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00:00At Shotgun Willys, you walk into eight stages of beautiful ladies dancing, pictures of
00:18shotguns, pictures of women dressed in Western attire.
00:22It's wild.
00:23It's fun.
00:24It's the best show on earth.
00:26The Shotgun Willys vibe is totally like, yeah, you're in the West.
00:30We wear our cowboy boots with our cowboy hats.
00:33It was very classy clientele, so you hustle them as long as you can.
00:39But working at a strip club is a risky business.
00:43If someone targets you, you can disappear.
00:48When Jennifer went missing, it was a scary shock to all of us.
00:53Jennifer was the girl next door.
00:56A single mom, hardworking girl who would have done anything for her kid had a dream to
01:01open her own coffee shop one day.
01:03She had to be taken against her will.
01:06When we searched the laptop, we found over 300 images of women either being tortured or
01:12killed.
01:13It's incredibly disturbing.
01:15The case morphed into something much greater and bigger.
01:19We called it Operation Snowball because the more you look into it, the worse it got.
01:25We were dealing with someone diabolical.
01:29And the early 2000s, Shotgun Willys in Denver was the place to be if you were anybody.
01:48That was like, we got to go to shotguns, don't tell our wives, no.
01:53The Shotgun Willys vibe is totally like, yeah, you're in the West, you know, we wear our cowboy boots with our cowboy hats.
02:04All throughout the night, you'd be like, OK, ladies, round up and get on stage, we're going to do the two-step.
02:09It got the whole crowd really riled up and having fun.
02:13It was very classy clientele.
02:15You know, the cover charge at the door is not cheap.
02:18The Nugget players are going in there, the Bronco players are going in there.
02:21And also, you would see congressmen in there, the Senate in there.
02:28My first role at Shotgun Willys, I was a young guy with long hair, wild and crazy, and I had to work the door.
02:35And I really enjoyed it, and I moved right up the chain.
02:41During the day, we have regular guests that have been coming in there for 40 years.
02:45Men that have been married for decades, and no one wants to hear their stories anymore.
02:49No one wants to hear about their high school touchdowns or the time they were number one in sales at their job.
02:55If you're easy to talk to, and you're a good listener, you're making money.
02:59Hands down, that's how to do it.
03:04We see guests on their best days and their worst days.
03:07There's risks, and you have to use your head and be careful.
03:19I first met Jennifer Markham when she came to do the amateur contest.
03:26We've been doing the amateur strip off for 30 years.
03:30It's where we meet a lot of our new entertainers.
03:33The customers judge the contest, and Jennifer was a beautiful woman.
03:38Big, bright, pretty eyes, and so she won the strip off, of course.
03:42She took the job, and we were glad to have Jennifer join the crew.
03:48Jennifer's persona on stage, you know, the girl next door.
03:52She just had that Midwestern charm.
03:54She was very athletic, so she was strong, a good dancer, and just, you know, in great shape.
04:00Everybody liked her.
04:02She was really outgoing, and just, you know, a joy to be around.
04:07She was making money and doing a really good job, and then she stopped coming to work.
04:15She didn't respond to any messages, just stopped coming, you know, which is unusual.
04:21Usually when the girls, you know, they go through stages, they stop coming to work,
04:25they'll message me or call me and say, hey, Maddie, I'm going to be doing this, this, or this.
04:29You know, I'll see you never again, or maybe I'll see you in six months.
04:33The first thing I did, you know, was check with her friends.
04:36And nobody had seen her or heard from her.
04:42It was strange that Jennifer wasn't showing up.
04:46She looked happy to be there.
04:48She took her job seriously.
04:50Everyone is talking about it, like, nobody knows where Jennifer is.
04:54Like, you know, this is so weird.
04:56Have you heard anything about her?
04:58Have you seen her?
05:00Jennifer's father called me at work at the club.
05:03He seemed very distraught.
05:05It was an alarming call because I had no idea, you know, what was going on with Jennifer at all.
05:11And it was scary because he didn't either.
05:15As Jennifer's parents' concern continued to grow because they couldn't find their little girl,
05:23they reached out to hospitals.
05:24They called police departments.
05:25They grew more and more desperate.
05:28Jennifer's father, Bob Markham, told the police that it wasn't unheard of for her to go weeks without them hearing from her.
05:34But this time they felt that something was different, something was wrong.
05:55Working at a strip club is a risky business.
