The infamous “I-5 Strangler” Roger Kibbe of California was found dead inside his cell at Mule Creek State Prison.
At approximately 12:40 pm on Sunday, an MCSP correctional officer was conducting counts of the institution’s population when they observed inmate Jason Budrow, 40, standing in his cell with Kibbe lying on the floor without responding.
“The medical team responded immediately to the incident and transported Kibbe to the institution’s health facility for a higher level of care,” the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said in a press release on Monday. “Rescue measures were unsuccessful and Kibbe was pronounced dead at 1:23 am by the institution’s medical staff.”
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Kibbe, 81, was serving several life sentences without the possibility of parole for seven murders between 1977 and 1987.
He was first sentenced to 25 years in life in May 1991 for the murder of 17-year-old Seattle fugitive Darcie Frackenpohl whose body was found at Echo Summit in El Dorado County.
He later pleaded guilty in 2009, after DNA evidence connected Kibbe to six more murders in 1977.
Roger Kibbe (photo courtesy of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation)
The MCSP Investigation Services Unit is investigating Bibbe’s death as a homicide and the Office of the Inspector General has been notified.
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Budrow, 40, was sentenced on June 29, 2011 by Riverside County to serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole for first-degree murder as a second attacker.
He was relocated to the prison’s administrative segregation unit pending the results of the investigation.
(Photo courtesy of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation)
The MCSP, opened in 1987, houses 3,864 inmates and employs approximately 1,700 people. The prison offers a variety of vocational, academic, self-help, volunteer and other rehabilitation programs.