Serial killer who strangled women and left them on roadside found dead in cell
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Serial killer, Roger Kibbe, has died in prison as officials launch a homicide investigation.
The man behind the 'I-5 Strangler' slayings, was found lifeless on the floor of his cell with his jail mate standing inside.
On Sunday, at around 12.40am, a corrections officer at Mule Creek State Prison in Amador County was conducting a routine population count when he found Kibbe.
Prison guards rushed the inmate to the jail infirmary but he was pronounced dead around an hour later.
His cause of death has not yet been released by officials, but his death is being treated as a homicide.
His cellmate, Jason Budrow, 40, has been rehoused in a segregation unit while the investigation continues, The Sacramento Bee reports.
Budrow was sent to jail in 2011 to serve life without the possibility of parole for first-degree murder as a second-striker.
Kibbe was serving multiple life sentences for killing at least seven women over 20 years, known as the 'I-5 Strangler' murders.
He was first convicted in 1991 over Darcine Frackenpohl, 17, a runaway from Seattle whose body was found naked at Echo Summit.
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He received 25 years to life for the murder, which happened in 1987.
At the time, he was serving a jail term in Sacramento County for assault and attempted kidnap of a prostitute.
Detectives had suspected he murdered several other women but it wasn't until DNA and other evidence from the crime scenes were resubmitted in the early 2000s that caught him.
In 2008, he was accused of the murders of Lou Ellen Burleigh in 1977 and the deaths of Barbara Ann Scott, Stephanie Brown, Katherine Kelly Quinones, Charmaine Sabrah and Lora Heedrick, all of which took place in 1986.
In 2009 he plead guilty to the new murder counts with special enhancements for rape and kidnapping and was ordered to serve consecutive life sentences in exchange for prosecutors to not seek the death penalty.
His first known murder was of Burleigh who was 21-years-old at the time. She left her home for a job interview but never came back.
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