05:58That is a vulnerable lifestyle to where if someone targets you and wants to take advantage of you, you can disappear.
06:07And with Jennifer, it was like she dropped off the face of the earth.
06:12She was using her phone until her phone goes offline on February 17, 2003.
06:19No one had talked to Jennifer again.
06:22And then police learned that Jennifer Markham's car was located at Denver International Airport.
06:29It had been parked there on February 17, 2003.
06:34But there were absolutely no records of her boarding any flight, domestic, international or otherwise.
06:41It appeared that Jennifer vanished.
06:45The police said there was no indication of foul play.
06:48They didn't have physical evidence.
06:50There was nothing really for the police to do.
06:53And so there was no police investigation.
06:56But in general, when you're an adult, you're allowed to go missing, especially if that's your pattern of life.
07:03There's always hope because Jennifer was such a free spirit that she just did go away somewhere and just hasn't made it back.
07:13But it just broke my heart for her family.
07:17I ran into her mother.
07:20You could see the heartache in her eyes.
07:24I met Jennifer in third grade.
07:31I was the new student in the class.
07:34And she instantly became my best friend.
07:38She would come over to my house.
07:41And we'd like to dress up and pretend like we're Cyndi Lauper and dance around the room.
07:47She always had this little dimple right here.
07:50And when she smiled, that dimple just popped out all the time.
07:55She was a vibrant, adventurous child.
08:02As she got older, she became a protector of her two younger siblings.
08:08No matter what was happening, you knew that if you had her with you, she would take care of you.
08:14I would describe Jennifer as a total free spirit.
08:18She was just excitement to be around.
08:21She would be the girl that would be like, oh, let's go on vacation.
08:24Don't know where.
08:25We'll just get in the car and go.
08:26That's Jennifer.
08:27She's always off and out doing a new adventure.
08:31Jennifer was also a single mom, like many of us in the industry.
08:37And just, you know, trying to make ends meet and have a good life for her kid.
08:40She was a stripper, yes.
08:43But that is not who she was.
08:45That was not her career.
08:46You just want to do what's best for your children.
08:49Her childhood split is time between Jennifer and the child's father.
08:54And Jennifer was a woman who tried to do right by her son, who had a dream of doing better for herself.
09:02And she had hopes to open her own coffee shop for her own one day.
09:06She's that mom that would be at every function that her kid would do.
09:11That would be at every class party that her kid would have.
09:15Just want to be a part of every piece of her child's life.
09:20The physical life shop was a student.
09:23She's is a student.
09:26She was a student.
09:29She's a student.
09:31She was a student.
09:34Shotgun Willie's was one of the last places she was known to ever be.
09:38So Jennifer Markham's father, Bob, raised money to put a billboard above Shotgun Willie's for his missing daughter.
09:47Once I saw that billboard, it did bring all the memories back.
09:50You know, it really grabbed your heart.
09:52Everybody was talking about it again.
09:54I mean, it was like a member of the family had disappeared.
09:57We were all desperately waiting for an answer.
10:00I was thinking, this is terrible.
10:04Something bad's happened.
10:06This is a smart lady.
10:07She has everything to live for.
10:08She had to be taken against her will.
10:10Bob Markham reached out everywhere to anyone who would listen to his story about his daughter.
10:18And unfortunately, because of the life she led, not many people were willing to listen.
10:23When I heard about Jennifer's story, it pissed me off that nobody was really talking about it.
10:27Bob and I spent a lot of time on the phone together.
10:29And through all of his pain, through all of his despair, he never gave up hope.
10:34But the Markhams didn't have any luck.
10:36And time just continued to go by.
10:40Investigators told Bob, a confidential informant, reached out to the FBI saying he had information
11:02about Jennifer Markham's disappearance, that he had heard from a couple different people,
11:08but he wasn't otherwise involved, and that he would like to meet with her parents.
11:12So in the summer of 2005, FBI Handler set up a meeting in a park in the North Denver area
11:19with Bob Markham and their confidential informant.
11:24The informant told Bob that Jennifer's boyfriend was in prison for drug charges
11:28and that Jennifer was killed because she was going to testify against him.
11:38Bob Markham knew that Jennifer's boyfriend was Steve Ennis.
11:43Steve was running a large ecstasy ring.
11:45The feds caught wind of it.
11:46While Steve Ennis was incarcerated, Jennifer Markham and him remained in a committed relationship.
11:54She told her dad he was the one.
11:56She was head over heels for this guy.
