1 00:00:08,275 --> 00:00:11,689 >> TONIGHT, THERE'S BEEN A MAJOR BREAK IN A 25-YEAR-OLD MYSTERY, 2 00:00:11,724 --> 00:00:14,689 THE 1996 DISAPPEARANCE AND MURDER OF COLLEGE STUDENT 3 00:00:14,724 --> 00:00:15,827 KRISTIN SMART. 4 00:00:15,862 --> 00:00:19,757 >> IT'S A LANDMARK DAY IN THIS VERY HIGH-PROFILE CASE. 5 00:00:19,792 --> 00:00:21,827 [ OVERLAPPING TALKING] >> THE SAN LUIS OBISPO SHERIFF'S 6 00:00:21,861 --> 00:00:24,964 OFFICE IS SET TO RELEASE DETAILS ABOUT THE LATEST DEVELOPMENTS... 7 00:00:25,000 --> 00:00:29,000 >> TODAY IS A DAY THAT MANY HAD HOPED FOR, WISHED FOR, AND 8 00:00:29,033 --> 00:00:33,000 PRAYED FOR. 9 00:00:33,033 --> 00:00:36,378 >> THIS IS WHERE IT ALL BEGAN, ON THE CAMPUS OF CAL POLY 10 00:00:36,412 --> 00:00:37,448 UNIVERSITY. 11 00:00:37,481 --> 00:00:41,000 THE LAST PLACE THAT KRISTIN SMART WAS SEEN ALIVE. 12 00:00:41,033 --> 00:00:45,000 IT'S MY HOPE THAT WE'RE ABLE TO TAKE THE FIRST STEP TOWARDS 13 00:00:45,033 --> 00:00:49,000 JUSTICE FOR THE SMART FAMILY. 14 00:00:51,723 --> 00:00:53,033 >> I GREW UP NO FAR FROM WHERE KRISTIN DISAPPEARED. 15 00:00:53,067 --> 00:00:56,585 THE BILLBOARD IN ARROYO GRANDE IS VISIBLE. 16 00:00:56,619 --> 00:00:57,862 IT'S GOT KRISTIN'S PHOTO ON IT. 17 00:00:57,896 --> 00:01:00,551 DRIVING PAST THAT BILLBOARD WAS A PERIODIC REMINDER THAT, OH, 18 00:01:00,585 --> 00:01:03,896 YEAH, THEY STILL HAVEN'T FOUND THAT GIRL. 19 00:01:03,930 --> 00:01:05,206 I'M CHRIS LAMBERT. 20 00:01:05,240 --> 00:01:09,067 I CREATED THE PODCAST, "YOUR OWN BACKYARD," WHICH FOCUSED ON THE 21 00:01:09,102 --> 00:01:10,275 DISAPPEARANCE OF KRISTIN SMART. 22 00:01:10,310 --> 00:01:13,688 >> INVESTIGATORS SAY SMART AND TWO OTHER STUDENTS LEFT THE 23 00:01:13,724 --> 00:01:16,171 PARTY THAT NIGHT AND WALKED BACK TO THEIR ON-CAMPUS DORMITORY 24 00:01:16,206 --> 00:01:20,379 BUILDINGS. 25 00:01:20,412 --> 00:01:21,930 >> Reporter: WE'RE HERE SURROUNDED BY DORMS, AND YET 26 00:01:21,965 --> 00:01:23,412 NOBODY SAW ANYTHING? 27 00:01:23,448 --> 00:01:25,033 >> IT WAS A VERY DEAD HOLIDAY WEEKEND. 28 00:01:25,067 --> 00:01:26,481 A LOT OF PEOPLE HAD GONE HOME. 29 00:01:26,516 --> 00:01:28,379 IN THE AMOUNT OF TIME THAT THEY WERE ALONE AND WHATEVER 30 00:01:28,412 --> 00:01:32,310 HAPPENED THAT HER LIFE ENDED, I THINK THERE WAS PLENTY OF 31 00:01:32,343 --> 00:01:36,620 OPPORTUNITY TO HIDE HER BODY WITHOUT ANYBODY NOTICING. 32 00:01:36,655 --> 00:01:39,930 >> MY SISTER TURNED 19 IN FEBRUARY. 33 00:01:39,965 --> 00:01:41,171 SHE DISAPPEARED IN MAY. 34 00:01:41,206 --> 00:01:45,067 WHEN SHE DISAPPEARED, I WAS ABOUT TO GRADUATE EIGHTH GRADE. 35 00:01:45,103 --> 00:01:49,067 BUT MY PARENTS DID A REALLY GOOD JOB OF SHIELDING US. 36 00:01:49,103 --> 00:01:56,861 >> STAN AND DENISE, THEY'RE WONDERFUL PARENTS. 37 00:01:56,896 --> 00:02:00,481 >> A VERY LARGE GROUP OF FRIENDS WENT DOWN TO CAL POLY TO HELP 38 00:02:00,516 --> 00:02:01,171 SEARCH FOR HER. 39 00:02:01,206 --> 00:02:03,481 STAN WAS THERE. 40 00:02:03,516 --> 00:02:04,620 DENISE STAYED BACK. 41 00:02:04,655 --> 00:02:08,275 AND I STAYED BACK WITH HER IN CASE KRISTIN CAME HOME. 42 00:02:08,310 --> 00:02:10,000 >> NEVER WOULD HAVE DREAMED IN A MILLION YEARS THAT SHE 43 00:02:10,033 --> 00:02:13,240 WOULD NOT RETURN. 44 00:02:13,275 --> 00:02:14,793 AND CAL POLY IS A SAFE PLACE. 45 00:02:14,826 --> 00:02:21,103 YOU DO NOT THINK OF THIS HAPPENING. 46 00:02:21,137 --> 00:02:24,033 >> THIS IS ONE OF MY FAVORITES OF HER, WITH THIS GREAT SMILE 47 00:02:24,068 --> 00:02:25,000 THAT SHE HAS. 48 00:02:25,033 --> 00:02:26,068 I JUST LOVE THAT. 49 00:02:26,103 --> 00:02:28,033 IT'S JUST, TO ME, THAT'S JUST-- THAT CAPTURES HER. 50 00:02:28,068 --> 00:02:28,481 I REMEMBER HER WANTING TO, LIKE, TRAVEL THE WORLD AND 51 00:02:28,516 --> 00:02:29,413 BE AN ARCHITECT. 52 00:02:29,448 --> 00:02:35,067 I REALLY MISS HER, AND SHE SHOULD BE HERE. 53 00:02:35,103 --> 00:02:37,481 >> ORIGINALLY, WHEN WE FIRST TOOK THE CASE, I WAS DETERMINED 54 00:02:37,516 --> 00:02:39,067 I WOULD BE ABLE TO FIND HER IN SIX MONTHS. 55 00:02:39,103 --> 00:02:42,930 >> IF YOU'VE EVER BEEN ON ONE OF THESE SEARCHES, YOU WALK UP A 56 00:02:42,965 --> 00:02:46,378 CANYON HERE IN SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY, AND THEN THERE'S ANOTHER 57 00:02:46,413 --> 00:02:47,586 CANYON OFF THAT. 58 00:02:47,620 --> 00:02:51,067 AND YOU GET TO THE END OF THAT ONE, THERE'S ANOTHER CANYON. 59 00:02:51,103 --> 00:02:58,861 THERE'S BILLIONS OF PLACES TO HIDE A BODY. 60 00:02:58,896 --> 00:03:01,275 >> IT'S IMPORTANT TO EXPLAIN HERE THAT KRISTIN'S CASE HAS 61 00:03:01,310 --> 00:03:02,481 NEVER BEEN DECLARED COLD. 62 00:03:02,516 --> 00:03:04,826 A CASE IS ONLY CONSIDERED COLD WHEN LAW ENFORCEMENT DECIDES 63 00:03:04,861 --> 00:03:10,965 THAT THEY'VE EXHAUSTED ALL OF THEIR LEADS. 64 00:03:11,000 --> 00:03:13,793 BUT WHAT MAKES IT INTERESTING TO ME IS THAT THEY'VE HAD A SUSPECT 65 00:03:13,826 --> 00:03:14,343 SINCE PRETTY MUCH DAY ONE. 66 00:03:14,378 --> 00:03:15,171 >> HI, PAUL. 67 00:03:15,205 --> 00:03:16,620 GOOD MORNING. 68 00:03:16,655 --> 00:03:19,171 I'M JONATHAN VIGLIOTTI WITH CBS NEWS. 69 00:03:19,205 --> 00:03:22,723 WERE YOU INVOLVED IN THE DISAPPEARANCE OF KRISTIN SMART? 70 00:03:22,758 --> 00:03:25,103 PAUL, CAN YOU TELL US WHAT HAPPENED THAT NIGHT BETWEEN YOU 71 00:03:25,137 --> 00:03:26,033 AND KRISTIN? 72 00:03:26,068 --> 00:03:28,413 >> GO [ BLEEP] YOURSELF. 73 00:03:30,103 --> 00:03:32,033 >> IT'S IMPORTANT THAT THERE'S AN ARREST MADE. 74 00:03:32,067 --> 00:03:34,310 YOU'VE GOT TO MOVE, AND YOU'VE GOT TO DO IT NOW. 75 00:03:34,343 --> 00:03:38,033 >> I'M HERE THIS AFTERNOON TO ANNOUNCE THE ARREST OF 76 00:03:38,067 --> 00:03:39,171 PAUL FLORES... 77 00:03:39,206 --> 00:03:41,930 FOR THE MURDER OF KRISTIN SMART. 78 00:03:47,206 --> 00:03:48,206 Captioning sponsored by CBS 79 00:04:33,586 --> 00:04:37,550 >> Reporter: AFTER ALMOST 25 YEARS OF SUSPICION, ON APRIL 13, 80 00:04:37,586 --> 00:04:41,586 2021, SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY SHERIFF IAN PARKINSON ANNOUNCED 81 00:04:41,620 --> 00:04:47,586 THE ARREST OF PAUL FLORES IN THE DISAPPEARANCE OF KRISTIN SMART. 82 00:04:47,620 --> 00:04:53,896 >> IT'S BEEN A PUZZLE, AND IT'S A VERY SLOW PROCESS TO FIND EACH 83 00:04:53,930 --> 00:04:55,172 OF THOSE LITTLE PIECES. 84 00:04:55,206 --> 00:04:59,033 SOME OF THAT INFORMATION CAME TO LIGHT THROUGH THE PODCAST MANY 85 00:04:59,067 --> 00:05:00,137 OF YOU ARE FAMILIAR WITH. 86 00:05:00,172 --> 00:05:03,067 >> Reporter: IN THE CROWD, TAKING IT ALL IN, WAS THAT 87 00:05:03,103 --> 00:05:05,930 PODCASTER, CHRIS LAMBERT. 88 00:05:05,964 --> 00:05:10,206 >> IT'S HARD TO TAKE TOO MUCH CREDIT, BUT I WAS ONE PIECE 89 00:05:10,240 --> 00:05:11,896 OF THE PUZZLE THAT HELPED TO MAKE THIS ALL COME TOGETHER 90 00:05:11,930 --> 00:05:13,274 WHEN IT DID. 91 00:05:13,310 --> 00:05:15,172 >> Reporter: BUT TO FULLY UNDERSTAND CHRIS LAMBERT'S 92 00:05:15,206 --> 00:05:19,033 CONTRIBUTION, YOU HAVE TO GO BACK TO THE BEGINNING. 93 00:05:19,067 --> 00:05:23,206 LAMBERT WAS JUST EIGHT YEARS OLD WHEN KRISTIN SMART VANISHED ON 94 00:05:23,240 --> 00:05:27,067 HER WAY HOME FROM A COLLEGE PARTY IN SAN LUIS OBISBO, 95 00:05:27,103 --> 00:05:28,413 CALIFORNIA. 96 00:05:28,447 --> 00:05:29,930 >> I REMEMBER SEEING IT ON THE NEWS. 97 00:05:29,964 --> 00:05:33,067 >> KRISTIN IS A FRESHMAN AT CAL POLY, BUT HASN'T BEEN 98 00:05:33,103 --> 00:05:35,379 TO CLASS SINCE BEFORE THE MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND. 99 00:05:35,413 --> 00:05:39,137 >> AND KRISTIN SMART LEFT A PARTY ON THE CAL POLY CAMPUS... 100 00:05:39,172 --> 00:05:41,447 >> IT WAS SOMETHING SCARY, AND THEY WERE TALKING ABOUT IT 101 00:05:41,481 --> 00:05:42,757 PRETTY REGULARLY. 102 00:05:42,793 --> 00:05:46,481 >> Reporter: BUT 22 YEARS LATER, WHEN HE COULDN'T FIND ANY RECENT 103 00:05:46,516 --> 00:05:54,000 STORIES ABOUT THE CASE, HE DECIDED TO DO SOMETHING. 104 00:05:54,033 --> 00:05:58,689 >> IT'S A COLD AND CLOUDY WINTER AFTERNOON IN SAN LUIS OBISPO, 105 00:05:58,723 --> 00:06:02,930 AND I'M RETRACING MISSING CAL POLY STUDENT KRISTIN SMART'S 106 00:06:02,964 --> 00:06:04,137 LAST KNOWN STEPS. 107 00:06:04,172 --> 00:06:06,413 >> Reporter: EVEN THOUGH HE'D NEVER INVESTIGATED ANYTHING 108 00:06:06,447 --> 00:06:13,274 BEFORE, LAMBERT QUIT HIS JOB TO CREATE A PODCAST. 