Jacob Blair Scott 2          US Marshals launched a manhunt for rape suspect Jacob Blair Scott, [photo], in Denver where he has family. He has been charged with raping a 14-year-old girl and may have faked his own death
The authorities in Colorado are hunting for an alleged child rapist after they found evidence his apparent suicide aboard a boat was staged. They believe the suspect is still alive. After investigators searching for Jacob Blair Scott came across the suicide scene, they found a small, inflatable boat floating in the Gulf of Mexico off Orange Beach, Alabama on July 30, 2018,Deputy U.S. Marshals say they have evidence that suggests that 42-year-old Scott is still alive and attempting to keep a low profile in Colorado, close to where his mother, brother and sister live.
After prosecutors in Jackson County in Pascagoula, Mississippi charged Scott with 14 sex charges alleging he raped a young girl, he disappeared on July 30 2018, from Orange Beach, Alabama just days before he was set to plead guilty in the case.
According to The Denver Channel Cops found a dinghy floating in the ocean, a gun tied to the boat and what has been described as a suicide note listing contact information for Scott’s family. However, Deputy U.S. Marshal Katrina Crouse said,  investigators found the situation strange right from the starts after only a very small amount of blood was found on the dinghy.

Jacob Blair Scott's inflatable boat       Scott disappeared days before he was set to plead guilty to rape charges. Investigators found a small, inflatable boat floating in the Gulf of Mexico off Orange Beach, Alabama, but the lack of physical evidence in the boat made Investigators suspicious

Investigators said they found a small, inflatable boat floating in the Gulf of Mexico off Orange Beach, Alabama. Investigators said the lack of physical evidence in the boat made them suspicious from the beginning.
‘Normally in situations where somebody is shot, committed suicide, you’re going to have other forensic-type evidence. For example, brain matter, hair, skin, bone,’ she said. ‘None of that was found.’
Investigators also found it incredibly strange that the gun was left tied to the boat.
‘It was almost like they wanted to make sure that the gun was discovered,’ she said.
No body was ever found which is also unusual even when they are lost at sea just off shore.
Jacob Blair Scott gun            In the boat was a gun, conspicuously tied to the boat along with a hard to miss suicide note


‘Normally bodies will float to the surface,’ Crouse said.
Scott vanished days before he was set to plead guilty in court, she said.
After Scott’s disappearance, a judge in Jackson County, Miss. issued an arrest warrant for Scott. He had been out on bond while his case moved through the legal system.
Scott’s mother, who lives in the Denver area has denied that her son is alive and blames the 14-year-old girl, saying the girl seduced her son.
Jacob Blair Scott's suicide note       Six months after this suicide note was  found in the dinghy listing contact information for his family, Scott was spotted at the Golden Spike apts in Denver by a tipster who called a local TV station.
Adding to the conspiracy, as investigators looked deeper into Scott’s disappearance, they discovered he withdrew around $45,000 from his retirement account before disappearing.
‘If you take money out of an account, we know where that money goes. You either give it to relatives or you distribute it to friends,’ Deputy U.S. Marshal Crouse said. ‘No money has been located.’
Investigators have so far been unable to track Scott down after person who claimed to be a friend of his called the lead investigator in Jackson County, Mississippi to say Scott had been spotted driving a vehicle in the county in August 2018.
Another tip them came through to Mississippi Coast Crime Stoppers four months later in December 2018.
‘The tipster stated that someone matching the description of Jacob Blair Scott was seen frequenting the Golden Spike Apartments,’ Crouse said. ‘The tipster stated the suspect was seen going up to the 8th floor and on the first floor,’ she said.
Marshals visited apartment management who claimed not to recognize Scott’s photo but then a worker at the complex said that he had been smoking nearby.
The was also spotted earlier this week by a resident at the complex who called a local TV station.
‘He was in front of garbage cans smoking,’ Mano Quintana said. ‘Pretty darn sure. I’m really 100-percent positive it was him.’