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IONE, Amador County (CBS SF) — Notorious serial killer Roger Reece Kibbe, known as the infamous “I-5 Strangler” who pleaded guilty to raping and murdering six victims including two East Bay women, has died in an attack at Mule Creek State Prison, authorities announced Monday. State prison officials said that an officer conducting institution population counts discovered Kibbe lying unresponsive on the floor of his cell at approximately 12:40 a.m. Sunday. His cellmate, Jason Budrow, was standing near his body. READ MORE: UPDATE: Alameda County DA Declines To Charge Oakland Chinatown Storeowner Who Foiled Robbery The medical staff immediately responded and transported Kibbe to the institution health care facility where life-saving measures were unsuccessful and he was pronounced deceased at 1:23 a.m. Budrow, who was sentenced on June 29, 2011 from Riverside County to serve a life without the possibility of parole for first-degree murder, was taken to the segregation unit … [Read more...] about ‘I-5 Strangler’ Roger Reece Kibbe Killed In State Prison Attack

IONE (CBS13) — The notorious serial killer Roger Kibbe was allegedly attacked and killed by his cellmate at Mule Creek State Prison over the weekend. Early Sunday morning, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) says a correctional officer was doing a population count at the prison when inmate Jason Budrow was spotted standing in his cell with Kibbe unresponsive on the floor. READ MORE: Former Sacramento Firefighter Accuses Department Of Hostile Work Environment Kibbe was taken to the prison’s health care facility, but he was later pronounced dead. Known as the “I-5 Strangler,” Kibbe was convicted of raping and murdering seven people. The crimes date back to 1977, with Kibbe having been convicted back in 1991 for the murder of Darcie Frackenpohl. READ MORE: 2 Children, 1 Adult Injured In Possible Drug Lab Explosion At Grass Valley Apartment DNA linked Kibbe to six more murders. In 2008, he pleaded guilty to those murders and was given six more … [Read more...] about Convicted Serial Killer Roger Kibbe, Known As ‘I-5 Strangler,’ Dead After Prison Attack

A serial killer who raped and strangled at least seven women was found strangled to death in a California state prison, officials announced Wednesday. Roger Reece Kibbe, 81, nicknamed the “I-5 Strangler” in the 1970s and 1980s, was found dead in his cell Sunday at Mule Creek State Prison, located southeast of Sacramento, KSWB reported . Kibbe’s 40-year-old cellmate was standing nearby. An autopsy showed the 81-year-old had been strangled, and the Amador County Sheriff’s Office is ruling the death a homicide. Kibbe was initially sentenced to 25 years to life in May 1991 for murdering a 17-year-old Seattle runaway. He pleaded guilty to six additional killings going back to 1977 after DNA evidence linked the killings to him. A judge sentenced Kibbe to six additional life sentences for those murders. Authorities said they kept trying to prove he was responsible for additional deaths, with investigators secretly taking him on field trips from prison in the hopes he would … [Read more...] about California ‘I-5 Strangler’ Serial Killer Found Strangled to Death in Cell

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