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Soil testing at California house turns up evidence of human remains in Kirstin Smart case

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Soil testing at a property linked to the man convicted in the murder of California college student Kristin Smart, who disappeared in 1996, turned up evidence of human remains, a state sheriff announced on Friday. “We can’t call it Kristin, but there’s evidence to support human remains – there at one time,” the San Luis Obispo county sheriff, Ian Parkinson, said at a news conference. Smart went missing from California Polytechnic State University in May 1996 after returning from an off-campus party. Prosecutors alleged she was killed during an attempted rape and that the last person she was seen with was Paul Flores, a fellow student. Flores and his father, Ruben Flores, were arrested in 2021. Prosecutors alleged Smart’s remains were buried on Ruben Flores’s property and later moved. He was acquitted of accessory charges. The younger Flores was convicted in October 2022 and ultimately sentenced to 25 years to life in prison.…

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