109 00:06:13,310 --> 00:06:16,757 >> AT LEAST ONCE A DAY, I ASKED MYSELF, WHAT ARE YOU DOING? 110 00:06:16,793 --> 00:06:19,137 >> Reporter: LAMBERT BEGAN LOOKING INTO WHAT HAPPENED TO 111 00:06:19,172 --> 00:06:24,000 KRISTIN, COLLECTING ARTICLES AND DOCUMENTS, CHASING DOWN LEADS, 112 00:06:24,033 --> 00:06:27,379 AND TRACKING DOWN ANYONE WITH INFORMATION. 113 00:06:27,413 --> 00:06:30,274 >> I DIDN'T KNOW THE SCALE, I DIDN'T KNOW HOW MANY PEOPLE WERE 114 00:06:30,310 --> 00:06:33,930 GOING TO LISTEN, BUT I KNEW THAT I COULD TRY TO DO A SMALL PART. 115 00:06:33,965 --> 00:06:36,033 I GOOGLED KRISTIN SMART'S NAME EVERY FEW YEARS. 116 00:06:36,067 --> 00:06:39,240 >> Reporter: HE NEVER EXPECTED IT WOULD BE A HIT, BUT HIS 117 00:06:39,274 --> 00:06:43,240 PODCAST CAUGHT THE ATTENTION OF MILLIONS OF LISTENERS AND 118 00:06:43,274 --> 00:06:51,310 SPARKED NEW INTEREST IN THIS DECADES-OLD UNSOLVED CASE. 119 00:06:51,343 --> 00:06:55,240 BACK IN MAY 1996, KRISTIN SMART WAS FINISHING HER FRESHMAN YEAR 120 00:06:55,274 --> 00:06:59,447 AT CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY, BETTER KNOWN AS 121 00:06:59,481 --> 00:07:01,793 CAL POLY. 122 00:07:01,826 --> 00:07:04,516 HER YOUNGER SISTER, LINDSEY, SAYS THEIR MOTHER URGED KRISTIN 123 00:07:04,550 --> 00:07:05,654 TO GO THERE. 124 00:07:05,689 --> 00:07:06,654 >> "YOU SHOULD GO TO CAL POLY. 125 00:07:06,689 --> 00:07:10,310 THEY'RE KNOWN FOR BEING A REALLY SAFE SCHOOL." 126 00:07:10,343 --> 00:07:14,033 >> Reporter: AND IT WAS ONLY 250 MILES FROM STOCKTON, CALIFORNIA, 127 00:07:14,067 --> 00:07:17,757 WHERE SHE GREW UP WITH LINDSEY AND THEIR BROTHER, MATT. 128 00:07:17,793 --> 00:07:23,103 HER PARENTS, DENISE AND STAN, WERE BOTH EDUCATORS WHO 129 00:07:23,137 --> 00:07:24,274 ENCOURAGED THEIR KIDS' PASSIONS. 130 00:07:24,310 --> 00:07:27,033 >> SHE WAS WHO SHE WAS BECAUSE OF HER PARENTS, FOR SURE. 131 00:07:27,067 --> 00:07:30,103 >> Reporter: ANNE MARIE CHRISTIAN BECAME FRIENDS WITH 132 00:07:30,137 --> 00:07:31,413 KRISTIN IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. 133 00:07:31,447 --> 00:07:34,067 >> HER PARENTS REMINDED ME OF MY PARENTS, JUST VERY INVOLVED WITH 134 00:07:34,103 --> 00:07:35,274 THEIR CHILDREN. 135 00:07:35,310 --> 00:07:37,896 A VERY CLOSE-KNIT FAMILY. 136 00:07:37,930 --> 00:07:42,172 >> Reporter: KRISTEN LOVED SWIMMING AND SKIING, BUT LINDSEY 137 00:07:42,206 --> 00:07:46,172 SAYS HER SISTER WAS HAPPIEST WHEN SHE WAS TRAVELING. 138 00:07:46,206 --> 00:07:48,172 >> SHE HAD TRAVELED THE WORLD BEFORE SHE EVEN MADE IT TO 139 00:07:48,206 --> 00:07:50,930 COLLEGE-- BY HERSELF, WHICH IS PRETTY AMAZING. 140 00:07:50,965 --> 00:07:54,172 >> Reporter: SHE SPENT A SUMMER IN LONDON, WAS AN EXCHANGE 141 00:07:54,206 --> 00:07:58,067 STUDENT IN VENEZUELA, AND A LIFEGUARD AT A CAMP IN HAWAII. 142 00:07:58,103 --> 00:07:59,516 >> SHE DEFINITELY, LIKE, TOOK ADVANTAGE OF LIFE, SEIZED THE 143 00:07:59,550 --> 00:08:00,793 DAY. 144 00:08:00,826 --> 00:08:02,896 SHE WAS SUPER AMBITIOUS AND WAS DETERMINED, YOU KNOW, TO FIND 145 00:08:02,930 --> 00:08:06,896 THE NEXT ADVENTURE, TO FIND THE NEXT CHALLENGE. 146 00:08:06,930 --> 00:08:09,930 >> Reporter: THAT TURNED OUT TO BE COLLEGE. 147 00:08:09,964 --> 00:08:12,689 LIKE SO MANY FRESHMEN, KRISTIN STRUGGLED. 148 00:08:12,723 --> 00:08:14,172 CLASSES WERE DIFFICULT. 149 00:08:14,206 --> 00:08:18,172 SHE WAS TRYING TO FIT IN, AND SHE MISSED HER FAMILY. 150 00:08:18,206 --> 00:08:22,137 >> KRISTEN BROKE DOWN, BEGGING HER MOTHER TO LET HER DROP OUT 151 00:08:22,172 --> 00:08:23,343 AND GO SOMEWHERE ELSE. 152 00:08:23,379 --> 00:08:26,172 >> Reporter: BUT EVERY SUNDAY, WHEN SHE CALLED HER PARENTS, 153 00:08:26,206 --> 00:08:29,033 THEY ENCOURAGED HER TO STICK IT OUT. 154 00:08:29,067 --> 00:08:32,172 LONG-TIME FAMILY FRIEND, DENISE PEARCE: 155 00:08:32,206 --> 00:08:34,688 >> THINGS WERE GOING TO GET BETTER, AND, YOU KNOW, AND-- AND 156 00:08:34,724 --> 00:08:37,274 THEY DID. 157 00:08:37,309 --> 00:08:41,033 >> Reporter: FRIDAY MAY 24, 1996, WAS THE START OF THE 158 00:08:41,067 --> 00:08:42,309 MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND. 159 00:08:42,344 --> 00:08:46,551 MOST STUDENTS HAD TAKEN OFF, BUT KRISTIN HAD STAYED ON CAMPUS. 160 00:08:46,586 --> 00:08:50,206 SO HAD MARGARITA CAMPOS, WHO LIVED IN THE NEXT ROOM IN 161 00:08:50,240 --> 00:08:52,172 MUIR HALL. 162 00:08:52,206 --> 00:08:56,033 THEY HAD BECOME CLOSE FRIENDS, DESPITE THEIR DIFFERENCES. 163 00:08:56,067 --> 00:08:59,172 >> I WAS A LITTLE BIT MORE INTROVERTED AND INHIBITED, AND 164 00:08:59,206 --> 00:09:03,344 SHE WAS LIKE, "NO, WE HAVE TO GO OUT, AND WE HAVE TO GO, LIKE, 165 00:09:03,379 --> 00:09:04,240 LIVE LIFE." 166 00:09:04,274 --> 00:09:06,172 AND SHE WAS GROWING AS AN INDIVIDUAL. 167 00:09:06,206 --> 00:09:10,172 SHE WAS PUSHING HERSELF OUT OF HER COMFORT ZONE, AND I WAS 168 00:09:10,206 --> 00:09:14,206 LIKE, "“NO!"” >> Reporter: SO, WHEN THEY 169 00:09:14,240 --> 00:09:18,206 WERE INVITED TO A PARTY THAT FRIDAY NIGHT, KRISTIN WAS 170 00:09:18,240 --> 00:09:20,965 EXCITED TO GO. 171 00:09:21,000 --> 00:09:23,067 >> KRISTIN WAS LIKE, "COME ON, LET'S GO, LET'S GO," AND I WAS 172 00:09:23,102 --> 00:09:25,344 LIKE, "NAH, I HAVE TO STUDY." 173 00:09:25,379 --> 00:09:27,688 AND SO, SHE PULLED ME INTO THIS SORT OF, LIKE, "OH, COME ON, 174 00:09:27,724 --> 00:09:28,517 LET'S SOCIALIZE. 175 00:09:28,551 --> 00:09:29,033 AND THESE GIRLS ARE INVITING US OUT. 176 00:09:29,067 --> 00:09:30,172 LET'S GO." 177 00:09:30,206 --> 00:09:32,965 AND I WAS LIKE, "OKAY, FINE." 178 00:09:33,000 --> 00:09:34,274 BUT WHEN WE GOT TO THE HOUSE, IT WAS PRETTY DEAD, TOO. 179 00:09:34,309 --> 00:09:36,688 IT WAS REALLY-- IT WAS LIKE A COUPLE OF ROOMMATES HANGING OUT 180 00:09:36,724 --> 00:09:38,172 PLAYING VIDEO GAMES. 181 00:09:38,206 --> 00:09:39,447 AND KRISTIN WAS LIKE, "OH, GOSH, THERE HAS TO BE SOMETHING BETTER 182 00:09:39,481 --> 00:09:44,344 THAN THIS." 183 00:09:44,379 --> 00:09:46,688 >> Reporter: THE TWO GIRLS WALKED TO AN AREA OFF CAMPUS 184 00:09:46,724 --> 00:09:50,309 WHERE THERE WERE FRATERNITIES, SORORITIES AND RESIDENTIAL 185 00:09:50,344 --> 00:09:53,136 HOUSING FOR STUDENTS. 186 00:09:53,172 --> 00:09:56,379 MARGARITA SOON DECIDED SHE'D HAD ENOUGH. 187 00:09:56,413 --> 00:09:58,309 YOU WANTED TO GO HOME, AND YOU WERE TRYING TO FIND A WAY TO 188 00:09:58,344 --> 00:09:59,172 BREAK IT TO YOUR FRIEND. 189 00:09:59,206 --> 00:10:01,517 >> THAT'S EXACTLY RIGHT. 190 00:10:01,551 --> 00:10:05,136 >> Reporter: THEY GOT TO THE PARKING LOT OF THIS APARTMENT 191 00:10:05,172 --> 00:10:07,067 COMPLEX. 192 00:10:07,102 --> 00:10:09,067 >> I WAS LIKE, "KRISTIN, I'M GOING TO GO BACK HOME. 193 00:10:09,102 --> 00:10:10,724 I'M GOING TO GO BACK TO THE DORMS. 194 00:10:10,758 --> 00:10:11,931 YOU CAN GO." 195 00:10:11,965 --> 00:10:14,826 AND SHE'S LIKE, "PLEASE COME WITH ME, PLEASE COME WITH ME." 196 00:10:14,861 --> 00:10:17,793 I TOLD HER I DIDN'T-- I DIDN'T WANT TO GO. 197 00:10:17,826 --> 00:10:22,895 >> Reporter: KRISTIN DID NOT HAVE A PURSE, MONEY, HER I.D. 198 00:10:22,931 --> 00:10:26,895 OR EVEN HER KEYS, SO, BEFORE LEAVING, MARGARITA HANDED OVER 199 00:10:26,931 --> 00:10:29,517 HER KEYS TO GET BACK INTO MUIR HALL. 200 00:10:29,551 --> 00:10:32,688 >> SHE WAS ABSOLUTELY SOBER WHEN I LEFT HER. 201 00:10:32,724 --> 00:10:34,724 I'LL NEVER FORGET HER SHADOW AGAINST THE BUILDING, THIS 202 00:10:34,758 --> 00:10:37,240 APARTMENT COMPLEX, JUST STANDING, LIKE, KIND OF 203 00:10:37,274 --> 00:10:38,654 CROSS-ARMED WITH THE LONG LEG. 204 00:10:38,688 --> 00:10:40,620 AND SHE WAS JUST KIND OF LIKE LOOKING AT ME LIKE, "[ SIGHS], 205 00:10:40,654 --> 00:10:41,481 YOU'RE REALLY WALKING AWAY NOW. 206 00:10:41,517 --> 00:10:47,000 LIKE, YOU'RE REALLY-- YOU'RE LEAVING." 207 00:10:47,033 --> 00:10:49,793 >> Reporter: THE NEXT MORNING, MARGARITA WAITED TO HEAR FROM 208 00:10:49,826 --> 00:10:51,033 KRISTIN. 209 00:10:51,067 --> 00:10:53,826 >> I WAS EXPECTING HER TO KNOCK ON MY DOOR AND BE LIKE, "OH, 210 00:10:53,861 --> 00:10:59,895 MARGARITA, YOU MISSED A RAGER, AND HERE'S YOUR KEY." 211 00:10:59,931 --> 00:11:02,274 I KNOCKED ON HER DOOR, AND I THOUGHT SHE WAS JUST SLEEPING, 212 00:11:02,309 --> 00:11:04,136 OR SHE WENT OUT AND ABOUT, YOU KNOW? 213 00:11:04,172 --> 00:11:06,172 >> Reporter: IT WASN'T UNTIL KRISTIN'S ROOMMATE RETURNED 214 00:11:06,206 --> 00:11:11,033 TO THEIR DORM ROOM THAT MARGARITA REALIZED KRISTIN 215 00:11:11,067 --> 00:11:11,895 NEVER CAME HOME. 216 00:11:11,931 --> 00:11:14,654 HOW DID YOU KNOW SHE HADN'T BEEN BACK? 217 00:11:14,688 --> 00:11:15,895 >> NOTHING HAD MOVED. 