An FBI team has finished searching for clues linked to the death of Kaysi McLeod and the disappearance of three others after finding a human bone in an area where some of McLeod’s remains were located last year.
“In the course of the three days we did find a human bone and some other items of unknown significance,” FBI spokeswoman Kathy Wright said of the search.
A hunter found bones last September in deep snow in Jackson County and DNA taken from them matched that of McLeod, who was reported missing in August 2003.
Scott Kimball, a convict with a lengthy history of financial crimes, is a suspect in the death of McLeod and the disappearance of Jennifer Marcum, Leann Emry and Kimball’s 60-year-old uncle, Terry Kimball.
Scott Kimball is in federal custody on an unrelated weapons charge.
“I believe in miracles and just how Kaysi was found last fall was kind of a miracle,” said McLeod’s father, Robert McLeod, who believes Scott Kimball killed her.
“I am hopeful that they actually found something that links Scott into this, some kind of valuable, admissable evidence,” he added.
Extensive lab work is needed to determine if the bone belonged to McLeod or any of the other three, Wright said.
McLeod disappeared after Kimball was supposed to pick her up at a Thornton hotel.
Marcum, a dancer at a Glendale strip club, disappeared Feb. 17, 2003.
Terry Kimball, 60, disappeared in late 2004, shortly after he moved in with Scott Kimball. Scott Kimball told people that his uncle won a lottery, then went to Mexico with a woman.
Emry, 24, disappeared between Moab and Washington state in 2003. In January 2003 she told her father, Howard, that she was planning a camping trip. Her car was found in Moab.
A search team of about 40 agents, support staff, and other personnel began combing the heavily wooded area of Jackson County on Monday.
Some forensic investigators came from the FBI laboratory in Quantico, Va., but most of the searchers were from the agency’s Denver office.
Tom McGhee: (303)954-1671 or tmcghee@denverpost.com
