September 21, 1966 - Scott Lee Kimball
His case sits at an unusual intersection of white-collar crime and homicide — a skilled forger and check fraudster whose financial schemes gave him the tools to obscure his killings, making victims appear alive through fabricated records long after their deaths. The FBI's use of him as a paid informant during the period he was actively murdering raises unresolved questions about institutional oversight and the costs of that arrangement. Investigators have linked him to as many as twenty-five deaths in total, though only four convictions were secured.
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Scott Lee Kimball (born September 21, 1966) 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. For the first year of his murder activity, he worked as an informant for the FBI, which both paid him and protected him from facing justice over some of his fraud schemes. 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. 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 2003 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 bank 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.
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