You're listening to a special bonus series of the Your Own Backyard Podcast, titled

People vs. Flores, a weekly recap of the murder trial of Paul and Ruben Flores.

Since filming and audio recording aren't currently allowed inside the courtroom, these

episodes will recount handwritten notes taken by host Chris Lambert, breaking from our typical

documentary format in an effort to get updates out as regularly and succinctly as possible.

These recaps will likely contain subject matter that may be graphic and disturbing to some

listeners.

Your discretion is advised.

Week 6.

Week 6.

Started on Wednesday, August 24, after two previously scheduled dark days.

Just after 9am, Deputy DA Christopher Poverl called Rhonda Doe to the stand.

And a testified that on January 12, 2008, she was hanging out with three of her friends

and bandmates at the Thirsty Club bar in Redondo Beach.

Around closing time, Rhonda said they were standing in the parking lot, when a man she

later learned to be Paul Flores, wrote up on his bicycle.

Her friends invited Paul to hang out with them at her house, since the bar was now closed,

but Paul kept saying he needed to go back to his house first to do something, and eventually

asked Rhonda to walk with him.

Rhonda said she agreed and walked for 10 to 15 minutes from the Thirsty Club to Paul's

house on 170th Street in Laundale.

Rhonda said that by the time they started walking, she had sobered up and no longer felt

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