He has been charged with first degree murder with special circumstances for killing Kibbe, albeit prosecutors said they will not seek a death sentence against him. Budrow, a self-avowed Satanist who was serving a life sentence for strangling a woman to death in 2010, claimed he had murdered Kibbe to avenge his victims. Īn officer made the discovery Jason Budrow (cellmate), 40, was present at the scene.

on February 28, 2021, in Mule Creek State Prison. Kibbe also cut off most of the hair of his victims to remove the duct tape before leaving the scene of the crime. Then, he raped them and strangled them to death.

Sometimes he garroted his victims with the parachute cord with which he skydived. He then proceeded to cut open their clothes in irregular shapes with scissors that had belonged to his mother. Kibbe kidnapped his victims, tied them up with parachute rigging cord and silenced them with duct tape. Burleigh had left her Walnut Creek, California, home in 1977 for a job interview, but never returned. In 2011, a detective returned to the Burleigh dump site on his own and found a bone in the creek. Īfter a plea bargain to avoid the death penalty, on November 5, 2009, Kibbe pleaded guilty to the murder of six other women and was sentenced to six additional life sentences. Burleigh's body was not found, and a grand jury was convened. In 2009, Kibbe again returned to the site with detectives. In 2007 a detective searched the area again. In 2003, he accompanied prosecutors and detectives to a dry creek he remembered to try to find the body of Lou Ellen Burleigh, whom he had killed in 1977. He was convicted of first degree murder and sentenced to 25 years to life in prison. Kibbe was arrested in 1988 for murdering Darcie Frackenpohl the previous year. With Guffie's testimony, Kibbe was convicted and sentenced to 8 months in jail, during which time police put together the murder case against him. Guffie fought back and a police officer heard her screaming. Kibbe was first arrested for assault and battery in 1987 after attempting to handcuff prostitute Debra Ann Guffie. Criminal investigation and incarceration In 1991 he was sentenced to 25 years to life imprisonment for the death of Darcie Frackenpohl. Kibbe found all but one of his victims on freeways around Sacramento, California. Roger Reece Kibbe (– February 28, 2021) was an American serial killer and rapist known as the ' I-5 Strangler'.

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