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Kristin Smart’s parents questioned during first day of preliminary hearing SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. – Paul and Ruben Flores appeared in court Monday as the preliminary hearing in the Kristin Smart murder case began. The hearing began with emotional testimony from Denise Smart, Kristin's mother. The mother of Smart was called as the first witness of the preliminary hearing. She fielded questions from the prosecution and talked about her close relationship with Kristin. Denise spoke about her other children, their close relationships together and how Kristin missed out on her siblings' majo...

Matthew Ormseth, Richard Winton Los Angeles Times 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 Sa...

Editor's note: Week in review is a roundup of some of the top headlines from the past week. Sign up for The Record's Daily Briefing and get the day's top headlines delivered to your inbox: https://profile.recordnet.com/newsletters/manage/. New developments in Smart case  Kristin Smart’s haunting disappearance continued to make headlines around the world last week, with a father-son duo pleading not guilty Monday after a dramatic break in the nearly 25-year-old case led to their arrests the week before. Though Ruben Flores, 80, father of prime suspect Paul Flores, 44, has been released o...

LES ANGLES, France – The parents of missing California college student Kristin Smart on Thursday sued the father of the man charged with killing their daughter nearly 25 years ago. The lawsuit filed in San Luis Obispo County Superior Court said Smart’s body was buried in Ruben Flores’s backyard and he moved the body “under cover of darkness” to another location a few days after investigators searched his property in February 2020. Ruben Flores, 80, pleaded not guilty to accessory after murder on Monday, and his son, Paul Flores, 44, pleaded not guilty to murder. The father and s...

Parents sue father accused of hiding Kristin Smart's body by Brian Melley, The Associated Press Posted Apr 22, 2021 9:19 pm EDT Last Updated Apr 22, 2021 at 9:28 pm EDT LES ANGLES, France — The parents of missing California college student Kristin Smart on Thursday sued the father of the man charged with killing their daughter nearly 25 years ago. The lawsuit filed in San Luis Obispo County Superior Court said Smart’s body was buried in Ruben Flores’s backyard and he moved the body “under cover of darkness” to another location a few days after investigators searched his property in ...