11:59Her dad could hear it.
12:01He knew that she really loved him.
12:03So Bob Markham didn't buy what the informant was selling.
12:07He thought Steve had nothing to do with Jennifer's disappearance.
12:10And Bob Markham told me he was stunned that this man actually offered to take him to Jennifer's burial site.
12:19At that point, Bob Markham was convinced that the informant was responsible for Jennifer's death.
12:25How else would he know where she was?
12:26Working at Shotgun Willys at the beginning of shift, you immediately go to the dressing room.
12:42The manager would come out with a clipboard, check our outfits.
12:46The dress code has to be right.
12:47Your makeup has to be right.
12:48And they are very strict about this.
12:50When you've really hooked that customer, that's when you pop the question.
12:57Would you like to buy me off the list?
13:03And that's where they're paying you by the hour to sit with them.
13:06That's how you really rake in the dough.
13:08You kind of like set your own price.
13:09And that's something you would really negotiate with the guy.
13:12You know, some girls might be like, oh, $300 an hour, that's fine.
13:15I'd be like, $500 plus you have to tip me when I dance.
13:19So you hustle them as long as you can.
13:24The most I made was $8,000 one night.
13:27But what you will run into with these regulars is eventually they want you to go home with them.
13:33If a guest is too intense, I have a chat with them and say, hey, remember, this is Maple Leaf, sir.
13:39This is not reality.
13:40Wake up, sir.
13:41Wake up.
13:43We take club safety very, very seriously.
13:46So when Jennifer went missing, it was a scary shock to all of us.
13:54Matt told us that we all need to be really careful.
13:57Most of the girls there would know not to go home with a customer.
14:00Plus, we have the security in place.
14:02But it's just, it makes you second think, who was she involved with, really?
14:07And yeah, maybe I questioned if it was a customer from the club.
14:11It definitely made me feel a little scared.
14:13After this meeting in the park with the informant, Bob told the FBI that the informant was the killer.
14:29But the FBI said that he had saved lives before as an informant, that they believed that his information was good information,
14:37and said they couldn't disclose the informant's identity.
14:44When I spoke with Bob Markham, he just knew she was gone.
14:48Bob felt that, you know, like, as any good father would feel, that maybe he could have done more to try to help bring her home.
14:57Bob wanted to give her a proper funeral, a proper burial.
15:02But Bob was afraid that he'd meet a similar fate if he let the CIA take him to Jennifer's burial site.
15:09Bob Markham was heartbroken.
15:11What he really wants is closure.
15:13And until he knows the location of Jennifer's remains, he's never going to get it.
15:18Jennifer's family's frustrations mounted further with the lack of progress in the investigation.
15:39And the Markhams certainly felt that it was a stigma.
15:43She was a stripper.
15:45The entertainers come from all different kinds of backgrounds.
15:48These are normal women that are doing that job mostly for their children, to provide a good life for them.
15:54They're paying their bills off.
15:56They're helping the family out.
15:58And you kind of go to the next stage in their lives.
16:01There are psychologists that I worked with at Shotguns.
16:05There are teachers.
16:06There's every profession that you can think of where these women worked at the club to have extra income.
16:13I had been waitressing and going to school to get a degree in radiology.
16:18And I needed to make more money.
16:23The entertainer's dilemma is not being accepted by society.
16:28It is sad that there's such a stigma attached to it.
16:31You know, I was cautious as to who I would tell that I was an entertainer because people would judge me.
16:37Jennifer was one of us in the club, just trying to make ends meet.
16:41At the same time, back in 2006, local police department here in Colorado were looking at a man by the name of Scott Kimball
17:04for a variety of check fraud schemes that had occurred in the area.
17:09They suspected that he had taken $80,000 that didn't belong to him.
17:15Detective Gary Thatcher was assigned the case.
17:18Gary goes to find Scott to ask him about the check fraud forgeries.
17:23But Scott's in the wind.
17:25So he contacts his wife, who's Lori McLeod.
17:28And she said she would come in and talk to Detective Thatcher.
17:32Do you know if he owed anybody money?
17:36Or, I mean, was he, like, in debt to somebody?
17:40No.
17:42Not that I know of.
17:44You know, he took, you know, around $86,000.
17:48I had no clue.
17:51When did you talk to him?
17:53Last night.
17:53Last night.
17:54He said, I miss you.
17:56And he told me that he was an informant for the FBI.
18:00He said that there's an ongoing case that I know very little about.
