That could have been me.. And my roommate actually kicked down the door to make him stop. or even her keys. Personal details about Paul include: political affiliation is unknown; ethnicity is Hispanic American; and religious views are listed as Christian. And here's your key." Jonathan Vigliotti: There was a lot of evidence that could have been gathered, that wasn't. In 1997 when Paul Flores was deposed for the civil suit, the only thing he would confirm on tape was his name. 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." A judge on March 30 ruled that the trial would be moved out of San Luis . People who were there have said she was intoxicated. 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. Still to this day I am afraid to go to the bathroom by myself in public places, she said, admitting she still asks her husband every time to stand sentry at the door when she has to go. And DNA evidence could not be found linking any other evidence to Kristin. Janes mother frantically phoned her father. 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. James Murphy and Garin Sinclair look at the billboard that has been in their front yard for more than two decades. Chris Lambert: A young couple moves into it with their kid. During a camping trip in Fresno, California, in the early 1990s, Floress female cousins playfully swiped and hid his wallet while walking en route to a liquor store to purchase slush puppies. She told him that shortly after moving in, she was washing her car in the driveway and found an earring next to the left front tire. She never saw accepting the rides as anything but wholesome. Chris Lambert: He actually hit his eye on his steering wheel in the middle of the night while changing his stereo. Susan's house was finally searched in March 1997 nine months after Kristin disappeared but nothing was found. Paul Flores did not have a car on campus, so Murphy surmises he had to have had help. But Sarah kneed Flores in the groin and kicked him in the shin before dashing off into the party. When he arrived she stayed at home while Janes father hightailed it to Arroyo Grande Community Hospital. Once Jane was admitted her story seemed to fall on deaf ears. James Murphy: So why would Susan Flores, her boyfriend, and Ruben Flores be up all night long working under that deck. Chris Lambert: As they describe it, Paul Flores just sort of appears out of nowhere. Still she stuck around until Flores allegedly laid his hands on her aggressively again. Any evidence that might have been there was long gone. And very chilling. She loved swimming and skiing. Chris Lambert: I didn't know the scale. You just don't talk, and you get away with it. 2020 CBS Interactive Inc. All Rights Reserved. Sheriff Ian Parkinson was able to confirm that forensic physical evidence that authorities believe is linked to Kristin was located at, at least two homes. Denise Pearce: The investigation was completely botched by the campus police. Even when law enforcement let them down, they refused to give up. AKA: Susan Flores, Sue P Flores. There was early mistakes made that you can't recover from when you're missing those vital pieces. One late night at a Hermosa Beach bar Flores courted a 21-year-old student whom well call Laura. His father Ruben Flores charged with being an accessory after the factwas found not guilty. An earring that appeared to match the necklace Kristin is wearing on the billboard. And there were those nonstop tales of Flores being touchy-feely with her friends. The two girls walked to an area off campus where there were fraternities, sororities and residential housing for students. PODCAST EPISODE 2 [LAMBERT READING REPORT] Smart does not have any close friends at Cal Poly. but I knew that I could try to do a small part. Lawyers representing Paul Flores, a man found guilty last year of murdering Kristin Smart in San Luis Obispo in 1996, filed motions last week to dismiss the jury verdict and for a new trial. I was crying.. They were giggling as they were dragging me, the now 39-year-old woman told The Daily Beast. JAMES MURPHY: What is the name of your father? ), A sheriff offices spokesman said his agency couldnt say if investigators working Smarts cold case had been made aware or not of the new alleged victims, citing refusal to comment on an open and active investigation.. Chris Lambert: I don't think she ever imagined that Kristin would end up dead by the end of the night. Get off her.. And that's what I've been doing for a long, long time, along with a lot of other people. By this point Sarahs ex-boyfriend arrived and he and his friends scared Flores and his pal, trying to make sure they never showed their faces again. A popular true-crime podcast, Your Own Backyard, revived public interest in Smarts disappearance. And I was like, "nah, I have to study." Jonathan Vigliotti: Was this case, given the evidence that was lost early on, doomed from the very beginning? Four months after that futile search, Paul Flores was brought before a grand jury. LOS ANGELESShe remembers being dragged down Elm Street as she vomited, propped up by a young man and his pal who snickered and cursed her. And I was screaming. (The office hired a detective in 2015 to work on Unsolved Crimes for $15,000 a month: There are four open homicide investigations and Smarts remains an unsolved missing persons case. 