I live almost in the middle of the northern edge of that waste-of-oxygen’s murders, yet I rarely consider it. Maybe a case of familiarity breeds boredom, or something. Well, not boredom exactly, because I remember the case well enough, having lived in these environs for many decades, and I did read the book about him twice, but hey, it’s not Zodiac. It didn’t happen when I was a young, impressionable kid. There were no bus drills. That kind of thing.

At any rate, it occurred to me that I recently had my GoPro "filming" as I took the I-5 off-ramp to Hood-Franklin Rd, scene of one the abductions leading to murder that Kibbe committed. Stephanie Brown’s car was found parked on the shoulder of the off-ramp, right near the place where the off-ramp diverts from the freeway. I’ll need to check Google earth historical imagery, but to my recollection, the basic structure of this off-ramp has changed little over the past 20 years, save for the occasional resurfacing and painting. This series of unedited screen-shots from my GoPro video show the immediate vicinity, including a farm house that existed in that same spot at the time of the crime. It’s about 4/10 of a mile as the crow flies (straight, a perfect line) from the origin point of the ramp as it exits the freeway, but the only sound out there at night is the traffic on I-5 and the occasional lonesome coyote’s howl.

Anyway, I’m here in front of my keyboard on a Saturday with a few spare minutes, so here ya go. WARNING: My browser cuts these images off on the right when I zoom for larger text. You may need to zoom out to see the entire width. Nothing exciting here, nothing with any artistic merit, just some basic shots of the location for lack of anything better to post right now: