But she didn’t tell anyone of those words for years and informed the lead investigator in the case in 2019. “I’m done playing with her, and I put her out underneath my ramp,” Hudson testified that Flores told her, seemingly referring to a local skateboarding ramp. He is charged after prosecutors say he moved Smart’s body.ĭuring the trial, which began July 18, a prosecutor solicited testimony from witness Jennifer Hudson that Paul Flores admitted the crime to her in 1996, according to reporting in the Tribune and the Atascadero News. His father was taken into custody last year at his home in Arroyo Grande, Calif. San Luis Obispo County sheriff’s detectives arrested Paul Flores, 44, at his San Pedro home in April 2021. Her body has never been found, but she was legally declared dead in 2002. Smart’s disappearance and the murder investigation have haunted the Central Coast college community for decades, with billboards appealing for evidence to convict her killer. Carter said that he saw nothing in the data to suggest the presence of human remains and that decomposing bodies are messy and leave trace evidence behind even when they are removed from the soil. Seeking to undermine the theory that Smart was buried beneath Ruben Flores’ deck for decades before being moved, Sanger called to the witness stand David Carter, a professor in forensic sciences at Chaminade University in Honolulu who spent 20 years studying decomposition. Those attorneys Wednesday began to chip away at the prosecution theory, knowing that without a body and DNA connecting Paul Flores and Smart despite the days of testimony, they need to convince jurors only that there is reasonable doubt of the crimes. Separate juries hearing the case together will decide each man’s fate. The older Flores is being tried at the same time for being an accessory to the crime, accused of helping dispose of the Cal Poly student’s body. Chris Peuvrelle for over two months has sought to show jurors that Flores raped and killed 19-year-old Smart before hiding her remains with the help of his father, Ruben. Robert Sanger, Flores’ attorney, outside the panel’s presence, called it unduly prejudicial, the Tribune reported. The judge called the video that included the image shocking and said she picked the least inflammatory still image from it. Jurors had already heard those women testify that Flores - the last person seen walking with Smart on the Cal Poly San Luis Obispo campus on May 25, 1996, before she vanished - sexually assaulted them in Los Angeles separately in 20. One warm Friday night in late spring 10 years ago, Kristin Denise Smart and three other young women started walking from their dorms at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. California From the Archives: A cold case, a haunting mystery
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