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Deceased Fbi Renews Search For California Student Missing 20 Years

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http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/09/06/fbi-renews-search-for-california-student-missing-20-years.html
An FBI team prepared Tuesday to excavate a site on the edge of California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, in hope of finding the remains of a student who vanished more than 20 years ago.

Kristin Smart, 19, of Stockton, was last seen in the early morning of May 25, 1996, while returning to her dorm after a party near the campus in the Central Coast region midway between San Francisco and Los Angeles.

At the time, another student told authorities he left Smart near her dormitory after they and another female student walked back.

"We're not sure where this is going to take us," San Luis Obispo County Sheriff Ian Parkinson told a press conference near the excavation site. "Obviously, we want to be optimistic as possible and we hope that this leads us to either Kristin or evidence of Kristin."

The site in hilly terrain next to a campus parking lot was one of several identified in January by dogs specially trained in detecting the scent of very old human remains.

The location was disclosed because of its high visibility but the other sites were being kept secret because "we do not want to tip our hat to the possible suspect or suspects out there," Parkinson said.

"We have developed this lead over the past couple of years and have been working on it," Parkinson said. "This lead was determined, or developed, after a comprehensive review of the entire case."

The dig, expected to begin in earnest Wednesday and last about four days, was timed to occur while classes were not in session at Cal Poly.
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The area was searched at the time of the disappearance, along with most of the rest of the campus, the sheriff said.

"The Smart family, who I have communicated with for the past six years and specifically today, know we're here," Parkinson said. "They fully support our efforts."

According to reports at the time, a neighbor in Smart's dorm called university police the next morning and reported that she hadn't returned. But other students said they thought she had gone camping, so officers didn't declare her missing for three days.

The student who told of leaving Smart near her dorm was questioned by authorities and his home was searched but he was not arrested or charged in the case. Asked if that man is a suspect, Parkinson said, "I would say it's safe to say he's a person of interest in the case."

The sheriff also said it was "probably accurate" that authorities were now no closer to making any arrest than they were previously.

A California law, the Kristin Smart Campus Safety Act of 1998, now requires campus police to spell out exactly when they will call in outside authorities to investigate a violent crime.
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Kinda hope they find something and I kind of hope they don't. Would hate to see that was her resting place for so many years, but at same time, if she's dead, I would like to see her parents get closure....damn, what a shitty situation. College is suppose to be the best days of your life, not the last days.
 
Family of California student Kristin Smart who disappeared 23 years ago are told to 'prepare for news'
The family of a missing California woman was given a heads up that there may finally be closure in the decades-old case — with officials telling them that the ending could be something they “don’t expect,” according to reports.

Kristin Smart’s mom, Denise, said the FBI recently contacted her and told her to prepare for a bombshell in the 1996 disappearance, the Stockton Record reported.

She said the agency warned her, “Be ready. This is really going to be something you don’t expect.”

The FBI also told her to secure a family spokesperson and that they “might want to get away for awhile.”
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Full Story:
https://nypost.com/2020/01/22/kristin-smarts-family-told-to-prepare-for-breakthrough-in-23-year-old-missing-persons-case/
 
FBI: No agent spoke to Kristin Smart family in missing college student case

Contrary to recent reports, federal agents told The Chronicle on Wednesday that they did not tell the family of missing Cal Poly freshman Kristin Smart that a big break in the 23-year cold case was imminent.

The agency’s comments raise questions about whether an announcement is forthcoming in the cold case, as reported by several news outlets this week — including The Chronicle — after the missing woman’s mother was quoted in a Stockton Record news story saying that the FBI advised the family to prepare for a major development that would bring closure to the case.

A spokesman for the family confirmed Wednesday that the person who advised Smart’s mother, Denise, was not an active FBI agent.
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FBI: No agent spoke to Kristin Smart family in missing college student case

Contrary to what the mother of missing Cal Poly freshman Kristin Smart told media...
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A new search warrant was issued Wednesday morning at the Los Angeles County home of Paul Flores in the ongoing cold case investigation into the disappearance of Kristin Smart.
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Flores, who authorities say was the last person to have seen her alive, has been a person of interest in the case for years.
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The search warrant issued Wednesday was for "specific items of evidence" according to a statement released by the San Luis Obispo County Sheriff's Office.

