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All right, so the night that Paul Flores takes over and takes her, well, we don't know where she went.

Takes her not to her dorm room.

Not to her dorm room.

But that is the last confirmed sighting of Kristen Smart alive.

So no one has ever seen her since.

On the morning of May 25th, so this is now the next morning, Kristen never returns to her dorm room at Mirror Hall.

Her belongings, including her purse, ID, and other personal items are later found inside her dorm room and they're untouched.

Wow, wait, her stuff was in her dorm room?

Yeah, you know, I don't really understand, but that night she went out, she went out on campus.

So I assume that she didn't feel like she needed to take- Oh, like maybe it was there all along.

They were always there.

Not like it was returned.

No, she didn't have them when she went out that night.

Which also means she couldn't leave them anywhere as breadcrumbs for detectives to find her.