Vanessa Shields, who attended California Polytechnic State University with Kristin Smart, testified that she noticed Paul Flores "staring intently" at the freshman for minutes.
Paul Flores is accused of killing 19-year-old college student Kristin Smart during an attempted rape in his dorm room in 1996, and then recruiting his father, Ruben Flores, to help him hide the body.
A defense attorney for Paul Flores, accused of the murder of Kristin Smart, argued in an effort to get the case dismissed that a San Luis Obispo County Sheriff detective had provided "disinformation" to an unnamed podcast. The judge denied his request.
San Luis Obispo Superior Court Judge Craig van Rooyen has ruled there is probable cause that Paul Flores killed Kristin Smart in 1996 and that his father Ruben Flores helped him dispose of her body.
Paul Flores' legal team has argued that Scott Peterson attended California Polytechnic State University with Kristin Smart and knew her before she disappeared in 1996.
The San Luis Obispo district attorney’s office had sought to add two rape charges to the complaint filed against Paul Flores in Kristin Smart’s death in 1996.
Paul Flores, accused of killing Kristin Smart, was linked to the 2007 rape investigation of a woman who blacked out at a bar and woke up disorientated in a stranger's bed.
