Prosecutors said Smart began falling down shortly after she was seen at the Tiki bar with Flores. I was like It wasnt. Authorities arrested Ruben Flores after San Luis Obispo County Sheriff's deputies served a search warrant at his Arroyo Grande home. Facebook gives people the. Nineteen-year-old Kristin Smart disappeared Memorial Day weekend of 1996. That turned out to be college. View the profiles of people named Ermelinda Thomas. I guess you can call it little white lies, Flores told detectives. JAMES MURPHY: Does your son have any information as to where Kristin Smart's body is located? Chris Lambert and it worked. He believes that meant "the batteries went dead and that the object that was beeping hadn't been there very long.". San Luis Obispo County Sheriff deputies arrested Paul Flores, the primary suspect in the disappearance of Kristin Smart, and his father, Ruben Flores, at separate locations Tuesday morning. They were after Paul Flores for an outstanding DUI warrant. She loved swimming and skiing. He later argued that the biological evidence found under the deck was not conclusively human blood. Chris Lambert: Paul worked with a number of women that he made incredibly uncomfortable girls who he tried to make a pass at sexually, girls that he tried to force to kiss him. One female cousin called Flores a pervert. The duplex was located up the same street from where her mom resided. The Kristin Smart Scholarship has been established by her family to help other college bound women pursue their dreams. With them is a group of FBI evidence response team members and a search warrant. Meanwhile, the FBI, who recently excavated earth at Cal Poly to look for Smarts remains, referred comment to the sheriffs office. I drank this drink and I dont know what it was but let me tell you something the next thing you know I was passed out, Jane said. Like his black eye, seen faintly in a mug shot taken by the Arroyo Grande Police just by chance two days after Kristin vanished. Lawyers representing Paul Flores, a man found guilty last year of murdering Kristin Smart in San Luis Obispo in 1996, filed motions last week to dismiss the jury verdict and for a new trial. This 9-room home sits on 40,000 square feet of land, which was purchased by the Flores family in 1990. It's fine. More critical evidence was seized when investigators used ground-penetratingly radar that found a grave where Smarts body was once buried in the Flores familys backyard, according to prosecutors. 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After the four students had walked about halfway back to the dorms, Paul Flores told Davis and Anderson, Dont worry I got her, Ill take her from here, according to prosecutors. But was there evidence possibly placing Kristin Smart at his mother's home? Like so many freshmen, Kristin struggled. Just five months before Kristin disappeared, San Luis Obispo Police received a call from a student living off campus. Chris Lambert: The only thing he would confirm on tape is that his name is Paul Flores. Just days after taking over the investigation, the San Luis Obispo Sheriff's Office brought several dogs trained to detect human remains, to the Cal Poly dorms. Margarita Campos: Kristin was like, "come on, let's go, let's go." D.A. Thats how we metI was walking and he pulled over and said to me Hey, Ill take you to school, she remembered Flores asking her. But you have to understand, she was a really independent free spirit. For more than two decades, her family, friends, and supporters searched for answers and for justice. She was she was frantic I don't understand this, you know? 2020 CBS Interactive Inc. All Rights Reserved. Let's go." Kristin's parents have spent more than two decades hoping for any clue that would lead them to their beloved daughter. Once the dogs were let inside the room, they alerted to a corner of Flores bed mattress. Mike McHugh is the producer-editor. Whatever happened in those early hours, one thing is indisputable: Kristin Smart has never been seen again. How could she have gone out of town? He'd go anywhere. According to the defense, a forensics expert said if it was a grave, you would find hairs, bones, and a big change in the soil composition. But further investigation of the Flores's two trucks seemed impossible. Paul Flores escorted Smart back to her dorm after an off-campus party. Once Jane was admitted her story seemed to fall on deaf ears. And so, she pulled me into this sort of like, "oh come on, let's socialize. All four dogs, including one who was considered the best of the best, separately signaled an alert indicating the presence of human remain odors only in Flores room. Kristin Smart Murder Trial: Who's who The judge only allowed 1 media pool camera inside the courtroom. James Murphy: If it was, in fact, a piece of jewelry that matched Kristin's jewelry, it would have been blockbuster evidence. Over the years, while Stan Smart hiked every trail around California's Central Coast in hopes of finding Kristin's remains, Denise relentlessly pushed law enforcement to do more. / CBS News, (This story previously aired on May 8, 2021. Paul would try to get Kristins attention and she was too nice to