218 00:11:15,931 --> 00:11:18,379 >> Reporter: ALL OF KRISTIN'S PERSONAL BELONGINGS, INCLUDING 219 00:11:18,413 --> 00:11:23,895 HER PURSE, HER MONEY, HER I.D., WERE IN THE ROOM, EXACTLY WHERE 220 00:11:23,931 --> 00:11:26,620 SHE HAD LEFT THEM. 221 00:11:26,654 --> 00:11:27,102 >> I MEAN, SHE WAS GONE. 222 00:11:27,136 --> 00:11:29,033 SHE WAS GONE. 223 00:11:29,067 --> 00:11:31,033 >> Reporter: BY THE TIME THEY CALLED THE CAL POLY CAMPUS 224 00:11:31,067 --> 00:11:35,033 POLICE, KRISTIN HAD BEEN MISSING FOR MORE THAN 48 HOURS. 225 00:11:35,067 --> 00:11:41,033 BUT MARGARITA SAYS THE POLICE DID NOT SEEM CONCERNED. 226 00:11:41,067 --> 00:11:42,274 CAMPUS POLICE, THEY WERE LIKE, "ARE YOU SURE SHE DIDN'T GO OUT 227 00:11:42,309 --> 00:11:43,620 OF TOWN?" IT'S LIKE, SHE HAS NOTHING ON 228 00:11:43,654 --> 00:11:44,688 HER. 229 00:11:44,724 --> 00:11:46,965 HOW COULD SHE HAVE GONE OUT OF TOWN? 230 00:11:47,000 --> 00:11:49,793 >> Reporter: THEY THOUGHT SHE WAS OFF POSSIBLY HAVING FUN. 231 00:11:49,826 --> 00:11:50,931 >> OH, YEAH. 232 00:11:50,965 --> 00:11:52,793 >> Reporter: BUT THEY COULD NOT HAVE BEEN MORE WRONG. 233 00:11:52,826 --> 00:11:59,067 >> TO THIS DAY, LIKE, I WAS LIKE, WHY? 234 00:11:59,102 --> 00:12:03,067 WHY DID I JUST LET HER GO BY HERSELF? 235 00:12:03,102 --> 00:12:04,447 I DID HAVE GUILT ABOUT THAT. 236 00:12:04,481 --> 00:12:07,102 BUT YOU HAVE TO UNDERSTAND, SHE WAS A REALLY INDEPENDENT, 237 00:12:07,136 --> 00:12:09,136 FREE SPIRIT. 238 00:12:23,379 --> 00:12:25,309 >> Reporter: KRISTIN'S MOTHER, DENISE SMART, SPENT MEMORIAL DAY 239 00:12:25,344 --> 00:12:28,102 WEEKEND AT A SWIM MEET WITH HER TWO YOUNGER KIDS. 240 00:12:28,136 --> 00:12:29,620 SHE WAS LOOKING FORWARD TO HEARING FROM KRISTIN THAT 241 00:12:29,654 --> 00:12:33,481 SUNDAY. 242 00:12:33,517 --> 00:12:35,309 AND THAT PHONE CALL NEVER COMES. 243 00:12:35,344 --> 00:12:37,309 >> THE PHONE CALL NEVER COMES. 244 00:12:37,344 --> 00:12:40,724 >> Reporter: INSTEAD, ON MONDAY, MAY 27, DENISE PEARCE SAYS THE 245 00:12:40,758 --> 00:12:45,895 SMARTS GOT A CALL FROM CAL POLY'S CAMPUS POLICE, ASKING IF 246 00:12:45,931 --> 00:12:48,344 KRISTIN WAS WITH THEM. 247 00:12:48,379 --> 00:12:54,344 >> KRISTIN HASN'T COME HOME, AND WE'RE NOT SURE WHERE SHE IS. 248 00:12:54,379 --> 00:12:56,033 WE DON'T KNOW ANYTHING. 249 00:12:56,067 --> 00:12:59,206 >> Reporter: THAT'S WHEN DENISE SMART LEARNED HER DAUGHTER HAD 250 00:12:59,240 --> 00:13:04,379 NOT BEEN SEEN ALL WEEKEND, AND ALL HER BELONGINGS WERE STILL IN 251 00:13:04,413 --> 00:13:05,309 HER DORM ROOM. 252 00:13:05,344 --> 00:13:07,102 >> SHE WAS BECOMING MORE AND MORE ALARMED. 253 00:13:07,136 --> 00:13:08,586 YOU KNOW, SHE WAS-- SHE WAS FRANTIC, "I DON'T UNDERSTAND 254 00:13:08,620 --> 00:13:09,620 THIS," YOU KNOW? 255 00:13:09,654 --> 00:13:12,965 "WHAT'S GOING ON?" IT IS EVERY PARENT'S WORST 256 00:13:13,000 --> 00:13:14,274 NIGHTMARE. 257 00:13:14,309 --> 00:13:17,206 >> Reporter: THE SMARTS SAY THEY TRIED TO FILE A MISSING PERSON'S 258 00:13:17,240 --> 00:13:21,654 REPORT WITH THE LOCAL POLICE, BUT WERE TOLD IT WAS TOO EARLY, 259 00:13:21,688 --> 00:13:25,379 AND THE F.B.I. TOLD THEM CAL POLY POLICE WERE IN CHARGE. 260 00:13:25,413 --> 00:13:28,965 BUT AS CHRIS LAMBERT LEARNED, THE CAMPUS POLICE DID NOT ACT 261 00:13:29,000 --> 00:13:30,172 RIGHT AWAY. 262 00:13:30,206 --> 00:13:33,240 >> AT THAT POINT, I DON'T THINK THEY HAD EVER DEALT WITH A 263 00:13:33,274 --> 00:13:36,033 MISSING PERSON, A POSSIBLY MURDERED PERSON. 264 00:13:36,067 --> 00:13:38,447 >> Reporter: BY THE TIME THAT CAL POLY POLICE BEGAN 265 00:13:38,481 --> 00:13:42,447 INVESTIGATING, KRISTIN HAD BEEN GONE FOR FOUR DAYS. 266 00:13:42,481 --> 00:13:46,413 AS THEY SOON LEARNED, SHE HAD ENDED UP AT A PARTY AT THIS 267 00:13:46,447 --> 00:13:47,586 HOUSE. 268 00:13:47,620 --> 00:13:51,688 >> IT'S MOSTLY FRAT GUYS FROM THE KAPPA CHI FRATERNITY. 269 00:13:51,724 --> 00:13:53,586 I DON'T KNOW IF KRISTIN KNEW ANYBODY THERE. 270 00:13:53,620 --> 00:13:57,861 >> Reporter: CHRIS LAMBERT IS A CBS NEWS CONSULTANT, AND HE'S 271 00:13:57,895 --> 00:13:59,309 PIECED TOGETHER WHAT HE LEARNED FROM PEOPLE WHO WERE THERE THAT 272 00:13:59,344 --> 00:14:01,965 NIGHT. 273 00:14:02,000 --> 00:14:05,309 >> KRISTIN BECAME INCREDIBLY INTOXICATED. 274 00:14:05,344 --> 00:14:10,033 WHETHER SHE WAS DRUGGED OR WHETHER SHE JUST HAD A LOT TO 275 00:14:10,067 --> 00:14:11,033 DRINK IN A SHORT AMOUNT OF TIME. 276 00:14:11,067 --> 00:14:14,309 SHE ENDS UP PASSED OUT ON THE LAWN NEXT DOOR. 277 00:14:14,344 --> 00:14:17,309 >> Reporter: LAMBERT SAYS KRISTIN COULD NOT STAND ON 278 00:14:17,344 --> 00:14:21,172 HER OWN, SO FELLOW STUDENT CHERYL ANDERSON, WHO WAS ALSO 279 00:14:21,206 --> 00:14:23,309 AT THE PARTY, BEGAN HELPING HER BACK TO CAMPUS. 280 00:14:23,344 --> 00:14:29,309 THEY WERE SOON JOINED BY ANOTHER PARTYGOER, PAUL FLORES. 281 00:14:29,344 --> 00:14:33,654 >> AS THEY DESCRIBE IT, PAUL FLORES JUST SORT OF APPEARS OUT 282 00:14:33,688 --> 00:14:34,965 OF NOWHERE AND OFFERS TO HELP. 283 00:14:35,000 --> 00:14:38,551 HE GETS HIS ARM AROUND HER TORSO AND HER ARM AROUND HIS NECK, AND 284 00:14:38,586 --> 00:14:41,379 HE'S HELPING HER WALK. 285 00:14:41,413 --> 00:14:45,517 PAUL KEEPS STOPPING ALONG THE WAY AND LETTING CHERYL ANDERSON 286 00:14:45,551 --> 00:14:49,481 KNOW, "YOU CAN GO ON AHEAD, I'VE GOT HER, IT'S FINE." 287 00:14:49,517 --> 00:14:52,586 SHE DIDN'T THINK THAT WAS OKAY, SO SHE SLOWED DOWN AND WALKED 288 00:14:52,620 --> 00:14:53,826 WITH THEM. 289 00:14:53,861 --> 00:14:56,724 >> Reporter: WHEN THEY REACHED THE TURNOFF TO CHERYL'S DORM, 290 00:14:56,758 --> 00:14:58,551 SHE SAYS FLORES TRIED TO HUG AND KISS HER. 291 00:14:58,586 --> 00:15:02,551 SHE LEFT THEM ONLY AFTER HE PROMISED TO TAKE KRISTIN BACK TO 292 00:15:02,586 --> 00:15:04,481 HER DORM. 293 00:15:04,517 --> 00:15:06,551 >> I DON'T THINK SHE EVER IMAGINED THAT KRISTIN WOULD END 294 00:15:06,586 --> 00:15:09,033 UP DEAD BY THE END OF THE NIGHT. 295 00:15:09,067 --> 00:15:11,413 >> Reporter: PAUL AND KRISTIN THEN MAKE THEIR WAY HERE. 296 00:15:11,447 --> 00:15:13,688 WHAT HAPPENS NEXT? 297 00:15:13,724 --> 00:15:17,413 >> SO, IF YOU BELIEVE PAUL'S STORY, HE GOES INTO HIS DORM 298 00:15:17,447 --> 00:15:21,172 ROOM HERE, AND HE LEAVES HER TO WALK UP THIS WALKWAY. 299 00:15:21,206 --> 00:15:23,413 HER DORM ENTRANCE IS RIGHT OVER HERE. 300 00:15:23,447 --> 00:15:26,895 I PERSONALLY THINK THAT WHEREVER KRISTIN WENT, PAUL WAS THERE 301 00:15:26,931 --> 00:15:28,517 WITH HER. 302 00:15:28,551 --> 00:15:30,551 I DON'T THINK THAT SHE WENT BACK TO HER DORM AT ALL. 303 00:15:30,586 --> 00:15:34,586 >> Reporter: WHATEVER HAPPENED IN THOSE EARLY HOURS, ONE THING 304 00:15:34,620 --> 00:15:41,447 IS INDISPUTABLE: KRISTIN SMART HAS NEVER BEEN SEEN AGAIN. 305 00:15:41,481 --> 00:15:45,067 SHE HAD JUST 40 YARDS TO GO, AND YET SHE VANISHED. 306 00:15:45,102 --> 00:15:47,413 >> THAT'S THE UPSETTING PART ABOUT IT, ISN'T IT? 307 00:15:47,447 --> 00:15:50,620 >> Reporter: THE INVESTIGATION SEEMED TO BE HAMPERED FROM THE 308 00:15:50,654 --> 00:15:54,620 START BY A SERIES OF MISSTEPS BY CAMPUS POLICE, BEGINNING WITH 309 00:15:54,654 --> 00:15:58,895 THEIR ASSUMPTION THAT KRISTIN WAS OFF HAVING FUN AND IGNORING 310 00:15:58,931 --> 00:16:02,586 WORRIED FRIENDS WHO SAID SHE WAS MISSING. 311 00:16:02,620 --> 00:16:05,447 >> SO MUCH WAS LOST IN THOSE FIRST FEW DAYS, WHERE, IF THAT 312 00:16:05,481 --> 00:16:09,654 VERY FIRST PHONE CALL WAS TAKEN SERIOUSLY, ANSWERS MIGHT HAVE 313 00:16:09,688 --> 00:16:10,724 BEEN UNCOVERED THE FIRST WEEK. 314 00:16:10,758 --> 00:16:13,654 >> Reporter: THEY ALSO DID NOT FOCUS ON PAUL FLORES 315 00:16:13,688 --> 00:16:17,688 IMMEDIATELY, WAITING SIX DAYS TO FORMALLY INTERVIEW HIM. 316 00:16:17,724 --> 00:16:21,688 EVEN WORSE, THEY NEVER SEALED HIS DORM ROOM. 317 00:16:21,724 --> 00:16:24,033 THERE WAS A LOT OF EVIDENCE THAT COULD HAVE BEEN GATHERED THAT 318 00:16:24,067 --> 00:16:25,033 WASN'T. 319 00:16:25,067 --> 00:16:25,688 WHY? 320 00:16:25,724 --> 00:16:28,136 >> I WISH I KNEW WHY. 321 00:16:28,172 --> 00:16:31,758 THEY DID AN INTERVIEW WITH THE CAL POLY "MUSTANG DAILY" AND 322 00:16:31,793 --> 00:16:33,688 EXPLAINED THAT THEY DIDN'T THINK THERE WAS ANY EVIDENCE THAT A 323 00:16:33,724 --> 00:16:35,724 CRIME HAD TAKEN PLACE. 