However, Budrow, a self-professed Satanist, is already serving life in prison without parole for the murder of his girlfrient in California’s Riverside County in 2011, The Sacramento Bee reported. At the time, Budrow told a reporter for Press Enterprise that she “had to die” because she was a police informant. Jason Budrow said in a letter he spent months “grooming” Roger Kibbe, the serial killer dubbed the I-5 Strangler, and was planning to kill him all along: https://t.co/gryUBGXfon Budrow said he committed the murder in order to get his own cell, as well as avenging the deaths of Kibbe’s victims. Budrow said in his letter to The Mercury News that he believes Kibbe’s victim’s souls “have been released from the possession of their killer and I pray that they now rest in peace.” Budrow wrote in his letter that he did not fear the consequences for murdering Kibbe either; even if prosecutors pursued the death penalty.