18:07I know it involves Jennifer.
18:10She went missing.
18:12And apparently she's not missing.
18:15She's dead.
18:17So Scott was just a witness to this?
18:18He told me that was all I needed to know.
18:22It wasn't what Detective Thatcher was expecting when he was working a check fraud case.
18:27To have an FBI informant suddenly in the middle of it.
18:30And a case with a girl who had gone missing.
18:34Lori then begins telling him that Scott Kimball has also been associated with another missing woman.
18:39Her daughter, Casey McCloud.
18:44She was 19 at the time.
18:47She called on the phone and she asked to talk to me.
18:50And she said, I just wanted to tell you I'm sorry and I love you.
18:53And she hung up and that was the last thing I ever heard from her.
18:57She's now 22.
18:58I found out later she stayed at a hotel for a couple of days.
19:03Scott's the one that picked her up from the hotel to take her to work.
19:07And she hasn't seen since.
19:10When has she been missing since?
19:12Since August 21st of 2003.
19:15How long have you been married to Scott?
19:18Since August 31st of 2003.
19:22Okay.
19:22Lori was conflicted because she was finding out that a lot of what Scott had told her was not true.
19:43So while she thought Scott had been trying to help, she also wondered if Scott was involved in her daughter Casey's disappearance.
19:50So she gave law enforcement his cell phone number and two bags that contained all of Scott's receipts surrounding Casey's disappearance along with Scott's laptop.
20:02When Detective Thatcher searched the laptop, he found over 300 images of women either being tortured or killed.
20:20We have entertainers working there from all over the U.S.
20:30And this is show business.
20:32You need to have a stage name.
20:34Sometimes if the girls can't come up with a name, I have a baby book.
20:37And I say, come on, pick a name out of here.
20:39And that is their identity when they're in the club.
20:42I don't know these girls' real names.
20:44Probably none of them.
20:45And there's hundreds that work for me.
20:47I know their stage names.
20:49I don't think anybody is like 100% just themselves when they're in the industry.
20:54You definitely have to be an actress for sure.
20:58But with Jennifer, she was just such a sweetheart on and off stage.
21:01It's incredibly disturbing to all of us that Scott Kimball has these kind of images on his computer.
21:21Detective Thatcher stumbles across these horrific scenes of sexual abuse, rape, strangulation, murder of women.
21:30And it was clear that Scott Kimball was not just a white-collar criminal like he showed on paper.
21:37There were not only photos but videos.
21:40But they weren't Jennifer and they weren't Casey.
21:42So it was a big mess.
21:45Detective Thatcher ended up calling the FBI to see what was going on and wanted to know if Scott was an agent or an informant or what.
21:52And the FBI told him that, yes, he's an informant, he's not an agent, and he's helping with missing people, specifically Jennifer Markham.
22:04And Detective Thatcher said, yes, I've heard that name, but I've also heard that he's responsible for maybe other missing people, including Casey McLeod.
22:12So, at that point, everybody was trying to figure out what was going on.
22:19FBI then assigned Agent Johnny Grusing to the case, and together they team up to begin fully investigating Scott Kimball.
22:27Detective Thatcher and I learned that July 2002, Scott was serving time for a check fraud forgery charge in Colorado, and he reached out for the FBI.
22:43Scott told the FBI that he knows of a murder-for-hire plot, but he needed to get out of jail in order to assist them.
22:50By that point, he had already informed on other important cases to the FBI, so he was released from jail, and he was out providing that information to law enforcement, and eventually, Scott goes off the grid.
23:09You don't really have supervision when you're an informant, and we don't check up on them, nor do we have any mechanism to do so.
23:16When he stopped working for the FBI, a warrant was activated for that old check fraud forgery sentence that he owed.
23:27As I reviewed the file, the light bulb just clicked on, and then we connected the dots.
23:33Scott Kimball was the informant who met in the park with Jennifer's dad, Bob Markham.
23:37We needed to find Scott Kimball in order to find out what information he has in the disappearance and murder of two women.
23:56We got a lot of stuff to talk to.
23:58What we have around you is a bunch of missing people, Jennifer, Markham, and Casey.
24:06We're pretty convinced that you had something to do with their disappearances.
24:12I disagree.
24:13So if you're asking me if I know where Jennifer or Casey is, the answer is no.
24:17And if you're going to ask me if I've hurt any of them or killed any of them, the answer is no.
24:21So wherever else from there, we need to go. I'll be glad to help you.
