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Fourteen years ago, police in Redondo Beach were called to a hospital where a woman had come after waking up in a stranger’s bed, naked and with no memory of what had happened. She believed she had been raped.
An examination confirmed she’d had sex with a man. Police uploaded his DNA profile to a law enforcement database and, a few years later, it matched to a name: Paul Ruben Flores.
Redondo detectives opened a rape investigation into Flores. Although he was not charged in the case, the DNA hit sounded alarms 200 miles north in San Luis Obispo, where Flores was the prime suspect in the enduring mystery of Kristin Smart’s disappearance and presumed death.
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Lawsuit Alleges Ruben Flores Moved Kristin Smart’s Body After 2020 Search of His Home
Civil lawsuit filed by parents of long-missing Cal Poly student claims father aided murder suspect Paul Flores in hiding remains
The home of Ruben Flores in the 700 block of White Court in Arroyo Grande was searched by San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Office deputies on March 15, 2021, in relation to the 1996 disappearance of Cal Poly student Kristin Smart. Flores is the father of Paul Flores, the only suspect in the case. A civil lawsuit filed against Ruben Flores alleges he hid and recently moved the missing student’s remains from the property. (David Middlecamp / San Luis Obispo Tribune photo)
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