Rapist and serial killer strangled in his cell in California

A serial killer who according to the authorities strangled and raped at least seven women in California He was similarly murdered in the state prison cell he was in, prison authorities reported on Wednesday.

Roger reece kibbe, known as the “I-5 Strangler” In the 1970s and 1980s, he was found on Sunday with his 40-year-old cellmate standing next to him. He was 81 years old.

An autopsy determined that anyone who strangled Kibbe did so with their hands, the Amador County Sheriff’s Office said, calling the death a homicide.

No charges have been laid for Kibbe’s death.

In 1991, Kibbe was initially convicted of strangulation Darcine Frackenpohl, 17, who had run away from home in Seattle. The girl’s almost naked body was found in September 1987 west of South Lake Tahoe, at the foot of the Echo Summit Gorge.

Investigators then said they suspected him of being involved in other similar killings.

However, It wasn’t until 2009 that an investigator from the San Joaquin County Federal Attorney’s Office used new advances to determine the evidence to link him to six more homicides. in various counties in northern California, where the bodies of various victims were found on Interstate 5 or other freeways in 1986. Prior to being assassinated, Kibbe was serving several life sentences for the murders.

Authorities said they never stopped trying to show that he was responsible for other homicides. Investigators were taking him out of prison to make several countryside tours in the hopes that he would reveal the fate of other victims.

They bought him an Egg McMuffin and a Coke for breakfast, another Coke, a burger and fries for lunch, said Vito Bertocchini, a retired Sheriff’s Detective and San Joaquin County Federal Prosecutor’s investigator, at The Sacramento Bee.

Bertocchini persecuted Kibbe for nearly two decades and believes he murdered others in the 10 years between his first and last known murders..

Investigators said they found other murdered women whose bodies had been dumped on the roads. The bodies bore Kibbe’s trademark: cutting the clothes of the victims into strange patterns.

He was captured after Sacramento Police said a possible victim escaped and officers recovered a club made of cylindrical pieces of wood, along with a parachute cord, scissors and more. objects.

(With AP information)

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