New evidence has been released in the cold case of Kristin Smart, suggesting that her body was buried under a house and was recently moved. Fox News legal analyst Mercedes Colwin discusses the latest developments.
More than two dozen women have accused 44-year-old Paul Flores of sexual misconduct, according to newly unsealed documents that lay out the prosecution s case against the man accused of murdering missing college student Kristin Smart 25 years ago.
Flores was the last person seen with Smart while they walked home from a party on May 25, 1996, at California Polytechnic State University, where they were both freshmen.
The case went cold for more than two decades, but investigators searched Flores home last year and arrested him in April. He pleaded not guilty.
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Judge denies adding rape charges in Kristin Smart case
A judge has denied a prosecutorâs bid to file rape charges against the man accused of killing California college student Kristin Smart, who went missing 25 years ago
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SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. A judge has denied a prosecutor s bid to file rape charges against the man accused of killing California college student Kristin Smart, who went missing 25 years ago.
The San Luis Obispo district attorney s office had sought to add two rape charges â for offenses they say were committed in Los Angeles County after Smart disappeared â to the complaint filed against Paul Flores in Smart s death, KEYT reported Wednesday.
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A San Luis Obispo County judge Wednesday refused to allow prosecutors to add two rape charges from Los Angeles to the murder case against Paul Flores in the 1996 disappearance of Kristin Smart.
The move by Judge Craig B. Van Rooyen comes despite a prosecutor telling the court, “Paul Flores has raped so many women, it’s hard to keep track,” as he argued for the judge to allow the San Luis Obispo County district attorney to add rape charges from 2011 and 2017 involving two women in Los Angeles.
The prosecutor argued there was a nexus to the murder charge against Flores. They have said he killed Smart, a 19-year-old fellow student at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, during the commission of a rape or attempted rape in his dormitory the night she vanished 25 years ago.
Motion to add additional rape charges against Paul Flores denied
SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. - The man charged in the death of Kristin Smart appeared in court on Wednesday, but avoided facing additional rape charges.
Paul Flores appeared in San Luis Obispo Superior Court for a motions hearing in what is sure to be a lengthy legal process.
The hearing opened with Flores attorney Robert Sanger asking Judge Craig van Rooyen to close the proceeding to the media and public. Van Rooyen denied that request by the Flores team.
Two additional rape charges were among the subjects of Wednesday s motions hearing. Prosecutors motioned to amend the original charges against Flores to include two rape charges in Los Angeles County from 2011 and 2017.