tell him off. Copyright 2023 CBS Interactive Inc. All rights reserved. My job was to hunt them. As of this date, Paul is single. Chris Lambert: There was a man climbing her trellis and trying to get inside her balcony, very intoxicated and refusing to leave. I called my mom. He grabbed me down there and while Im yelling at him my girlfriend threw a piece of gum at his face and he pushes her down., At this point every male at the party joined in to jump Flores, who fled, she said, adding, Boom, he disappeared., That same year, Sarah said, Flores pursued her again at a friends birthday party. That would be Susan Flores, the owner of the home where Flores is suspected to have buried Smart. That's how the Lassiters learned that their landlord's son, Paul, was the prime suspect in the disappearance of a young college student in nearby San Luis Obispo. I know I didnt have any pants on and he was in me and I could feel him, she said of the three seconds she managed to wake from the slumber that took hold of her. D.A. During a camping trip in Fresno, California, in the early 1990s, Floress female cousins playfully swiped and hid his wallet while walking en route to a liquor store to purchase slush puppies. Sanger said the backyard grave was not at grave at all, and no human blood, hair, or bones were found in it. At a Halloween party back in 1995before Smart had gone missingFlores allegedly grabbed Sarahs crotch on the dance floor. The fact is, there is a lot of sort of evidence. I say that because you will see, when you actually listen to what comes out, its not what it seems to be, Sanger said. How a tragic boating crash is connected to the family of Alex Murdaugh, Husband of woman murdered with an ax convicted 40 years after her death, Five deaths with a connection to Alex Murdaugh's family investigated, Florida man tries to use COVID-19 as a cover for murder. They didn't bring a forensics team. One of them was Paul Flores, who, to this day, Kristin's family believes abducted and likely killed her. Chris Lambert: He told those friends he just woke up with the black eye. Wednesday morning, KSBY crews witnessed sheriff's deputies and FBI investigators at the Arroyo Grande home of Susan Flores, the mother of the only person-of-interest in the case, Paul. Please come with me." They took in soil, I assume, for some kind of analysis. They didn't look at the Flores family's vehicles. every piece of evidence points directly at Paul Flores. The woman, whom well call Jane, believes she was roofied, raped, and discarded by Paul Flores and his nameless friend when she was a 15-year-old high-school sophomore in 1994. Flores allegedly told campus police, I did not find Kristin attractive. DAN DOW [press conference]: We intend to use evidence of other sexual crimes in this prosecution to prove the facts necessary for the attempted rape in this case. PAUL FLORES: On the advice of my attorney . I did have guilt about that. The moment still haunts her. Friday, May 24, 1996, was the start of the Memorial Day weekend. Her parents, Denise and Stan were both educators who encouraged their kids' passions. When he arrived she stayed at home while Janes father hightailed it to Arroyo Grande Community Hospital. James Murphy: Somebody found an earring that they say was Kristin Smart's jewelry in the driveway. Jonathan Vigliotti: She had just 40 yards to go and yet she vanished. Her younger sister Lindsey says their mother urged Kristin to go there. or even her keys. I was throwing up and they were saying Oh this bitch! and This bitch better not throw up on me.. And according to that probation report, "dozens of women have recounted Paul Flores' sexual assaults and predatory behavior that document his 25 years as a serial rapist." She was pushing herself out of her comfort zone. Chris Lambert: They did a significant amount of digging underneath the house. Some of those women who did not want their real names used told Lambert about their encounters with him. The Arroyo Grande cops, Jane said, favored Floress story that she willingly drank and had sex that night. So before leaving, Margarita handed over her keys to get back into Muir Hall. They were soon joined by another partygoer, Paul Flores. Despite Flores sporting a black eye the next day (which he admitted to investigators he lied about) and despite police dogs picking up the scent of human decay in his dorm room, Flores was never charged. You just don't talk, and you get away with it. One late night at a Hermosa Beach bar Flores courted a 21-year-old student whom well call Laura. More than two decades after Kristin Smart vanished, Sheriff Ian Parkinson says that Paul Flores, left, remains the only suspect in her disappearance. The family attorney refused to comment when reached by The Daily Beast. In one of Paul's police interviews he mentioned that he wanted to be let out of the interview because he needed to help clean up concrete at his mom's house So, what was being done in Susan Flores's backyard in the weeks after Kristin went missing? PODCAST EPISODE 1: Kristin broke down begging her mother to let her drop out and go somewhere else. James Murphy: And it says wrongful death and then I put murder. Also