Man accused of strangling I-5 Strangler won t face death
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Budrow is a self-described Satanist who was previously convicted of the sexual assault of a 14-year-old girl in 2004. Since 2011, he has been serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole for the murder of a 48-year-old woman in 2010. (Ca
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The man accused of strangling the California serial killer known as the I-5 Strangler won t face the death penalty, a prosecutor said Wednesday.
Amador County District Attorney Todd Riebe said he had filed first-degree murder charges against Jason Budrow and will seek a sentence of life in prison without possibility of parole, the Sacramento Bee reported.
Budrow already is serving life without parole for strangling his then-girlfriend in 2011 in Riverside County.
Death penalty cases are costly and lengthy affairs that include automatic appeals. California hasn’t executed anyone since 2006 and Gov. Gavin Newsom has issued a moratorium on capital punishment while he is in office.
Kibbe, 81, was initially convicted in 1991 of strangling Darcine Frackenpohl, a 17-year-old who had run away from her home in Seattle. Her nearly nude body was found west of South Lake Tahoe below Echo Summit in September 1987.
Investigators said then that they suspected him in other similar slayings.
But 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.
Man accused of strangling I-5 Strangler won t face death
April 7, 2021
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FILE - In file photos provided by the California Department of Correction and Rehabilitation are Jason Budrow, left, and Roger Reece Kibbe. Budrow, accused of strangling the California serial killer known as the “I-5 Strangler,” won’t face the death penalty. The Sacramento Bee says Amador County s district attorney announced Wednesday, April 7, 2021, that he filed first-degree murder charges against Budrow and will seek life in prison without parole. Budrow is accused of strangling Kibbe in February in their shared cell at Mule Creek State Prison southeast of Sacramento. (California Department of Correction and Rehabilitation via AP, File)AP
Man accused of strangling I-5 Strangler won t face death
FILE - In file photos provided by the California Department of Correction and Rehabilitation are Jason Budrow, left, and Roger Reece Kibbe. Budrow, accused of strangling the California serial killer known as the âI-5 Strangler,â wonât face the death penalty. The Sacramento Bee says Amador County s district attorney announced Wednesday, April 7, 2021, that he filed first-degree murder charges against Budrow and will seek life in prison without parole. Budrow is accused of strangling Kibbe in February in their shared cell at Mule Creek State Prison southeast of Sacramento. (California Department of Correction and Rehabilitation via AP, File)
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The inmate accused of strangling serial killer Roger Reece Kibbe, the so-called I-5 Strangler, who 12 years ago sat down with San Joaquin County officials and in a raspy voice detailed his horrific crimes, will not face the death penalty for the crime, the Sacramento Bee reported Wednesday.
Cellmate Jason Budrow has been charged on suspicion of first-degree murder, Amador County District Attorney Todd Riebe told the newspaper. Budrow, a 40-year-old convicted murderer from Riverside County, is accused of killing Kibbe in April in his prison cell some 40 miles from Stockton, state correctional officials said in March.
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