A Gainesville man arrested in metro Atlanta in 2024 has now been found guilty in a nearly four-decade-old California cold case murder.
According to the Santa Barbara County District Attorney’s Office, a jury on Feb. 27 convicted Aloysius Winthrop James of first-degree murder with the special circumstance of murder committed during the commission of a rape in the 1988 killing of 30-year-old Ofelia Sandoval.
Sandoval was found strangled to death on September 18, 1988, inside her room at the Town Center Motel in the 200 block of North Broadway in Santa Maria, Calif…