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Search for a missing 85-year-old Santa Barbara County woman ends with authorities finding her body

A row of law enforcement vehicles is lined up along a road. The logo on the side of the vehicles reads 'Santa Barbara County Sheriff'
Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Office
First responders at the Goleta Slough on Tuesday, where the body of a missing woman was discovered.

The woman's body was discovered in the Goleta Slough area Tuesday, after she disappeared July 11.

Authorities have discovered the body of an 85-year-old woman who disappeared more than 10 days ago in Santa Barbara County.

Sonia Lang Crestfield was last seen July 11 at a retirement home on El Colegio Road. Initial search efforts failed to turn up any sign of the woman.

The Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office said Crestfield had been living with dementia.

Investigators found her body Tuesday morning in the Goleta Slough area. An autopsy is pending, but officials say there are no signs that the death is suspicious.

Lance Orozco has been News Director of KCLU since 2001, providing award-winning coverage of some of the biggest news events in the region, including the Thomas and Woolsey brush fires, the deadly Montecito debris flow, the Borderline Bar and Grill attack, and Ronald Reagan's funeral.