And for a few moments Jane came to and saw Flores having his way with her. But I've seen it. That could have been me.. October 22, 2022 / 10:10 PM Devastating. In the fall of 1996, a young mother named Mary Lassiter was looking for a house to rent in Arroyo Grande, California. They had become close friends despite their differences. Margarita Campos: they were, like, "are you sure she didn't go out of town?" Chris Lambert: Kristin became incredibly intoxicated, whether she was drugged or whether she just had a lot to drink in a short amount of time She ends up passed out on the lawn next door. Even when law enforcement let them down, they refused to give up. James Murphy: There has been no other suspect. PODCAST EPISODE 1: I googled Kristin Smart's name every few years. That mother, Mary Lassiter, described it to Chris Lambert. He slammed me and then pushed me up against the inside wall by the toilet, his hands were on my upper arms and he started telling me all these sick things he was going to do to me.. Like the Smart's civil case, theirs also has been on hold. They took off running, Jane said. He hired a detective to work full time on the case, and over the past nine years deputies have carried out searches, conducted new interviews, and gathered additional evidence. Ian Parkinson: I committed to them that I was going to go back to the beginning and re-examine every piece of evidence that we had. Over the years, Susan Flores's backyard has been the focus of widespread speculation because of stories like the ones Mary Lassiter told Chris Lambert. Lindsey Smart Stewart: It just amazes me the amount of evidence that's available, yet nothing has happened. She spent a summer in London, was an exchange student in Venezuela, and a lifeguard at a camp in Hawaii. But Margarita says, the police did not seem concerned. This is about the facts. PAUL FLORES: On the advice of my attorney, I refuse to answer that question based on the fifth amendment of the United States Constitution. I blacked out and didnt consent to anything.. so eventually he unlocked you know, the apartment door, and I left. D.A. Flores father is now charged with helping cover up the homicide by burying Smarts body in his Arroyo Grande homes backyard. So had Margarita Campos, who lived in the next room in Muir Hall. Last month, authorities searched Ruben Flores' home in Arroyo Grande. In 2011, the Smarts hoped those boulders would become a little lighter when Ian Parkinson became the new sheriff of San Luis Obispo County. She regretfully denounced them as cruel rumors at the time. Like so many freshmen, Kristin struggled. Smart appeared to be under the influence of alcohol on Friday night. The earring was turned over to the San Luis Obispo Sheriff's Office, but investigators will never know if it belonged to Kristin, because it was misplaced. But Sarah kneed Flores in the groin and kicked him in the shin before dashing off into the party. AKA: Susan Flores, Sue P Flores. James Murphy: Well, the location where all this activity occurred is where they found the biological material. Susan Flores's backyard has been the focus of widespread speculation. PODCAST EPISODE 4: At 8 a.m. on June 19th, 2000, a team of sheriff's investigators knocks on the front door of Susan Flores's East Branch Street home. Two days after her daughter went missing, Denise Smart got a call from Cal Poly's campus police. When authorities later confronted him with the two stories, Flores admitted lying and offered a new explanation. They have not been able to proceed with the civil case while there was an ongoing criminal investigation, but that didn't stop them from following every lead and preparing for an eventual trial. Through the years, the Smarts have kept pressure on the Flores family. Four months later, while attempting to reconcile, Susan rented out her house in Arroyo Grande. The Kristin Smart disappearance: After 26 years, Paul Flores is convicted of murder. Dave Minsky,. He apparently would tag along with a sloshed friend, crashing off-campus parties together wherever she was. He's going to find her body, which is awful for a parent. Stan and Denise Smart, Kristins parents, sent The Daily Beast a statement praising the women for coming forward to share their stories and hope it leads to a break in their missing daughters case. In the months after Kristin's disappearance, one truck was traded in and the other was reported stolen. Jonathan Vigliotti found Flores outside his home in Southern California and asked him a number of questions about Kristin's disappearance. 1998 - 2023 Nexstar Media Inc. | All Rights Reserved. RUBEN FLORES: [long pause] We never asked that question. James Murphy: He lied to the police about everything. Im good. Two years later Smart would go missing and when suspicion quickly fell on Flores, Jane decided then and there that she may have been one of the lucky ones. You can go." Jonathan Vigliotti: How did you know she hadn't been back? In 2002, after getting kicked out of Cal Poly, rejected by the Navy, and flipping burgers, Flores matriculated at LA Harbor Community College. Authorities arrested Ruben Flores after San Luis Obispo County Sheriff's deputies served a search warrant at his Arroyo Grande home. And the body's not there now. Those were kind of unspoken things. The Smart family. Stop! and then it became Stop!!!!!. Two days after Kristin Smart vanished, Paul Flores went to the Arroyo Grande Police Department because of an outstanding DUI warrant. That's when Denise Smart learned her daughter had not been seen all weekend, and all her belongings were still in her dorm room. Margarita Campos: She was absolutely sober when I left her. When he arrived she stayed at home while Janes father hightailed it to Arroyo Grande Community Hospital. Chris Lambert: He told those friends he just woke up with the black eye. JAMES MURPHY: What is your present residence address? to find the next challenge. Jonathan Vigliotti: She had just 40 yards to go and yet she vanished. The moment still haunts her. Mary Lassiter says the earring she found in the driveway matched the necklace Kristin Smart is seen wearing on this billboard. And then months and months later, they'd reach back out and say, can you get us in touch with this person again? Jonathan Vigliotti [with Lambert outside of the the dorms]: Paul and Kristin then make their way here. SALINAS, Calif. (KRON) In the wake of Kristin Smarts disappearance from Cal Polys campus, detectives knew Paul Flores was lying through his teeth, according to prosecutors. He'd go anywhere. On Monday, deputies served a sealed search warrant at the home of Ruben Flores. First published on November 27, 2020 / 8:14 AM. People are watching Ruben Flores and Susan Flores and Paul Flores. He invoked the Fifth Amendment 27 times. She has not been charged with any crimes in connection with the case. But Paul Flores remained behind bars help without bail. It's, like, she has nothing on her. It is believed she is deceased, but there is no evidence of what happened to her after Paul Flores left her. They are aware that they had no eye witnesses, a body was not recovered, there is no physical evidence, and no forensic evidence, Sanger said. The family attorney refused to comment when reached by The Daily Beast. Despite identifying a prime suspect for her murder, law enforcement did not arrest Flores until 2021. James Murphy: The podcast is out. Chris Lambert told Jonathan Vigliotti, "It drove [Mary Lassiter] crazy and she went out there many times in the middle of the night to try to find it with sticks, sticking down into the planter boxes down in the soil." Ermelinda Macarthur currently lives in Kenmore, WA; in the past Ermelinda has also lived in Long Beach CA, Arroyo Grande CA and Bothell WA. Paul owns a home in San Pedro, CA . The fact is, there is a lot of sort of evidence. I say that because you will see, when you actually listen to what comes out, its not what it seems to be, Sanger said. By the time they inspected Flores's room, Kristin had been gone for 16 days. Smart was talking with and socializing with several different males at the party. So now you've got three different stories about how he got that black eye. He believes that meant "the batteries went dead and that the object that was beeping hadn't been there very long.". View the profiles of people named Ermelinda Thomas. They're known for being a really safe school.". Murphy alleges four nights later, strange activity was seen at Ruben's house. More than two decades later, Chris Lambert, a podcaster who was investigating Kristin's disappearance, tracked down and interviewed Mary Lassiter. I was throwing up and they were saying Oh this bitch! and This bitch better not throw up on me.. PODCAST EPISODE 2: So, with Cheryl's account alone, we have an unsettling picture of Paul . You just don't talk, and you get away with it. Murphy immediately filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Flores in civil court. She was looking forward to hearing from Kristin that Sunday. Flores defense attorney, Robert Sanger, told the jury, This obviously is a tragic situation in one sense or another. Have a good day, he said. On April 13, 2021, almost 25 years after Kristin Smart went missing, longtime suspect Paul Flores, 44, was arrested at his home in San Pedro, California, and charged with murder. JAMES MURPHY: Your husband have information as to where Kristin Smart's body is located? She was the last person other than Paul Flores to see Kristin alive. The woman, whom we'll call Jane, believes she was roofied, raped, and discarded by Paul Flores and his nameless friend when she was a 15-year-old high-school sophomore in 1994. I remember thinking he was right behind me in the doorway and I think he was trying to get to the door before I could shut it., Sarah said she was quickly manhandled by Flores. most importantly they wanna find their daughter. Jane said she took Flores up on carpool offers to and from high school whenever she would be walking solo from her mothers home in Arroyo Grande, California. And there are more horrifying allegations about what may have happened to Kristin after she was last seen with Paul Flores. The Kristin Smart Scholarship has been established by her family to help other college bound women pursue their dreams. But the investigation is ongoing. Our roommate came in and yelled Leave her alone. Flores spit that he would rape her, she said. Susan P Flores Age 71. They took in soil, I assume, for some kind of analysis. She spotted an ad for a rental that a woman named Susan Flores had put in the local newspaper. Whatever happened in those early hours, one thing is indisputable: Kristin Smart has never been seen again. PODCAST EPISODE 4: And he had like a butter knife and he like held it to my neck. I'm going to go back to the dorms. Sanger said the backyard grave was not at grave at all, and no human blood, hair, or bones were found in it. Chris Lambert: It's hard to take too much credit But I was one piece of the puzzle that helped to make this all come together when it did. Lives in: Arroyo Grande CA. Over the years, while Stan Smart hiked every trail around California's Central Coast in hopes of finding Kristin's remains, Denise relentlessly pushed law enforcement to do more. James Murphy: There's no way to get evidence back once you've lost it. Chris Lambert's podcast,"Your Own Backyard," has become a big hit attracting millions of listeners eager to hear every detail surrounding this unsolved case of Kriistin Smart. JAMES MURPHY: Do you have any information as to where Kristin Smart's body is located? Its a fib. Around 2 a.m., party-goer Tim Davis told Smart that she could not spend the night passed out on the party houses front lawn because it was too cold. Jonathan Vigliotti: There was a lot of focus on how Kristin was drinking what sounded a lot like victim shaming. Deputies seized a mattress cover from the bed with a blood stain. Ruben Flores, 80, has been booked on an accessory charge and is being held on $250,000 bail. Bodega en Renta de $65.000 , 3 baos, 1100 m2 en Arroyo de Las Flores, Jalisco ID 26114512. Authorities made clear that they plan to use Flores' alleged predatory behavior against him. But further investigation of the Flores's two trucks seemed impossible. They didn't bring a forensics team. It was turned over to a detective with the San Luis Obispo Sheriff's Office, but Garin Sinclair says, the Smarts never knew it existed until the Lassiters were deposed in January 1997. Kristin Smart 19, a freshman at California Polytechnic State University had gone to a party on Friday, May 24 , 1996 -- and has not been seen since. suddenly major pieces of evidence came forward. Kristin Smart went missing from Cal Poly in 1996. People who were there have said she was intoxicated. Paul R Flores and Paul Raul Flores are some of the alias or nicknames that Paul has used. Her younger sister Lindsey says their mother urged Kristin to go there. Chris Lambert: It was never marked as evidence apparently. DAN DOW [press conference]: But the allegation that he was committing or attempting to commit a rape when he killed her, is the basis for which we are able to file first-degree felony murder charges. He returned later that Friday night and they drove to his friends home which Jane described as sparely furnished. Remember, Flores's room had been emptied and thoroughly cleaned. A break in the case happened in 2020 when sheriffs deputies wire-tapped the phones of Flores, his father, and his mother to record their private conversations. Chris Lambert: I don't think she ever imagined that Kristin would end up dead by the end of the night. They believe they can prove Paul Flores is responsible for the