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Central Coast Man Convicted Of Stabbing Girlfriend 30 Times, Leaving Her To Die

A Santa Barbara County man will spend the rest of his life behind bars after being convicted of brutally stabbing to death his girlfriend and locking her in his room to die.

Prosecutors say Eduardo Robles stabbed Selina Bustos 30 times, locked her up, and fled to Mexico. It took Lompoc Police and Santa Barbara County prosecutors almost two years to bring Robles back to the U.S. to stand trial for the 2012 killing.

His attorney claimed someone else was responsible for the killing, and that Robles was framed because he was working as a law enforcement informant. Robles will return to court to be sentenced for the first degree murder conviction in June.

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. 
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