Although Kristin Smart’s body has never been found, the trial for her murder is finally underway.
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Opening arguments began last week in Salinas; the trial was moved there due to concerns about the ability to conduct a fair trial in San Luis Obispo, where Smart’s disappearance from the Cal Poly campus in 1996 remains the county’s most infamousAround 2 a.m. on Memorial Day weekend in 1996, Smart, a 19-year-old Cal Poly freshman, headed back to her residence hall after attending a frat party. Smart was accompanied by three fellow students.
Kristin Smart went missing on May 25, 1996 while attending California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo and has not been heard from since.While prosecutors argued the father and son covered up the crime for decades, the defense has implied that it’s not even clear Smart was killed the night she went missing.
Kristin Smart went missing on May 25, 1996 while attending California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo and has not been heard from since.Jurors also heard from a number of witnesses who met Paul Flores during the weekend Kristin Smart vanished. One, Kendra Koed, said Flores tried to kiss her multiple times at the Memorial Day weekend party; Koed said she physically rejected Flores, pushing him to get him away from her.
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