He climbed them, played in them, and built treehouses. It was an imbalance that characterized most of Hoffman’s life.Įver since childhood, Hoffman had surrounded himself with trees. The tree obsession, they suggested, indicated a severe mental imbalance and delusional thinking. Psychologists would later suggest that he had chosen their wooden resting place to bring himself comfort. Hoffman had hidden their remains in the hollow of a 65-foot-tall tree.
The girl didn’t realize it at the time, but her mother, little brother, and a young neighbor were all dead, killed during a botched robbery attempt and then callously cut to pieces. But the killer had also committed far graver sins. She heartbreakingly anguished over the fate of her dog, which Hoffman had killed for being too noisy. When authorities finally freed the girl, she asked to be transported to school for fear of being too tardy. She was on a bed of leaves draped with blankets. She was bound by her hands and been dressed in a trash-bag-diaper. In the basement was a 13-year-old girl whom Hoffman had snatched from her home four days earlier. Some parts of the house had been packed so densely that officers feared they would find bodies buried underneath. Hundreds of bags of leaves, none of which Hoffman had ever been seen raking, filled the bathroom. When police entered the Ohio home of 30-year-old Matthew Hoffman, they found an arboreal hellscape of leaves blanketing the whole house.
"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," he wrote.Photo credit: Knox County Prosecutor’s Office In a letter to The Mercury News last month, Budrow said he killed Kibbe on the same day they became cellmates, initially so he would have a cell to himself. Kibbe was serving multiple life terms without possibility of parole when he was killed.
Those victims were Lou Ellen Burleigh, 21, in 1977 and Stephanie Brown, 19 Lora Heedrick, 20 Katherine Kelly Quinones, 25 Charmaine Sabrah, 26 and Barbara Ann Scott, 29, all in 1986. Kibbe pleaded guilty to six additional killings in exchange for prosecutors not seeking the death penalty.
Investigators said then that they suspected him in other similar slayings.īut it wasn't until 2009 that a San Joaquin County District Attorney's Office investigator used new developments in DNA evidence to connect him to additional slayings in Northern California counties. Her nearly nude body was found west of South Lake Tahoe below Echo Summit in September 1987. Kibbe, 81, was initially convicted in 1991 of strangling Darcine Frackenpohl, a 17-year-old who had run away from her home in Seattle. Gavin Newsom has issued a moratorium on capital punishment while he is in office. California hasn't executed anyone since 2006 and Gov. 28 in their shared cell at Mule Creek State Prison southeast of Sacramento.īudrow already is serving life without parole for strangling his then-girlfriend in 2011 in Riverside County.ĭeath penalty cases are costly and lengthy affairs that include automatic appeals.
ROGER KIBBE SERIAL
The man accused of strangling the California serial killer known as the "I-5 Strangler" won't face the death penalty, a prosecutor said Wednesday.Īmador County District Attorney Todd Riebe said he had filed first-degree murder charges against Jason Budrow and will seek a sentence of life in prison without possibility of parole, the Sacramento Bee reported.īudrow, 40, is accused of strangling Roger Reece Kibbe, whose body was discovered on Feb.
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