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SANTA BARBARA COUNTY, Calif. - The Santa Barbara County Sheriff s Office says it is reopening a 45-year-old homicide cold case.
On Tuesday the sheriff s office announced detectives were investigating the death of 16-year-old Paul Ornelas who was found dead in the Goleta area nearly 45 years ago.
Ornelas body was found near the railroad track at the Turnpike Road overpass on June 21, 1975. His death was quickly ruled a homicide, but after several years of investigation, the case went cold with no suspects ever being brought into custody.
The sheriff s office said Ornelas was a Santa Barbara resident with a loving family and deep local ties. His death left his family with lingering grief, the sheriff s office said.
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The Sheriff’s Office recently introduced a new investigative tool that has proven effective in a number of critical investigations. The ANDE Rapid DNA instrument was successfully utilized during the Conception boat tragedy in 2019 to allow detectives to quickly identify decedents.
The technology has also been used to process minute levels of biological evidence left behind by suspects at crime scenes. The Sheriff’s Office’s success with the ANDE instrument was recently highlighted in an article by the International Symposium on Human Identification.
The technology was not available at the time of the Ornelas homicide in 1975, but thanks to the preservation of evidence, and new comprehensive DNA procedures, the ANDE instrument offers a new, reliable and effective tool for investigators to revisit this case.