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The podcast dedicated to the disappearance of Kristin Smart hit 7.5 million downloads this week.
The milestone came just two days after the arrest of Paul and Ruben Flores. Your Own Backyard was also the No. 2 podcast on iTunes this week.
Launched in 2019, podcaster Chris Lambert quit his full-time job mid-year to dedicate seven days a week to the show.
San Luis Obispo County Sheriff Ian Parkinson says Lambertâs work helped with the case, including bringing national attention to it.
âThe podcast brought onto the forefront for everybody, which I think is a really good thing. I think the tough part about it is people hear it and then they believe that they either know what happened or that action should be taken immediately because they believe that Flores is responsible,â Sheriff Ian Parkinson told radio host Adam Montiel during an interview Thursday morning on Coast 104.5.
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Kristin Smart went missing in 1996 on her university campus (Image: Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
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Parkinson talked to the family twice Tuesday and said “they re feeling a bit of relief.”
Parkinson said he has assured the family his investigators will continue to search for Smart s body.
“But, as you can imagine, until we return Kristin, to them, this is not over,” Parkinson said. “We have committed to them that we are not going to stop until Kristin has been recovered, no matter what the cost, no matter what the time.”
The news comes about a month after the sheriff named Flores, a former Cal Poly student, the prime suspect in the case and investigators searched his father s home and property in the city of Arroyo Grande, about 15 miles south of the university, using ground-penetrating radar and cadaver dogs.