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By: with an accomplice digging Kristin he was shunned, but sometimes Eyewitness believes he saw Paul David Smallwood Smart’s grave. Our interview with other school chums would let him Flores digging Kristin Smart’s grave; him was nothing short of stunning. hang around for entertainment, or his name is being withheld at the The CaliforniaThe discovery of this witness was because Paul bought the beer. request of law enforcement. Register decided important, the very next day, a It was readily apparent that to continue our sheriff’s deputy drove three hundred Paul had difficulty with establishing withdrawn. His face turned beet unrelenting miles to personally interview the healthy relationships, be it male or red for a few moments, but quickly examination of witness in his living room. The female. The boys would make fun turned pale. Someone at the party the Kristin Smart case. We made a witness was instructed by the sheriff’s of him, laughing at his braggadocios was videotaping and clearly recorded promise to Stan and Denise Smart deputy not to speak any further with sexual conquests no one thought was his response. After the party was (father and mother of missing Cal that pesky newspaperman at the true. He was viewed by many as just over and he left, they played it over Poly student Kristin Smart) to help California Register, or anyone else an oddball. The girls thought he was several times thinking it might be raise awareness about their daughter’s for that matter. “creepy,” a word that keeps coming important for law enforcement to see disappearance. They believed that While we do not like law up in virtually every interview we his reaction. It was turned over to the most everyone had completely enforcement officials depriving our conducted. Paul lacked in the social sheriff’s office, but only so they could forgotten about their daughter’s readers of pertinent information, graces and really didn’t know how to make a copy. The owner of the video disappearance, and they were right. their instruction to witnesses is wise start a conversation with a female. never got their video back from the Kristin Smart’s disappearance and counsel. Any case weakens when a In the years before Kristin sheriff’s department. the lessons we can learn from it are witness tells us what he/she saw, then disappeared, Paul Flores arrived A few months before Kristin vitally important to us all. Not only conveys the same story to a sheriff’s at Lisa Obregon’s home to attend a disappeared, Paul was apprehended does Kristin’s family need closure, deputy, with perhaps some slight party. Lisa and Paul were coworkers by San Luis Obispo Police for but so do the residents of San Luis variation. You can hear the defense at the local Jack-in-the-Box climbing up a second story balcony Obispo County. We therefore will counsel later barking in court to restaurant. Paul parked his truck in to the apartment patio where Cal not stop our coverage of the Kristin create doubt in the mind of jurors, NBC affiliate - KSBY TV-6 has become “PBS” the driveway, but was asked to move Poly coeds lived. They weren’t sure if Smart case until closure is finally ‘Well which version is correct, the it to the street. Brandi, a friend of he was planning to break in or was obtained. version you told the newspaper, or the (The Parkinson Broadcast System) Lisa’s, was excited about soon getting a peeping tom. The young women Another reason for our focus version you told law enforcement?’ Only reporting news the sheriff approves! her driver’s license and asked Paul decided not to press charges. on the Kristin Smart case is the The sad part of all this, is that if she could move his truck for him. Also, in the months leading insidious, seemingly impenetrable we are finding these witnesses before party. He corroborated with law was buried near the left rear corner Paul tossed her the keys and got in up to Kristin’s disappearance, Paul good old boy network that’s alive the sheriff does. What’s wrong with enforcement officers word-for-word of the Flores’ home. the truck with her. He told her to was suspected of making several and well in San Luis Obispo County. that picture? What’s worse is the fact what he told the gentleman who Early on in life, Paul Flores drive around the block and park in harassing phone calls to Cal Poly We believe that Kristin would have that in two decades since Kristin relayed the conversation to Chris demonstrated he had anger front of the house on the street. coeds. The phone would chronically been found within a week of her Smart disappeared, no one from Garland. We have been asked by law management issues. After Kristin While she was driving, Paul ring over and over again. The young disappearance, but