Kibbe often left a signature - random cuts in his victims’ clothing with a pair of scissors. Like Kibbe’s other victims, she’d been sexually assaulted, but there wasn’t enough evidence to charge Kibbe, and he never confessed. Karen Finch, a 25-year-old Lodi resident, was found dead in a ditch along Kiefer Boulevard, a half-mile north of Jackson Road, in 1987. “There’s a lot of thought that he could have done some of them.” “There are so many different jurisdictions and, unfortunately, so many cases of young ladies who have been found,” Kevin Mayo, a then-San Joaquin County deputy district attorney told The Sacramento Bee in 2009 at the time of his guilty plea. There’s a nearly decade gap between Burleigh’s death and Kibbe’s next known victim, leading some to speculate that the former Citrus Heights furniture maker with an affinity for sky diving killed others. Kibbe choked Frackenpohl to death with what prosecutors said was a cord with dowels at both ends, a weapon found in Kibbe’s storage locker. 9, 1986, near Highway 124 in Amador County.Īuthorities said Kibbe strangled Heedrick with her tank top. The strangled body of the mother of three was found Nov. Leaving her mother with the automobile, Sabrah drove off in a two-seater sports car with a man who offered to help. 17, 1986, when her car broke down at Peltier Road and I-5. Sabrah, 26, of Sacramento, was returning to Sacramento on Aug. A crumpled map was found alongside her car near Hood Franklin Road and I-5. She had been strangled and sexually assaulted. Sacramento resident Brown, 19, was found the morning of June 15, 1986, in a ditch beside Highway 12 near Terminus Island. Heedrick was last seen April 20, 1986, in her hometown of Modesto, when she got into a car headed toward Highway 99. She died on Jat the age of 83.Burleigh’s body wasn’t found until 2011, when a Napa County sheriff’s deputy found a bone fragment near Lake Berryessa that matched the site where Kibbe confessed to leaving her body. During her lifetime, she wrote more than 30 books including The Stranger Beside Me Green River, Running Red Practice to Deceive Ann Rule's Crime Files series, and Lying in Wait. She began writing for magazines including True Detective, Master Detective, Inside Detective, Front Page Detective, and Office Detective in 1969. She received a bachelor's degree from the University of Washington in creative writing, with minors in psychology, criminology and penology. As the list of the dead grew, the police mobilized to stop a twisted killer who had 44 known deaths to his name."-From publisher's website.Ģ40 pages, pages of plates : illustrations 18 cm.Īnn Rule was born on Octoin Lowell, Michigan. An appetite for unspeakable violent acts led him to cruise the I-5 highway through California to Washington, leaving a trail of victims along the way. Working in the swinging West Coast bar scene, he had more than his share of women. "As a young man, Randall Woodfield had it all-a star athlete, good looks, and an award-winning student.