Nobody could say that Scott Lee Kimball had an easy upbringing.

His parents divorced around the time he was 10, and Scott,

with his brother, moved into their grandmother's mobile home. It's here where their neighbor,

Theodore Payton, entered Scott's life and began more than a decade of sexual abuse.

Before Payton was brought to justice, Scott had sought escape at the end of a barrel,

in a suicide attempt that left him with a distinct scar on his forehead, and by the accounts of those

close to him, a change in the way his brain worked. Before and after this attempt, Scott had already

been running into trouble with the law.

Czech fraud and scams soured his relationship with Larissa Hince, who he had married in 1993

and fathered two sons with. An allegation of sexual assault from Hince led to a divorce,

but it was a previous probation violation that actually led to his arrest.

When the FBI apprehended him, he had already fled to Alaska, fallen into another engagement,

and restarted his scams. In prison, Scott quickly used whatever intel he could gather among

inmates and staff to his benefit. He built up his reputation

and convinced a member of the FBI named Carl Schlaff to use him as an informant. Between

poor background checks that left overlooked rape allegations against Scott out of the consideration

and Scott's ability to enter certain cliques in the prison to gather

information, Schlaff accepted, a decision that now defines his career in all the worst ways.

So for a very brief recap up to this point, Scott Lee Kimball was abused sexually as a child

by a neighbor.

He attempted suicide from the trauma related to that.

The injury to his brain from the suicide attempt,

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