On Wednesday, police served a warrant to search the home of Paul Flores in San Pedro — a longtime person of interest in the college student's disappearance.
The San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s office and the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s office, and hope that in doing so, they will get some answers in the decades-old case. Flores was the last person to see Smart before she went missing almost 24 years ago.
. Following this week’s search, Cipolla said investigators “recovered some items of interest in the case” and “are following up on leads, tips and good investigative work.”The warrants issued in February and this week have all been sealed by the court, meaning the Sheriff’s office cannot disclose information about them, including any items they sought or recovered from their searches. “This continues to be an active and on-going investigation,” the Sheriff’s office said in a statement.
Both students at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, Smart and Flores had attended an off-campus fraternity party together the night SmartSmart was a 19-year-old freshman at the time and was last seen near her dorm room. Earlier that night on May 25, 1996, the pair was seen returning to the campus together.
Flores has never been arrested or charged in the case. Despite an FBI investigation into Smart’s disappearance after she went missing, police did not find any clues. As a result,
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