Another parole success story. After all, he did not break curfew.
SEX OFFENDER: WOMAN ‘HAD TO DIE’
By Sarah Burge
The Press-Enterprise
October 26, 2010
A sex offense parolee who drove his dead girlfriend to the Lake Elsinore [California] sheriff's station last week admitted in a jailhouse interview Monday to strangling the woman.
Jason Richard Budrow, 30, a registered sex offender who lives in the unincorporated Good Hope area near Lake Elsinore, said he feared the 48-year-old woman was a police informant.
"She had to die," Budrow said.
Budrow is jailed on suspicion of murder at the Southwest Detention Center in French Valley.
Resting his heavily tattooed arms on the counter in front of him and gazing through the glass divider into the visitors' room, Budrow spoke calmly as he described how he killed the woman.
She came over to his trailer behind a liquor store off Highway 74, he said. The woman, with whom he said he had a sexual relationship, got scared after realizing that he had "discovered her." She was on her way to her car when he strangled her about 2 or 3 a.m. last Friday, Budrow said.
"I desecrated her body," he said, declining to elaborate.
Budrow said he shoved her body into the trunk of her white Chrysler Sebring convertible, then napped until his "curfew" -- an apparent reference to a parole requirement -- expired at 5 a.m.
Budrow said he drove away in the Sebring and at some point cut off the GPS-monitoring ankle bracelet that he must wear as a registered sex offender on parole.
"I murdered her while I was wearing that bracelet," he said.
Budrow declined to say what else he did in the hours before he arrived at the sheriff's station. If he had access to a gun, he said, he would have killed several other people. He did not explain why.
After pulling into the station parking lot and flagging someone down about 7:25 a.m., Budrow said he knelt on the pavement and put his hands in the air.
"I told them I had a body in my trunk," he said.
At first, he said, sheriff's officials were incredulous and asked if he was "playing games." He said they thought the trunk might have been booby trapped.
Budrow said he believed undercover law enforcement officers had been watching his every move and that he turned himself in because he was convinced they would eventually catch him.
The woman, Budrow said, knew he was involved in drug dealing and pimping and he thought she was going to reveal the names of "important people."
Sheriff's officials have said Budrow showed up at the sheriff's station and told a sergeant there was a body in the trunk. They declined to comment Monday on Budrow's statements.
Coroner's officials have not released the woman's name. Sheriff's officials said only that she was dating Budrow.
Until Friday, sheriff's officials said Budrow had complied with his registration requirements. He had been checking in at the Lake Elsinore station since June 2006.
Riverside County court records show Budrow pleaded guilty in 2004 to sexual penetration by force and was sentenced to three years in prison.
A probation officer's report says Budrow was staying with his grandparents in 2003 at a property they managed in Lakeland Village, near Lake Elsinore. He slipped into the bedroom of a 14-year-old neighbor one night and performed sex acts on the girl, court records say. The girl said she told him to stop but did not yell or resist out of fear for her safety, the report says.
Budrow told authorities he had been intoxicated from beer and marijuana, that he thought the girl was 17 and the encounter was consensual.
"He said if he did not confess, he could not live with himself, or run from the truth," the report says.
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