there were too law enforcement has asked Dennis enforcement to withhold the man’s disappeared, Denise Smart (Kristin’s kept slipping his hand between women could tell there was someone many people circling the wagons. Mahon for information he possesses name. mother) received a call from a parent her legs and attempted to kiss her. on the other end of the phone, but Law enforcement’s prosecution of about the case. Dennis is a walking Christopher Garland and his who told her about an incident She did her best to battle back his the caller would remain silent. This the Kristin Smart case was pathetic. warehouse of knowledge regarding wife Lisa have six children, five of between Paul and their child aggression while attempting to was in the day when people relied on Aside from the actual loss of Kristin, the Kristin Smart case. Law which are girls. The Kristin Smart which occurred in grade school. properly maneuver the vehicle. She landlines for communication. When the disappearance of the bloody enforcement’s action (and obvious story has a special meaning for the There apparently was some sort of was yelling at him to stop feeling her Kristin disappeared, very few people earring from police custody is most lack of action) makes people wonder Garlands, as they could not bear playground fight. Usually, grade up. Paul grabbed the steering wheel owned a cell phone, and those who disturbing. We must be guarded to if they ever really wanted to find the the thought of losing any of their school fights result in two kids and told her she could not go back to did have them suffered from limited never assume a conspiracy for what body of Kristin Smart. children. The Garlands are to be flailing their arms until someone Lisa’s house until she kissed him. Her coverage. Since it was near the end can be explained by incompetence. At the request of the sheriff’s commended for doing something, connects. In most cases, fights battle against his unwanted touching of school, the coeds elected not to The turquoise earring believed to department, we are withholding and getting involved. There are between children end quickly when continued for several minutes. have a phone tap placed on their belong to Kristin and worn the night the name of the eyewitness and the many in our community who have one of the fighters receives a bloody Finally, Brandi shouted that she apartment phone as suggested by she disappeared had what appeared specifics of what he saw that evening. information, but have thus far failed nose. would crash his truck into a nearby police. to be traces of dried blood. It was But rest assured dear readers, we to come forward. They simply don’t In Paul’s case, even after his home if he didn’t get his hands off Several years after Kristin found on the backyard patio of the are keeping a close eye on how law want to get involved. opponent hit the ground and of her. Realizing that she could very disappeared, Paul lived with a Flores’ Arroyo Grande home. It’s enforcement is prosecuting the case. stopped fighting, Paul purportedly well do that, Paul finally backed off. girlfriend in Lawndale, California. disappearance, after it was turned INSIDE THE MIND continued to beat the child senseless. She couldn’t wait to get out of his Some friends came over to their over to a sheriff’s deputy is most ANOTHER WITNESS HAS AN OF Paul’s opponent was admitted to the truck and get far away from Paul apartment for drinks. Paul’s suspicious indeed. INTERESTING WAL-MART PAUL FLORES hospital with a broken eardrum and Flores. girlfriend and the others were It’s recommended that people PARKING LOT CONVERSATION several other injuries. There was no Alcohol appears to be a major teasing Paul about something he did new to the Kristin Smart case The more we dug into apparent restraint mechanism, and problem for Paul. He was generally or said that was funny. Suddenly, Paul first start by reading the in-depth On August 14, 2015, Christopher the disappearance of Kristin Smart, Paul did not stop beating the child very quiet and shy around people, decided he was being disrespected story found in the archive section Garland pulled into a parking space the more the focus was on Paul Flores until he was pulled off by teachers. but once he started to drink, it gave and grabbed a butter knife from of CaliforniaRegister.com. For at the Wal-mart in Santa Maria. He as the prime suspect in Kristin’s For the child’s parents, the severe him liquid courage to be obnoxious. the table. He moved behind his others more familiar with the case, was approached by a man who saw murder and disappearance. We beating was way over the top which It wasn’t uncommon for Paul to go up girlfriend putting his arm around the following article is an update the Kristin Smart