Scott Lee Kimball born September 21, is a convicted serial killer , con man and fraudster from Boulder County, Colorado , who murdered at least four people over a two-year period; investigators strongly suspect him in as many as 21 other unsolved killings. Almost none of the information he gave the bureau was of any use in prosecuting other crimes, and much of it later proved false; the case greatly embarrassed the bureau.
The agent who oversaw him during this period was disciplined; he insists he was not the only one responsible for enabling Kimball. Kimball was sexually abused in his teens , which led to a suicide attempt and a life of crime. He is a skilled forger who, while he ran a legitimate business buying and selling organic beef, primarily enriched himself by passing bad checks on the accounts of others and using forged documents; by he had faced criminal charges in four Western states.
These white-collar crimes also enabled his murders, by allowing him to create evidence that his victims were still alive after he had killed them; he also used their checking accounts and credit cards to further his schemes once they were dead. Two of Kimball's victims were people close to him: the daughter of his third wife, and his own uncle. His second wife, who bore his two sons, claims he twice kidnapped and raped her; there was an open arrest warrant for him from the second assault, which occurred after he absconded from work release , at the time the FBI hired him as an informant.
An investigation into a check fraud scheme eventually led law enforcement to discover the murders. Kimball, having violated the terms of his plea agreement when he could not lead police to the still-missing body of one of the four victims, faced murder charges in all four cases, in addition to the fraud charges that had prompted the investigation. Three of the missing murder victims had been found in remote areas of Colorado and neighboring Utah. Under Colorado laws which quadruple sentences for those found to be habitual offenders , he was sentenced to a combined 70 years for the frauds and the murders after pleading guilty.
While in state prison, he additionally pleaded guilty to a charge of attempted escape. Kimball was born in Boulder, Colorado , in When he was 10 his mother, Barb, came out as a lesbian , leading to his parents' divorce; his father, Virgil, left the state and remarried. Kimball was strongly affected by the divorce. In his early adolescence he had his first encounter with law enforcement when police were called to the house after he fired a gun out the window at neighboring houses.
