Budrow himself was in prison for committing a homicide by strangulation. In 2011, he was found guilty of strangling his girlfriend to death and was sentenced to life at the Mule Creek State Prison in California, per Times-Herald. Kibbe had been sentenced to six consecutive life sentences just two years earlier in 2009 for the murders of six women in the 1970s and '80s, reported Record Net. The two would eventually become cellmates in February 2021, but it wouldn't be for long. They would be roomies for no more than 24 hours. So how did Budrow end up killing the notorious strangler?
A month after he killed Kibbe (pictured above), Budrow admitted in a letter to the Times-Herald that his rationale for killing Kibbe was due to his own desire to be in his own cell, and he also wanted retribution for Kibbe's crimes. He stated that and detailed more of his motives in his lengthy letter to the publication. "My actions were drafted out with specific intent ... 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," wrote Budrow.
