San Joaquin County - Roger Reece Kibbe, dubbed by the press as the “I-5 Strangler,” plead guilty in San Joaquin County Tuesday for raping and murdering six women, including one whose body was found near Highway 124 in 1986. As part of his plea deal, the 70-year-old will not face the death penalty, but will be sentenced to consecutive life terms without the possibility of parole. A release from the San Joaquin District Attorney’s Office said the decision not to seek the death penalty was made based on several factors, including “Mr. Kibbe’s advanced age.” However, Kibbe will talk to a psychologist, take a polygraph test and possibly lead investigators to old crime scenes. Kibbe will be sentenced for the six murders on November 5. His victims ranged in age from 19 to 29 and disappeared between 1977 and 1986. Police believe the women came in contact with Kibbe when their vehicles broke down along the highway and Kibbe stopped to help them. Kibbe then raped and strangled them before leaving their bodies in Amador, Sacramento, San Joaquin and Contra Costa counties. Kibbe has long been a key suspect in a number of gruesome murders. On Tuesday, he plead guilty to killing Lou Ellen Burleigh in 1977 and Lora Heedrick, Barbara Ann Scott, Stephanie Brown, Charmaine Sabrah and Katherine Kelly Quinones, all in 1986. Sabrah, 26, a Sacramento native and mother of three, encountered Kibbe after her car broke down at Peltier Road and I-5 on August 17, 1986. Sabrah left her mother with the vehicle and was seen leaving the scene in a sports car with a man who offered his help. Her strangled body was found November 9 of that same year off Highway 124 between Drytown and Ione. Kibbe was linked to the death of Sabrah and two other women through fibers, hair and other microscopic evidence produced by the state Department of Justice. Kibbe was finally nabbed and convicted in 1991 for the first-degree murder of 17-year-old Darcie Frackenpohl, a teen prostitute. Her body was found in El Dorado County. Kibbe has been in prison since his conviction. Story by Alex Lane This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.