It was turned over to a detective with the San Luis Obispo Sheriff's Office, but Garin Sinclair says, the Smarts never knew it existed until the Lassiters were deposed in January 1997. Facts will show law enforcement was aware that they did not have a case. What happens next? Murphy and his wife, Garin Sinclair, agreed to take the case pro bono promising to go after Paul Flores and put pressure on the sheriff's office. Chris Lambert: I remember seeing it on the news it was something scary and they were talking about it pretty regularly. Chris Lambert: It's hard to take too much credit But I was one piece of the puzzle that helped to make this all come together when it did. In high school he was known as a loner. BOE-A-2023-5092 Orden JUS/181/2023, de 21 de febrero, por la que se aprueba la relacin provisional de personas admitidas y excluidas en el proceso selectivo para acceso libre, al Cuerpo de Gestin Procesal y Administrativa de la Administracin de Justicia, convocado por Orden JUS/1254/2022, de 7 de diciembre. Paul Flores, then also a 19-year-old freshman, had . It is also what the Smarts have been waiting for for more than a quarter of a century. Paul Flores and his father both pleaded not guilty to all charges at their arraignment. How could she have gone out of town? JAMES MURPHY: Has your son ever told you that he did not kill Kristin Smart? And had law enforcement drilled a handful of holes in Floress mothers backyard to search for evidence that Smart might be buried there, perhaps Floress alleged serial sexual assaults would have been prevented. They told her Kristin had not been seen all weekend and asked if Kristin was with them. PODCAST EPISODE 4: And he had like a butter knife and he like held it to my neck. According to the defense, a forensics expert said if it was a grave, you would find hairs, bones, and a big change in the soil composition. JAMES MURPHY: What is the name of your father? He was writing your name like 150 times on a piece of paper and he kept circling it., High school boys are weird anyway, Jane thought at the time. SHERIFF IAN PARKINSON [at press conference]: Forensic physical evidence was located. Flores told campus police that he never talked to Smart at the house party, but multiple witnesses who were at the party saw the two talking together next to a tiki bar inside the house. Kristin's parents have spent more than two decades hoping for any clue that would lead them to their beloved daughter. Jonathan Vigliotti: She had just 40 yards to go and yet she vanished. Margarita Campos: Kristin was like, "come on, let's go, let's go." At the time Kristin Smart disappeared, investigators did not immediately search the home. Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. She was she was frantic I don't understand this, you know? One day, Jane was congregating in front of the high school when a male friend approached and warned her about one particular junior. Ann-Marie Christian: became friends with Kristin in elementary school. ", Although suspicion surrounded Flores almost from the beginning, any hopes for an arrest were dashed in May 1997 when then-Sheriff Ed Williams made an admission to the San Luis Obispo Telegraph: "We need Paul Flores to tell us what happened to Kristin Smart so absent something from Mr. Flores, I don't see us completing this case.". Nineteen-year-old Kristin Smart disappeared Memorial Day weekend of 1996. Chris Lambert: So, if you believe Paul's story, he goes into his dorm room here. 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PODCAST EPISODE 5: If you were making a film about a new law enforcer who's coming to a small town to save the day, you'd probably cast Parkinson. Copyright 2023 Nexstar Media Inc. All rights reserved. Other names that Ermelinda uses includes Ermelinda M Macarthur, Ermelinda M Flores, Ermelinda M Mac Arthur, Ermelinda Flores and Ermelinda M Thomas. A judge on March 30 ruled that the trial would be moved out of San Luis . If you come near her again I will kill you!, His buddy pushed Paul real hard and he fell through a desk before he ran for his life.. James Murphy: I'd love to do anything to end their suffering. James Murphy: So why would Susan Flores, her boyfriend, and Ruben Flores be up all night long working under that deck. Susan P Flores Age 71. So maybe he had a crush on me. But I've seen it. He apparently would tag along with a sloshed friend, crashing off-campus parties together wherever she was. I think they're just waiting to see what the outcome is going to be. In April 2021, investigators finally put the pieces of the puzzle together and decided they had enough to charge the then-44-year-old Paul Flores with Kristin's murder, and his then-80-year-old father with being an accessory after the fact. And for a few moments Jane came to and saw Flores having his way with her. Chris Lambert: Kristin's father would come down and hike every trail he could find on the Central Coast. Chris Lambert: He told those friends he just woke up with the black eye. Most