Judge Jennifer O'Keefe during the first day of testimony in the Kristin Smart murder trial July 21, 2022. The trial. The trial was moved out of San Luis Obispo County and is taking place in Salinas.

The trial evidence also includes photos of Kristin Smart’s belongings found in her dorm, a handwritten letter from Denise Smart to her daughter in 1996, and dirt samples taken from Ruben Flores ...

Opening statements began Monday in the trial of a California father and son charged in connection with the death of college student Kristin Smart in 1996. CNN values your feedback 1.

For further updates on the verdict, visit our story here: BREAKING NEWS: Paul Flores guilty of murdering Kristin Smart Update, 2:15 p.m.: The San Luis Obispo County District Attorney’s Office ...

Without a body to show in the 1996 San Luis Obispo cold case, the prosecution concluded its presentation in the Kristin Smart murder trial with a sexually explicit screenshot of another woman with ...

Smart, a 19-year-old college student, disappeared in 1996. A California jury has found Paul Flores guilty in the murder of 19-year-old college student Kristin Smart in 1996. His sentencing is ...

Flores was arrested in 2021 along with his father, who was accused of helping to hide Smart's body. The trial was held in Salinas, in Monterey County, about 110 miles (177 kilometers) north of San ...

Dog handler Adela Morris testified at the Kristin Smart murder trial that her dog made a beeline for the bed in suspect Paul Flores' dorm room in the weeks after the student's 1996 disappearance.

On Monday, a murder trial in connection with Smart's presumed death began in Monterey County Superior Court in Salinas, where prosecutors will work to prove their belief that Flores, now 45, raped ...

Lab tested DNA for Kristin Smart case in 2021. In 2022, SERI senior forensic DNA analyst Angela Butler testified during the Smart trial that the lab tested for both the presence of human blood and ...