known as Melinda E Flores. The dogs were trained and certified to detect human remains. I said, Stop it. But cadaver dogs told a different story. Most students had taken off but Kristin had stayed on campus. In June of 1996, the San Luis Obispo County Sheriffs Office brought in four cadaver dogs to sniff dorms on campus. Paul Flores was a constant presence during Sarahs time at Cal Poly, where she transferred in as a sophomore back in 1996, after Smarts disappearance shook the school and the community. But one of those friends told police Flores already had the black eye when he arrived. And she was growing as an individual. Dave Minsky,. CBS News correspondent Jonathan Vigliotti tracked Flores down to try and get some answers. But Flores' basketball friends told investigators that he already had the. When The Daily Beast tracked Flores down outside his home last month, he didnt mount much of a defense. When buying cowboy boots, there are a few aspects to consider, such as how far up they go on your legs and their design. Paul Flores, then also a 19-year-old freshman, had . James Murphy: The question for decades was "Well, where did the body go?". Chris Lambert's podcast,"Your Own Backyard," has become a big hit attracting millions of listeners eager to hear every detail surrounding this unsolved case of Kriistin Smart. Chris Lambert: As they describe it, Paul Flores just sort of appears out of nowhere. Chris Lambert's podcast caught the attention of millions of listeners and sparked new interest in the decades-old unsolved case of Kristin Smart. In October 1996, Mary and her family moved in. Over the years, Susan Flores's backyard has been the focus of widespread speculation because of stories like the ones Mary Lassiter told Chris Lambert. Lambert also interviewed a woman who dated Flores until, she says, he became physically and verbally abusive. Like what may have been discovered in March 2021 when investigators searched Ruben Flores' house using cadaver dogs and ground penetrating radar. But to fully understand Chris Lambert's contribution, you have to go back to the beginning. Margarita Campos: I was expecting her to knock on my door and be, like, "Oh, Margarita, you missed a rager. Wiggot: pfo5vr0 total 1100 m2 800 m2 de area prod. Denise Pearce: The phone call never comes. "48 Hours" agreed. SHERIFF IAN PARKINSON [to reporters]: It's been a puzzle and it's a very slow process to find each of those little pieces some of that information came to light through the podcast many of you are familiar with. Chris Lambert: That's the upsetting part about it, isn't it? He would tiptoe around everything. Sources tell us investigators discovered videos and photographs on Flores' computer showing him engaged in sexual activity with at least 10 different women, apparently in various states of consciousness. Jonathan Vigliotti: What toll over time did this have on your parents? The Smart family. When approached about Janes rape claim, an Arroyo Grande Police Department administrator said in an email that their search revealed no such records exist; therefore, there are no responsive documents. Before their findings, another administrator told The Daily Beast on the phone that because the matter was a sexual assault case it fell under a non-disclosure category and therefore they wouldnt be providing any specific information about it. JAMES MURPHY: In May of 96 were you a student at Cal Poly? Flores claimed he walked Smart to her dorm at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo on May 25, 1996 after a night of binge drinking. The podcast, "Your Own Backyard,"has drawn millions of listeners and focused renewed attention on this decades old case. ", Although suspicion surrounded Flores almost from the beginning, any hopes for an arrest were dashed in May 1997 when then-Sheriff Ed Williams made an admission to the San Luis Obispo Telegraph: "We need Paul Flores to tell us what happened to Kristin Smart so absent something from Mr. Flores, I don't see us completing this case.". Still to this day I am afraid to go to the bathroom by myself in public places, she said, admitting she still asks her husband every time to stand sentry at the door when she has to go. Ann-Marie Christian: She was who she was because of her parents, for sure. Ruben Flores defense attorney is slated to deliver his opening statements when the two trials resume on Thursday in a Monterey County courtroom. He had pinned her down and had his hand down her bathing suit groping her.. I also brought them witnesses that they had no interest in whatsoever. It had been the focus of widespread speculation for more than two decades especially her planter boxes. (No video or audio). D.A. They had become close friends despite their differences. He was writing your name like 150 times on a piece of paper and he kept circling it., High school boys are weird anyway, Jane thought at the time. JAMES MURPHY: What is the name of your father? San Luis Obispo County sheriff's officials gather under a coroner's tent in the backyard of Ruben Flores' house in the 700 block of White Court in Arroyo Grande on April 13. Jonathan Vigliotti | CBS News correspondent: You wanted to go