A note from the smart family.

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

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

After the ground penetrating radar search of Susan Flores' backyard in 2007, and up through

2010, investigators receive no significant information that leads to the location of

Kristen Smart's body.

Dennis Mann continues his campaign of keeping the Flores family on their toes though, marching

with banners and signs around the central coast, and posting regular updates to his website

sonofsusan.com.

As Sheriff Ed Williams very publicly admitted in 1997, there's not much progress that can

be made on the case without Flores' cooperation.

And in 1998, Williams retires without making any significant break in the case.

His successor Patrick Hedges is equally unsuccessful in locating Kristen Smart, charging anyone

with her kidnapping or murder, or communicating with the smart family in Stockton.

In fact, Hedges' entire career as the sheriff of San Luis Obispo is bogged down by scandals,

and by the end, total public distrust.

In 2007, one of his chief deputies discovers that Sheriff Hedges and his under Sheriff Steve

Bolts, who was once the lead detective on the Kristen Smart case, have bogged his office,

and been secretly videotaping him, believing him to be disloyal and possibly engaging in

criminal behavior, a suspicion that ends up being baseless.

When news about the illegal wiretapping becomes public, the sheriff docks himself $700, or

the equivalent of a single day's pay, as a way to punish himself for spying on his own

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