Legally Brunette: The Disappearance of Kristin Smart
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What happened to Kristin Smart on Memorial Day weekend in 1996?
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Now, you know that school because your niece and nephew both went there and graduated from there. Right. Right. Also referred to as slow and they're the Mustangs. They're slow and they're the Mustangs. I've actually... S-L-O, slow. S-L-O, right. I've been on the campus. Oh, that's right. You went there, huh? Yeah, a few years ago when my niece first started going to Cal Poly. And I remembered the Kristen Smart case and I remembered that she was in the dorm called Mirror Hall. And so I made sure to check it out, to take a little look at it while I was on campus. Okay. Kristen Smart disappeared on Memorial Day weekend in 1996. She was last seen by Cal Poly student Paul Flores, who walked her home that night from a college party.
After relentless searching, her body has never been discovered, even though we'll talk about in a little bit. This case has been... Why it came up in my mind again was because there's been renewed attention on this case. Because... Because recently... the police had been investigating because her body's never been found. So they had been, they had gotten police warrants to search Paul Flores' mother's home, Susan Flores. After relentless searching, her body was never found and the case went cold for over two decades. In 2021, the case took a turn when investigators were finally able to narrow in on two suspects and arrest them for Kristen's murder, which ends up being Paul Flores and his father, Ruben Flores.
All right. Let's just go through the background a little bit and give a little early life and college years on Kristen so we can learn a little bit about her. So on February 20th of 1977, Kristen Denise Smart was born in Augsburg, Germany, to Stan and Denise Smart, who were both teachers working on a U.S.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What happened to Kristin Smart on Memorial Day weekend in 1996?
0:00–12:23
2
Who were the last people seen with Kristin Smart before her disappearance?
12:23–19:58
3
What critical mistakes were made during the investigation of Kristin Smart's case?
19:58–36:24
4
How did Paul Flores become the prime suspect in Kristin Smart's disappearance?
36:24–57:05