SF News Convicted Killer Paul Flores Ordered to Pay $346K In Restitution to Family of Victim Kristin Smart A judge on Monday ordered Paul Flores to pay $346,000 in restitution to the family of Kristin Smart, to cover expenses they say they incurred as a result of, and in the wake of, Smart's 1996 disappearance.
SF News Convicted Kristin Smart Killer Paul Flores Stabbed In Prison Paul Flores, who is serving a sentence of 25 years to life in prison for the 1996 murder of fellow Cal Poly student Kristin Smart, was reportedly stabbed and injured while in prison this week — and this is the second time he's been attacked in less than a year.
SF News The Prisoner Who Attacked Kristin Smart’s Killer Also Killed the I-5 Strangler in Prison An interesting twist in the August prison attack on Kristin Smart’s convicted killer Paul Flores: It turns out his attacker is the same prisoner who strangled and killed his cellmate in 2021, a cellmate who was the notorious “I-5 Strangler.”
SF News Kristin Smart's Convicted Killer Paul Flores Gets Attacked In Prison The man convicted last year for the 1996 murder of his college classmate Kristin Smart, Paul Flores, was reportedly attacked in prison Wednesday and was hospitalized in serious condition.
SF News Jurors In Kristin Smart Murder Case Speak Out About Convicting Paul Flores Jurors in the case against Paul Flores, for the 1996 murder of Cal Poly student Kristin Smart, were barred from speaking publicly or with each other about the case for over three months. But now they're able to talk.
SF News Paul Flores Gets 25 Years to Life For Kristin Smart Murder Paul Flores, who was convicted last fall in the 1996 murder of Cal Poly student Kristin Smart, was sentenced Friday and received 25 years to life.
SF News Paul Flores Found Guilty In 1996 Murder of Kristin Smart A 26-year-old mystery out of San Luis Obispo came to a conclusion Tuesday, as Paul Flores was found guilty in the murder of 19-year-old Kristin Smart. His father, Ruben Flores, was found not guilty by a separate jury of being an accessory after the fact.
SF News In Kristin Smart Murder Trial Closing Argument, Prosecutors Tell Jurors They Don't Need a Body to Convict There has been a wealth of circumstantial evidence, and some compelling physical evidence in the trial of Paul Flores and his father Ruben Flores. And the Monterey County jury was listening to closing arguments on Monday.
SF News Two Women Testify at Kristin Smart Murder Trial That Paul Flores Drugged and Raped Them There has been some dramatic testimony in the ongoing trial of Paul and Ruben Flores, who stand accused in the 1996 murder of Cal Poly student Kristin Smart, including from two women who say they were assaulted by Paul Flores in the last 15 years.
SF News Trial Kicks Off In 26-Year-Old Kristin Smart Murder Case 26 years and two months since she was last seen alive, Kristin Smart's accused murderer finally goes on trial this week along with his alleged accomplice dad, in a Salinas court.
SF News Kristin Smart Murder Trial to Be Moved Out of San Luis Obispo A San Luis Obispo County judge on Wednesday granted a change of venue for the trial of the accused killer of onetime Cal Poly student Kristin Smart, Paul Flores, and his accused accomplice father, Ruben Flores.
SF News Paul Flores, Longtime Suspect In 1996 Disappearance of Kristin Smart, Will Stand Trial For Her Murder A San Luis Obispo County judge ruled Wednesday that Paul Flores, the last person seen with 19-year-old Cal Poly freshman Kristin Smart after a party 25 years ago, should stand trial for her murder.
SF News Preliminary Hearing Wraps Up In Kristin Smart Murder Trial; Judge to Rule Wednesday On Wednesday, a judge in San Luis Obispo County will decide whether there is sufficient evidence to move forward with the trial of Paul and Ruben Flores, the father and son accused in the 1996 disappearance of Cal Poly student Kristin Smart.
SF News Newly Unsealed Court Documents Suggest Accused Kristin Smart Killer 'Hunted' Her For Months Ahead of the start of a preliminary hearing in the murder trial of Paul Flores, the San Luis Obispo County court has unsealed the prosecution's statement of evidence in the case, and it's fairly damning.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Prosecutor Says Kristin Smart Was Killed During Attempted Rape A 26-year-old SF man was arrested for creating child porn at a local daycare, Antioch is re-establishing a Chinatown more than a century after burning it down, and SF's first H Mart opens next week with a new food court attached.
SF News Arrest Made of Longtime Prime Suspect In Kristin Smart's Unsolved 1996 Murder With the anniversary of Cal Poly student Kristin Smart's disappearance approaching in May, San Luis Obispo County sheriff’s officials have just announced the arrest of who they now say is their "prime suspect," 44-year-old Paul Flores.
SF News Authorities Dig Up Cal Poly Campus In New Search For Kristin Smart, Missing Since 1996 For 20 years, the family of onetime Cal Poly student Kristin Smart has had no closure in her disappearance and presumed murder, and now the FBI and the San Luis Obispo Sheriff's Department