324 00:16:35,758 --> 00:16:38,000 >> Reporter: BY THE TIME THEY INSPECTED FLORES' ROOM, KRISTIN 325 00:16:38,033 --> 00:16:40,620 HAD BEEN GONE FOR 16 DAYS. 326 00:16:40,654 --> 00:16:45,758 SCHOOL WAS OVER, SO CAMPUS POLICE FOUND AN EMPTY ROOM THAT 327 00:16:45,793 --> 00:16:49,688 HAD BEEN SANITIZED BY THE UNIVERSITY'S CLEANING CREW. 328 00:16:49,724 --> 00:16:53,758 ANY EVIDENCE THAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN THERE WAS LONG GONE. 329 00:16:53,793 --> 00:16:56,654 >> THE INVESTIGATION WAS COMPLETELY BOTCHED BY THE CAMPUS 330 00:16:56,688 --> 00:16:57,758 POLICE. 331 00:16:57,793 --> 00:16:59,240 THERE'S NO QUESTION ABOUT IT. 332 00:16:59,274 --> 00:17:01,793 >> Reporter: AND WHILE THEY DID NOTRUSH TO INVESTIGATE FLORES, 333 00:17:01,826 --> 00:17:05,758 KRISTIN'S FAMILY SAYS CAMPUS POLICE WERE VERY QUICK TO JUDGE 334 00:17:05,792 --> 00:17:07,826 HER. 335 00:17:07,862 --> 00:17:10,103 JUST DAYS AFTER SHE DISAPPEARED, AN INCIDENT REPORT SEEMED TO 336 00:17:10,136 --> 00:17:13,758 IMPLY THAT KRISTIN'S BEHAVIOR CONTRIBUTED TO HER 337 00:17:13,792 --> 00:17:16,619 DISAPPEARANCE. 338 00:17:16,654 --> 00:17:20,481 THERE WAS A LOT OF FOCUS ON HOW KRISTIN WAS DRINKING-- 339 00:17:20,517 --> 00:17:21,931 WHAT SOUNDED A LOT LIKE VICTIM SHAMING. 340 00:17:21,964 --> 00:17:25,034 >> RIGHT. 341 00:17:25,067 --> 00:17:26,240 100% THAT WAS HAPPENING. 342 00:17:26,275 --> 00:17:28,862 >> Reporter: THE REPORT SAID: >> "SMART DOES NOT HAVE ANY 343 00:17:28,895 --> 00:17:30,136 CLOSE FRIENDS AT CAL POLY." 344 00:17:30,172 --> 00:17:32,862 "SMART APPEARED TO BE UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF ALCOHOL ON FRIDAY 345 00:17:32,895 --> 00:17:33,964 NIGHT." 346 00:17:34,000 --> 00:17:37,862 "SMART WAS TALKING WITH AND SOCIALIZING WITH SEVERAL 347 00:17:37,895 --> 00:17:39,895 DIFFERENT MALES AT THE PARTY." 348 00:17:39,931 --> 00:17:41,862 >> Reporter: BUT WHILE CAMPUS POLICE WEREN'T DOING MUCH, 349 00:17:41,895 --> 00:17:45,862 KRISTIN'S PARENTS WERE DOING WHATEVER THEY COULD TO FIND 350 00:17:45,895 --> 00:17:47,931 THEIR DAUGHTER. 351 00:17:47,964 --> 00:17:51,862 >> KRISTIN'S FATHER WOULD COME DOWN AND HIKE EVERY TRAIL HE 352 00:17:51,895 --> 00:17:52,723 COULD FIND ON THE CENTRAL COAST. 353 00:17:52,758 --> 00:17:53,862 HE'D GO ANYWHERE. 354 00:17:53,895 --> 00:17:57,862 HE'D GO THROUGH TUNNELS, UNDER BRIDGES, LOOKING FOR HIS 355 00:17:57,895 --> 00:18:01,481 DAUGHTER AND EXPECTING, BEST-CASE SCENARIO, HE'S GOING 356 00:18:01,517 --> 00:18:04,723 TO FIND HER BODY, WHICH IS AWFUL FOR A PARENT. 357 00:18:04,758 --> 00:18:08,689 >> Reporter: EARLY ON, A SMALL GROUP OF VOLUNTEERS ALSO LOOKED 358 00:18:08,723 --> 00:18:10,723 FOR KRISTIN, BUT A MASSIVE SEARCH DID NOT HAPPEN UNTIL 359 00:18:10,758 --> 00:18:13,862 SHE'D BEEN GONE FOR MORE THAN A MONTH. 360 00:18:13,895 --> 00:18:17,172 THAT'S WHEN THE CAMPUS POLICE FINALLY HANDED THE INVESTIGATION 361 00:18:17,205 --> 00:18:21,862 OVER TO THE SAN LUIS OBISPO SHERIFF'S OFFICE. 362 00:18:21,895 --> 00:18:25,895 BUT THEY DID NOT FIND KRISTIN. 363 00:18:25,931 --> 00:18:28,862 FOUR MONTHS AFTER THAT FUTILE SEARCH, PAUL FLORES WAS BROUGHT 364 00:18:28,895 --> 00:18:31,275 BEFORE A GRAND JURY. 365 00:18:31,309 --> 00:18:33,895 LITTLE IS KNOWN, SINCE THE PROCEEDINGS ARE KEPT SECRET, BUT 366 00:18:33,931 --> 00:18:37,413 NO CHARGES WERE EVER FILED. 367 00:18:37,448 --> 00:18:40,792 JUST WEEKS LATER, KRISTIN'S FRUSTRATED PARENTS CONTACTED 368 00:18:40,826 --> 00:18:45,240 JAMES MURPHY, A LOCAL CIVIL ATTORNEY. 369 00:18:45,275 --> 00:18:46,826 >> IT WAS JUST A SAD PHONE CALL TO HAVE SOMEBODY SAY, "OUR 370 00:18:46,862 --> 00:18:50,034 DAUGHTER DISAPPEARED AND WE THINK SHE'S THE VICTIM OF 371 00:18:50,067 --> 00:18:53,931 FOUL PLAY, AND WE'D LIKE TO PURSUE THE GUY THAT WE THINK IS 372 00:18:53,964 --> 00:18:56,275 RESPONSIBLE." 373 00:18:56,309 --> 00:18:58,826 >> Reporter: MURPHY AND HIS WIFE, GARIN SINCLAIR, AGREED TO 374 00:18:58,862 --> 00:19:03,758 TAKE THE CASE PRO BONO, PROMISING TO GO AFTER PAUL 375 00:19:03,792 --> 00:19:08,034 FLORES AND PUT PRESSURE ON THE SHERIFF'S OFFICE. 376 00:19:08,067 --> 00:19:09,344 >> WE HAD TO BE THE INITIATORS. 377 00:19:09,378 --> 00:19:13,172 YOU WOULD HAVE THOUGHT IT WOULD HAVE BEEN THE OTHER WAY AROUND. 378 00:19:13,205 --> 00:19:16,826 >> Reporter: MURPHY IMMEDIATELY FILED A WRONGFUL DEATH LAWSUIT 379 00:19:16,862 --> 00:19:19,964 AGAINST FLORES IN CIVIL COURT. 380 00:19:20,000 --> 00:19:22,309 >> AND IT SAYS "WRONGFUL DEATH," AND THEN I PUT "MURDER." 381 00:19:22,344 --> 00:19:26,034 PUTTING MURDER ON THE LAWSUIT WAS SENDING A MESSAGE TO PAUL 382 00:19:26,067 --> 00:19:32,654 FLORES AND HIS FAMILY THAT WE BELIEVE THAT HE KILLED KRISTIN, 383 00:19:32,689 --> 00:19:35,000 AND THAT WE'RE COMING FOR HIM. 384 00:19:35,034 --> 00:19:39,034 >> Reporter: BUT TRYING TO GET HIM HASN'T BEEN EASY. 385 00:19:39,067 --> 00:19:41,895 >> IT JUST AMAZES ME, THE AMOUNT OF EVIDENCE THAT'S AVAILABLE, 386 00:19:41,931 --> 00:19:45,000 YET NOTHING HAS HAPPENED. 387 00:19:45,034 --> 00:19:50,034 THE DAY AFTER MY SISTER DISAPPEARED, PAUL FLORES HAD A 388 00:19:50,067 --> 00:19:51,586 BLACK EYE AND SCRATCHES ON HIM. 389 00:20:09,067 --> 00:20:11,172 >> Reporter: YOU LOOK AT KRISTIN SMART EVERY DAY. 390 00:20:11,205 --> 00:20:12,344 >> EVERY DAY. 391 00:20:12,378 --> 00:20:15,172 >> Reporter: THE SMARTS' ATTORNEY, JAMES MURPHY, AND HIS 392 00:20:15,205 --> 00:20:19,240 WIFE AND OFFICE MANAGER, GARIN SINCLAIR, HAVE HAD KRISTIN'S 393 00:20:19,275 --> 00:20:23,240 BILLBOARD IN THEIR FRONT YARD SINCE LATE 1997. 394 00:20:23,275 --> 00:20:27,240 >> IT'S JUST A MOTIVATOR FOR ME. 395 00:20:27,275 --> 00:20:31,309 I WILL GO OUTSIDE AT NIGHTTIME, AND I'LL LOOK UP AT THE FULL 396 00:20:31,344 --> 00:20:34,136 MOON, AND I'LL THINK THAT THAT KID'S BURIED SOMEWHERE REAL 397 00:20:34,172 --> 00:20:35,309 CLOSE. 398 00:20:35,344 --> 00:20:39,240 >> Reporter: MURPHY AND SINCLAIR PROMISED THE SMARTS THE 399 00:20:39,275 --> 00:20:43,240 BILLBOARD WILL STAY UNTIL THEIR DAUGHTER IS FOUND. 400 00:20:43,275 --> 00:20:46,619 >> I'D LOVE TO DO ANYTHING TO END THEIR SUFFERING. 401 00:20:46,654 --> 00:20:50,619 >> Reporter: AND THAT WEIGHS ON YOU. 402 00:20:50,654 --> 00:20:51,931 >> YEP. 403 00:20:51,964 --> 00:20:55,275 >> Reporter: IS THERE ANY DOUBT IN YOUR MIND THAT PAUL FLORES IS 404 00:20:55,309 --> 00:20:57,862 RESPONSIBLE FOR THE DISAPPEARANCE OF KRISTIN SMART? 405 00:20:57,895 --> 00:20:58,136 >> NO. 406 00:20:58,172 --> 00:21:00,172 >> NO. 407 00:21:00,205 --> 00:21:02,448 >> Reporter: AND MURPHY AND SINCLAIR BELIEVE THEY CAN PROVE 408 00:21:02,481 --> 00:21:03,586 IT. 409 00:21:03,619 --> 00:21:06,413 THEY HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO PROCEED WITH THE CIVIL CASE 410 00:21:06,448 --> 00:21:10,103 WHILE THERE'S AN ONGOING CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION, BUT THAT 411 00:21:10,136 --> 00:21:15,034 HAS NOT STOPPED THEM FROM FOLLOWING EVERY LEAD AND 412 00:21:15,067 --> 00:21:15,826 PREPARING FOR AN EVENTUAL TRIAL. 413 00:21:15,862 --> 00:21:19,275 >> THERE HAS BEEN NO OTHER SUSPECT. 414 00:21:19,309 --> 00:21:23,275 EVERY PIECE OF EVIDENCE POINTS DIRECTLY AT PAUL FLORES. 415 00:21:23,309 --> 00:21:25,481 >> Reporter: LIKE HIS BLACK EYE. 416 00:21:25,517 --> 00:21:28,136 YOU CAN SEE IT FAINTLY IN THIS MUG SHOT TAKEN BY THE ARROYO 417 00:21:28,172 --> 00:21:34,172 GRANDE POLICE JUST BY CHANCE, TWO DAYS AFTER KRISTIN VANISHED. 418 00:21:34,205 --> 00:21:38,000 AT THE TIME, THEY DID NOT KNOW ABOUT A MISSING COLLEGE STUDENT. 419 00:21:38,034 --> 00:21:41,826 THEY WERE AFTER PAUL FLORES FOR AN OUTSTANDING D.U.I. WARRANT. 420 00:21:41,862 --> 00:21:45,826 >> HAVING A BLACK EYE DOESN'T MAKE YOU GUILTY OF ANYTHING. 421 00:21:45,862 --> 00:21:50,103 BUT IF THE PERSON YOU WERE WITH DISAPPEARED FROM THE PLANET, 422 00:21:50,136 --> 00:21:51,413 THAT'S PHYSICAL EVIDENCE. 423 00:21:51,448 --> 00:21:54,758 >> Reporter: CHRIS LAMBERT SAYS TWO DAYS AFTER THAT, WHEN FLORES 424 00:21:54,792 --> 00:21:58,172 WAS INTERVIEWED BY CAMPUS POLICE, THEY ASKED HOW HE GOT 425 00:21:58,205 --> 00:22:01,619 HIS BLACK EYE, AS WELL AS SCRATCHES ON HIS HANDS AND 426 00:22:01,654 --> 00:22:02,758 KNEES. 