students had taken off but Kristin had stayed on campus. And the body's not there now. When approached about Janes rape claim, an Arroyo Grande Police Department administrator said in an email that their search revealed no such records exist; therefore, there are no responsive documents. Before their findings, another administrator told The Daily Beast on the phone that because the matter was a sexual assault case it fell under a non-disclosure category and therefore they wouldnt be providing any specific information about it. Lambert says Kristin could not stand on her own, so fellow student Cheryl Anderson who was also at the party began helping her back to campus. Flores and Smart were both 19-year-old freshmen Cal Poly students who attended the same party the night she vanished, on May 25, 1996. Smart was talking with and socializing with several different males at the party. Like what may have been discovered in March 2021 when investigators searched Ruben Flores' house using cadaver dogs and ground penetrating radar. My job was to hunt them. These new allegations against Paul Flores are very troubling and deserve to be thoroughly investigated. I would turn around and he would be right there lurking, the woman, referred to here by a pseudonym, said. And when they did . But a massive search did not happen until she'd been gone for more than a month. Margarita Campos: they were, like, "are you sure she didn't go out of town?" Jonathan Vigliotti: Was this case, given the evidence that was lost early on, doomed from the very beginning? Empresa. Margarita Campos: I was expecting her to knock on my door and be, like, "Oh, Margarita, you missed a rager. Chris Lambert: There was a man climbing her trellis and trying to get inside her balcony, very intoxicated and refusing to leave. That's been our goal. They might have found evidence in those vehicles. Flores claimed after walking Kristin back from the party, he went to his room in Santa Lucia Hall while she walked alone to her dorm. But as Chris Lambert learned, campus police did not act right away. DAN DOW [press conference]: We don't have evidence sufficient to charge anyone else at this time. What's going on? It had been the focus of widespread speculation for more than two decades especially her planter boxes. Ruben's attorney, Harold Mesick, dismissed the evidence against his client as "so minimal as to shock the conscience.". Those were kind of unspoken things. I was crying.. The Smarts say they tried to file a missing person's report with the local police but were told it was too early, and the FBI told them Cal Poly police were in charge. They believe they can prove Paul Flores is responsible for the disappearance of Kristin Smart. Alicia Tejada is the field producer and Addison Briley is the associate producer. Get off her.. As they soon learned, she had ended up at a party at an off-campus house. Often, Sarah would be at one party or another and there was Flores. No-no-no. "YOUR OWN BACKYARD" PODCAST: EPISODE 1: It's a cold and cloudy winter afternoon in San Luis Obispo and I'm retracing missing Cal Poly student Kristin Smart's last known steps. The lawsuit claims they were moving Kristin's remains. Somos la comunidad inmobiliaria ms grande de Mxico que conecta de forma gratuita a quienes ofrecen y buscan cualquier tipo de propiedad. Bodega en Renta de $65.000 , 3 baos, 1100 m2 en Arroyo de Las Flores, Jalisco ID 26114512. He promised the Smarts that solving Kristin's case would be a priority. Even when law enforcement let them down, they refused to give up. PODCAST EPISODE 1: I googled Kristin Smart's name every few years. Margarita Campos: To this day, like, I was like, why why did I just let her go by herself? Lourdes Aguiar is the senior producer. Paul would try to get Kristins attention and she was too nice to tell him off. Jonathan Vigliotti: How did you know she hadn't been back? At the time of Smart's disappearance, Flores was a 19-year-old food science major at Cal-Poly. James Murphy: An eyewitness actually documented the fact that throughout the night that there was activity in the area of the underside of that deck. It's, like, she has nothing on her. Smart appeared to be under the influence of alcohol on Friday night. ), A sheriff offices spokesman said his agency couldnt say if investigators working Smarts cold case had been made aware or not of the new alleged victims, citing refusal to comment on an open and active investigation.. I knocked on her door, and I thought she was just sleeping, or she went out and about, you know? Chris Lambert: A young couple moves into it with their kid. putting murder on the lawsuit was sending a message to Paul Flores and his family, that we believe that he killed Kristin and that we're coming for him. "48 Hours" has learned these suspicions center around evidence found during that 2020 search of Paul Flores' home. So, I said, "you better turn some lights on right now and let me out or I'm going to scream." 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