By Daily Mail (U.S.) | Created at 2026-06-23 17:40:54 | Updated at 2026-06-25 01:52:22
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When Kaysi McLeod vanished one day in August 2003, her parents were thankful that they had the help of her mother's boyfriend.
After all, Scott Kimball was an FBI agent... or so he claimed.
In reality, he had spent years fooling everyone including the FBI - and his involvement in Kaysi's disappearance was something much more sinister.
It was true that Kimball worked for the bureau: the convicted conman and fraudster had been a paid FBI informant for several years. He had even negotiated his release from prison in order to provide intelligence about a string of murder-for-hire plots.
But as Kaysi's dad Rob McLeod and FBI Special Agent Jonathan Grusing would come to discover, Kimball's work often coincided with someone mysteriously going missing.
In this week's Crime Desk newsletter, McLeod and Grusing reveal the inside story of the crimes of the serial killer dubbed 'Hannibal' and the discovery of a trail of bodies in the mountain states.
Kaysi McLeod vanished in August 2003, with Scott Kimball claiming the 19-year-old ran away from home
Scott Kimball claimed to be an FBI agent. He was actually a dangerous serial killer known as Hannibal who was working as an FBI informant
What really happened to Kaysi McLeod? What was the sick meaning behind Kimball's honeymoon trip with her mother? And, crucially, how did a master manipulator felon manage to pull the wool over the eyes of everyone including the FBI for years?
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