The Boulder County Coroner’s Office announced on Wednesday that a sex offender convicted of molesting serial killer Scott Kimball when Kimball was a child died of heart disease.
Theodore Peyton, 81, was found dead outside his Nederland residence on Jan. 19. In addition to heart disease, the coroner’s office announced in a news release that diabetes, lung disease and hypothermia also contributed to Peyton’s death.
In the late ’70s and early ’80s, Peyton molested Kimball and another boy at a cabin on Alpine Drive. It was not clear if it was the same residence where Peyton was found on Jan. 19, but a Daily Camera story from 2010 said that the abuse happened at the same cabin where he lived in 2010.
A Boulder County jury convicted Peyton in 1991 of six counts of sexual assault on a child, and he was sentenced to seven years in prison. He was released in 1996 but didn’t register as a sex offender — as he was required to do by law — until a group of concerned mothers in Nederland raised the issue.
Kimball, who is currently serving a 70-year prison sentence for the murders of three Colorado women and his uncle, was 10 years old when the abuse started, but he didn’t tell police until he was 23.
Kimball, 50, is not eligible for parole until 2055, according to the Colorado Department of Corrections. He is currently being held at the Sterling Correctional Facility.
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