Roger Reece Kibbe Is the I-5 Strangler
March 8, 2008 by impqueen
Roger Reece Kibbe, the I-5 Strangler
Victims, left to right: Lou Ellen Burleigh, Lora Heedick, Stephanie Brown, Charmaine Sabrah, Darcie Frankenpohl
Stockton, CA – Sometimes Lady Justice takes her time, but when she finally arrives, it’s always an entrance worth writing about. On Friday, a grand jury indicted Roger Reece Kibbe, 68, for the murders of Lou Ellen Burleigh, Lora Heedick, Barbara Ann Scott, Stephanie Brown, Charmaine Sabrah, and Katherine Kelly Quinones. Burleigh was killed in 1977, the other women were all dumped near InterstateInterstate reviews
5 in California in 1986. Kibbe was already serving a prison term for the 1987 murder of Darcie Frankenpohl, a 17-year-old runaway from Seattle.
Kibbe had long been suspected of the other murders, but due to California law about county jurisdiction, it was impossible to try Kibbe for all the murders in all the counties. After the laws were changed, the cases were reopened, and a grand jury spent February hearing evidence in the serial murders. The San Joaquin County District Attorney’s Office is prosecuting all of the murders as one case, but is working with district attorneys in other counties where the victims were killed.
Kibbe liked to abduct girls and women, rape them, assault them, do bad things to them, and then strangle them with their own clothes. He’d leave most of the bodies thrown out like trash along I-5, hence the catchy nickname. His victims are named in the indictment: Lou Ellen Burleigh was killed around September 15, 1977. Lora Heedick was killed on or around April 21, 1986. Next murdered was Barbara Ann Scott on July 3, 1986. Stephanie Brown was murdered on or about July 15, 1986. Charmaine Sabrah died at Kibbe’s hand around AugustAugust reviews
17, 1986, and Katherine Kelly Quinones was killed around about NovemberNovember reviews 5, 1986.
The murder that got Kibbe put away was Darcie Frackenpohl. He was convicted in MarchMarch reviews 1991 for Darcie’s murder. The pretty blonde teenager was a prostitute in West Sacramento whose body was found dumped near Echo Summit, CA, in 1987. Kibbe got 25 years to life, and was coming up for parole when the other cases were reopened.
Thing is, it was well known that Kibbe was probably the guy behind these murders. He didn’t keep his mouth shut very well, and there were even books written in the 1990s naming him as the prime suspect. But the law can be complacent and have a short memory. With Kibbe behind bars for Darcie Frankenpohl’s murder, nobody outside the victims’ families were too worried about him – until they realized that Kibbe could very soon be up for parole.
If Kibbe is convicted of the murder charges with special circumstances, he would be eligible for the death penalty. The special circumstances are prior conviction for murder, the alleged commission of multiple murders, and murder accompanies by rape, kidnapping, and oral copulation.
12:06 pm on March 8th, 2008
Nasty old fucker. I say a bottle of Xanax for this old fuck, and go nighty night forever.
12:12 pm on March 8th, 2008
must we waste perfectly good Xanax? A blow to the head will work just as well.
12:23 pm on March 8th, 2008
I know a diseased thug that likes to get violently gay with sick old fucks if anyone can get us in on visiting day!
12:54 pm on March 8th, 2008
Hippie and Imp – both of those options are way too nice a way to go for this sick fuck. But Pirelli, I think you’re on to something! And if your thug had a couple of friends who were willing, I think double or triple teaming his ass would be even better. Hell, tell your thug that he won the jailhouse lottery, and let him make a day of it!
1:05 pm on March 8th, 2008
So we’ve supported him in jail for years and all the while he might have been eligible for the death penalty and executed at much less cost to the taxpayers? Yesh, the law is complacent when it comes to taxpayers’ money. I say fry the effer and feed him to the hogs.
At my friend’s farm a hog got ahold of a dead duck the other day and was carrying it around. Then it stood over the carcass and began to pull it to pieces and chew it up. Disgusting, but I think it would make a nice burial for this guy. Why should he have a casket?
1:13 pm on March 8th, 2008
Are you sure that wouldn’t poison the hogs, though, Wry? We don’t want to get busted around here on a cruelty to animals charge…
1:40 pm on March 8th, 2008
Where was he between ‘77 & ‘86? Surely he didn’t wait 9 years to go on a killing spree. I’m guessing there are more, many more.
2:51 pm on March 8th, 2008
With those ears, he look like an old devil.
8:03 pm on March 8th, 2008
Another pos, sick fucker. I’m all for tormenting him, but to give peace to the victims families, I hope they just end his life as soon as possible. He has no right to be breathing air after what he has done…pos!
10:18 pm on March 8th, 2008
Can he be strangled with his own clothes?
10:27 pm on March 8th, 2008
When I look at his ears, to me they look like his fellow prisoners used them a lot….just an observation.
10:59 pm on March 8th, 2008
“When I look at his ears, to me they look like his fellow prisoners used them a lot….just an observation.”
As love handles, maybe?…. *giggles*
5:34 am on March 9th, 2008
He’s a lesser demon from the 4th level of Hades. I’d know those ears anywhere.
If his first murder truly was in 1977, then that’s a significant break before Roger the Rapist returned to his old ways. Rape, torture and strangulation are sadistically and erotically compulsive. He appears to have gone on a spree in 1986 (5 known). The hiatus from strangl’n and rap’n and stuff probably was jail, or he got married, found God – whatever it was it dramatically and murderously unravelled just before his killing-year. I doubt he would have stopped if not caught. He’s a handsome fucker, too. I can see why he was popular with the ladies (not).
7:03 am on March 27th, 2009
As they say “The pen is mightier than the sword.” I don’t usually respond to blogs, but as a researcher involved in stats on this man for literary purposes, I would like to point out a couple things to the original author. Please be careful with your words (good newsmen always check their facts first). Roger has not been indicted as the case is still in the Supreme Court in Stockton – he’s been arraigned. Indicted is a conviction. He’s been brought up on charges, but the case will continue for some time. Also, there’s only been one book that’s been written – “Trace Evidence” by Bruce Henderson. Any others are unknown. If you know of others, please indicate as I have extensive research that shows otherwise. I appreciate everyone’s anger, but wild, non-fact based assumptions and speculations are not wise in a social media forum. There’s so much to this story that you don’t know … and much applies to the mental well-being of the families.
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