You're listening to a special bonus series of the your own backyard podcast titled people versus 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.
Listener discretion is advised.
Deputy District Attorney Christopher Puvrel stood behind a podium as he addressed the twelve members of Paul Flores's jury and their eight alternates.
1359.
That's the number of Sundays that have passed since Kristen Smart last spoke to her family.
Peuvrel explained that the smart family had a ritual every Sunday, gathering around their home phone back in Stockton to talk to Kristen while she was attending Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo.
But on Sunday, May 26, 1996, Kristen's call never came.
Instead, on that Sunday morning at 09:47 a.m.
paul Flores Pewvrel nearly shouted with his finger pointed at Paul's face, was calling his father, Reuben Flores, for help.
He pointed across the courtroom at Reuben, who sat in the audience next to his wife, Susan.
None of them showed any visible reaction, and Susan kept her eyes down, writing in her notebook, Peuvrel continued, while the entire community banded together to look for Kristen Smart, Paul and Ruben Flores did not.
Instead, you will hear that Ruben Flores would tear down missing posters of Kristen and call her a dirty slut, all while Kristen's body was decomposing under his deck.
He told the jury that Stan smart spent hundreds of hours searching for Kristen in San luis Obispo county, making his way to Ruben Flores's home in Arroyo Grande.
There, Ruben allegedly told Stan, quote, you, better get out of here or somebody might get shot from there.
Peuvrel walked the jury through the case he intends to present through witness testimony over the next several months, a witness who was close to Kristen during the time she lived in the Muirhall dorm, who once saw Paul Flores in Kristen's dorm room in the spring of 1996.
She was uncomfortable and he was uninvited.
Another witness, who observed Paul staring at Kristen intently at parties, which made their whole friends group uncomfortable.
Peuvrel explained to the jury that Kristen's friend Margarita split off from Kristen just before she attended a party on crandal way around 10:00 p.m.