427 00:22:02,792 --> 00:22:04,172 >> AND HE SAYS HE GOT A BLACK EYE PLAYING BASKETBALL 428 00:22:04,205 --> 00:22:06,275 WITH HIS FRIENDS. 429 00:22:06,309 --> 00:22:09,792 >> Reporter: BUT ONE OF THOSE FRIENDS TOLD POLICE FLORES 430 00:22:09,826 --> 00:22:12,344 ALREADYHAD THE BLACK EYE WHEN HE ARRIVED. 431 00:22:12,378 --> 00:22:15,240 >> HE TOLD THOSE FRIENDS HE JUST WOKE UP WITH THE BLACK EYE. 432 00:22:15,275 --> 00:22:18,758 >> Reporter: WHEN AUTHORITIES LATER CONFRONTED HIM WITH THE 433 00:22:18,792 --> 00:22:22,275 TWO STORIES, FLORES ADMITTED LYING AND OFFERED A NEW 434 00:22:22,309 --> 00:22:23,550 EXPLANATION. 435 00:22:23,586 --> 00:22:26,275 >> HE ACTUALLY HIT HIS EYE ON HIS STEERING WHEEL IN THE MIDDLE 436 00:22:26,309 --> 00:22:28,240 OF THE NIGHT WHILE CHANGING HIS STEREO. 437 00:22:28,275 --> 00:22:31,172 SO, NOW YOU'VE GOT THREE DIFFERENT STORIES ABOUT HOW HE 438 00:22:31,205 --> 00:22:32,103 GOT THAT BLACK EYE. 439 00:22:32,136 --> 00:22:34,240 >> HE LIED TO THE POLICE ABOUT EVERYTHING. 440 00:22:34,275 --> 00:22:38,205 >> Reporter: FLORES CLAIMED AFTER WALKING KRISTIN BACK FROM 441 00:22:38,240 --> 00:22:40,413 THE PARTY, HE WENT TO HIS ROOM IN SANTA LUICIA HALL WHILE SHE 442 00:22:40,448 --> 00:22:43,413 WALKED ALONE TO HER DORM. 443 00:22:43,448 --> 00:22:49,205 BUT CADAVER DOGS TOLD A DIFFERENT STORY. 444 00:22:49,240 --> 00:22:51,654 JUST DAYS AFTER TAKING OVER THE INVESTIGATION, THE SAN LUIS 445 00:22:51,689 --> 00:22:57,034 OBISBO SHERIFF'S OFFICE BROUGHT SEVERAL DOGS LIKE THESE, TRAINED 446 00:22:57,067 --> 00:23:00,689 TO DETECT HUMAN REMAINS, TO THE CAL POLY DORMS. 447 00:23:00,723 --> 00:23:03,758 >> THEY BROUGHT IN THE FIRST DOG, AND THEY'D HAD THE DOG GO 448 00:23:03,792 --> 00:23:06,689 THROUGH THE DORMS. 449 00:23:06,723 --> 00:23:10,275 >> Reporter: THERE WASNO REACTION, UNTIL THE DOG REACHED 450 00:23:10,309 --> 00:23:11,448 PAUL FLORES' ROOM. 451 00:23:11,481 --> 00:23:19,481 >> WHY IS A DOG THAT IS TRAINED TO SMELL HUMAN REMAINS, 452 00:23:19,517 --> 00:23:22,378 ALERTING ON, AMAZINGLY, PAUL FLORES' DORM ROOM? 453 00:23:22,413 --> 00:23:23,619 THEY LET THE DOG IN. 454 00:23:23,654 --> 00:23:30,205 THE DOG MAKES A BEELINE TO THE BEDOF PAUL FLORES. 455 00:23:30,240 --> 00:23:33,448 >> Reporter: REMEMBER, FLORES' ROOM HAD BEEN EMPTIED AND 456 00:23:33,481 --> 00:23:34,689 THOROUGHLY CLEANED. 457 00:23:34,723 --> 00:23:43,309 BUT REMARKABLY, THE SAME THING HAPPENED WITH THREE MORE DOGS. 458 00:23:43,344 --> 00:23:47,517 >> THAT SUGGESTS THAT SOMETHING BADHAPPENED IN PAUL FLORES' 459 00:23:47,550 --> 00:23:49,481 DORM ROOM. 460 00:23:49,517 --> 00:23:51,517 >> Reporter: THE SHERIFF'S OFFICE STILL WASN'T CONVINCED 461 00:23:51,550 --> 00:23:55,481 THEY HAD ENOUGH EVIDENCE AGAINST FLORES, BUT MURPHY SAYS THERE 462 00:23:55,517 --> 00:23:58,378 WERE OTHER INCIDENTS THAT SHOULD HAVE RAISED ALARM BELLS ABOUT 463 00:23:58,413 --> 00:24:03,517 HIM WITH LAW ENFORCEMENT FROM THE VERY BEGINNING. 464 00:24:03,550 --> 00:24:07,517 >> PAUL FLORES HAD A REPUTATION AMONGST THE GIRLS THAT KNEW HIM 465 00:24:07,550 --> 00:24:11,517 AT CAL POLY AS BEING A CREEPER, THAT HE WAS ALWAYS TRYING TO HIT 466 00:24:11,550 --> 00:24:13,758 ON WOMEN. 467 00:24:13,792 --> 00:24:16,378 >> Reporter: IN FACT, CHERYL ANDERSON, WHO TRUSTED FLORES TO 468 00:24:16,413 --> 00:24:22,481 WALK KRISTIN BACK TO HER DORM ALONE, TOLD POLICE THAT HER 469 00:24:22,517 --> 00:24:26,931 FRIENDS CALLED HIM "CHESTER THE MOLESTER" BECAUSE HE WAS KNOWN 470 00:24:26,964 --> 00:24:28,103 FOR GROPING GIRLS. 471 00:24:28,136 --> 00:24:31,654 >> SO, WITH CHERYL'S ACCOUNT ALONE, WE HAVE AN UNSETTLING 472 00:24:31,689 --> 00:24:33,689 PICTURE OF PAUL. 473 00:24:33,723 --> 00:24:37,895 >> Reporter: JUST FIVE MONTHS BEFORE KRISTIN DISAPPEARED, 474 00:24:37,931 --> 00:24:40,448 SAN LUIS OBISPO POLICE RECEIVED A CALL FROM A STUDENT LIVING 475 00:24:40,481 --> 00:24:42,517 OFF CAMPUS. 476 00:24:42,550 --> 00:24:46,275 >> THERE WAS A MAN CLIMBING HER TRELLIS AND TRYING TO GET INSIDE 477 00:24:46,309 --> 00:24:48,964 HER BALCONY, VERY INTOXICATED AND REFUSING TO LEAVE. 478 00:24:49,000 --> 00:24:51,619 WHEN THEY SHOWED UP, IT WAS PAUL FLORES. 479 00:24:51,654 --> 00:24:55,619 >> Reporter: NO CHARGES WERE FILED, BUT LAMBERT DISCOVERED 480 00:24:55,654 --> 00:24:58,481 FLORES' TROUBLES STARTED AT A YOUNG AGE. 481 00:24:58,517 --> 00:25:01,136 IN HIGH SCHOOL, HE WAS KNOWN AS A LONER. 482 00:25:01,172 --> 00:25:04,517 CHRIS LAMBERT SPOKE WITH SOME WOMEN WHO KNEW FLORES BACK THEN. 483 00:25:04,550 --> 00:25:07,344 THEY ASKED HIM NOT TO USE THEIR NAMES. 484 00:25:07,378 --> 00:25:09,413 >> WELL, HIS NICKNAME WAS "SCARY PAUL." 485 00:25:09,448 --> 00:25:10,723 >> YOU WOULDN'T WANT TO BE ALONE IN A ROOM WITH HIM. 486 00:25:10,758 --> 00:25:13,654 YOU WOULDN'T LET ANY OF YOUR FRIENDS BE DRUNK AROUND HIM. 487 00:25:13,689 --> 00:25:15,619 THOSE WERE KIND OF UNSPOKEN THINGS. 488 00:25:15,654 --> 00:25:19,481 >> Reporter: AND THEY TOLD LAMBERT THEY WEREN'T SURPRISED 489 00:25:19,517 --> 00:25:22,550 WHEN THEY HEARD ABOUT FLORES' CONNECTION TO KRISTIN'S 490 00:25:22,586 --> 00:25:23,723 DISAPPEARANCE. 491 00:25:23,758 --> 00:25:26,309 >> I WASN'T SURPRISED, BUT THERE'S ALSO THAT SHOCK VALUE 492 00:25:26,344 --> 00:25:28,586 OF KIND OF, "OH, MY GOD, I KNEW IT!" 493 00:25:28,619 --> 00:25:31,758 >> Reporter: ALTHOUGH SUSPICION SURROUNDED FLORES ALMOST FROM 494 00:25:31,792 --> 00:25:38,413 THE BEGINNING, ANY HOPES FOR AN ARREST WERE DASHED IN MAY 1997 495 00:25:38,448 --> 00:25:40,586 WHEN THEN-SHERIFF ED WILLIAMS MADE AN ADMISSION TO THE "SAN 496 00:25:40,619 --> 00:25:46,586 LUIS OBISPO TELEGRAPH": "WE NEED PAUL FLORES TO TELL US 497 00:25:46,619 --> 00:25:47,723 WHAT HAPPENED TO KRISTIN SMART. 498 00:25:47,758 --> 00:25:51,723 SO, ABSENT SOMETHING FROM MR. FLORES, I DON'T SEE US 499 00:25:51,758 --> 00:25:52,586 COMPLETING THIS CASE." 500 00:25:52,619 --> 00:25:55,723 HOW SIGNIFICANT WAS THAT? 501 00:25:55,758 --> 00:25:59,723 >> I THINK THATMIGHT HAVE BEEN THE BIGGEST MISSTEP THAT 502 00:25:59,758 --> 00:26:04,586 INVESTIGATORS HAVE MADE TO THIS DAY, TO DECLARE TO THE PUBLIC, 503 00:26:04,619 --> 00:26:07,826 "IF YOU STAY QUIET, YOU WILL GET AWAY WITH THIS." 504 00:26:07,862 --> 00:26:11,205 >> Reporter: AND SIX MONTHS LATER, WHEN FLORES WAS DEPOSED 505 00:26:11,240 --> 00:26:15,723 BY JAMES MURPHY FOR THE SMARTS' CIVIL SUIT, HE KEPT QUIET. 506 00:26:15,758 --> 00:26:18,723 >> WOULD YOU STATE YOUR FULL NAME FOR THE RECORD, PLEASE. 507 00:26:18,758 --> 00:26:19,931 >> PAUL RUBEN FLORES. 508 00:26:19,964 --> 00:26:22,654 >> THE ONLY THING HE WOULD CONFIRM ON TAPE IS THAT HIS NAME 509 00:26:22,689 --> 00:26:23,792 IS PAUL FLORES. 510 00:26:23,826 --> 00:26:27,826 >> WHAT IS YOUR PRESENT RESIDENCE ADDRESS? 511 00:26:27,862 --> 00:26:30,172 >> ON THE ADVICE OF MY ATTORNEY, I REFUSE TO ANSWER THAT QUESTION 512 00:26:30,205 --> 00:26:32,378 BASED ON THE FIFTH AMENDMENT OF THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION. 513 00:26:32,413 --> 00:26:34,448 >> EVERYTHING ELSE, HE TOOK THE FIFTH AMENDMENT. 514 00:26:34,481 --> 00:26:38,067 HE WOULDN'T ANSWER A SINGLE THING. 515 00:26:38,103 --> 00:26:40,550 >> IN MAY OF '96, WERE YOU A STUDENT AT CAL POLY? 516 00:26:40,586 --> 00:26:42,240 >> ON THE ADVICE OF MY ATTORNEY... 517 00:26:42,275 --> 00:26:45,586 >> Reporter: HE INVOKED THE FIFTH 27 TIMES. 518 00:26:45,619 --> 00:26:47,792 >> WHAT IS THE NAME OF YOUR FATHER? 519 00:26:47,826 --> 00:26:49,448 >> ON THE ADVICE OF MY... 520 00:26:49,481 --> 00:26:51,344 >> AND IT WORKED. 521 00:26:51,378 --> 00:26:55,826 YOU JUST DON'T TALK, AND YOU GET AWAY WITH IT. 522 00:26:55,862 --> 00:26:58,689 >> Reporter: FLORES WASN'T TALKING, BUT WAS THERE EVIDENCE 523 00:26:58,723 --> 00:27:03,000 POSSIBLY PLACING KRISTIN SMART AT HIS MOTHER'SHOME? 524 00:27:03,034 --> 00:27:07,826 >> SOMEBODY FOUND AN EARRING THAT THEY SAY WAS KRISTIN 525 00:27:07,862 --> 00:27:10,034 SMART'S JEWELRY IN THE DRIVEWAY. 526 00:27:10,067 --> 00:27:12,723 >> Reporter: AN EARRING THAT APPEARED TO MATCH THE NECKLACE 527 00:27:12,758 --> 00:27:14,758 KRISTIN IS WEARING ON THIS BILLBOARD. 528 00:27:33,792 --> 00:27:36,758 >> Reporter: WHEN KRISTIN SMART DISAPPEARED, PAUL FLORES' 529 00:27:36,792 --> 00:27:40,517 PARENTS, SUSAN AND RUBEN, WERE SEPARATED AND LIVING APART. 