Nearly three decades after Kristin Smart vanished from a California college campus, her family is still searching — not for answers about who killed her, but for the one thing that could finally bring them peace: her body.
Smart was killed in 1996, but her murderer, Paul Flores, wasn’t convicted of the crime until 2023. After Flores lost his final appeal to overturn or reduce his life sentence, Smart’s family has made it clear they aren’t done fighting for justice.
In May 2026, it seemed that a possible breakthrough in the case might have happened after police obtained a search warrant for Flo...
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