Stone didn't see that other person, he explained, but shared with the court what he did hear. Stone said he couldn't tell whose voice that was, it could have been Ruben, but it also could have been another person.
#Kristin smarts body finally found trial#
A note the Flores father and son's attorneys reminded jurors at the start of the trial and in opening statements. Since she was last seen leaving an off-campus party on Memorial Day weekend 1996, Smart's body has never been found. That the home was important because it's where, he said the DA's office will prove, Smart was buried for a period of time after her disappearance. The details, San Luis Obispo County Deputy District Attorney Chris Peuvrelle, laid out during opening statements for jurors. Jurors saw photos of the home's blueprints, early construction photos, and a photo of the front of the home introduced during the first week of testimony - when Smart's father noted an altercation that took place in the home's front yard. Ruben's Arroyo Grande home was at the center of evidence introduced in court on Monday with a range of witnesses from the home's original contractor to a former renter of Ruben's who lived in a room inside the home. One of the photos of Ruben Flores' Arroyo Grande home. Paul is charged in her death during an attempted rape and Ruben is charged with helping his son hide Smart's body in his backyard, according to prosecutors. Smart's former classmate, Paul Flores, and his father, Ruben, are on trial in connection to her disappearance. at the Cal Poly pool, so it’s possible she set her watch to wake up at that early hour.SALINAS - The Kristin Smart murder trial continued in Salinas Monday, at the start of the sixth week of testimony, 26 years after the Stockton teenager disappeared during her freshman year at California Polytechnic University. Smart had worked as a lifeguard at 5 a.m. “The speculation has been all along that Paul called his dad in the middle of the night and his dad came up and helped him get rid of Kristin’s body,” Lambert said.Ī tenant who lived for a year at Susan Flores’ home told him she heard a watch alarm every morning at 4:20 a.m. Flores came into work after Memorial Day weekend 1996 - when Smart went missing - saying she didn’t sleep well because her husband had gotten a phone call in the middle of the night and left in his car. “It did produce some information that I believe was valuable.”Ī former colleague of Paul Flores’ mother, Susan Flores, told him Mrs. “What Chris did with the podcast was put it out nationally to bring in new information,” Parkinson said without elaborating on the new evidence. Deputies started calling him to connect them with people he interviewed. People opened up to Lambert and he encouraged them to contact investigators with relevant information. He located overlooked or reluctant witnesses who hadn’t spoken with police, he said. He bought some high-quality recording equipment and began making calls. “All I have to do is get over my shyness and start calling these people out of the blue and start asking really personal questions.” “I thought I’d give it a shot and see if I could get a few people talking,” Lambert said. Lambert passed it many times and it ultimately motivated him to start investigating. It scared him that someone had gone missing and no one knew what happened.
Lambert, 33, was just 8 when Smart vanished a short drive up the coast from his own home in the small town of Orcutt, about 140 miles (225 kilometers) northwest of Los Angeles. “In the Dark” unearthed new evidence in a case prosecutors dropped instead of seeking a seventh trial against a Mississippi man who spent decades on death row. “Up and Vanished” led a man to confess to killing a Georgia beauty queen, while “Serial” helped a convicted murderer initially win an order for new trial in Maryland, though higher courts overruled that decision. His is the latest in a line of true-crime podcasts to play a role in an arrest, a court appeal or even an exoneration. “It’s driving me insane,” he said, yet he remained focused, patient and polite during a 45-minute interview with The Associated Press on Wednesday.Īll the attention isn’t leading to any money - Lambert takes no advertising for the podcast, relying on donations.
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