Full Notification

The Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office is releasing the names of the two female decedents from a murder-suicide that occurred yesterday, September 12, 2017, in the 7000 block of Aldus Drive in the City of Goleta. The homicide victim is 57-year-old Christina Marie Martin from Tampa Bay, Florida. The homicide suspect, who then took her own life, is 42-year-old Beth Michelle Curnow of Goleta. The two were long-time acquaintances with ties to Florida. The victim often frequented the residence.

Sheriff’s detectives are investigating the circumstances and motive that led to the murder-suicide. When deputies responded at 7:10 a.m. yesterday, to a call of an injured subject in the home who was in need of emergency medical aid, they found Christina Martin deceased in the residence. A short time later, deputies discovered that Beth Curnow had taken her own life and was located in the garage.
The Sheriff’s Office is not releasing further details regarding the homicide manner of death until an autopsy scheduled for tomorrow is complete.

If you have any information regarding this case that might assist investigators, you are asked to contact the Sheriff’s Criminal Investigations Division at 805-681-4150 or to leave an anonymous tip, please call 805-681-4171. You can also go to http://www.sbsheriff.org/anonymoustips.html.