Kibbe pleaded guilty to six additional killings in exchange for prosecutors not seeking the death penalty. Investigators said then that they suspected him in other similar slayings.īut it wasn’t until 2009 that a San Joaquin County District Attorney’s Office investigator used new developments in DNA evidence to connect him to additional slayings in Northern California counties. Her nearly nude body was found west of South Lake Tahoe below Echo Summit in September 1987. Kibbe, 81, was initially convicted in 1991 of strangling Darcine Frackenpohl, a 17-year-old who had run away from her home in Seattle. Gavin Newsom has issued a moratorium on capital punishment while he is in office. California hasn’t executed anyone since 2006 and Gov. Staff writer Joan Morris contributed reporting.Death penalty cases are costly and lengthy affairs that include automatic appeals. He was also a recreational skydiver, and used cords from his hobby to strangle some of his victims. After his furniture business had failed, he got a job managing a Public Storage facility of Interstate 80 near Sacramento. When his spree began, Kibbe was a married, middle-aged furniture maker. Three of the victims were from Sacramento and one from Modesto. She was kidnapped in Pittsburg, and her body was found near Lone Tree Golf Course in Antioch. In 1986, Kibbe murdered another Contra Costa County woman, Barbara Ann Scott, 29. You know it’s probably not the case, but you hang on to every hope.” “You always have that hope that she’s alive and marching to the beat of another drummer. “You always cling to hope,” Wilma Burleigh, Lou Ellen’s mother, told this newspaper in an interview 10 years before the 2011 discovery. A bone fragment found there in 2011 was determined by DNA testing to be hers. Her body wasn’t found at the site near Lake Berryessa where Kibbe claimed he’d left it. He took investigators to the site where he said he had left the body of the 1977 victim: 21-year-old Lou Ellen Burleigh, a Walnut Creek woman who disappeared after leaving her home for a job interview at a Pleasant Hill shopping center on Contra Costa Boulevard.
In 2009, he confessed to six additional murders - one in 1977, the rest in 1986 - in a plea deal to avoid the death penalty. Kibbe was first convicted in the 1987 killing of 17-year-old Darcie Frackenpohl, who’d run away to Sacramento from her Seattle home. He is serving life for a murder conviction from Riverside County: In 2010, he killed a woman he had been dating and drove to the sheriff’s station with her body in his car’s trunk. He was known for cutting his victims’ clothing and hair with scissors and taking those items as a trophy.īudrow has been moved to an administrative segregation unit, authorities said. Kibbe was serving multiple life sentences without the possibility of parole and is believed to have raped and killed at least seven women and girls. The news release doesn’t say whether a weapon was used. His cellmate, 40-year-old Jason Budrow, has been implicated in Kibbe’s killing. Roger Kibbe - known as the the “I-5 Strangler” - was found dead on the floor of his prison cell around 12:45 a.m.
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IONE - An 81-year-old convicted serial killer was killed by his cellmate at Mule Creek State Prison early Sunday morning, according to a news release by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
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