thought Scott's role in Steve's plans were because he wasn't supposed to be getting out anytime soon
so that's what's a little tricky here how would Steve think that Scott could help him while they're both on the
inside so this makes three times well yeah and that's why I kind of pointed out that I think it's a little strange
that Steve would try to get Scott involved in this whole murder-for-hire plot because how would Steve think that Scott
could provide him any assistance in this when Scott is looking at doing almost as
much time as as Steve you you know you how's he going to get this going from the inside Steve could
probably get this going on his own from the inside and we know how these prison populations work
this dude was already moved there because he's saying hey I'm being threatened because I'm a snitch i ratted
out some other guys before so scott seems like the last person that an inmate would tell hey i'm thinking about
killing this guy that's going to testify against me at trial there's this rival drug dealer or whatever you want to call
him I want this guy dead it doesn't make sense that he would tell Scott that's why I questioned here captain is this
something that Scott just totally manufactured all on his own because he's learned time and time again and he's
executed this before where he goes you know I'm gonna either make up this stuff about this guy or I'm gonna rat on this
dude over-over real stuff either way it's going to benefit me in in this situation it could get me out of prison
very quickly so that that's why I wanted to bring that up because we got to keep
in mind even though he's becoming an informant and he's ratting on these dudes is there a chance that he's just
manufacturing all this stuff himself and putting the pieces together and then feeding it to the authorities so really
this situation to me is very reminiscent of the flower's case that we already discussed because somehow Scott got word
to the FBI that his cellmate Steve Ennis was plotting to kill someone on the outside and again as I stated this is
another witness yeah this is when the FBI will same set up right it's like it's like you said you can you can watch
those interviews you can see him you can listen to him speak there's a brain in there this guy is never there's also
brains in the FBI agents you would think they'd go hey this this all seems familiar oh I agree with you 100%
100% it's strange to me how this guy was able to make this work time and time again but I do think he's probably
pretty good at what he did and that's no excuse but it's also one of these things
that he's like got Kimble figured out like this works and I'm gonna keep doing it until it
stops working so what we have here is when he was a known con man a known criminal guy that's suspected and other
other crimes other than conman situations the FBI there's no excuse for that there's no excuse for our FBI to be
tricked oh I'm not gonna pretend it's completely dumb of them to believe him time and time again I think what they're
blinded by is what we pointed out earlier this is a this is a paper case guy pretty low-level who doesn't seem to
be violent I mean we do have those allegations of things by his ex-wife but there were never charges brought forward
on any of that so they're not seeing that stuff but what what they're seeing is all we got these bigger fish that we
want to go after all they're seeing that stuff they know that happened and they know there was no charges that that
stuff doesn't just go away the FBI would know that stuff or should know that stuff he wouldn't have any
record of it though I'm just saying they should I'm just saying that our afternoon if there was a possible
situation that their charges were never brought that might not go on your criminal history but that's not that's
not the record that the FBI has of each individual in America there they have a lot of data on you on me on every
listener that's listening to the show well regardless this is going to be when the FBI formally will take on Scott
Kimball as an actual informant and this is going to earn Scott a release from prison yeah hold on kids if he folds you
twice might as well have him work for you this takes place on December 18 2002 when Scott is released from prison in
order to quote actively cooperate with the FBI on the Steven Ennis matter and quote what was Scott's role in this
whole thing well he was ordered by FBI agent Karl SH laughs to pretend to be a man named Joseph lease
and the FBI was going to set him up with this new identity provided to him and they gave him a birth certificate and a
driver's license saying that he was in fact Joseph Lee Scott so Scott Kimball who is now Joe Scott he's put in charge
of keeping an eye on Steve and his girlfriend her name is Jennifer Markham so Scott Kimball told authorities this
is how we get to Jennifer Markham he told authorities that Jennifer Markham anuses girlfriend since she is the one
on the outside she is going to be the one that sets up this whole murder plot I'm guessing that means Kimball told law
enforcement that she was going to hire the killer so Jennifer Markham was also a potential
witness for the DEA in a large meth case the short of it is Scott Lee Kimball is
now out of prison living under a new identity and working with the FBI and all of this is going to turn into some
very bad bad business and fairly quickly now before we wrap up here captain we must give a big thank you and shout out
to a website this is Scott Lee Kimball dot-com it's a website that is maintained by the daily camera which is
a Boulder Colorado newspaper dating all the way back to 1890 that's right your great-great-grandfather was reading the
daily camera the website was invaluable to our research in the site includes a timeline and links to numerous articles
about the case and if the name the daily camera sounds familiar longtime listeners will remember the daily camera
was a great source for our six-part JonBenet Ramsey coverage which took place it in episodes to 82 to 85
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Brief Summary

Scott Lee Kimball's life is marked by crime, manipulation, and interactions with law enforcement as an informant.

Key points

Scott Lee Kimball's Troubled Youth. Scott's early life was marked by reckless behavior and abuse, leading to a troubled adulthood.
Scott's Life of Crime. Scott's criminal activities escalated, leading to multiple arrests and a life of deception.
Scott's Suicide Attempt. After years of abuse, Scott attempted suicide, leading to the discovery of his traumatic past.
Scott's Arrest and Identity Theft. After escaping to Alaska, Scott assumed his brother's identity and continued his criminal ways.
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Ted Payton denied me my right to a normal healthy innocent childhood.

Scott's reflection on his childhood abuse.

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Tension

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