disappearance of Kristin Smart. And had law enforcement drilled a handful of holes in Floress mothers backyard to search for evidence that Smart might be buried there, perhaps Floress alleged serial sexual assaults would have been prevented. They got to the parking lot of an apartment complex. And for the first time clues about what may have happened to Kristin Smart. A popular true-crime podcast, Your Own Backyard, revived public interest in Smarts disappearance. It's been a long night for the Smart family and San Luis Obispo County Sheriff's detectives as they continued to investigate an Arroyo Grande property belonging to Ruben Flores. A jury acquitted Ruben Flores of the charge of being an accessory after the fact. Now several women say they were victims before and after her, too. They were after Paul Flores for an outstanding DUI warrant. James Murphy: And it's 2:30 and 3 o'clock in the morning at Cal Poly this is not a a location from which Paul alone could easily move a body without a vehicle. This boy walked up to me and said Oh hey, you need to be careful of that Paul Flores, I think hes stalking you. FBI via AP, File. The mother is washing her car in the driveway at one point. I would turn around and he would be right there lurking, the woman, referred to here by a pseudonym, said. Wednesday morning, KSBY crews witnessed sheriff's deputies and FBI investigators at the Arroyo Grande home of Susan Flores, the mother of the only person-of-interest in the case, Paul. One of them was Paul Flores, who, to this day, Kristin's family believes abducted and likely killed her. DAN DOW [press conference]: We intend to use evidence of other sexual crimes in this prosecution to prove the facts necessary for the attempted rape in this case. He was writing your name like 150 times on a piece of paper and he kept circling it., High school boys are weird anyway, Jane thought at the time. I've got her. This 9-room home sits on 40,000 square feet of land, which was purchased by the Flores family in 1990. When The Daily Beast tracked Flores down outside his home last month, he didnt mount much of a defense. Eventually they moved in together along with a male roommate in a two-bedroom apartment in nearby Lawndale. Chris Lambert says, two days after that, when Flores was interviewed by campus police, they asked how he got his black eye as well as scratches on his hands and knees. San Luis Obispo County. But Flores basketball friends told investigators that he already had the black eye when he showed up for the game. Chris Lambert: They just have never given up and are never going to give up on their daughter. Lindsey Smart Stewart: "You should go to Cal Poly. Paul Flores - Cal Poly student and Food Science major, Paul Flores lived on campus in room #128 of Santa Lucia Hall Dormitory. It has been called Dr. Seuss Day because of this. In his mug shot, a black eye can faintly been seen. Flores only made one phone call the weekend Smart disappeared, according to prosecutors. It had been the focus of widespread speculation for more than two decades especially her planter boxes. But as Chris Lambert learned, Flores's pattern of behavior with women didn't stop. When buying cowboy boots, there are a few aspects to consider, such as how far up they go on your legs and their design. As of this date, Paul is single. Lindsey Smart Stewart: I think they're, like, carrying boulders on their back. It was never like Hey you want to go hookup? He never made advances and he would just say Hi at school.. Chris Lambert spoke with some women who knew Flores back then. Chris Lambert: Kristin's father would come down and hike every trail he could find on the Central Coast. Regresar a la bsqueda. That's been our goal. She made a decision that shes regretted ever since. I knocked on her door, and I thought she was just sleeping, or she went out and about, you know? PODCAST EPISODE 2 | WOMAN #1: I wasn't surprised, but there's also that shock value of kind of "oh my god, I knew it! Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. When they showed up, it was Paul Flores. Chris Lambert: I remember seeing it on the news it was something scary and they were talking about it pretty regularly. Chris Lambert: At that point I don't think they had ever dealt with a missing person, a possibly murdered person. / CBS News. Ann-Marie Christian: Her parents reminded me of my parents. Chris Lambert: There was a man climbing her trellis and trying to get inside her balcony, very intoxicated and refusing to leave. Some even wondered if she might have been drugged. She was gone. James Murphy: Every day. CBS News correspondent Jonathan Vigliotti tracked Flores down to try and get some answers. But Paul Flores was never charged with any of these incidents. It's fine. DAN DOW [press conference]: We have evidence that we do believe there are other people that are not yet identified that have had some kind of a criminal act perpetrated on them by Mr. Flores. Wiggot: pfo5vr0 total 1100 m2 800 m2 de area prod. Me, my sister, my cousinPaul has no limits, she said, requesting anonymity. "48 Hours" contributor Jonathan Vigliotti takes viewers inside the popular podcast and haunting case in "The Disappearance of Kristin Smart.". Friday, May 24, 1996, was the start of the Memorial Day weekend. In April 2021, investigators charged Paul Flores, left, with Kristin Smart's murder, and his then-80-year-old father Ruben, as an accessory after the fact. Often, Sarah would be at one party or another and there was Flores. Chris Lambert: It's mostly frat guys from the Kappa Chi fraternity. And yes, we believe it's linked to Kristin. Susan's house was finally searched in March 1997 nine months after Kristin disappeared but nothing was found. And I was like, "nah, I have to study." He was seeing someone on the side who he called his friend, she said. So, when they were invited to a party that Friday night, Kristin was excited to go. In the fall of 1996, a young mother named Mary Lassiter was looking for a house to rent in Arroyo Grande, California. Since speaking with The Daily Beast, at least one of the women who has come forward saying Flores attacked her has been questioned by a detective working the Smart case. Margarita Campos: I was, like, "Kristin, I'm going to go back home. Flores has never been charged in this case. The investigation seemed to be hampered from the start by a series of missteps by campus police beginning with their assumption that Kristin was off having fun and ignoring worried friends who said she was missing. Hes on top of me. I never realized its the same guy that harassed [Sarah], he said. Paul Flores lives in San Pedro, CA; previous city include Arroyo Grande CA. Let's go." Copyright 2023 Nexstar Media Inc. All rights reserved. They were meant for Susan Flores asking her to cooperate with police and have her son come forward. The interrogation was recorded just days after Smarts college friends alerted police that she was missing. But Mary Lassiter says the earring matched the necklace Kristin is seen wearing on the billboard. They asked him not to use their names: PODCAST EPISODE 2 | WOMAN #1: Well his nickname was "Scary Paul.". Flores and Smart had spoken at the party. What's going on? At the time, she was a 19-year-old freshman at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo, who'd grown up in Stockton, Calif. On the night of her disappearance, she was spotted at a house party, which she left with three people. Nineteen-year-old Kristin Smart disappeared Memorial Day weekend of 1996. 2020 CBS Interactive Inc. All Rights Reserved. Ian Parkinson: Yes. The woman, whom well call Jane, believes she was roofied, raped, and discarded by Paul Flores and his nameless friend when she was a 15-year-old high-school sophomore in 1994. To think that you're going to finally get some resolution, and then it doesn't happen the way it's supposed to. I was like Oh my God. He lived in the dorm building across from Smart's room. DAN DOW [press conference]: It is alleged that Mr. Flores caused the death of Kristen Smart while in the commission of or attempted rape. Chris Lambert: As they describe it, Paul Flores just sort of appears out of nowhere. Denise Pearce: Kristin hasn't come home And we're not sure where she is We don't know anything. Flores wasn't talking. Davis was helping Smart get up to her feet with Anderson when Flores suddenly appeared out from the darkness, Peuvrelle said. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. In April 2021, investigators finally put the pieces of the puzzle together and decided they had enough to charge the then-44-year-old Paul Flores with Kristin's murder, and his then-80-year-old father with being an accessory after the fact. Just days after she disappeared, an incident report seemed to imply that Kristin's behavior contributed to her disappearance. I didn't know how many people were gonna listen. James Murphy: The question for decades was "Well, where did the body go?". Sarah said shes still haunted by Flores. PODCAST EPISODE 2 | WOMAN #2: You wouldn't want to be alone in a room with him. Mike McHugh is the producer-editor. But as Chris Lambert