Jason Richard Budrow Sentenced to LWOP in 2010/2021 CA Slayings of Margret Dalton and Roger Reece Kibbe
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Margret Dalton
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Roger Reece Kibbe aka The I-5 Strangler
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Jason Richard Budrow
Ca. man pleads not guilty to strangling girlfriend
A registered sex offender charged with strangling his girlfriend and driving to a Southern California sheriff's station with her body in his trunk has pleaded not guilty to murder.
Thirty-year-old Jason Richard Budrow entered the plea in a Riverside County court on Friday.
Budrow is charged with murder and a special circumstance of lying in wait, making him eligible for the death penalty.
Authorities say Budrow appeared at the Lake Elsinore sheriff's station on Oct. 22 with the body of the woman he had been dating—48-year-old Margret Dalton of Perris—in the trunk.
In a jailhouse interview with the Riverside Press-Enterprise shortly after his arrest, Budrow said he had to kill Dalton because he feared she was a police informant.
He is being held without bail.
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Man Pleads Guilty To Killing Woman he Brought to Sheriff's Lake Elsinore Station
A 31-year-old man who brought a dead woman’s body to the sheriff’s Lake Elsinore substation in the trunk of her own vehicle pleaded guilty to murder Wednesday.
Jason Richard Budrow, of Good Hope, entered his guilty plea a day before he was to have a two-hour preliminary hearing.
He was immediately sentenced to two consecutive life terms, without the possibility of parole because of a prior strike conviction, under the California “Three Strikes Law.”
In addition to the murder charge, Budrow admitted an allegation of special circumstances in the killing, and a prior felony conviction.
In 2003, Budrow was convicted of sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl and sentenced to three years in state prison, according to court records.
According to prosecutors, Budrow flagged down a Riverside County sheriff’s sergeant as the deputy walked out of the Lake Elsinore substation about 7:15 a.m., Oct. 22.
“Budrow told the sergeant he had killed a woman and her body was in the trunk of the car,” according to John Hall, information officer for the Riverside County District Attorney’s Office.
“The sergeant immediately detained Budrow,” said Hall.
Once investigators determined there was a body in the trunk of the vehicle, Budrow was taken into custody, Hall said.
Investigators subsequently determined that Margaret Dalton, 48, had been killed in a trailer off Highway 74, in Good Hope.
Budrow had been living in the trailer.
An autopsy revealed that Dalton had been strangled with some sort of cord, Hall said.
Budrow, who had been acquainted with the victim for about six months, had asked Dalton over that night, with the intention of killing her, authorities said.
The defendant reportedly believed that Dalton was a police informant.
At the time of his arrest, Budrow was on parole from state prison, where he had been sent after violating parole for his sex conviction.
“He was required to , as a sex offender and had a GPS tracking device which he cut off his ankle at the Lake Elsinore Outlets, prior to going to the sheriff’s station with Dalton’s body,” Hall said.
The lying-in-wait special circumstance allegations could have gotten him he death penalty had the case gone to trial.
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