24:25You know, you're looking at a lot of time.
24:27Absolutely.
24:27I'm not guilty of that.
24:28I am 100% convinced I will beat that in any jury trial, and I will not plead to that.
24:33I didn't do it.
24:34Okay.
24:35I was used to being the FBI coming in.
24:38People would be a little thrown off, intimidated.
24:41Not with him.
24:42He was in charge.
24:44He knew that his information was much more important than anything I had to say.
24:49We don't know the truth, and that's what you've got going for you now.
24:51You have that knowledge. We don't have it.
24:54So what happened with Jennifer?
24:56As far as what part.
25:02She flies off the radar.
25:04Our job is just to keep doing this, keep putting pressure on it until we get to the bottom of it.
25:08You can do what you want to do.
25:10You can do what you feel is best.
25:11Because I've learned just now in this interview that when I'm honest with you guys, it doesn't hold anything.
25:15Yes, yes it does.
25:16It does not.
25:18It's my rights, my constitutional right to not incarnate myself.
25:21Charge me or let me go.
25:22We're here on behalf of the Markham family and on the McLeod family.
25:38They want their daughters back to bury them.
25:40They're at their wit's end.
25:42They want to do everything they can to get their girls back.
25:45And they want to know what happened to them.
25:46And if you can help us.
25:48You know what, I don't, I can't stress to you enough.
25:52I have told you guys and I've been honest with you guys about everything I know with those.
25:59It's, you know, maybe you guys should just take me back to my cell.
26:02He's playing cat and mouse with what happened to all these missing people.
26:05And he loved that.
26:08The advice I got was you're going to have to be patient with him.
26:11And then let his narcissism just run.
26:15Then he will talk to you.
26:16Okay.
26:17All right, well, they're going to take you back in the book game, so.
26:19If you guys want to quit and give up, that's fine.
26:24That's up to you guys.
26:25You're not going to give us anything, Scott.
26:26I can tell you more about Jennifer, but I'm not, I don't want to be incriminated.
26:30I need some immunity.
26:32Once I explain everything to you, it may very well help you recover Jennifer.
26:37But, you know, I don't have an exact location.
26:41I just know from what I've been told where she would be found.
26:46But I can't tell you anything as long as I don't have any kind of immunity.
26:49But I just can't do it.
26:52Scott knows the game.
26:53He knew how to get something for himself out of any conversation that he ever had.
26:57But wanting immunity for something as serious as the disappearance and murder of an individual is never going to happen.
27:04We believed Scott Kimball was involved with, in some way, the disappearance and murder of Casey McCloud and Jennifer Markham.
27:18But our belief is completely circumstantial.
27:22We had nothing at that point.
27:24We needed to reinvestigate anyone who had any information or potential connection to Jennifer Markham.
27:30The FBI did come to talk to me.
27:41I did take the agency to see Jennifer's locker.
27:43Anything that I could do or any of my team could do to help, we were, we wanted to help.
27:49That it is a family.
27:50I think people in Denver like the fact that it's a family business, opened by a woman, did it all herself, self-made woman.
27:59She would never let the place go downhill like some clubs I've seen.
28:03It was always maintained.
28:04I feel like that makes it more solid of a place.
28:06I felt very welcomed and accepted there and very safe, too.
28:13It gives all the ladies there something to, you know, think about in a positive way when they're dancing.
28:19It's a two or three year stint.
28:21Most of these girls don't go longer than that.
28:23I think it eases their minds and makes the girls feel better.
28:26I'm working for a woman that understands what I'm going through right now.
28:36So we go and speak with Steve in prison.
28:52Steve told me that he didn't know what happened to her.
28:56He told us he still loved Jennifer, but he was heartbroken.
29:00That he thought she had just left him for some other guy.
29:02But then he said Jennifer had disappeared when she was last with Scott Kimball.
29:08That once Scott was released, he did meet with Jennifer.
29:12When Steve and Scott Kimball were cellmates, Scott claimed to know people in the coffee business
29:17and that he'd be willing to help Jennifer to establish some connections,
29:21to open her own coffee shop or some sort of a business.
29:24After that time, she went completely dark.
29:27No one had talked to Jennifer again.
29:29Then he said, then by the way, another cellmate lost his girlfriend when she was last with Scott Kimball.
29:38It was a repeat story of what happened between Steve Ennis and Jennifer.
29:43We found out that girl's name was Leanne Emery.
