Kristin Smart’s killer Paul Flores was sentenced to 25 years on prison on Friday – more than 25 years after her murder. Judge Jennifer O’Keefe told him: ‘Mr Flores, you have been a cancer to society.’Â
‘For 25 years you have lived free in the community’ and continued to drug and assault women, she said, according to the San Luis Obispo Tribune.
Smart and Flores were both students at California Polytech University in San Luis Obispo when she vanished in 1996. The case remained unsolved for decades, but a 2020 true crime podcast jolted local police.
Flores, now 46, was arrested as a result. While police have never found her remains, they believe Flores raped her in his dorm room then murdered her.Â
Flores was ordered to pay a total of $10,000 in restitution to his victims. He must also register as a sex offender for life, as he assaulted and killed Smart with the ‘purpose of sexual gratification and sexual compulsion,’ O’Keefe said.
Smart’s brother Matthew told the court that Flores was ‘a menace to society’.
‘Paul chose to take a life, my sister Kristin’s life, a beautiful life,’ he said.
‘And now he must pay.’
Prosecutor Chris Peuvrelle told the court that Flores was ‘a true psychopath’.
He noted that Flores ‘still maintains his innocence … but we know he lies.’Â
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