Kristin Smart killer Paul Flores sentenced to 25 years to life for California murder

Paul Flores, the person convicted of killing California faculty pupil Kristin Sensible, who vanished greater than 20 years in the past, has been sentenced Friday to 25 years or life in jail. 

The punishment was learn to Flores in a Monterey County courtroom after the 45-year-old was discovered responsible of first-degree homicide final October. Previous to the sentencing, a decide denied a movement from Flores’ lawyer in search of a second trial.

As of this present day, the physique of Sensible, who was a 19-year-old faculty pupil at California Polytechnic State College in 1996 when she disappeared, has by no means been discovered. In 2002, she was declared legally useless. 

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Sensible was a pupil at Cal Poly’s San Luis Obispo campus in 1996 when she was allegedly closely intoxicated with Paul Flores after an off-campus social gathering on Crandall Manner. She was walked again from the social gathering by three folks – a person, a girl and Flores. The others slowly peeled off after Flores allegedly insisted a number of occasions that he may get Sensible dwelling safely. 

She was by no means seen once more. 

The state has mentioned Flores killed Sensible in his dorm room whereas he tried to rape her after they had been each freshmen. The disappearance prompted a large search. 

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Kristin Sensible went lacking on Might 25, 1996 whereas attending California Polytechnic State College, San Luis Obispo. (Axel Koester/Sygma by way of Getty Photographs)

Paul Flores had lengthy been thought-about a suspect within the killing. He had a black eye when investigators interviewed him. He instructed them he acquired it enjoying basketball with pals, who denied his account. He later modified his story to say he bumped his head whereas engaged on his automotive, in keeping with court docket data. 

Prosecutors additionally argued Paul’s father Ruben helped him bury Sensible’s physique below the deck behind his Arroyo Grande dwelling – after which later dug up her stays when legislation enforcement returned many years later. 

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Prosecutor Chris Puervelle places a slide on a projection display as protection lawyer Paul Sanger, left, and defendant Paul Flores look on in Monterey County Superior Courtroom in the course of the Kristin Sensible homicide trial.  (Tribune Information Service by way of Getty Photographs)

However in a trial final 12 months held alongside Paul’s, a jury discovered Ruben Flores not responsible of performing as an adjunct after the actual fact. 

Behind latticework beneath the deck of Ruben Flores’ giant home on a dead-end avenue, archaeologists working for police in March 2021 discovered a soil disturbance in regards to the measurement of a casket and the presence of human blood, prosecutors mentioned. But the blood was too degraded to extract a DNA pattern. 

Fox Information’ Stephanie Pagones and The Related Press contributed to this report.