A San Luis Obispo County judge ruled that Paul Flores will be tried for murder in the 1996 disappearance of Kristin Smart and that his father must also answer to charges that he was an accessory to the crime.
Judge Craig B. Van Rooyen on Wednesday morning made the decision there was probable cause to try both father and son after hearing 22 days of testimony in which the prosecutor laid out a circumstantial case against Paul Flores, who was the last person seen with the fellow Cal Poly San Luis Obispo student near the residence halls on May 25, 1996.
During the preliminary hearing, the prosecutor solicited testimony from witness Jennifer Hudson that the now 44-year-old Flores admitted to the crime to her in 1996.“I’m done playing with her and I put her out underneath my ramp...” Hudson testified Flores told her. But she didn’t tell anyone of those words for years, and only informed the lead investigator in the case in 2019.
After noting that a former boyfriend had left burned shoes on Smart’s doorstep, Sanger said he was not saying that the ex-boyfriend killed her. “I’m saying there’s no evidence anyone had done it,” he said. Peuvrelle said that Smart had passed out at the party for two hours in full view of many, and that two friends were holding her to walk her home when her accused killer “came out of the darkness” and repeatedly told one of those friends, Cheryl Anderson, that he would get her home safe.
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