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Over 25 years after California Polytechnic State University freshman Kristin Smart mysteriously vanished from a frat party, a former classmate and his father are on trial over her murder.
Paul Flores, 45, is facing a murder charge after allegedly slaying Smart despite claims he simply walked her home from the off-campus party on Memorial Day weekend in 1996. Prosecutors say that after the grisly crime, Flores’ father, Ruben Flores, helped his son hide the 19-year-old’s body. The pair were arrested in April 2021 in connection with Kristin’s presumed death and disappearance, even though her body has never been discovered.
Now, two sets of Monterey County Superior Court jurors must decide the fate of a notorious murder suspect and the patriarch prosecutors say became an accessory after the fact by buying Smart’s body in his yard—and then besmirching her even in death.