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Your Own Backyard

Episode 04: Son Of Susan

Your Own Backyard

Chris Lambert

True Crime, Flores, Smart, Kristin, Mystery, Unsolved, Homicide, San, Person, Paul, Cal, Obispo, Crime, Missing, College, Poly, Luis, Murder

4.927.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2019

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

A man from North Carolina vows to keep the Flores family on their toes, and accidentally finds a new way to get their backyard searched in the process.

Transcript

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0:00.0

A note from the smart family.

0:03.2

The statute of limitations in this case has expired on everything except murder.

0:09.0

Anyone who comes forward with information will not be charged with any crime.

0:15.4

At 8 a.m. on June 19, 2000, a team of sheriff's investigators knocks on the front door of Susan

0:28.6

Flores is East Branch Street home.

0:31.9

With them is a group of FBI evidence response team members and a search warrant drafted

0:37.5

by an FBI special agent.

0:40.5

The 22-page affidavit for the warrant lays out in detail several reasons for focusing

0:45.5

their search at this house.

0:47.5

First, Paul Flores admits to being the last person with Kristen Smart on the night she

0:52.4

disappeared.

0:53.6

Then, the stories that Paul told his roommate and the police about the walk back to the

0:58.0

dorms didn't match up.

1:00.9

He had a black eye and scratches on his hands and knees the same weekend that Kristen

1:05.2

disappeared and told three different stories about how he got them.

1:09.7

He even admitted to lying to police about the first story so he wouldn't sound like

1:13.5

a clutz.

1:15.7

Then, Cardi cadaver dogs alerted to the mattress, telephone, and waste basket in Paul's

1:21.3

Santa Lucía Hall dorm room for the sin of human decomposition.

1:26.3

Through all of the three story self-mountain residence halls, which each house about 600

1:31.1

students, Paul's was the only one that the dogs alerted on.

1:35.2

Then, Susan Flores' next door neighbors deposed that they saw Paul and Rubin doing construction

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