He took a plea bargain to avoid death penalty, now dead anyway
MSN ReporterMarch 2, 20210 2 minutes read

One of California’s most notorious serial rapists and killers, known as the I-5 Strangler, has died after allegedly being attacked in prison.

Roger Reece Kibbe, 81, was discovered unresponsive on the floor of his cell at Mule Creek State Prison at around 12.45am on Sunday.

Kibbe’s cellmate, convicted murderer Jason Budrow sporting a ‘666’ tattoo on his forehead, was found standing next to the mortally injured man.

Kibbe was taken to the prison’s medical facility, where he was pronounced dead at 1.30am, Fox 40 reported.

Amador County Undersheriff Gary Redman said Kibbe’s death was ‘being investigated as a homicide.’

Officials did not say how Kibbe died, or whether a weapon was used.

Budrow, 40, who is serving a life sentence on a 2011 second-degree murder conviction, has been moved to an administrative segregation unit. As of Monday afternoon, he has not been charged in connection with Kibbe’s death.

Kibbe was serving multiple life sentences without the possibility of parole for raping and killing at least seven women and girls over the span of 30 years.

Kibbe, a married furniture maker whose brother was a police detective, was initially convicted in 1991 and sentenced to life in prison for strangling to death 17-year-old Darcie Frackenpoh.

The runaway from Seattle was killed after she disappeared from a West Sacramento street frequented by prostitutes, and her naked body was found in the mountains south of Lake Tahoe in 1987.

Kibbe took a plea deal in 2008 to avoid the death penalty and was sentenced to multiple life sentences

DNA evidence from six other murders, in which the victims were throttled, linked Kibbe to the crimes that were committed between 1977 and 1987.

In 2008, he pleaded guilty to murder counts with special enhancements of rape and kidnapping stemming from the killings of Lou Ellen Burleigh, Lora Heedrick, Barbara Ann Scott, Stephanie Brown, Charmaine Sabrah and Katherine Kelly Quinones.

Burleigh, 21, had left her Walnut Creek home in 1977 for a job interview but never returned. She was kidnapped to Lake Berryessa, tied up, raped and murdered. Her skeletal remains were recovered in a creekbed in 2011, some 34 years after her death.

Brown, 19, of Sacramento, was sexually
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kitten goes wrong

End of the road