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. 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. Ruben Flores, 80, has been booked on an accessory charge and is being held on $250,000 bail. That's how the Lassiters learned that their landlord's son, Paul, was the prime suspect in the disappearance of a young college student in nearby San Luis Obispo. Flores attempted to kiss Anderson before she walked away around 2:30 a.m. She refused his advances because she was creeped out, Peuvrelle said. Jonathan Vigliotti: They thought she was off possibly having fun. The only thing that she remembered next was being dragged in the barely lit street by her alleged rapist on one arm and his pal on the other. After all these years, Sheriff Parkinson says that Paul Flores continues to be their number one suspect. Jonathan Vigliotti: Is this a case that takes a miracle to solve? Her dorm entrance is right over here. Ermelinda Macarthur currently lives in Kenmore, WA; in the past Ermelinda has also lived in Long Beach CA, Arroyo Grande CA and Bothell WA. And might have connected Kristin to Susan Flores's house, says James Murphy. 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. PODCAST | EPISODE 1: At least once a day I asked myself what are you doing? Classes were difficult, she was trying to fit in, and she missed her family. Paul Flores - Cal Poly student and Food Science major, Paul Flores lived on campus in room #128 of Santa Lucia Hall Dormitory. Murphy alleges four nights later, strange activity was seen at Ruben's house. James Murphy: And it says wrongful death and then I put murder. He has never talked. She spent a summer in London, was an exchange student in Venezuela, and a lifeguard at a camp in Hawaii. Then, in 2011, Ian Parkinson was elected sheriff. But soon Flores took his shot with Jane after another drop-off at her moms house. I got in his face, the ex-boyfriend, who requested anonymity, told The Daily Beast. 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. James Murphy: There's no way to get evidence back once you've lost it. JAMES MURPHY: In May of 96 were you a student at Cal Poly? Smart was talking with and socializing with several different males at the party. James Murphy: Having a black eye doesn't make you guilty of anything but if the person you were with disappeared from the planet that's physical evidence. It's, like, she has nothing on her. It was updated on October 22, 2022.). D.A. James Murphy: I'd love to do anything to end their suffering. It has been called Dr. Seuss Day because of this. Four months later, while attempting to reconcile, Susan rented out her house in Arroyo Grande. During opening statements of Flores murder trial this week, prosecutors played a video of Flores stumbling over questions from Cal Poly campus police detectives inside an interrogation room. Chris Lambert was just 8 years old when Kristin Smart vanished on her way home from a college party in San Luis Obispo, California. When Lambert later told Kristin's mother, Denise, about those early morning beeping sounds in Susan Flores's backyard, he said her reaction was "shock we just kind of stared at each other for a good long time I think it took a while to settle in, that this could potentially be huge." And yes, we did find physical evidence at, at least two homes. He would tiptoe around everything. So, they did not immediately get a warrant to search Susan Flores's home. When authorities later confronted him with the two stories, Flores admitted lying and offered a new explanation. Also known as Melinda E Flores. Critics called. Prosecutors said Smart began falling down shortly after she was seen at the Tiki bar with Flores. Deputies seized a mattress cover from the bed with a blood stain. 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. JAMES MURPHY: Do you have any information as to where Kristin Smart's body is located? Chris Lambert: I personally think that wherever Kristin went, Paul was there with her. The detective noticed was Paul was nervous and his heart was beating out of his chest. Despite identifying a prime suspect for her murder, law enforcement did not arrest Flores until 2021. Even though he'd never investigated anything before, Lambert quit his job to create a podcast about the case. But Paul Flores was never charged with any of these incidents. To think that you're going to finally get some resolution, and then it doesn't happen the way it's supposed to. I blacked out and didnt consent to anything.. The Smarts say they tried to file a missing person's report with the local police but were told it was too early, and the FBI told them Cal Poly police were in charge. In October 1996, Mary and her family moved in. We would highly recommend that those people get in contact with us as soon as possible so we could investigate this further, he said. Two days after her daughter went missing, Denise Smart got a call from Cal Poly's campus police. JAMES MURPHY: Has your son ever told you that he did not kill Kristin Smart? . I get into the bathroom and try to lock it and then the door gets kicked open., It was not more than five