29:46She told her family she was going to go caving in Mexico with Scott Kimball.
29:50And her car was recovered right across the Utah state line.
29:55And she disappeared about 20 days before Jennifer disappeared.
30:00Detective Thatcher and Agent Grusing went back and looked at Scott Kimball's computer.
30:12These very disturbing, horrific scenes.
30:16And they were able to identify that one of the photographs was in fact Leanne Emery.
30:22Now we have three missing people.
30:25Leanne Emery, Jennifer Markham from Shotgun Willys, and Casey McLeod.
30:30All last known to be with Scott Kimball.
30:33We called it Operation Snowball because the more you look into Scott Kimball, the worse it got.
30:38At that point, I was confident that Scott was responsible for Jennifer's death, Casey McLeod's death,
30:57Leanne Emery's disappearance, and we had no idea how many other people he had killed.
31:02What we knew at that point was that now the tide has totally shifted.
31:07It's now time to go try to confront Scott with additional evidence.
31:12And again, Scott denied being responsible for anybody's deaths.
31:16And then he asked, what if one of these girls disappeared on National Forest Land?
31:21I could see that Scott was leaving breadcrumbs.
31:24I had receipts from the day and week surrounding Casey's disappearance.
31:30One of those receipts was from a grocery store in Walden, Colorado.
31:33Walden, Colorado, which is about two hours north of the Denver area, is a remote area surrounded by National Forest Land.
31:44I called Walden National Forest, and they said they had recovered a hiker up there the winter before.
31:50A hunter had found a skull when he was up on the side of a mountain.
32:00Agent Grusing and Detective Thatcher immediately drove to the Walden area to secure those human remains and get them sent off to Quantico for DNA testing.
32:09It was confirmed that those human remains belonged to Casey McLeod.
32:19I still feel them now.
32:25It, uh, it was this, like, mix of, I mean, just complete, like, this sounds crazy, but, like, joy.
32:34Like, oh, my gosh, we finally found Casey.
32:38But it still hits you in your heart that she, um, is deceased.
32:45It was a game changer.
32:46I was thrilled that we might actually be able to charge Scott with homicide.
32:51But as Casey's remains were reviewed, we were never able to determine how Casey had died.
33:03Those families, they were so desperate to find their daughters, and the only way we were going to do that is making a deal with Scott Kimball.
33:15We sat down and began to negotiate, and the deals began to be struck.
33:20Scott would provide us the information to lead us to the human remains of Leanne Emery, Jennifer Markham, and plead guilty to murdering Casey McLeod.
33:32In exchange, we would not prosecute him for the murders of Jennifer and Leanne, but he was going to have to do an act of good faith first.
33:41Meaning, there's no negotiation on those financial crimes that we had been prosecuting, and so we did.
33:48In December of 2008, Scott Kimball walked into court in Boulder County, and he pled guilty to the financial crimes, and he was immediately sentenced to 48 years in prison.
34:01Once the deal was set, Scott asked for a piece of paper, and he drew two squares on it to be Colorado and Utah, and he put little X's where Jennifer's remains were and Leanne's remains were.
34:16He said, they're 15 miles from each other. They're in the mountains of Utah, and I can get you to both of them in one day.
34:21There's a caravan of, like, 20 SUVs because we have the sheriff, SWAT team, evidence response team, his attorneys, prosecutors.
34:41It was quite the show.
34:42There was an incredible amount of logistics and planning that had to be planned that Scott would be, you know, in shackles, both his hands and feet at all times.
34:55There were dedicated armed riflemen on Scott at all times, and I remember watching people on the streets because it looked like this motorcade of very important officials.
35:08I think people thought, I think people thought, is the president in town, and people would stop and watch this just motorcade of big black SUVs as we traveled out of town and traveled into Utah.
35:19Scott got out of one of those black SUVs, and you could see almost the glee as he looked around and saw this entire production for him to tell us where these girls were, and he knew he was the one in control.
35:38We drive across the Utah line, and they're never-ending Horseshoe Canyons called the Book Cliffs, and they just extend for miles and miles.
35:48Scott is super certain where Jennifer's going to be, and he says, it's right by a ranch gate, so we chose to go directly there to recover Jennifer, and he pointed to one or two sites where we should dig.
35:59Our evidence team dug in those beds and discovered nothing.
36:05Scott was unapologetic.
36:06He simply just moved to another creek bed and said he was standing on the place where Jennifer might be.