530 00:27:40,550 --> 00:27:43,136 FOUR MONTHS LATER, WHILE ATTEMPTING TO RECONCILE, SUSAN 531 00:27:43,172 --> 00:27:46,344 RENTED OUT HER HOUSE IN ARROYO GRANDE. 532 00:27:46,378 --> 00:27:49,205 >> A YOUNG COUPLE MOVES INTO IT WITH THEIR KID. 533 00:27:49,240 --> 00:27:52,378 THE MOTHER IS WASHING HER CAR IN THE DRIVEWAY AT ONE POINT. 534 00:27:52,413 --> 00:27:54,378 >> SOMETHING SHINY CATCHES HER EYE NEXT TO THE FRONT DRIVER 535 00:27:54,413 --> 00:27:58,034 SIDE TIRE, A SINGLE WOMAN'S EARRING. 536 00:27:58,067 --> 00:28:01,240 >> Reporter: THAT MOTHER, MARY LASSITER, DESCRIBED IT TO CHRIS 537 00:28:01,275 --> 00:28:02,344 LAMBERT. 538 00:28:02,378 --> 00:28:04,034 >> IT WAS, LIKE, A RED THING. 539 00:28:04,067 --> 00:28:06,034 AND IT WAS, LIKE, A SMUDGE, LIKE, FINGERPRINTED LOOK ON THE 540 00:28:06,067 --> 00:28:06,964 BACK. 541 00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:10,344 JUST RED, LIKE, MAROON, LIKE, OLD LOOKING. 542 00:28:10,378 --> 00:28:14,275 AND THE SMUDGE THAT-- IT WAS, LIKE, HALF A FINGERPRINT. 543 00:28:14,309 --> 00:28:18,309 >> Reporter: IT WAS TURNED OVER TO A DETECTIVE WITH THE SAN LUIS 544 00:28:18,344 --> 00:28:22,378 OBISPO SHERIFF'S OFFICE, BUT GARIN SINCLAIR SAYS THE SMARTS 545 00:28:22,413 --> 00:28:25,275 NEVER KNEW IT EXISTED UNTIL THE LASSITERS WERE DEPOSED IN 546 00:28:25,309 --> 00:28:28,034 JANUARY 1997. 547 00:28:28,067 --> 00:28:30,378 >> HE NEVER ONCE TURNED TO THE SMART FAMILY AND SAID, "HEY, WE 548 00:28:30,413 --> 00:28:33,344 HAVE AN EARRING, WE'D LIKE TO SHOW IT TO YOU TO SEE IF IT 549 00:28:33,378 --> 00:28:36,758 MATCHES ANY OF YOUR DAUGHTER'S JEWELRY." 550 00:28:36,792 --> 00:28:39,895 >> Reporter: THE SMARTS THEN DEMANDEDTO SEE IT. 551 00:28:39,931 --> 00:28:42,517 >> AND THAT'S WHEN THEY'RE TOLD THAT EARRING HAS BEEN MISPLACED. 552 00:28:42,550 --> 00:28:44,309 >> Reporter: MISPLACED? 553 00:28:44,344 --> 00:28:46,378 >> IT WAS NEVER MARKED AS EVIDENCE, APPARENTLY. 554 00:28:46,413 --> 00:28:49,275 >> Reporter: BUT MARY LASSITER SAYS THE EARRING MATCHED THE 555 00:28:49,309 --> 00:28:54,378 NECKLACE KRISTIN IS SEEN WEARING ON THIS BILLBOARD. 556 00:28:54,413 --> 00:28:58,309 >> IF IT WAS, IN FACT, A PIECE OF JEWELRY THAT MATCHED 557 00:28:58,344 --> 00:29:01,275 KRISTIN'S JEWELRY, IT WOULD HAVE BEEN BLOCKBUSTER 558 00:29:01,309 --> 00:29:02,413 EVIDENCE. 559 00:29:02,448 --> 00:29:05,448 >> Reporter: AND MIGHT HAVE CONNECTED KRISTIN TO SUSAN 560 00:29:05,481 --> 00:29:08,413 FLORES' HOUSE, SAYS JAMES MURPHY. 561 00:29:08,448 --> 00:29:10,378 >> THERE'S NO WAY TO GET EVIDENCE BACK ONCE YOU'VE LOST 562 00:29:10,413 --> 00:29:13,275 IT. 563 00:29:13,309 --> 00:29:17,172 >> Reporter: ANOTHER FRUSTRATION FOR THE SMARTS: AT THE TIME 564 00:29:17,205 --> 00:29:19,309 KRISTIN DISAPPEARED, INVESTIGATORS WEREN'T AWARE THAT 565 00:29:19,344 --> 00:29:24,205 PAUL FLORES' PARENTS WERE SEPARATED AND LIVING APART, 566 00:29:24,240 --> 00:29:26,413 SO THEY DID NOT IMMEDIATELY GET A WARRANT TO SEARCH SUSAN 567 00:29:26,448 --> 00:29:29,654 FLORES' HOME. 568 00:29:29,689 --> 00:29:34,275 EVEN MORE DIFFICULT TO UNDERSTAND WAS WHY THEY WAITED 569 00:29:34,309 --> 00:29:37,172 TWO MONTHS TO SEARCH THISHOUSE, THE FAMILY HOME WHERE PAUL 570 00:29:37,205 --> 00:29:40,378 FLORES WAS LIVING WITH HIS FATHER, RUBEN. 571 00:29:40,413 --> 00:29:41,723 AND WHEN THEY DID... 572 00:29:41,758 --> 00:29:43,309 >> THEY DIDN'T BRING CADAVER DOGS WITH THEM. 573 00:29:43,344 --> 00:29:46,067 THEY DIDN'T BRING A FORENSICS TEAM. 574 00:29:46,103 --> 00:29:48,758 THEY DIDN'T LOOK AT THE FLORES FAMILY'S VEHICLES. 575 00:29:48,792 --> 00:29:50,481 >> Reporter: THEY MIGHT HAVE FOUND EVIDENCE IN THOSE 576 00:29:50,517 --> 00:29:53,517 VEHICLES. 577 00:29:53,550 --> 00:29:57,826 PAUL FLORES DID NOT HAVE A CAR ON CAMPUS, SO MURPHY SURMISES HE 578 00:29:57,862 --> 00:29:58,931 HAD TO HAVE HAD HELP. 579 00:29:58,964 --> 00:30:02,517 >> AND IT'S 2:30 AND 3:00 IN THE MORNING AT CAL POLY. 580 00:30:02,550 --> 00:30:10,378 THIS IS NOT A LOCATION FROM WHICH PAUL ALONE COULD EASILY 581 00:30:10,413 --> 00:30:11,481 MOVE A BODY WITHOUT A VEHICLE. 582 00:30:11,517 --> 00:30:13,586 >> Reporter: BUT FURTHER INVESTIGATION OF THE FLORES' 583 00:30:13,619 --> 00:30:16,586 TWO TRUCKS SEEMED IMPOSSIBLE. 584 00:30:16,619 --> 00:30:18,586 IN THE MONTHS AFTER KRISTIN'S DISAPPEARANCE, 585 00:30:18,619 --> 00:30:25,413 ONE TRUCK WAS TRADED IN; THE OTHER WAS REPORTED STOLEN. 586 00:30:25,448 --> 00:30:28,344 BUT IT'S SUSAN FLORES' CONCRETE BACKYARD THAT HAS GOTTEN THE 587 00:30:28,378 --> 00:30:29,619 MOST ATTENTION. 588 00:30:29,654 --> 00:30:31,413 IT HAS BEEN THE FOCUS OF WIDESPREAD SPECULATION FOR 589 00:30:31,448 --> 00:30:36,792 MORE THAN TWO DECADES, ESPECIALLY HER PLANTER BOXES. 590 00:30:36,826 --> 00:30:38,517 >> AROUND THE TIME KRISTIN DISAPPEARED, THEY CUT OUT 591 00:30:38,550 --> 00:30:42,034 PLANTER BOXES IN THE BACKYARD. 592 00:30:42,067 --> 00:30:45,550 SO, THEY CUT OUT BIG CHUNKS OF CONCRETE AND FILLED IT IN WITH 593 00:30:45,586 --> 00:30:46,723 SOIL. 594 00:30:46,758 --> 00:30:49,481 IN ONE OF PAUL'S POLICE INTERVIEWS, HE MENTIONED THAT HE 595 00:30:49,517 --> 00:30:53,413 WANTED TO BE LET OUT OF THE INTERVIEW BECAUSE HE NEEDED TO 596 00:30:53,448 --> 00:30:57,654 HELP CLEAN UP CONCRETE AT HIS MOM'S HOUSE. 597 00:30:57,689 --> 00:31:01,240 SO, WHAT WAS BEING DONE IN SUSAN FLORES' BACKYARD IN THE WEEKS 598 00:31:01,275 --> 00:31:02,517 AFTER KRISTIN WENT MISSING? 599 00:31:02,550 --> 00:31:06,723 >> Reporter: SUSAN'S HOUSE WAS FINALLY SEARCHED IN MARCH 1997, 600 00:31:06,758 --> 00:31:10,619 NINE MONTHS AFTER KRISTIN DISAPPEARED, BUT NOTHING WAS 601 00:31:10,654 --> 00:31:12,931 FOUND. 602 00:31:12,964 --> 00:31:16,862 >> I THINK IT'S VERY POSSIBLE THAT KRISTIN WAS AT SUSAN 603 00:31:16,895 --> 00:31:19,481 FLORES' HOUSE AT SOME POINT EARLY ON. 604 00:31:19,517 --> 00:31:22,586 I THINK THAT ANYBODY REASONABLE WOULD HAVE MOVED HER SOMEWHERE 605 00:31:22,619 --> 00:31:23,826 SAFER. 606 00:31:23,862 --> 00:31:26,654 >> Reporter: IT WOULD BE THREE MORE YEARS BEFORE THE PROPERTY 607 00:31:26,689 --> 00:31:29,550 WAS SEARCHED AGAIN. 608 00:31:29,586 --> 00:31:33,172 >> AT 8:00 A.M. ON JUNE 19, 2000, A TEAM OF SHERIFF'S 609 00:31:33,205 --> 00:31:37,550 INVESTIGATORS KNOCKS ON THE FRONT DOOR OF SUSAN FLORES' 610 00:31:37,586 --> 00:31:38,619 EAST BRANCH STREET HOME. 611 00:31:38,654 --> 00:31:41,586 WITH THEM IS A GROUP OF F.B.I. 612 00:31:41,619 --> 00:31:43,550 EVIDENCE RESPONSE TEAM MEMBERS AND A SEARCH WARRANT. 613 00:31:43,586 --> 00:31:46,723 >> Reporter: THAT WARRANT ALLOWED THEM TO DIG UP THE BACK 614 00:31:46,758 --> 00:31:49,654 YARD, BUT DEPUTIES CHOSE NOT TO EXCAVATE. 615 00:31:49,689 --> 00:31:53,964 DENISE PEARCE SAYS THATWAS A CRUSHING BLOW FOR THE SMART 616 00:31:54,000 --> 00:31:55,344 FAMILY. 617 00:31:55,378 --> 00:31:58,758 >> TO BE ALMOSTTHERE, TO THINK THAT YOU'RE GOING TO FINALLY 618 00:31:58,792 --> 00:32:01,619 GET SOME RESOLUTION, AND THEN, YOU KNOW, IT DOESN'T HAPPEN THE 619 00:32:01,654 --> 00:32:02,689 WAY IT'S SUPPOSED TO? 620 00:32:02,723 --> 00:32:04,481 DEVASTATING. 621 00:32:04,517 --> 00:32:07,654 >> Reporter: AND THERE WOULD BE MORE DISAPPOINTMENT IN 2007, 622 00:32:07,689 --> 00:32:10,723 AFTER THE SMART'S LEGAL TEAM SEARCHED A SMALL PORTION OF 623 00:32:10,758 --> 00:32:14,723 SUSAN FLORES' BACKYARD WITH GROUND-PENETRATING RADAR AND DID 624 00:32:14,758 --> 00:32:18,723 NOT FIND ANY EVIDENCE. 625 00:32:18,758 --> 00:32:21,723 >> THEY JUST HAVE NEVER GIVEN UP AND ARE NEVER GOING TO GIVE UP 626 00:32:21,758 --> 00:32:23,000 ON THEIR DAUGHTER. 627 00:32:23,034 --> 00:32:25,654 >> Reporter: RUBEN FLORES AND HIS ESTRANGED WIFE, SUSAN, HAVE 628 00:32:25,689 --> 00:32:30,758 ALWAYS DENIED ANY ROLE IN KRISTIN SMART'S DISAPPEARANCE. 629 00:32:30,792 --> 00:32:34,723 >> DO YOU HAVE ANY INFORMATION AS TO WHERE KRISTIN SMART'S BODY 630 00:32:34,758 --> 00:32:37,654 IS LOCATED? 631 00:32:37,689 --> 00:32:38,931 >> OF COURSE NOT. 632 00:32:38,964 --> 00:32:42,034 >> DOES YOUR HUSBAND HAVE ANY INFORMATION AS TO WHERE KRISTIN 633 00:32:42,067 --> 00:32:42,723 SMART'S BODY IS LOCATED? 634 00:32:42,758 --> 00:32:43,931 >> NO. 635 00:32:43,964 --> 00:32:46,792 >> Reporter: WHEN THEY WERE DEPOSED BY JAMES MURPHY, THEY 636 00:32:46,826 --> 00:32:49,758 ALSO INSISTED THEIR SON WAS NOT INVOLVED. 