home, and you were trying to find a way to break it to your friend. Paul owns a home in San Pedro, CA . Ruben Flores and his estranged wife Susan have always denied any role in Kristin Smart's disappearance. That witness initially came forward to Chris Lambert, who passed the information to the sheriff's office and Murphy. PODCAST EPISODE 2 [LAMBERT READING REPORT] Smart does not have any close friends at Cal Poly. Lindsey Smart Stewart: "You should go to Cal Poly. What happened in the privacy of his room that night? Peuvrelle asked the jury. Still she stuck around until Flores allegedly laid his hands on her aggressively again. After almost 25 years of suspicion, on April 13, 2021, San Luis Obispo County Sheriff Ian Parkinson announced the arrest ofPaul Flores in the disappearance of Kristin Smart. Even worse they never sealed his dorm room. Why? She was looking forward to hearing from Kristin that Sunday. One of Kristins closest college friends, Steve Fleming, noticed that Paul Flores would linger around Smarts dorm hall even though he didnt live there. but I knew that I could try to do a small part. ), A sheriff offices spokesman said his agency couldnt say if investigators working Smarts cold case had been made aware or not of the new alleged victims, citing refusal to comment on an open and active investigation.. PODCAST EPISODE 2 | WOMAN #2: You wouldn't want to be alone in a room with him. Critics called. We just, "do you know anything about it". Lives in: Arroyo Grande CA. FBI via AP, File. Chris Lambert was just 8 years old when Kristin Smart vanished on her way home from a college party in San Luis Obispo, California. Personal details about Paul include: political affiliation is unknown; ethnicity is Hispanic American; and religious views are listed as Christian. Lindsey Smart Stewart: It just amazes me the amount of evidence that's available, yet nothing has happened. Often, Sarah would be at one party or another and there was Flores. But perhaps Mary Lassiter's most disturbing story was about being awakened very early in the morning by a beeping sound coming from the backyard. 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Just days after she disappeared, an incident report seemed to imply that Kristin's behavior contributed to her disappearance. If you use a windshield cover, you can at least forget about scrapping the ice off your windshield to save some time and hassle. In October 2022, Paul Flores, the man long suspected in her disappearance, was found guilty of murder. They believe they can prove Paul Flores is responsible for the disappearance of Kristin Smart. My mom opened the door and she cries, Oh my God!. Jane said she took Flores up on carpool offers to and from high school whenever she would be walking solo from her mothers home in Arroyo Grande, California. Mary Lassiter says the earring she found in the driveway matched the necklace Kristin Smart is seen wearing on this billboard. Produced by Lisa Freed. Paul had this look on his face, the relative said. And there would be more disappointment in 2007, after the Smart's legal team searched a small portion of Susan Flores's backyard with ground penetrating radar and did not find any evidence. I was like Oh my God. PODCAST EPISODE 1: I googled Kristin Smart's name every few years. It's just a motivator for me. But as Chris Lambert learned, campus police did not act right away. Jonathan Vigliotti: They thought she was off possibly having fun. That's been our goal. Guardar . The two girls walked to an area off campus where there were fraternities, sororities and residential housing for students. Flores father is now charged with helping cover up the homicide by burying Smarts body in his Arroyo Grande homes backyard. to find the next challenge. James Murphy: Well, the location where all this activity occurred is where they found the biological material. Kristin Denise Smart (born February 20, 1977, legally presumed dead May 25, 2002) was an American woman who is presumed to have been abducted, raped, and killed at the end of her freshman year of college on the campus of California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo. Any evidence that might have been there was long gone. Regresar a la bsqueda. James Murphy: Every day. DAN DOW [press conference]: It is alleged that Mr. Flores caused the death of Kristen Smart while in the commission of or attempted rape. Its a fib. But every Sunday when she called her parents, they encouraged her to stick it out. And that's what I've been doing for a long, long time, along with a lot of other people. In April 2021, investigators finally put the pieces of the puzzle together and decided they had enough to charge the then-44-year-old Paul Flores with Kristin's murder, and his then-80-year-old father with being an accessory after the fact. Two days after Kristin Smart vanished, Paul Flores went to the Arroyo Grande Police Department because of an outstanding DUI warrant. He has never talked. His father Ruben Flores charged with being an accessory after the factwas found not guilty. It's been a long night for the Smart family and San Luis Obispo County Sheriff's detectives as they continued to investigate an Arroyo