36:14After two very long, intense days of searching, we found nothing.
36:19And that's when it first hit me, and I got a terrible feeling in my stomach.
36:26We just made a deal with the devil.
36:28The next morning, we walked down a dry creek bed.
36:45Scott looked to the right and said, let's go the other way, but something was off.
36:49So I started walking up this cliff face, and I come up on a hair clip, and inside it was brown hair, which fit Leanne.
37:03It was hard.
37:05It was difficult for me to even speak, so once I got my voices, when I yelled, I think I found Leanne.
37:11We spent the entire day recovering Leanne's remains.
37:15We eventually located a bullet casing right below the hair clip.
37:23Just the terror she must have felt when she was shot in the back of the head.
37:30It just felt devastating.
37:35We had now recovered Casey McLeod and Leanne Emery, but we still needed to go recover Jennifer Markham.
37:45We went back at a different time.
37:51I am 100% convinced, without a doubt, that Scott knows exactly where she is.
37:58When we were out there in this area with Scott, and we were walking along this, you know, kind of gully,
38:05and Scott tapped his foot, tapped it on the ground, and said, Merry Christmas, dig here.
38:12There was a big group of us, including myself.
38:15We got out the shovels, and we were digging, digging, digging.
38:19In the meantime, they took Scott away from the area.
38:23It's a very rocky area.
38:24It's mostly, like, kind of reddish, brownish dirt everywhere.
38:29I was giddy, like, beyond excitement, that finally we were going to bring Jennifer home to the Markhams.
38:37And we dug and dug and dug and never found Jennifer.
38:41He started pointing to other canyons.
38:46Well, then maybe she's in this canyon, and he would be just as excited about one canyon over.
38:53But it was just him playing games.
38:56All of our hopes that he was going to cooperate pretty much evaporated.
39:00It was going to be just us exploring canyons infinitely,
39:04to the point where we all said, we're done, Scott.
39:07We had made multiple efforts to try to find her, but we were never successful.
39:20I think all of our hearts hurt for the Markhams, that they didn't get to get Jennifer back.
39:26We did take the family out there to the location that we believed Jennifer Markham to have been killed and buried.
39:34And it was an incredibly difficult and emotional time to be out there with them.
39:43And we just gave them their privacy to be able to grieve.
39:48There wasn't a dry eye.
39:50I remember looking down, and, you know, even the FBI agents standing there with their rifles, you know, had some tears dropping down.
39:57Scott had not fulfilled the terms of his agreement, and he's not willing to give back Jennifer.
40:07And Scott was now required to come in and plead to multiple counts of second-degree murder.
40:14We wanted to hold him accountable for the murders he committed,
40:18and let's bring these families some closure and resolve.
40:21I was happy when I found out Scott was caught.
40:35I mean, it was quite a while after, you know, everything had happened.
40:39So I had a staff meeting and talked about what happened.
40:43And, you know, I wanted them to have, you know, closure in their hearts.
40:51Knowing Scott got arrested was a big sigh of relief for everybody.
40:55And, I mean, it's just so, so much heartbreak.
41:01I watched him next to his two defense attorneys looking pathetically weak and beat down and no longer in control.
41:26Scott Lee Kimball, cause of death, Jennifer Markham, Dan Emery, and Casey McLeod.
41:32How do you believe guilty or not guilty?
41:35Guilty.
41:37I even get emotional now because of the victims.
41:43You know, these were great people who their lives were cut too short by a monster.
41:50Casey Dawn McLeod was my firstborn daughter.
41:53I was present right there the very first moment she took her first breath.
41:59Scott Kimball was there to take her last.
42:03Scott Kimball has destroyed our lives.
42:05Our lives will never be the same.
42:08How many other people are missing as a result of his life?
42:16Thank God they gave him 70 years.
42:18Cause anything less would be a joke.
42:19And I hope he rots in jail for the rest of his life for what he did to her.
42:24And she will never be forgotten.
42:28I want people to remember Jennifer as a great mother.
42:31A person that cared about other people.
42:34And that loved life and was doing her best.
42:39She was exactly who she was from the time I knew her in third grade.
42:43She was a kind person.
42:46She trusted people.
42:48She gave them their all.
42:50She is missed.
42:52But we are grateful to have what we had of her.
42:55She is just amazing.
43:10She is the enemy.
43:11She is the enemy.
43:13She is the enemy.
43:13She is the enemy.
43:19It is the enemy.
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