637 00:32:49,792 --> 00:32:54,103 >> DOES YOUR SON HAVE ANY INFORMATION AS TO WHERE KRISTIN 638 00:32:54,136 --> 00:32:54,826 SMART'S BODY IS LOCATED? 639 00:32:54,862 --> 00:32:57,550 >> NOPE. 640 00:32:57,586 --> 00:33:01,758 >> HAS YOUR SON EVER TOLD YOU THAT HE DID NOTKILL KRISTIN 641 00:33:01,792 --> 00:33:03,792 SMART? 642 00:33:10,862 --> 00:33:12,136 >> WE NEVER ASKED THAT QUESTION. 643 00:33:12,172 --> 00:33:13,758 WE JUST, "DO YOU KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT IT?" 644 00:33:13,792 --> 00:33:15,067 HE SAYS NO. 645 00:33:15,103 --> 00:33:18,826 >> Reporter: THROUGH THE YEARS, THE SMARTS HAVE KEPT PRESSURE ON 646 00:33:18,862 --> 00:33:19,931 THE FLORES FAMILY. 647 00:33:19,964 --> 00:33:22,862 BUT THE FLORES HAVE FOUGHT BACK, SUING THE SMARTS FOR 648 00:33:22,895 --> 00:33:26,826 INTENTIONALLY INFLICTING EMOTIONAL DISTRESS ON THEM. 649 00:33:26,862 --> 00:33:34,517 LIKE THE SMARTS' CIVIL CASE, THEIRS IS ALSO ON HOLD. 650 00:33:34,550 --> 00:33:37,758 IN THE MEANTIME, PAUL FLORES MOVED TO SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, 651 00:33:37,792 --> 00:33:40,758 WHERE HE HAS BOUNCED FROM JOB TO JOB. 652 00:33:40,792 --> 00:33:43,034 BUT AS CHRIS LAMBERT LEARNED, FLORES' PATTERN OF BEHAVIOR WITH 653 00:33:43,067 --> 00:33:46,205 WOMEN DIDN'T STOP. 654 00:33:46,240 --> 00:33:48,205 >> A COUPLE OF TIMES, I'D TAKE HIM HOME, AND HE WOULD JUST, 655 00:33:48,240 --> 00:33:50,240 "OH, COME ON, JUST GIVE ME A KISS, JUST GIVE ME A KISS." 656 00:34:00,378 --> 00:34:02,344 >> Reporter: PAUL FLORES MAY HAVE WANTED A FRESH START IN 657 00:34:02,378 --> 00:34:06,172 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, BUT CHRIS LAMBERT SAYS HE COULD NOT SEEM 658 00:34:06,205 --> 00:34:08,896 TO BREAK OLD HABITS. 659 00:34:08,931 --> 00:34:12,378 >> PAUL WORKED WITH A NUMBER OF WOMEN THAT HE MADE INCREDIBLY 660 00:34:12,413 --> 00:34:14,931 UNCOMFORTABLE, GIRLS WHO HE TRIED TO MAKE A PASS AT 661 00:34:14,965 --> 00:34:19,550 SEXUALLY, GIRLS THAT HE TRIED TO FORCE TO KISS HIM. 662 00:34:19,585 --> 00:34:22,034 >> Reporter: SOME OF THOSE WOMEN-- WHO DID NOT WANT THEIR 663 00:34:22,068 --> 00:34:26,034 REAL NAMES USED-- TOLD LAMBERT ABOUT THEIR ENCOUNTERS WITH HIM. 664 00:34:26,068 --> 00:34:28,862 >> SO, I WALK HIM UP TO HIS SISTER'S APARTMENT, AND, ALL OF 665 00:34:28,896 --> 00:34:32,068 A SUDDEN, HE JUST, LIKE, PICKED ME UP, CARRIED ME INSIDE, TURNED 666 00:34:32,103 --> 00:34:36,137 AROUND AND SHUT THE APARTMENT DOOR AND LOCKED IT. 667 00:34:36,172 --> 00:34:38,034 SO, I SAID, "“YOU BETTER TURN SOME LIGHTS ON RIGHT NOW AND LET 668 00:34:38,068 --> 00:34:40,931 ME OUT OR I'M GOING TO SCREAM."” SO, EVENTUALLY, HE UNLOCKED, 669 00:34:40,965 --> 00:34:44,068 YOU KNOW, THE APARTMENT DOOR, AND I LEFT. 670 00:34:44,103 --> 00:34:46,034 >> Reporter: LAMBERT ALSO INTERVIEWED A WOMAN WHO DATED 671 00:34:46,068 --> 00:34:51,000 FLORES UNTIL, SHE SAYS, HE BECAME PHYSICALLY AND VERBALLY 672 00:34:51,034 --> 00:34:52,757 ABUSIVE. 673 00:34:52,793 --> 00:34:54,550 >> AND HE HAD, LIKE, A BUTTER KNIFE, AND HE LIKE HELD IT TO MY 674 00:34:54,585 --> 00:34:57,034 NECK, AND I WAS SCREAMING. 675 00:34:57,068 --> 00:35:02,068 AND MY ROOMMATE ACTUALLY KICKED DOWN THE DOOR TO MAKE HIM STOP. 676 00:35:02,103 --> 00:35:06,034 >> Reporter: BUT PAUL FLORES WAS NEVER CHARGED WITH ANY OF 677 00:35:06,068 --> 00:35:08,137 THESE INCIDENTS. 678 00:35:08,172 --> 00:35:12,309 BACK IN SAN LUIS OBISPO, THE SMARTS, FEELING IGNORED BY THE 679 00:35:12,344 --> 00:35:15,000 SHERIFF'S OFFICE, CONTINUED A RELENTLESS CAMPAIGN TO GET THEM 680 00:35:15,034 --> 00:35:18,137 TO DO MORE TO FIND THEIR DAUGHTER. 681 00:35:18,172 --> 00:35:22,137 WHAT TOLL OVER TIME DID THIS HAVE ON YOUR PARENTS? 682 00:35:22,172 --> 00:35:24,481 >> I THINK THEY'RE, LIKE, CARRYING BOULDERS ON THEIR BACK. 683 00:35:24,516 --> 00:35:28,585 >> Reporter: THEN, IN 2011, IAN PARKINSON WAS ELECTED SHERIFF. 684 00:35:28,619 --> 00:35:31,481 >> IF YOU WERE MAKING A FILM ABOUT A NEW LAW ENFORCER WHO'S 685 00:35:31,516 --> 00:35:36,275 COMING TO A SMALL TOWN TO SAVE THE DAY, YOU'D PROBABLY CAST 686 00:35:36,309 --> 00:35:37,481 PARKINSON. 687 00:35:37,516 --> 00:35:40,550 >> Reporter: HE PROMISED THE SMARTS THAT SOLVING KRISTIN'S 688 00:35:40,585 --> 00:35:42,896 CASE WOULD BE A PRIORITY. 689 00:35:42,931 --> 00:35:44,550 >> I COMMITTED TO THEM THAT I WAS GOING TO GO BACK TO THE 690 00:35:44,585 --> 00:35:48,550 BEGINNING AND REEXAMINE EVERY PIECE OF EVIDENCE THAT WE HAD. 691 00:35:48,585 --> 00:35:51,378 >> Reporter: BUT PARKINSON ACKNOWLEDGES IT HASN'T BEEN 692 00:35:51,413 --> 00:35:52,688 EASY. 693 00:35:52,724 --> 00:35:56,550 >> THERE WAS EARLY MISTAKES MADE THAT YOU CAN'T RECOVER FROM WHEN 694 00:35:56,585 --> 00:35:58,896 YOU'RE MISSING THOSE VITAL PIECES. 695 00:35:58,931 --> 00:36:03,827 >> Reporter: IS THIS A CASE THAT TAKES A MIRACLE TO SOLVE? 696 00:36:03,862 --> 00:36:05,068 >> I HOPE NOT. 697 00:36:05,103 --> 00:36:07,619 >> Reporter: SINCE PARKINSON CAME ON THE SCENE, INVESTIGATORS 698 00:36:07,655 --> 00:36:12,550 HAVE DUG UP HILLSIDES, SEARCHED THE HOMES AND PROPERTIES OF ALL 699 00:36:12,585 --> 00:36:16,655 THE FLORES, COLLECTED EVIDENCE, SEIZED PAUL FLORES' COMPUTERS, 700 00:36:16,688 --> 00:36:20,585 MONITORED HIS CELL PHONE AND TEXT MESSAGES, AND FOUND NEW 701 00:36:20,619 --> 00:36:24,585 WITNESSES-- SOME WITH THE HELP OF CHRIS LAMBERT. 702 00:36:24,619 --> 00:36:26,931 >> I BROUGHT THEM A NUMBER OF WITNESSES THAT THEY WERE VERY 703 00:36:26,965 --> 00:36:28,137 INTERESTED IN. 704 00:36:28,172 --> 00:36:29,931 I ALSO BROUGHT THEM WITNESSES THAT THEY HAD NO INTEREST IN 705 00:36:29,965 --> 00:36:31,172 WHATSOEVER. 706 00:36:31,206 --> 00:36:32,585 AND THEN, MONTHS AND MONTHS LATER, THEY'D REACH BACK OUT AND 707 00:36:32,619 --> 00:36:35,619 SAY, "CAN YOU GET US IN TOUCH WITH THIS PERSON AGAIN?" 708 00:36:35,655 --> 00:36:39,068 >> Reporter: LAST MONTH, INVESTIGATORS FINALLY PUT 709 00:36:39,103 --> 00:36:42,793 ALL THE PIECES OF THE PUZZLE TOGETHER AND DECIDED THEY 710 00:36:42,827 --> 00:36:47,516 HAD ENOUGH TO CHARGE THE NOW 44-YEAR-OLD PAUL FLORES WITH 711 00:36:47,550 --> 00:36:49,516 KRISTIN'S MURDER, AND HIS 80-YEAR-OLD FATHER AS AN 712 00:36:49,550 --> 00:36:52,585 ACCESSORY AFTER THE FACT. 713 00:36:52,619 --> 00:36:56,585 >> THE ALLEGATION AGAINST RUBEN IS THAT HE HELPED TO CONCEAL 714 00:36:56,619 --> 00:36:59,757 KRISTEN'S BODY AFTER THE MURDER WAS COMMITTED. 715 00:36:59,793 --> 00:37:01,550 >> Reporter: SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY DAN 716 00:37:01,585 --> 00:37:04,619 DOW: >> WE DON'T HAVE EVIDENCE 717 00:37:04,655 --> 00:37:07,550 SUFFICIENT TO CHARGE ANYONE ELSE AT THIS TIME, BUT THE 718 00:37:07,585 --> 00:37:08,827 INVESTIGATION IS ONGOING. 719 00:37:08,862 --> 00:37:12,619 >> Reporter: AND FOR THE FIRST TIME, CLUES ABOUT WHAT MAY HAVE 720 00:37:12,655 --> 00:37:15,965 HAPPENED TO KRISTIN SMART. 721 00:37:16,000 --> 00:37:19,585 >> FORENSIC PHYSICAL EVIDENCE WAS LOCATED, AND, YES, WE 722 00:37:19,619 --> 00:37:22,896 BELIEVE IT'S LINKED TO KRISTIN. 723 00:37:22,931 --> 00:37:26,757 AND, YES, WE DID FIND PHYSICAL EVIDENCE AT AT LEAST TWO HOMES. 724 00:37:26,793 --> 00:37:30,206 >> Reporter: ALTHOUGH THERE'S A GAG ORDER AND SEARCH WARRANTS 725 00:37:30,240 --> 00:37:33,655 HAVE BEEN SEALED, SOME INFORMATION HAS LEAKED OUT. 726 00:37:33,688 --> 00:37:36,034 >> THIS IS THE THIRD TIME THE SHERIFF'S OFFICE HAS SEARCHED 727 00:37:36,068 --> 00:37:37,344 THE HOUSE... 728 00:37:37,378 --> 00:37:40,655 >> Reporter: LIKE WHAT MAY HAVE BEEN DISCOVERED THIS PAST MARCH 729 00:37:40,688 --> 00:37:43,655 WHEN INVESTIGATORS SEARCHED RUBEN FLORES' HOUSE USING 730 00:37:43,688 --> 00:37:47,447 CADAVER DOGS AND GROUND PENETRATING RADAR. 731 00:37:47,481 --> 00:37:49,619 >> THEY DID A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF DIGGING UNDERNEATH THE HOUSE. 732 00:37:49,655 --> 00:37:53,931 THEY TOOK IN SOIL, I ASSUME, FOR SOME KIND OF ANALYSIS. 733 00:37:53,965 --> 00:37:56,688 >> Reporter: ACCORDING TO A COUNTY PROBATION BAIL REPORT 734 00:37:56,724 --> 00:38:00,688 OBTAINED BY THE "SAN LUIS OBISPO TRIBUNE," "“BIOLOGICAL EVIDENCE"” 735 00:38:00,724 --> 00:38:04,413 WAS FOUND UNDER RUBEN'S DECK. 736 00:38:04,447 --> 00:38:07,655 >> THE QUESTION FOR DECADES WAS, WELL, WHERE DID THE BODY GO? 737 00:38:07,688 --> 00:38:11,172 >> Reporter: THE SMARTS' CIVIL ATTORNEY, JAMES MURPHY, THINKS 738 00:38:11,206 --> 00:38:12,724 HE KNOWS. 