learned, campus police did not act right away. He never expected it would be a hit, but his podcast caught the attention of millions of listeners and sparked new interest in this decades-old unsolved case. And it was only 250 miles from Stockton, California, where she grew up with Lindsey and their brother Matt. How a tragic boating crash is connected to the family of Alex Murdaugh, Husband of woman murdered with an ax convicted 40 years after her death, Five deaths with a connection to Alex Murdaugh's family investigated, Florida man tries to use COVID-19 as a cover for murder. Nearly a week after their arrests, father and son both pleaded not guilty in San Luis Obispo County Superior Court. JAMES MURPHY: Does your son have any information as to where Kristin Smart's body is located? By the time they called the Cal Poly campus police, Kristin had been missing for more than 48 hours. Even though he'd never investigated anything before, Lambert quit his job to create a podcast about the case. An earring that appeared to match the necklace Kristin is wearing on the billboard. The backyard was all concrete except for a couple of areas where planter boxes had been created by cutting out the concrete and filling them with soil. But while campus police weren't doing much, Kristin's parents were doing whatever they could to find their daughter. Empresa. Then, in 2011, Ian Parkinson was elected sheriff. Lindsey Smart Stewart: She definitely, like, took advantage of life, seized the day she was super ambitious and was determined you know, to find the next adventure. It is also what the Smarts have been waiting for for more than a quarter of a century. A now-retired FBI agent believes those remains were once buried at the home of Floress mother. Paul Flores escorted Smart back to her dorm after an off-campus party. I remember being home watching the news about Kristin Smart and there goes Paul, she recalled. The Arroyo Grande home of Ruben Flores is being searched today for the remains of Kristin Smart. But to fully understand Chris Lambert's contribution, you have to go back to the beginning. Just five months before Kristin disappeared, San Luis Obispo Police received a call from a student living off campus. He has never talked. DAN DOW [press conference]: The allegation against Ruben is that he helped to conceal Kristen's body after the murder was committed. Clockwise from left, Kristin, Denise, Stan, Matt and Lindsey. Flores replies that he was just fibbing. I dont know of any lying Ive done. And it all came back to me. He promised the Smarts that solving Kristin's case would be a priority. She was pushing herself out of her comfort zone. Lourdes Aguiar is the senior producer. I told him, You never do this again! Ermelinda Flores' property in Washington state has been searched by investigators in February 2020. Investigators are currently digging under Rubin Flores' home in another apparent attempt to find the missing teen's body. No charges were filed, but Lambert discovered Flores's troubles started at a young age. SHERIFF IAN PARKINSON [at press conference]: Forensic physical evidence was located. PODCAST | EPISODE 1: At least once a day I asked myself what are you doing? Greg Fisher and Michelle Fanucci are the development producers. James Murphy: If it was, in fact, a piece of jewelry that matched Kristin's jewelry, it would have been blockbuster evidence. He noticed Paul Flores would randomly walk through the halls of Muir Dorm. And there were those nonstop tales of Flores being touchy-feely with her friends. Paul Flores was a constant presence during Sarahs time at Cal Poly, where she transferred in as a sophomore back in 1996, after Smarts disappearance shook the school and the community. James Murphy: And it says wrongful death and then I put murder. When Kristin Smart disappeared, Paul Flores's parents Susan and Ruben were separated and living apart. When they reached the turnoff to Cheryl's dorm, she says Flores tried to hug and kiss her. Back in May 1996, Kristin Smart was finishing her freshman year at California Polytechnic State University better known as Cal Poly. And she's like, "please come with me. He was staring at my face looking at me and he was enjoying himself.. But Lindsey says her sister was happiest when she was traveling. But Flores' basketball friends told investigators that he already had the. But he entreated each woman who came forward to tell their story to The Daily Beast to reach out to his department. One female cousin called Flores a pervert. Im fine. 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