The statement also said that no further information would be released about what items were being sought or what officers may find at the residence. The statement did say this continues to be an ongoing investigation.

Investigators searching for Smart's body excavated an area of the California Polytechnic campus in 2016, but failed to unearth any remains.
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Search warrant issued in 1996 disappearance of Kristin Smart

A new search warrant was issued Wednesday morning at the Los Angeles County home of Paul Flores, person of interest in the cold case disappearance of Kristin Smart.
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Paul Flores, who walked Smart home and was the last person to see her alive in 1996, was arrested on Tuesday in San Pedro, California, according to KSBY News. Flores’ father, Ruben Flores, was also reportedly taken into custody in connection with the case, and authorities are serving another search warrant at Ruben’s Arroyo Grande home.

The San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Office is expected to announce the arrests on Tuesday afternoon.

The reported arrest comes just one month after the sheriff’s office identified Flores as “the prime suspect” in Smart’s case, which has attracted national attention for decades.
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Paul Flores Taken Into Custody in Connection With Kristin Smart Case: Report

The Daily Beast/Public DomainNearly 25 years after Cal Poly freshman Kristin Smart vanished following a frat party, a California man previously named as a primary suspect in her disappearance has reportedly been taken into custody. Paul Flores, who walked Smart home and was the last person to...
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His father, Reuben Flores, 80, was arrested as an accessory to murder at his home in Arroyo Grande — where investigators conducted a search warrant last month in the case.
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nypost.com

‘Prime suspect,’ his dad arrested in Kristin Smart disappearance

The last known person seen with a California college student who vanished in 1996 was charged with her murder on Tuesday, authorities said. Paul Flores, 44 — who was named last month as the “…
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Twelve jurors and eight alternates will be chosen for the murder trial of Kristin Smart — some 26 years after her disappearance.

As a classmate and his father are set to stand trial for her murder, a change of venue and a strict gag order have been put in place.
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Kristin Smart was a 19 years old Cal Poly student in 1996 when a classmate offered to walk her home from an off-campus party.

No one has seen her since.
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Now, that 45-year-old classmate, Paul Flores, is charged with her murder and his 81-year-old father, Ruben, is accused of helping to hide and dispose of Smart’s body, which has never been found.
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The arrests came last year following renewed interest and new leads in the case, raised by podcaster Chris Lambert and his popular true-crime series, “Your Own Backyard.”

There is “A strong suspicion that a human burial site existed underneath the deck of Ruben Flores’s house,” he narrates on the popular podcast.
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Due to high interest and publicity in San Luis Obispo County, where the crimes were alleged to have occurred, a judge agreed to move the trial more than 100 miles away to Monterey County.

The move, however, comes with a strict gag order, which some claim is a clear violation of the First Amendment.
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“This order sweeps even way beyond court staff and even judicial personnel. It includes lawyers on both sides, people working for lawyers on both sides, even witnesses to trial cannot go into court and then speak to the press about their own testimony,” said David Loy, a legal director at the First Amendment Coalition.

The judge is also not allowing any audio or video of the trial.
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Despite his concern over the trial’s restrictions, Loy agrees the change in venue was warranted.

“In smaller communities such as San Luis Obispo, the risk of bias is high so it is appropriate to change venue. So that is one of the ways — appropriate ways — to protect the right to a fair trial without sacrificing the right to freedom of speech,” he said.
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“But for the prosecutors to bring a case that has been cold this long, must feel like they have very big evidence that can convince a jury,” Fiset said.

The jury selection process is expected to last a few weeks, with opening statements set to begin July 6.
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ktla.com

Murder trial in Kristin Smart disappearance set to go forward 26 years later

Kristin Smart went missing in 1996 and was declared dead in 2002. Now, a father and son are going to trial, and public access is extremely limited.
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Paul Flores convicted for 1996 murder of Kristin Smart, dad acquitted​

A California man was convicted Tuesday for the murder of Kristin Smart, the Polytechnic State University student who disappeared 26 years ago – but his father was acquitted of charges he helped cover-up the crime.

