One of four mystery women in kidnapping case is identified
By Sara Burnett, Rocky Mountain News (Contact)
Monday, May 19, 2008
Scott Kimball
Leann Emry
Jennifer Marcum
Kaysi McLeod
One of the four women the FBI was looking for last week as part of an investigation into a suspected kidnapper has been identified, and is alive and well, the FBI said.
"She's fine. That's the best part," Special Agent Leslie Kopper, an FBI spokeswoman, said Monday.
Kopper said she could not release any information about the woman, whose photo was among four that the FBI released to the media last week.
In one picture, she was seen outside a snowy apartment building. In another, she sat at a table, smiling.
Authorities said they found the photos during an investigation of Scott Kimball, a 41-year-old con man who is being investigated for kidnapping, murder for hire and witness tampering, according to court documents.
Four people close to Kimball disappeared in 2003 and 2004. Of those, three were last seen alive with Kimball, an affidavit filed by the FBI states.
Kimball is currently in jail on unrelated charges.
The FBI last week said it needed the public's help in identifying the four women.
Special Agent in Charge James H. Davis said the FBI considered the women potential witnesses.
But the possibility existed that something bad had happened to them, or that they too had disappeared.
The FBI has been pleased with the information it has received so far from the public, Kopper said.
"It's been valuable."
burnetts@RockyMountainNews.com or 303-954-5343
Troubling riddles
Scott Kimball is being investigated for kidnapping, murder for hire and witness tampering, court documents say. Three people close to Kimball have disappeared, and a fourth person, Leann Emry, hasn't been seen since 2003.
* Leann Emry, last seen January 2003
* Jennifer Marcum, last seen Feb. 2003
* Kaysi McLeod, last seen August 2003
* Terry Kimball, last seen Sept. 2004
* The FBI released photos of the four women pictured as possible witnesses against Kimball. They found the photos as part of their investigation of Kimball.
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