Kristin Smart vanished 26 years ago. More than 1,500 potential jurors are summoned as trials for Paul and Ruben Flores begin in Salinas.
Kristin Smart vanished 26 years ago after walking back toward the Cal Poly San Luis Obispo dormitories from a party., last seen with her that night, will face a trial for her murder beginning Monday with jury selection in one of California’s most famous cold cases.
In September, after hearing 22 days of testimony, the judge ruled there was enough evidence for Paul and Ruben Flores to be tried. Prosecutors laid out a circumstantial case against the pair. Peuvrelle elicited testimony that he said shows Ruben Flores concealed Smart’s body, eventually moving it after years of keeping some of the remains below a deck at his Arroyo Grande home.
During the preliminary hearing, Paul Flores’ ex-girlfriend, identified as Angie Doe, said she once tried to pick an avocado from the backyard at his father’s home. During the hearing, prosecutors had a classmate testify that Paul Flores lied about a black eye he had claimed to have gotten in a basketball game. Another woman testified she saw Flores hanging around Smart’s dormitory even though he claimed to have never been there.
The prosecutor argued that there was a nexus to the murder charge against Flores because, he said, Flores had a history of raping women who were intoxicated.
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