Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office reopens 1988 cold case

A decades-old cold case involving the death of a Santa Barbara man has been reopened.

The Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office announced Tuesday morning the reopening of the case involving Mitchell “Buster” Garcia, whose remains were found in a mountain range above Santa Barbara in February 1988.

An anthropological examination led investigators to determine Garcia’s death involved foul play…

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