Investigators searching the San Luis Obispo County homebelonging to the mother of Kristin Smart’s killerfound evidence that human remains were once present at the property — three decades after the 19-year-old college freshman vanished.
Authorities spent this week combing through the Arroyo Grande home of Susan Flores, mother of convicted killer Paul Flores, using soil testing and ground-penetrating radar to search for signs of human decomposition, heLos Angeles Timesreported.
Their findings came back positive, San Luis Obispo County Sheriff Ian Parkinson said Friday.
“We believe that, based on what we’re looking at, evidence, wise scientific evidence, that a human remains were there at one time,” Parkinson said. “So we can’t call it Kristin, but you know, we think there’s, there’s evidence to support human remains there.”
Investigators will continue the search and won’t stop until every lead is exhausted, the sheriff added.
“Our search goes on, and I don’t know how long we’re going to be there,” Parkinson explained during a press conference Friday. “The warrant that we obtained means the occupants of the residence, once we serve it, have to depart and cannot return to the residence. It’s not unusual.”
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Earlier this week, sheriff’s investigators and experts in human decomposition arrived at the property.
Smart, a California Polytechnic State University student from Stockton, disappeared over Memorial Day weekend in 1996 after attending an off-campus party near the college.
Flores — who was convicted of murdering Smart in 2022 — was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison three years ago. His father, Ruben, was acquitted of helping him.
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