seconds before Sarah said Flores crashed opened the door and stood in the frame. That's been our goal. It is believed she is deceased, but there is no evidence of what happened to her after Paul Flores left her. Like what may have been discovered in March 2021 when investigators searched Ruben Flores' house using cadaver dogs and ground penetrating radar. "48 Hours" looks back to their arrests and how the saga began. Friday, May 24, 1996, was the start of the Memorial Day weekend. Just days after taking over the investigation, the San Luis Obispo Sheriff's Office brought several dogs trained to detect human remains, to the Cal Poly dorms. However hard she and her father fought back, there was no chance they were going to get beyond the he said, she said. I was drunk and he had a witness and I didnt, Jane said. But 22 years later, when he couldn't find any recent stories about the case, he decided to do something. But Flores' basketball friends told investigators that he already had the. I think they're just waiting to see what the outcome is going to be. And these girls are inviting us out. But Mary Lassiter says the earring matched the necklace Kristin is seen wearing on the billboard. What's going on? He'd go anywhere. "YOUR OWN BACKYARD" PODCAST: EPISODE 1: It's a cold and cloudy winter afternoon in San Luis Obispo and I'm retracing missing Cal Poly student Kristin Smart's last known steps. Jonathan Vigliotti found Flores outside his home in Southern California and asked him a number of questions about Kristin's disappearance. Lambert says Kristin could not stand on her own, so fellow student Cheryl Anderson who was also at the party began helping her back to campus. Wiggot: pfo5vr0 total 1100 m2 800 m2 de area prod. San Luis Obispo County Sheriff deputies arrested Paul Flores, the primary suspect in the disappearance of Kristin Smart, and his father, Ruben Flores, at separate locations Tuesday morning. I know I didnt have any pants on and he was in me and I could feel him, she said of the three seconds she managed to wake from the slumber that took hold of her. putting murder on the lawsuit was sending a message to Paul Flores and his family, that we believe that he killed Kristin and that we're coming for him. Paul would try to get Kristins attention and she was too nice to tell him off. Not at all. Lindsey Smart Stewart: "You should go to Cal Poly. Another frustration for the Smarts: at the time Kristin disappeared, investigators weren't aware that Paul Flores's parents were separated and living apart. Some even wondered if she might have been drugged. She graduated from San Perlita as valedictorian to the class of 1953 to proceed her education at James R . Flores father is now charged with helping cover up the homicide by burying Smarts body in his Arroyo Grande homes backyard. 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. Laura said Flores worked a construction job while attending school but that he was very secretive and she suspected he was in college forever so that his mommy kept paying for his housing and classes.. Nearly a week after their arrests, father and son both pleaded not guilty in San Luis Obispo County Superior Court. Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. Chris Lambert and it worked. They also did not focus on Paul Flores immediately, waiting six days to formally interview him. I was like Oh my God. I told him, You never do this again! Flores and Smart had spoken at the party. She was pushing herself out of her comfort zone. Used to live: San Luis Obispo CA, Arroyo Grande CA, Torrance CA. According to the defense, a forensics expert said if it was a grave, you would find hairs, bones, and a big change in the soil composition. James Murphy: An eyewitness actually documented the fact that throughout the night that there was activity in the area of the underside of that deck. The duplex was located up the same street from where her mom resided. People are watching Ruben Flores and Susan Flores and Paul Flores. She was saved by their male roommate, who barged in because of Lauras blood-curdling screams. He threw [my cousin] to the ground and got on top of her and putting his hands down her top even after he got his wallet. By the time they called the Cal Poly campus police, Kristin had been missing for more than 48 hours. All four dogs, including one who was considered the best of the best, separately signaled an alert indicating the presence of human remain odors only in Flores room. How could she have gone out of town? 