California man convicted of killing Kristin Smart, a college student who disappeared in 1996, to be sentenced on Friday.
by a jury in Monterey County of first-degree murder and faces 25 years to life in prison.
Prosecutors accused him of killing Smart during an attempted rape on May 25, 1996, in his dorm room at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, where they were both students.Flores' father, Ruben Flores, was acquitted in October of accessory after the fact. Prosecutors said Paul Flores was the last person seen with a very intoxicated Smart and walked her home from an off campus party. Prosecutors alleged that her body may have been buried under a deck behind Ruben Flores’ home in Arroyo Grande. The father was accused of helping bury Smart and of digging up the remains and moving them years later, prosecutors said.
Behind lattice work beneath the deck of his home, archaeologists working for police in March 2021 found a soil disturbance about the size of a casket and the presence of human blood, prosecutors said, but the blood was too degraded to extract a DNA sample."Without Kristin, there is no joy or happiness in this verdict," Smart's father, Stan Smart, said after the verdicts for the Flores father and son were read.
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