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.