A man convicted of the murders of several people in Colorado during the last decade is being investigated for the 2001 murder of a federal prosecutor in Seattle, The Daily Camera reported Thursday.
Tom Wales (Wikimedia)
A law enforcement official told the Boulder, Colo., newspaper that investigators have turned their attention to Scott Kimball, who was in Seattle when Assistant U.S. Attorney Tom Wales was fatally shot at his home. Kimball is serving a 70-year prison sentence for murdering three women and his uncle in 2003 and 2004.
It is unclear why Kimball has piqued the interest of investigators. A spokeswoman with the FBI in Portland, Ore., which is handling the case, declined comment to The Daily Camera.
But the newspaper said Kimball told the FBI after the murder that he could supply details about the case. In a yet-to-be-published book, he denied killing Wales.
“If I did, do you think I’d tell you?” Kimball said in the book, according to the newspaper. “You don’t just go to jail for killing a federal prosecutor. You get executed for that sort of thing. But if anybody ever asks you, my answer is no.”
Wales worked in the Western District of Washington U.S. Attorney’s Office from 1983 until his death on Oct. 11, 2001, handling fraud cases. Investigators working on his murder case had previously focused their attention on a businessman, who was the subject of an unsuccessful prosecution by Wales. But their probe did not result in any charges against the man.