Paul Flores, now 45, was found guilty of first-degree murder in the high-profile case that garnered national attention but remained unsolved for decades.

Flores’ dad, Ruben Flores, 81, was acquitted by a separate jury on accessory charges for allegedly helping his son cover up the killing and burying Smart’s body — which has still never been found.
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Paul Flores convicted for 1996 murder of Kristin Smart, dad acquitted

Paul Flores was convicted Tuesday for the murder of Kristin Smart, the Polytechnic State University student who disappeared 26 years ago.
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The man convicted of killing Kristin Smart, who vanished from a California college campus more than 25 years ago, was sentenced Friday to 25 years to life in prison.

Monterey County Superior Court Judge Jennifer O’Keefe rejected defense motions to toss out Paul Flores’ first-degree murder conviction, acquit him and order a new trial.

She said Flores had been “a cancer to society” and in addition to his prison term must register as a sex offender for life.

“You deserve to spend every day you have left behind bars,” O’Keefe said, noting that Flores had “lived free in the community” for more than two decades and for his adult life had engaged in “predatory behavior” against women.
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Man convicted of killing Kristin Smart gets 25 years to life

MONTEREY, Calif. (AP) — The man convicted of killing Kristin Smart, who vanished from a California college campus more than 25 years ago, was sentenced Friday to 25 years to life in prison.
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The man convicted of killing Kristin Smart, who vanished from a California college campus more than 25 years ago, was hospitalized after he was attacked in state prison, his lawyer said Wednesday.

Paul Flores was taken Wednesday from Pleasant Valley State Prison in Coalinga to an outside hospital where he was in serious condition, according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.

The department didn't confirm that Flores had been attacked, with a spokeswoman saying via email that the circumstances surrounding his injury were under investigation and details wouldn't immediately be released.
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Man convicted of killing Kristin Smart is attacked in prison and hospitalized in serious condition

The man convicted of killing Kristin Smart, who vanished from a California college campus more than 25 years ago, was hospitalized after he was attacked in state prison, his lawyer said Wednesday. Paul Flores was taken Wednesday from Pleasant Valley State Prison in Coalinga to an outside...
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An attempted murder charge has been filed against the man suspected of slashing Paul Flores' neck at the Pleasant Valley State Prison in Coalinga earlier this year, according to the Fresno County District Attorney's Office.
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Prosecutors said Jason Budrow is facing attempted murder and other various charges after Flores, who is convicted of killing Stockton teen Kristin Smart in 1996 while they were both students at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, was slashed in the neck with a manufactured weapon on Aug. 23.


Flores was airlifted to a hospital in Fresno for further treatment. He is serving 25 years behind bars.
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Budrow is serving two life sentences without the possibility of parole.


He was convicted of strangling his girlfriend in 2010 in Riverside. He is also convinced of strangling his cellmate, serial killer Roger Reece Kibbe – who was known as the I-5 Strangler in the 1970s and 1980s.
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Suspect in prison attack of Paul Flores, Kristin Smart's convicted killer, faces attempted murder charge

An attempted murder charge has been filed against the man suspected of slashing Paul Flores' neck at the Pleasant Valley State Prison in Coalinga earlier this year, according to the Fresno County District Attorney's Office.
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Apr 11, 2024

The man convicted of killing Kristin Smart has been attacked again inside Pleasant Valley State Prison.

According to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR), the attack on Paul Flores is being investigated as an attempted homicide.
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Flores was previously attacked in August 2023 by a fellow inmate.
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This most recent attack took place on Wednesday afternoon. Staff reported that Flores was stabbed by another incarcerated person in a recreation yard. Officers responded and recovered two inmate-manufactured weapons at the scene.

According to the CDCR, Flores sustained injuries during the incident and was transported to an outside medical facility. He has since returned to Pleasant Valley State Prison and his condition is described as fair. No other injuries were reported in the incident.
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www.yourcentralvalley.com

Kristin Smart killer Paul Flores attacked again in prison

COALINGA, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – The man convicted of killing Kristin Smart has been attacked again inside Pleasant Valley State Prison. According to the California Department of Corrections an…
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