Kristin Smart vanished May 25, 1996 as she walked to her university dorm room from an off-campus party:
hearing in April 2021,
when the Flores were arrested, indicated investigators at the San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Department had biological evidence indicating Smart was once buried under Ruben Flores’ deck behind his home in Arroyo Grande. Prosecutors said there is strong evidence that Ruben Flores helped cover up the crime for nearly a quarter century.
New information was revealed in a court document filed in the Kristin Smart murder case. Video broadcast Wednesday April 21, 2021 on Today in LA. When Paul Flores first spoke with police, he downplayed his interactions with Smart at the party and on the walk home. He said she walking to her dorm under her own power, though other witnesses said Flores was helping hold her up and she had been passed out earlier in the night.
Witnesses called to testify included Smart’s parents, college friends, forensic analysts, detectives, and acquaintances of Paul Flores. Some provided details about conversations he had with them around the time Smart disappeared.
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