Grande property belonging to Ruben Flores. Chris Lambert: It's hard to take too much credit But I was one piece of the puzzle that helped to make this all come together when it did. She didn't think that was OK. In high school he was known as a loner. Kristin Smart and Paul Flores were briefly seen speaking to each other during the party. And had law enforcement drilled a handful of holes in Floress mothers backyard to search for evidence that Smart might be buried there, perhaps Floress alleged serial sexual assaults would have been prevented. Smart, a native of Stockton, was nearing the end of her. Denise Pearce: She was becoming more and more alarmed, you know? My heart dropped, she said. The Arroyo Grande home of Ruben Flores is being searched today for the remains of Kristin Smart. Susan P Flores Age 71. Ruben Flores, 80, has been booked on an accessory charge and is being held on $250,000 bail. Flores is charged with murdering Smart as he attempted to rape her in his dorm room. James Murphy: And it's 2:30 and 3 o'clock in the morning at Cal Poly this is not a a location from which Paul alone could easily move a body without a vehicle. James Murphy: That suggests that something bad happened in Paul Flores's dorm room. I would turn around and he would be right there lurking, the woman, referred to here by a pseudonym, said. Im good, he said in response to questions about Smarts disappearance. People who were there have said she was intoxicated. The mother is washing her car in the driveway at one point. Investigators could have excavated the yard, but their decision not to was a crushing blow for the Smart family. And while they did not rush to investigate Flores, Kristin's family says campus police were very quick to judge her. The living room had a TV and one sofa and the floor was white, she said. Flores and Smart were both 19-year-old freshmen Cal Poly students who attended the same party the night she vanished, on May 25, 1996. When they were deposed by James Murphy, they also insisted their son was not involved. And DNA evidence could not be found linking any other evidence to Kristin. It was turned over to a detective with the San Luis Obispo Sheriff's Office, but Garin Sinclair says, the Smarts never knew it existed until the Lassiters were deposed in January 1997. And yes, we did find physical evidence at, at least two homes. James Murphy: I'd love to do anything to end their suffering. I knocked on her door, and I thought she was just sleeping, or she went out and about, you know? Devastating. Paul Flores may have wanted a fresh start in Southern California, but Chris Lambert says, he could not seem to break old habits. Chris Lambert: I think that might have been the biggest misstep that investigators have made to this day. Lambert began looking into what happened to Kristin, collecting articles and documents, chasing down leads and tracking down anyone with information. Ermelinda Flores, 81. But remarkably, the same thing happened with three more dogs. Smart appeared to be under the influence of alcohol on Friday night. An earring that appeared to match the necklace Kristin is wearing on the billboard. However hard she and her father fought back, there was no chance they were going to get beyond the he said, she said. I was drunk and he had a witness and I didnt, Jane said. No charges were filed, but Lambert discovered Flores's troubles started at a young age. I had zero interest in her, according to prosecutors. BOE-A-2023-5092 Orden JUS/181/2023, de 21 de febrero, por la que se aprueba la relacin provisional de personas admitidas y excluidas en el proceso selectivo para acceso libre, al Cuerpo de Gestin Procesal y Administrativa de la Administracin de Justicia, convocado por Orden JUS/1254/2022, de 7 de diciembre. Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. Lindsey Smart Stewart: Right. . Flores and Smart had spoken at the party. But as Chris Lambert learned, Flores's pattern of behavior with women didn't stop. After seizing an old car, digging in the back yard and taking evidence San Luis Obispo County sheriff deputies concluded a two search of an Arroyo Grande home related to the 1996. The Lassisters say soon after, strange postcards began showing up in their mailbox. The charming blue house with the picket fence on East Branch Street seemed perfect. Paul R Flores and Paul Raul Flores are some of the alias or nicknames that Paul has used. Four months after that futile search, Paul Flores was brought before a grand jury. Ermelinda Flores' property in Washington state has been searched by investigators in February 2020. Neither the ex-boyfriend nor Sarah saw Flores again until they read The Daily Beast story on Kristin Smarts disappearance, where Floress mugshot appeared. But Margarita says, the police did not seem concerned. A single woman's earring. The only thing that she remembered next was being dragged in the barely lit street by her alleged rapist on one arm and his pal on the other. They got to the parking lot of an apartment complex. Murphy has filed a new civil suit against Ruben Flores for the intentional infliction of emotional distress. 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