Paul Flores guilty in murder of Cal Poly student Kristin Smart; his father acquitted [Breaking]
A jury on Tuesday convicted Paul Flores in the murder of Cal Poly San Luis Obispo student Kristin Smart, ending a more than two-decade mystery that both captivated and outraged the Central Coast college town.
Her disappearance and the subsequent murder investigation left an indelible mark on San Luis Obispo. Billboards appealed for evidence to convict her killer. The disappearance was the subject of a true-crime podcast. And it spawned a cottage industry of investigators.Because of that attention, a judge ordered the trial be moved to Monterey County to ensure fair legal proceedings.
Peuvrelle portrayed Paul Flores as a predator who, even after becoming the focus of the Smart investigation, drugged and raped women he lured to his Los Angeles-area home., decades after identifying him as a person of interest in Smart’s disappearance. “There are no bones, no teeth, no body parts. Kristin Smart may be just missing,” he told jurors as the case concluded. “She was not happy at Cal Poly. It is reasonable to infer she is alive somewhere.”
As she and two other students began to leave, Flores appeared out of the darkness to help her walk home, witnesses testified. Smart needed help to get up the hill, and once in sight of the dormitories, prosecutors say, Flores promised to get her home. He later insisted he left her within sight of her dorm.“He was doing a good deed,” the defense attorney said. “He was not hunting her.”
Jurors also heard from two women — Sarah Doe and Rhonda Doe — who testified that Flores drugged and raped them decades after Smart vanished. The women, who took the witness stand last month under pseudonyms to protect their privacy, testified that Flores sexually assaulted them in Los Angeles in 2008 and 2011, respectively.
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