Lori McLeod Kimball Obituary News: What happened to Scott Kimball’s ex-wife?

Lori McLeod Obituary News: What happened to Scott Kimball’s ex-wife?

Scott Lee Kimball 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.

Kimball had worked (during the first year of his murder activity) as an informant for the FBI, which both paid him and protected him from facing justice over some of his fraud schemes.

Lori McLeod had met Kimball at a poker table in the Lodge Casino in Black Hawk, Colorado, which is located west of Denver, earlier in January 2003. She thought him likeable and had been pleased by the way he wheeled his multiple sclerosis-stricken mother up to the table. After McLeod gave him her phone number, they got to know one another better. He claimed her he was an FBI agent and showed her a laptop bearing the bureau’s seal and a phony badge. They went on their first date that year on Valentine’s Day, right before Jennifer Marcum vanished.

McLeod took Kimball at his word when he explained that occasionally he was required by FBI regulations to maintain confidentiality and not notify her where he was going. All he could tell her, he claimed, was that it had to do with the potential murder of a young woman named Jennifer. Her main concern was her daughter Kaysi, 19, who was from one of her two previous marriages. Kaysi had run away from home multiple times, faced credit card fraud charges, and was in the process of recovering from an addiction to methamphetamine. Kaysi’s life appeared to be getting better when her mother met Kimball. She had resumed living with Lori, was clean, was making new friends, and had gotten a part-time job at a nearby Subway.

A horrified McLeod was informed by Kimball that his arrest in June 2003 was a hoax to strengthen his FBI cover. She trusted him because he’d been released really swiftly and there had been no obvious charges. He informed Lori he was going on a hunting expedition in August.