READ NEXT: Teenage Porn Star Controversy Rocks California High School, Paul Flores: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know, Copyright 2023 Heavy, Inc. All rights reserved. Chris Lambert: Paul worked with a number of women that he made incredibly uncomfortable girls who he tried to make a pass at sexually, girls that he tried to force to kiss him. His father, Ruben, is charged as an accessory, accused of helping cover up the crime. In high school he was known as a loner. Shortly after that, San Luis Obispo County Sheriff sniffer dogs were brought on the Cal Poly campus. Their trial is expected to last into at least October. But further investigation of the Flores's two trucks seemed impossible. His father Ruben Flores charged with being an accessory after the factwas found not guilty. Kristin Smart was declared legally dead in May 2002. Friday, May 24, 1996, was the start of the Memorial Day weekend. Smart has long been suspected to have been abducted and killed in May 1996, while she was a freshman at California. The Arroyo Grande cops, Jane said, favored Floress story that she willingly drank and had sex that night. Hes on top of me. Cole states things have changed drastically due to advances in DNA technology, adding that evidence has been re-examined and vehicles belonging to Thomas and her family have been forensically searched. I remember being home watching the news about Kristin Smart and there goes Paul, she recalled. James Murphy and Garin Sinclair look at the billboard that has been in their front yard for more than two decades. She regretfully denounced them as cruel rumors at the time. Chris Lambert, who worked as a CBS News consultant, pieced together what he learned from people who were there that night. That's been our goal. I was like It wasnt. 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. In only one of those instances, in 2000, did Flores serve time. In 1998, the San Francisco Examiner ran a feature on Flores that included a quote from his former lawyer, Greg Coates, who said that there were no facts to indicate that Paul had anything to do with the disappearance of Kristin Smart.. 0:41. So, I said, "you better turn some lights on right now and let me out or I'm going to scream." People are watching Ruben Flores and Susan Flores and Paul Flores. In the crowd, taking it all in, was that podcaster, Chris Lambert. He lived in the dorm building across from Smarts room. I never realized its the same guy that harassed [Sarah], he said. Smart was talking with and socializing with several different males at the party. You ALWAYS ask your interns about it? I could not imagine being his mother. 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. Previous. Deputies towed the car from Rubin Flores' home. The moment still haunts her. "Paul had this look on his face," the relative said. He tells Thomas that he has not attempted to contact her or anyone else from her family previously because it was obvious to me that former detectives harassed your family in the past and I do not operate that way., He states, When I started reviewing this case, I kept an open mind and assumed that Paul Flores was not involved in Kristins disappearance. DAN DOW [press conference]: The allegation against Ruben is that he helped to conceal Kristen's body after the murder was committed. Thew newspaper adds that the Navy refused to take Flores because of his connection to the Smart case. Margarita Campos: I was expecting her to knock on my door and be, like, "Oh, Margarita, you missed a rager. He invoked the Fifth Amendment 27 times. legal adult and dismissing her parents pleas, spreading rumors about her personal life and Spring quarter grades). I'm going to go back to the dorms. I have this PTSD fear of someone kicking the door in.. Chris Lambert: They did a significant amount of digging underneath the house. But Parkinson acknowledges it hasn't been easy. 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. It was never like Hey you want to go hookup? He never made advances and he would just say Hi at school.. 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. At least one, since The Daily Beast began reporting, said she has been interviewed by the San Luis Obispo Sheriffs Office. But to fully understand Chris Lambert's contribution, you have to go back to the beginning. That's when the campus police finally handed the investigation over to The San Luis Obispo Sheriff's Office but they did not find Kristin. Like what may have been discovered in March 2021 when investigators searched Ruben Flores' house using cadaver dogs and ground penetrating radar. The next morning, Margarita waited to hear from Kristin. Ruben faces a maximum of three years in jail. Sources tell us investigators discovered videos and photographs on Flores' computer showing him engaged in sexual activity with at least 10 different women, apparently in various states of consciousness. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. 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. Jonathan Vigliotti: There was a lot of evidence that could have been gathered, that wasn't. To think that you're going to finally get some resolution, and then it doesn't happen the way it's supposed to. Chris Lambert: They didn't bring cadaver dogs with them. Like his black eye, seen faintly in a mug shot taken by the Arroyo Grande Police just by chance two days after Kristin vanished. He promised the Smarts that solving Kristin's case would be a priority. Kristin did not have a purse, money, her I.D. I would turn around and he would be right there lurking, the woman, referred to here by a pseudonym, said. Four months later, while attempting to reconcile, Susan rented out her house in Arroyo Grande. 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. 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. We just, "do you know anything about it". Ermelinda Macarthur currently lives in Kenmore, WA; in the past Ermelinda has also lived in Long Beach CA, Arroyo Grande CA and Bothell WA. Her parents, Denise and Stan were both educators who encouraged their kids' passions. Other names that Ermelinda uses includes Ermelinda M Macarthur, Ermelinda M Flores, Ermelinda M Mac Arthur, Ermelinda Flores and Ermelinda M Thomas. In October 2022, Paul Flores, the man long suspected in her disappearance, was found guilty of murder. After they broke up, Laura did a little sleuthing and discovered her ex-boyfriend was accused in Smarts vanishing. Still she stuck around until Flores allegedly laid his hands on her aggressively again. JAMES MURPHY: Does your son have any information as to where Kristin Smart's body is located? Lindsey Smart Stewart: I think they're, like, carrying boulders on their back. In a civil lawsuit, the Smarts' attorney claims that Kristin's remains were buried at one time on Paul Flores' father's property. His room was finally searched when the sheriff took over the case and at that point Paul had moved off campus and Cal Poly had deep cleaned his room, destroying any available evidence. Chris Lambert: There was a man climbing her trellis and trying to get inside her balcony, very intoxicated and refusing to leave. I always said, He wouldnt do that., Sexually, Laura paints Paul Flores as very experienced and maintaining a very healthy appetite., It would get too aggressive and at times I had to say, Hey, calm down., Laura says that one time they were wrestling in bed and Flores got too aggressive and grabbed a butter knife and pushed it against my face., She says she kept pleading for him to settle down. 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. Her family misses her every minute of everyday!, Kristin Denise Smart: Missing since May 25th, 1996 Part 1, Kristin Denise Smart 40 minute Download into iMovie, FBI Dogs Finds Possible Remains Of Kristin Smart On Cal Poly Campus. Constructive debate is good; mockery, taunting, and name calling is not. Back then, Jane remembered Flores pulling up to her on multiple occasions behind the wheel of a green pickup truck. Denise Pearce: The phone call never comes. I also brought them witnesses that they had no interest in whatsoever. The Smart family sued Flores in 1996 in an attempt to get some answers in civil court about their daughter, but Flores took the fifth amendment. Margarita Campos: I mean, she was gone. Jonathan Vigliotti: How did you know she hadn't been back? Chris Lambert: Kristin's father would come down and hike every trail he could find on the Central Coast. 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. Any evidence that might have been there was long gone. Not to be a cynic but the Republican DA faces a BLM challenge from an increasing Berkeley-esque electorate. Margarita Campos: Kristin was like, "come on, let's go, let's go." Chris Lambert: As they describe it, Paul Flores just sort of appears out of nowhere. 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