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Son arrested for allegedly killing mom in Goleta

September 29, 2025

By KAREN VELIE

A 32-year-old Goleta man is in jail for allegedly killing his 72-year-old mother on Sunday evening.

Shortly before 8 p.m., Santa Barbara County sheriff’s deputies made a welfare check on Lynn Areno. Deputies discovered that Areno was deceased.

Deputies quickly detained her son, Christopher Vanvalck, at the scene. He was later booked at the Santa Barbara County Main Jail on suspicion of homicide and is being held in lieu of $2 million bail.

The cause and manner of death remain under investigation.

 


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A Democratic love story .


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Big supporter of facism huh? Keep putting your true self on display for everyone to see; makes it easier for people with a soul to avoid you.


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Make Asylums Great Again (MAGA)


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Yup, thats where maga belongs.


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Both of you are sick in the head to feel the need to politicize the murder of an elderly women by her son.


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Aren’t “rebels” usually anti-rules and authority? Why support a movement that is clearly okay with stepping on you? Looking forward to health insurance premiums going up? How about the price of food steadily rising along with everything else? Big fan of being gouged in the name of corporate greed? Not very rebellious if you ask me…


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