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. October 22, 2022 / 10:10 PM Denise Pearce: The phone call never comes. But while campus police weren't doing much, Kristin's parents were doing whatever they could to find their daughter. His podcast, "Your Own Backyard," has become a big hit attracting millions of listeners eager to hear every detail surrounding this unsolved case. Kristin Smart has been missing since 1996 and the San Luis County Obispo District Attorney allege she was killed during a rape. James Murphy: Somebody found an earring that they say was Kristin Smart's jewelry in the driveway. Paul had this look on his face, the relative said. Margarita Campos: She was absolutely sober when I left her. I drank this drink and I dont know what it was but let me tell you something the next thing you know I was passed out, Jane said. He grabbed me down there and while Im yelling at him my girlfriend threw a piece of gum at his face and he pushes her down., At this point every male at the party joined in to jump Flores, who fled, she said, adding, Boom, he disappeared., That same year, Sarah said, Flores pursued her again at a friends birthday party. Instead, on Monday, May 27, Denise Pearce says the Smarts got a call from Cal Poly's campus police asking if Kristin was with them. Smart, a native of Stockton, was nearing the end of her. CBS News correspondent Jonathan Vigliotti tracked Flores down to try and get some answers. PODCAST EPISODE 5: If you were making a film about a new law enforcer who's coming to a small town to save the day, you'd probably cast Parkinson. 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. But Murphy says there were other incidents that should have raised alarm bells about him with law enforcement from the very beginning. I guess the answer is yes. Alicia Tejada is the field producer and Addison Briley is the associate producer. By the end of the evening she was found passed out on the lawn next door and needed help to get back to the dorm. Chris Lambert: They just have never given up and are never going to give up on their daughter. Related to: Ruben R Flores, Ermelinda M Thomas, Paul R Flores, Rachel H Flores, Ruben Flores. Its a fib. In one of Paul's police interviews he mentioned that he wanted to be let out of the interview because he needed to help clean up concrete at his mom's house So, what was being done in Susan Flores's backyard in the weeks after Kristin went missing? to find the next challenge. The Arroyo Grande home of Ruben Flores is being searched today for the remains of Kristin Smart. He was seeing someone on the side who he called his friend, she said. D.A. And for a few moments Jane came to and saw Flores having his way with her. / CBS News, (This story previously aired on May 8, 2021. In fact, Cheryl Anderson, who trusted Flores to walk Kristin back to her dorm alone, told police that her friends called him "Chester the molester," because he was known for groping girls. And they told Lambert they weren't surprised when they heard about Flores's connection to Kristin's disappearance. Jonathan Vigliotti [with Lambert outside of the the dorms]: Paul and Kristin then make their way here. 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! Jonathan Vigliotti: How did you know she hadn't been back? D.A. My mom opened the door and she cries, Oh my God!. He was staring at my face looking at me and he was enjoying himself.. Denise Pearce: She was becoming more and more alarmed, you know? Little is known since the proceedings are kept secret, but no charges were ever filed. 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. Im fine. There was no reaction until the dog reached Paul Flores's room. 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. Authorities arrested Ruben Flores after San Luis Obispo County Sheriff's deputies served a search warrant at his Arroyo Grande home. Guardar . Chris Lambert: They did a significant amount of digging underneath the house. Multiple attempts to reach Flores and his parents to comment on the new accusations were unsuccessful. First published on November 28, 2020 / 11:10 PM. Like his black eye, seen faintly in a mug shot taken by the Arroyo Grande Police just by chance two days after Kristin vanished. In the fall of 1996, a young mother named Mary Lassiter was looking for a house to rent in Arroyo Grande, California. You can go." James Murphy: Every day. Bodega en Renta de $65.000 , 3 baos, 1100 m2 en Arroyo de Las Flores, Jalisco ID 26114512. Instead, Flores and his family were sued in 2002 by the Smarts in civil court for intentionally inflicted emotional distress upon the parents of Kristin Smart by taking the body of Kristin Smart and secreting and/or destroying the body in a hidden place in the County of San Luis Obispo. The Flores family countersued for emotional distress. Both suits were shelved by a judge until Smarts remains are found. He later argued that the biological evidence found under the deck was not conclusively human blood. He would be stalking me.. That witness initially came forward to Chris Lambert, who passed the information to the sheriff's office and Murphy. School was over, so campus police found an empty room that had been sanitized by the university's cleaning crew. November 27, 2020 / 8:14 AM So had Margarita Campos, who lived in the next room in Muir Hall. A woman nearby screamed at Flores to get off her and threatened to call the cops, she said. FBI via AP, File. In the months after Kristin's disappearance, one truck was traded in and the other was reported stolen. SHERIFF IAN PARKINSON [at press conference]: Forensic physical evidence was located. After seizing an old car, digging in the back yard and taking evidence San Luis Obispo County sheriff deputies concluded a two search of an Arroyo Grande home related to the 1996. To declare to the public if you stay quiet, you will get away with this. 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