One of Kristin Smart’s friends from college testified on Monday about the night the 19-year-old disappeared more than two decades ago, according to reports from inside the courtroom.
Margarita Campos and Kristin Smart grew close in 1996 while they were students at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo. They were among a group of women who had attended an off-campus party on May 24, 1996 – hours before Smart was last seen – but Campos ended the night earlier than Smart, according to tweets from an account for the "Your Own Backyard" podcast.
Shields told the jury that she spotted Paul Flores "staring intently" at Smart for minutes during a party weeks before Smart went missing, according to the tweets. Flores is accused of killing Smart while both were freshman at California Polytechnic State University’s San Luis Obispo campus in 1996. Prosecutors have said Flores killed Smart on May 25, 1996, though her remains have never been recovered.
"Kristin wanted to walk by some houses to see if there any parties," Campos reportedly told the juries. "I just was over it.""She was being assertive and stubborn, and I was being assertive and stubborn. I’ve replayed it a lot in my mind over the years," she said, according to the tweets. "I shouldn’t have left her by herself. We should have stuck together."
Paul was allegedly the last person seen with Smart, who was said to have been intoxicated after they and others had attended an off-campus frat party over the Memorial Day weekend. Later on Friday, the jury heard from college student Kendra Koed, who did not attend Cal Poly, but was at the same party as Smart on the night that she was last seen, according to the tweets.
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