739 00:38:12,757 --> 00:38:16,896 >> HE THREW HER IN A HOLE FOR 24 YEARS, AND, THEN, DURING THAT 740 00:38:16,931 --> 00:38:22,757 PERIOD OF TIME, HE SIPPED HIS MORNING COFFEE OUT ON THE DECK. 741 00:38:22,793 --> 00:38:25,516 >> Reporter: MURPHY HAS FILED A NEW CIVIL SUIT AGAINST RUBEN 742 00:38:25,550 --> 00:38:29,585 FLORES FOR THE INTENTIONAL INFLICTION OF EMOTIONAL 743 00:38:29,619 --> 00:38:33,516 DISTRESS, AND THE COMPLAINT HAS SOME EXPLOSIVE CLAIMS ABOUT WHAT 744 00:38:33,550 --> 00:38:38,447 LED INVESTIGATORS TO FOCUS UNDER RUBEN'S DECK IN THE FIRST PLACE. 745 00:38:38,481 --> 00:38:41,516 >> THE PODCAST IS OUT. 746 00:38:41,550 --> 00:38:45,516 PEOPLE ARE WATCHING RUBEN FLORES AND SUSAN FLORES AND PAUL 747 00:38:45,550 --> 00:38:48,793 FLORES. 748 00:38:48,827 --> 00:38:51,896 SUDDENLY, MAJOR PIECES OF EVIDENCE CAME FORWARD. 749 00:38:51,931 --> 00:38:56,447 >> Reporter: AN IMPORTANT TIP CAME IN AFTER A FEBRUARY 2020 750 00:38:56,481 --> 00:39:00,000 SEARCH OF PAUL, SUSAN AND RUBEN'S PROPERTIES. 751 00:39:00,034 --> 00:39:04,137 MURPHY ALLEGES FOUR NIGHTS LATER, STRANGE ACTIVITY WAS SEEN 752 00:39:04,172 --> 00:39:05,516 AT RUBEN'S HOUSE. 753 00:39:05,550 --> 00:39:09,550 >> AN EYEWITNESS ACTUALLY DOCUMENTED THE FACT THAT-- 754 00:39:09,585 --> 00:39:13,550 THROUGHOUT THE NIGHT, THAT THERE WAS ACTIVITY IN THE AREA OF THE 755 00:39:13,585 --> 00:39:16,516 UNDERSIDE OF THAT DECK. 756 00:39:16,550 --> 00:39:20,550 >> I'M NOT AT LIBERTY TO DESCRIBE HOW IT WAS DOCUMENTED, 757 00:39:20,585 --> 00:39:22,827 BUT I'VE SEEN IT. 758 00:39:22,862 --> 00:39:25,585 >> Reporter: THAT WITNESS INITIALLY CAME FORWARD TO CHRIS 759 00:39:25,619 --> 00:39:29,688 LAMBERT, WHO PASSED THE INFORMATION TO THE SHERIFF'S 760 00:39:29,724 --> 00:39:31,240 OFFICE AND MURPHY. 761 00:39:31,275 --> 00:39:33,619 IN HIS COMPLAINT, MURPHY ALLEGES, ALONG WITH RUBEN, THERE 762 00:39:33,655 --> 00:39:37,619 WERE OTHER TWO UNNAMED INDIVIDUALS. 763 00:39:37,655 --> 00:39:40,862 BUT HE SAYS THEY ARE RUBEN'S EX-WIFE, SUSAN, AND HER 764 00:39:40,896 --> 00:39:42,137 BOYFRIEND. 765 00:39:42,172 --> 00:39:49,378 >> SO, WHY WOULD SUSAN FLORES, HER BOYFRIEND, AND RUBEN FLORES 766 00:39:49,413 --> 00:39:52,793 BE UP ALL NIGHT LONG, WORKING UNDER THAT DECK? 767 00:39:52,827 --> 00:39:56,068 >> Reporter: THE LAWSUIT CLAIMS THEY WERE MOVING KRISTIN'S 768 00:39:56,103 --> 00:39:57,344 REMAINS. 769 00:39:57,378 --> 00:40:01,619 >> THE LOCATION WHERE ALL THIS ACTIVITY OCCURRED IS WHERE THEY 770 00:40:01,655 --> 00:40:02,550 FOUND THE BIOLOGICAL MATERIAL. 771 00:40:02,585 --> 00:40:05,516 AND THE BODY'S NOT THERE NOW. 772 00:40:05,550 --> 00:40:08,447 >> Reporter: THE COUNTY PROBATION REPORT SAYS 773 00:40:08,481 --> 00:40:12,447 INVESTIGATORS FOUND "“DAMNING EVIDENCE THAT A BODY HAD BEEN 774 00:40:12,481 --> 00:40:16,827 BURIED IN THAT LOCATION AND THEN RECENTLY MOVED." 775 00:40:16,862 --> 00:40:20,655 AND THERE ARE MORE HORRIFYING ALLEGATIONS ABOUT WHAT MAY HAVE 776 00:40:20,688 --> 00:40:25,309 HAPPENED TO KRISTIN AFTER SHE WAS LAST SEEN WITH PAUL FLORES. 777 00:40:25,344 --> 00:40:29,137 >> IT IS ALLEGED THAT MR. FLORES CAUSED THE DEATH OF KRISTEN 778 00:40:29,172 --> 00:40:32,688 SMART WHILE IN THE COMMISSION OF OR ATTEMPTED RAPE. 779 00:40:32,724 --> 00:40:36,965 >> Reporter: BECAUSE OF THE STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS, DOW 780 00:40:37,000 --> 00:40:40,240 SAYS, PAUL FLORES CAN'T BE CHARGED WITH RAPE. 781 00:40:40,275 --> 00:40:42,550 >> BUT THE ALLEGATION THAT HE WAS COMMITTING OR ATTEMPTING TO 782 00:40:42,585 --> 00:40:45,724 COMMIT A RAPE WHEN HE KILLED HER IS THE BASIS FOR WHICH WE ARE 783 00:40:45,757 --> 00:40:49,550 ABLE TO FILE FIRST-DEGREE FELONY MURDER CHARGES. 784 00:40:49,585 --> 00:40:53,103 >> Reporter: AUTHORITIES MADE CLEAR THAT THEY PLAN TO USE 785 00:40:53,137 --> 00:40:56,724 FLORES' ALLEGED PREDATORY BEHAVIOR AGAINST HIM. 786 00:40:56,757 --> 00:41:01,481 >> WE INTEND TO USE EVIDENCE OF OTHER SEXUAL CRIMES IN THIS 787 00:41:01,516 --> 00:41:04,206 PROSECUTION TO PROVE THE FACTS NECESSARY FOR THE ATTEMPTED RAPE 788 00:41:04,240 --> 00:41:05,481 IN THIS CASE. 789 00:41:05,516 --> 00:41:08,688 >> Reporter: AND, ACCORDING TO THAT PROBATION REPORT, "“DOZENS 790 00:41:08,724 --> 00:41:13,275 OF WOMEN HAVE RECOUNTED PAUL FLORES' SEXUAL ASSAULTS AND 791 00:41:13,309 --> 00:41:17,827 PREDATORY BEHAVIOR, THAT DOCUMENT HIS 25 YEARS AS A 792 00:41:17,862 --> 00:41:20,793 SERIAL RAPIST."” FOR THE MOMENT, HE HAS NOT BEEN 793 00:41:20,827 --> 00:41:23,103 CHARGED IN THOSE INCIDENTS. 794 00:41:23,137 --> 00:41:25,619 >> WE HAVE EVIDENCE THAT WE DO BELIEVE THERE ARE OTHER PEOPLE 795 00:41:25,655 --> 00:41:29,240 THAT ARE NOT YET IDENTIFIED THAT HAVE HAD A... 796 00:41:29,275 --> 00:41:31,585 SOME KIND OF A CRIMINAL ACT PERPETRATED ON THEM BY MR. 797 00:41:31,619 --> 00:41:32,827 FLORES. 798 00:41:32,862 --> 00:41:36,550 >> Reporter: "48 HOURS" HAS LEARNED THESE SUSPICIONS CENTER 799 00:41:36,585 --> 00:41:38,793 AROUND EVIDENCE FOUND DURING THAT 2020 SEARCH OF PAUL FLORES' 800 00:41:38,827 --> 00:41:41,724 HOME. 801 00:41:41,757 --> 00:41:44,793 SOURCES TELL US INVESTIGATORS DISCOVERED PHOTOGRAPHS AND 802 00:41:44,827 --> 00:41:49,550 VIDEOS ON FLORES' COMPUTER SHOWING HIM ENGAGED IN SEXUAL 803 00:41:49,585 --> 00:41:53,827 ACTIVITY WITH AT LEAST TEN DIFFERENT WOMEN, APPARENTLY IN 804 00:41:53,862 --> 00:41:56,793 VARIOUS STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS. 805 00:41:56,827 --> 00:42:00,862 PAUL FLORES AND HIS FATHER BOTH PLEADED NOT GUILTY TO ALL 806 00:42:00,896 --> 00:42:02,103 CHARGES AT THEIR ARRAIGNMENT. 807 00:42:02,137 --> 00:42:05,862 RUBEN'S ATTORNEY DISMISSED THE EVIDENCE AGAINST HIS CLIENT AS 808 00:42:05,896 --> 00:42:08,931 "SO MINIMAL AS TO SHOCK THE CONSCIENCE." 809 00:42:08,965 --> 00:42:14,275 RUBEN FLORES WAS RELEASED ON $50,000 BAIL TO HIS EX-WIFE. 810 00:42:14,309 --> 00:42:17,965 HE'S REQUIRED TO WEAR AN ELECTRONIC ANKLE BRACELET. 811 00:42:18,000 --> 00:42:20,896 BUT THEIR SON WON'T BE GOING ANYWHERE. 812 00:42:20,931 --> 00:42:24,309 HE'S BEING HELD ON NO BAIL. 813 00:42:24,344 --> 00:42:30,000 >> TO SEE THEM IN CUSTODY WAS A FEELING OF GREAT JOY FOR ME. 814 00:42:30,034 --> 00:42:33,931 MY JOB WAS TO HUNT THEM, AND THAT'S WHAT I'VE BEEN DOING, 815 00:42:33,965 --> 00:42:37,931 FOR A LONG, LONG TIME, ALONG WITH A LOT OF OTHER PEOPLE. 816 00:42:37,965 --> 00:42:41,827 THAT'S BEEN OUR GOAL. 817 00:42:41,862 --> 00:42:44,896 >> Reporter: IT IS ALSO WHAT THE SMARTS HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR, 818 00:42:44,931 --> 00:42:47,896 FOR ALMOST A QUARTER OF A CENTURY. 819 00:42:47,931 --> 00:42:50,896 CHRIS LAMBERT SAYS THEY'RE CAUTIOUSLY OPTIMISTIC. 820 00:42:50,931 --> 00:42:53,688 >> THEY'RE HOPEFUL, BUT THEY'VE ALSO BEEN LET DOWN SO 821 00:42:53,724 --> 00:42:54,931 MANY TIMES BEFORE. 822 00:42:54,965 --> 00:42:57,172 I THINK THEY'RE JUST WAITING TO SEE WHAT THE OUTCOME IS GOING 823 00:42:57,206 --> 00:42:58,447 TO BE. 824 00:42:58,481 --> 00:43:01,965 >> THEY'RE INTERESTED IN SEEING PAUL FLORES GET CONVICTED AND 825 00:43:02,000 --> 00:43:05,965 RUBEN FLORES GET HELD ACCOUNTABLE. 826 00:43:06,000 --> 00:43:09,309 THEN, MOST IMPORTANTLY, THEY WANT TO FIND THEIR DAUGHTER. 827 00:43:09,344 --> 00:43:13,931 >> Reporter: KRISTIN'S BILLBOARD REMAINS IN FRONT OF THE MURPHY'S 828 00:43:13,965 --> 00:43:14,896 LAW FIRM... 829 00:43:14,931 --> 00:43:18,034 ...NOW WITH A NEW MESSAGE. 830 00:43:18,068 --> 00:43:22,034 >> THINGS ARE CHANGING RAPIDLY, SO IT WAS APPROPRIATE, I THINK, 831 00:43:22,068 --> 00:43:25,550 THAT THE BILLBOARD CHANGE, TOO. 832 00:43:25,585 --> 00:43:26,447 WE'VE GOT HIM. 833 00:43:26,481 --> 00:43:33,000 NOW, WHAT WE WANT IS JUSTICE FOR KRISTIN. 834 00:43:33,034 --> 00:43:35,240 Captioning sponsored by CBS Captioned by 835 00:43:36,688 --> 00:43:38,688 Media Access Group at WGBH access.wgbh.org 836 00:43:42,068 --> 00:43:45,550 >> A MOTHER DISAPPEARS, TEXTING FRIENDS AND FAMILY THAT SHE HAS 837 00:43:45,585 --> 00:43:46,862 COVID. 838 00:43:46,896 --> 00:43:48,896 >> THEY'VE ONLY TALKED TO HER VIA TEXT. 839 00:43:48,931 --> 00:43:51,034 AND SHE NEVER ANSWERED HER PHONE. 840 00:43:51,068 --> 00:43:54,034 >> WAS SOMEONE USING THE PANDEMIC TO COVER UP A KILLING? 841 00:43:54,068 --> 00:43:56,068 >> SHE HEARD A BLOODCURDLING SCREAM.