DNA eventually linked him to two other victims, and he agreed to cooperate in exchange for prosecutors taking the death penalty off the table. Investigators said they matched the cord to rope found with Frackenpohl’s body and at Kibbe’s house, all with microscopic dots of red paint. He was finally captured after Sacramento police said a would-be victim escaped and they recovered a garrote made from a pair of dowels and parachute cord along with scissors and other items. Investigators have said they found other women who had been killed and dumped with Kibbe’s trademark of cutting his victims’ clothing in odd patterns. They would buy him an egg McMuffin and a Coke for breakfast, another Coke and a hamburger and fries for lunch, Vito Bertocchini, a retired San Joaquin County sheriff’s detective and district attorney’s investigator, told The Sacramento Bee.īertocchini spent nearly two decades pursuing Kibbe and thinks he must have killed others during the 10-year gap between his first and last known slayings. Investigators secretly took him on multiple field trips from prison with the hope that he would reveal the whereabouts of more victims.
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"I am down to test my theory that no jury during a penalty phase of my potential death penalty trial will ever vote to see me executed for murdering Roger Kibbe, the 'I-5 Stranger.Authorities said they never stopped trying to prove that he was responsible for even more deaths. "Should Amador County and/or the new Attorney General for the State of California elect to seek death penalty prosecution against me for murder-one with special circumstances (lying in wait, execution style, desecrating a corpse, whatever) they can go ahead and 'run that,'" Budrow wrote.
While he has not been charged, Budrow said he isn't concerned about the legal consequences of his actions. "What had started out as my original bare-bones plan of doing a straightforward homicide of a cellmate to obtain my single-cell status evolved into a mission for avenging that youngest girl and all of Roger Kibbe's other victims," he added.Īfter Kibbe's body was discovered, Budrow was moved to the prison's administrative segregation unit. "My actions were drafted out with specific intent, cognitive complexity, and were generally more nefarious than a haphazard murder-spat," Budrow wrote. In the letter, Budrow claimed that he orchestrated the circumstances to ensure that he would become cellmates with Kibbe.
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He decided to target Kibbe after watching a TV special on the serial killer while he was working out. Budrow, 40, was sentenced to life without parole in 2011 for strangling 48-year-old Margret Dalton to death.īudrow wrote that he originally planned to kill so he could have a jail cell all to himself. Kibbe's killer identified himself as Jason Budrow in a five-page letter to the East Bay Times. Roger Kibbe, 81, who was known as the "I-5 Strangler," was found strangled to death in his prison cell in February. A convicted murderer confessed to killing a notorious serial killer in a California jail.
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