BREAKTHROUGH HOPES
Kristin Smart cops use cadaver dogs to search home of suspect Paul Flores in hunt for student who vanished in 1996
Updated: 16 Mar 2021, 12:42
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INVESTIGATORS in the Kristin Smart cold case used cadaver dogs and radar to search a home on Monday nearly 25 years after the student disappeared.
Detectives served a search warrant at the Arroyo Grande house of Ruben Flores, who is he father of “prime suspect” Paul Flores, the Los Angeles Times reported on Monday.
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Investigators in the Kristin Smart cold case used cadaver dogs and radar to search a homeCredit: AP
A judge allowed the San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Office to use dogs and ground-penetrating radar to execute the search linked to Smart, who vanished on May 25, 1996, on her way home from a party outside of her campus.
Investigators in Kristin Smart case serve search warrant at the home of the prime suspect’s father
Investigators in the case of Kristin Smart, the college student missing since 1996, served a search warrant at the home of the prime suspect’s father, officials said Monday.
The San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Office on Monday announced it served a search warrant at the Arroyo Grande home of Ruben Flores, the father of Paul Flores, who has been the prime suspect in the case for years. Officials say Paul Flores was the last person to see Smart on May 25, 1996.
The warrant was served at 7:30 a.m. and the search could take up to two days to complete, the San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Office said.