![]() ![]() He decided on killing Kibbe as early as November 2020 and spent months “grooming” him before they were allowed to cell up together, Budrow said. In that case, he told police he was intoxicated and he believed the girl was 17, and that he confessed because “could not live with himself, or run from the truth,” according to the Press-Enterprise.Īfter killing Kibbe, Budrow wrote that he carved “a crude inverted pentagram (without a circle around it)” into Kibbe’s body. When asked about the “666” tattooed above his right eye, he replied that he was a “Satanist,” and lifted his orange jumpsuit to show a scar he said was the result of ritual bloodletting, the newspaper reported.Īt the time of that murder, Budrow was a registered sex offender for a 2006 conviction of entering the home of a 14-year-old neighbor and sexually assaulting her two years earlier. ![]() In a jailhouse interview, Budrow reportedly explained that his victim “had to die” because she was a police informant. This is not the first public confession for the 40-year-old Budrow, who in 2010 told a Press Enterprise reporter he fatally strangled 48-year-old Margret Dalton in the Riverside County area known as Good Hope (he was eventually convicted and sentenced to life). Budrow was placed in administrative segregation after the discovery, according to a news release by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. 28, though Budrow says he killed his cellmate the night before. Prison officials discovered Kibbe’s body Feb. “I am down to test my theory that no jury during a penalty phase of my potential death penalty trial will ever vote to see me executed for murdering Roger Kibbe, the ‘I-5 Stranger.’” “Should Amador County and/or the new Attorney General for the State of California elect to seek death penalty prosecution against me for murder-one with special circumstances (lying in wait, execution style, desecrating a corpse, whatever) they can go ahead and ‘run that,’” Budrow wrote. ![]() Thus far, no criminal charges have been filed in Kibbe’s death, court records show. The letter was entitled “Ascension …may their souls go to heaven…”īudrow - who is serving life without parole for a Southern California woman’s murder - wrote that he wasn’t concerned about legal consequences. He later added, “What had started out as my original bare-bones plan of doing a straightforward homicide of a cellmate to obtain my single-cell status evolved into a mission for avenging that youngest girl and all of Roger Kibbe’s other victims.” “My actions were drafted out with specific intent, cognitive complexity, and were generally more nefarious than a haphazard murder-spat,” Budrow wrote. The late February homicide had two motives, according to Budrow: he originally wanted to be placed in a single-man cell, but as he learned more about Kibbe’s case, it became “a mission for avenging” Kibbe’s victims. IONE - Jason Budrow, the California prisoner accused of strangling to death the serial killer known as the “I-5 Strangler” in the prison cell they shared, confessed in a five-page letter to this news organization, writing that he spent months “grooming” his intended victim for murder.īudrow strangled 81-year-old Roger Kibbe to death “with a triangle choke hold” the same day they became cellmates at Mule Creek State Prison, he wrote. ![]()
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