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. (Photo courtesy of CDCR)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. Jason Budrow, 40, confessed to murdering Roger Kibbe, the serial killer known as the I-5 Strangler, inside their cell at Mule Creek State Prison.

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. California prisoner admits to murdering the I-5 Strangler serial killer

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