California’s infamous ‘I-5 Strangler’ Roger Kibbe was found dead in his cell in Mule Creek Jail.
On Sunday around 12:40 a correctional officer from the MCSP counted the population when prisoner Jason Budrow (40) was standing in his cell while Kibbe was not responding to the floor.
“Medical personnel responded immediately to the incident and transported Kibbe to the health care facility for higher care,” the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said in a news release Monday. “Life-saving measures were unsuccessful and Kibbe died at 01:23 by the institution’s medical staff.”
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Kibbe, 81, served several life sentences without the possibility of parole for seven murders between 1977 and 1987.
He was sentenced in May 1991 to 25 years in prison for the murder of 17-year-old Darcie Frackenpohl, a Seattle fugitive whose body was found at Echo Summit in El Dorado County.
He later pleaded guilty in 2009 after DNA evidence linked Kibbe to six more murders dating back to 1977.
Roger Kibbe (Photo courtesy of California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation)
MCSP’s unit for investigation services is investigating Bibbe’s death as a manslaughter and the office of the inspector general has been notified.
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Budrow, 40, was sentenced on June 29, 2011 from Riverside County to serve a life without the possibility of parole for first-degree murder as a second attacker.
He was housed in the prison’s administrative separation unit pending the outcome of the investigation.
(Photo courtesy of California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation)
MCSP, which opened in 1987, houses 3,864 inmates and employs approximately 1,700 people. The prison offers various vocational, academic, self-help, volunteer programs and other rehabilitation programs.