Prosecutor: Kristin Smart was killed during attempted rape, Paul Flores father helped hide body
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Posted at 10:22 AM, Apr 14, 2021
and last updated 2021-04-14 17:56:41-04
During a press conference on Wednesday, San Luis Obispo County District Attorney Dan Dow said Kristin Smart was killed during an attempted rape and Paul Flores father helped hide her body.
Dow added that they do have evidence in this case that leads us to conclude that there very well may be additional victims in the southern California area.
Dow charged Paul Flores with first-degree murder during the commission of attempted rape. Dow added that the statute of limitation for rape has expired, but the allegations that rape was committed or the attempt of rape is the basis for filing a felony murder charge.
ARROYO GRANDE, Calif. Residents and supporters remembers Kristin Smart as her case hits a milestone on Tuesday.
Residents placed up a giant string of balloons in memory of Kristin Smart on Tuesday morning.
Dozens of purple balloons were hung around a banner titled Cal Poly Student Kristin Smart .
The banner had a photo of Smart along with a web link to the Your Own Backyard podcast by Chris Lambert. Lambert s podcast was a major proponent to the case.
The banner also included the phone number to the San Luis Obispo County Sheriff s Office.
On Tuesday, the Sheriff s Office announced that Paul Flores and Ruben Flores were arrested on Tuesday afternoon.
The hunt for Kristen Smart s killer: Cops executed 40 warrants, collected nearly 200 pieces of new evidence and tracked long-time suspect Paul Flores s phone for two years before his arrest - but they re still searching for her body
Suspicion has long followed Paul Flores, now 44, ever since Kristin Smart vanished from the Cal Poly University campus in San Luis Obispo back in 1996
Despite being a suspect from day one, investigators say they never had enough evidence to charge Flores over Smart s disappearance until Tuesday
Flores has now been charged with murdering the 19-year-old student
His father, Ruben Flores, 80, was also arrested as an accessory to the crime
Prosecutor: Kristin Smart was killed during attempted rape, Paul Flores father helped hide body
Smart family
Posted at 12:22 PM, Apr 14, 2021
and last updated 2021-04-14 17:56:41-04
During a press conference on Wednesday, San Luis Obispo County District Attorney Dan Dow said Kristin Smart was killed during an attempted rape and Paul Flores father helped hide her body.
Dow added that they do have evidence in this case that leads us to conclude that there very well may be additional victims in the southern California area.
Dow charged Paul Flores with first-degree murder during the commission of attempted rape. Dow added that the statute of limitation for rape has expired, but the allegations that rape was committed or the attempt of rape is the basis for filing a felony murder charge.
Missing California college student Kristin Smart was killed in 1996 during an attempted rape, prosecutor says Published 2 days ago
Cal Poly President Jeffrey Armstrong, center, speaks during a press conference Tuesday, April 13, 2021, San Luis Obispo, Calif. At left is a photo of Kristin Smart. Smart, 19, of Stockton, California, vanished in May 1996 while returning to a dorm at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, after a party. San Luis Obispo County Sheriff Ian Parkinson stands in the background and interpreter Robin Babb is at right. (David Middlecamp/The Tribune (of San Luis Obispo) via AP)
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Print article LOS ANGELES Missing California college student Kristin Smart was killed in 1996 during an attempted rape by a fellow student and the suspect’s father helped hide her body, the San Luis Obispo County district attorney said Wednesday.