Paul Flores

On october 18, 2022, paul flores was found guilty of the murder of kristin smart, and ruben flores was acquitted of 'accessory after the fact'. On march 10, 2023, paul was sentenced to 25 years to life in. Jan 9, 2024budrow and paul flores – who was arrested for smart’s 1996 murder in 2021 and was convicted the following year – were both inmates at pleasant valley state prison in central california,.

Aug 15, 2025on july 18, 2022, paul flores stood trial for the murder of kristin smart, alongside his father, ruben flores, who was tried with a separate jury. Jan 14, 2026flores, 49, was convicted of smart’s murder in october 2022 following a three-month trial. Paul flores, left, appears with defense.

Apr 12, 2024paul flores, the convicted killer of college student kristin smart, was stabbed wednesday at a california prison, the second time he has been attacked by a fellow inmate in the past year,. Mar 11, 2023prosecutors maintained that flores, now 46, killed smart during an attempted rape on may 25, 1996, in his dorm room at the university, where both were first-year students. Oct 24, 2025paul flores, the man convicted of murdering kristin smart, lost his appeal on friday.

A jury in 2022 found that flores murdered smart during an attempted rape following a 1996 frat party. Jul 16, 2023on april 13, 2021, almost 25 years after kristin smart went missing, longtime suspect paul flores, 44, was arrested at his home in san pedro, california, and charged with murder. Mar 11, 2023paul flores, 46, was found guilty in october of the first-degree murder of smart, whose body has never been located.

Smart vanished in may 1996, when she and flores were both. Oct 11, 2025oral arguments as to whether kristin smart’s convicted killer paul flores should have the jury’s verdict overturned or reduced took place thursday — almost three years to the date of flores’.