Irma Linda Flores Kristin Smart
Flores is accused of helping his son, Paul Flores, hide Smart’s body under his deck after her alleged murder and moving it to a different location. Also on Tuesday, investigators with the San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Office discussed their strategies for delving into Smart’s disappearance. It was Memorial Day weekend, May 25 1996, when Smart disappeared from a house party near the Cal Poly campus. That night, Boelter, then a 20-year-old student, remembers Smart confidently walking over to him, kissing him and pulling him into the bathroom. The sentencing of Paul Flores marks the culmination of a case that has drawn worldwide attention for over a quarter century. Flores, who had long been considered a prime suspect in Smart's death, was arrested in 2021 and found guilty of first-degree murder last October. In an interview with "20/20" in 1998, Stan Smart said he and his family kept pushing the authorities to look at every clue they could. Police interviewed Paul Flores shortly after KristinSmart went missing. On Memorial Day weekend, in 1996, KristinSmart was at the end of her freshman year at California Polytechnic University. “We need Paul Flores to tell us what happened to KristinSmart,” said San Luis Obispo’s then-Sheriff Ed Williams. “The fact of the matter is we have very qualified detectives who have conducted well over a hundred interviews, and everything leads to Mr. There are no other suspects. He got the maximum sentence, which was 25 years to life in prison, according to the district attorney’s office for San Luis Obispo County. Smart spoke in the courtroom on Friday before the sentencing and talked candidly about how Mr. Flores had upended their lives.
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