bumper sticker on believe Paul killed Kristin, because they relayed to Denise Smart when to someone’s girlfriend at a party and her neck in a choke-hold position providing new information relevant his car. The gentleman tells Chris according to his college roommate, they heard that Paul was a suspect in begin rubbing her leg or pinching and placed the butter knife against to Kristin’s disappearance. Garland that he was once at a party he said he killed her. Over the years, Kristin’s disappearance. her rear end. His objectionable and her throat. The light banter of a party also attended by Ruben Flores who we have asked many people for their As Paul was growing up, his annoying behavior got him tossed atmosphere came to an abrupt halt. EYEWITNESS BELIEVES is Paul’s father). Ruben had a few impression of Paul Flores and what parents (Ruben and Susan) were out of many parties. HE SAW PAUL DIGGING drinks and suddenly blurted out that makes him tic. A picture of Paul is concerned that their son was not Not long after Kristin KRISTIN’S GRAVE Kristin Smart was ‘rolled up in carpet beginning to emerge. Readers are cultivating friendships with anyone. disappeared, Paul attended a party at and covered with concrete,’ or words encouraged contact us in order to His parents purchased a pool table a friend’s home. His friend’s mother With each passing year, the to that effect. There’s a Latin phrase add or correct our analysis of Paul. in the hope that other children asked Paul point blank, “What did Kristin Smart case becomes more which says, “in vino veritas,” which We have always had a standing would come over to play pool and be you do with Kristin Smart?” Everyone and more bizarre. After nearly twenty means “in wine, there is truth.” invitation for Paul to tell his side of friends with Paul. It didn’t work. Paul looked at Paul to see his reaction. years since Kristin Smart disappeared Did alcohol loosen Ruben’s tongue the story. That offer still stands. apparently became very introverted Witnesses say Paul became suddenly from the Cal Poly campus on May causing the truth to come spilling Our analysis of the man Paul and withdrawn. He turned to alcohol 25, 1996, an eye-witness was found out of his mouth? Flores is drawn from information to escape his loneliness. Fellow high- through Facebook by Smart family On August 20, 2015, a detective received from those who have schoolers said he would buy a case or advocate Dennis Mahon. from the sheriff’s office spoke with personally known him, or have two of beer and drive to the Huasna On August 18, 2015, Dennis Chris Garland, then tracked down information about him they believe is Ranch area where he would spend all found this eyewitness who believes the man who told Chris what he credible. You as the reader, can make night getting very drunk. he may have seen Paul Flores along allegedly heard Ruben say at the your own conclusions about whether As a teen, when Paul would Paul Flores might be involved in the occasionally wrestle with his friends murder and disappearance of Kristin Jeromy Moon and Doug Roberts. Smart. We believe that someone in When he lost a wrestling match, he the Flores family was responsible was not a very good loser. Witnesses for Kristin’s disappearance simply said Paul would get very quiet and because BUSTER the cadaver dog pout for several hours after losing. Paul Ruben Flores has alerted multiple times behind It appears that throughout his May 27, 1996, two days after the Flores’ home in Arroyo Grande, life, Paul wanted desperately to be Kristin Smart disappeared. Paul’s black-eye is plainly seen The bumper-sticker seen on vehicles around the California Central Coast. California. His alerts are strong respected, or at a minimum just Susan Flores (Paul’s Mother) under his right eye. If you want to join the effort, go to Find Kristin Smart on Facebook evidence that a human body is or accepted by others. Most of the time Section Page Section Page A2 The California Register A2 Instantly, the mood turned dark. Susan had to become grandma they have not demanded a complete and lost earring never added up, in but found not-guilty of having that it was County Administrator Everyone stopped smiling. Later, a Erma’s primary caregiver. Susan had search to fully exonerate their name the view of those who would make the anything to do with Kristin’s death? Daniel Buckshi who recommended friend told Paul’s girlfriend to get out a nurse look after grandma when and determine once and for all, decision, to a case that supported an Should that happen, Paul could walk to the County Board of Supervisors of that relationship as soon as she she had to go out of town. In one that Kristin Smart is not buried arrest. On the one-year anniversary the streets proudly boasting into a the sheriff’s request for a full-time could. None of these people knew particular case, Susan was in a hurry on their property. The common of Kristin’s disappearance, the sheriff bull horn, ‘I killed Kristin Smart and detective NOT BE FUNDED. We about Paul’s past and his connection to get on the road and decided to human reaction from anyone who of San Luis Obispo County, whose there’s nothing anyone can do about called Mr. Buckshi several times for to the Kristin Smart disappearance. leave before the nurse arrived. After is innocent, is to act innocent. department had come aboard at Cal i t .’ Because of the double jeopardy his comment, but he did not return Paul’s overreaction to the ribbing Susan departed, Grandma Erma An innocent person, beset with Poly’s request about a month into rule, it would be true. Paul Flores our call. Instead another individual he was receiving frightened attempted to make breakfast for allegations there is a body buried the investigation, made a staggering would risk no legal repercussions from the budget office was gracious everyone. Eventually, the girlfriend herself. During the course of making on their property, would scream at admission. by admitting openly that he killed enough to call us back. Buckshi’s dissolved her relationship with breakfast, her robe caught fire from the world and demand the property “We need Paul Flores to tell us Kristin Smart. Would that make the recommendation was published in Paul. Investigators had discovered the stove or toaster or something. be completely excavated to prove what happened to Kristin Smart,” public feel more secure knowing the proposed budget which normally scratches on Paul’s arm immediately Because it’s difficult to shed clothing that no one is buried there. Local then-Sheriff Edward C. Williams told law enforcement just put a known comes out every year in late April after Kristin disappeared. The quickly at 91-years-of age, Erma was contractors have offered to excavate the San Luis Obispo Tribune. “The fact murderer on the street? to early May. On June 16, 2015, the marks on Paul’s arm appeared to be burned over 80% of her body. When the property for free, and if Kristin of the matter is we have very qualified Should Parkinson initiate any San Luis Obispo County Board of defensive scratches as if he had his the caregiver arrived, grandma Erma is not found, they will repair any detectives who have conducted well action to dig up Kristin’s body before Supervisors voted to approve the arm around Kristin’s throat and she was sitting in a chair writhing in pain damage making the property just as over a hundred interviews, and he has gathered enough evidence county budget thereby denying the was attempting to pull his arm away from second and third degree burns. they found it. everything leads to Mr. Flores. There to prove Paul killed Kristin, Paul sheriff’s request for a full-time cold- from her throat as she gasped for air. She was rushed to the burn center in The bottom line; Kristin Smart are no other suspects. So absent would literally get away with murder. case detective. Or, maybe it was just as Paul told Fresno where she later died. People is buried in a clandestine grave in the something from Mr. Flores, I don’t The situation could be politically For proper perspective, it’s investigators, his arm scratches were close to the family say it all could Flores backyard, and three sheriffs in see us completing this case.” catastrophic for Parkinson. Some important to understand that San the result of falling in some bushes. have been avoided had Susan waited a row, have always known it. But, if Even a student with a 0.6 people would hold him accountable Luis Obispo County is coming off Seasoned detectives know an additional twenty minutes for the Sheriff Parkinson knows she’s there, grade-point average could grasp the for completely screwing up the case of seven straight years of budget from experience that murder is an caregiver to arrive before departing why in the world isn’t he bringing implications of the sheriff’s remarks. and putting an admitted murderer cuts. Even with seven years of insidious thing. Once a man has on her trip. in his own cadaver dogs and getting Flores invoked his 5th back on the streets. Can we see the budget cuts, we as citizens know dipped his hands in blood, sooner or a warrant to finally clear that Amendment right against self- sheriff’s legal and political dilemma? that government waste continues later, he’ll feel the urge to kill again. THE SHERIFF’S CONUNDRUM backyard? Any rookie cop would incrimination before a grand jury. Paul Flores has already been unabated. Something stinks to high If Paul did kill Kristin Smart as know that backyard must be cleared He followed the same course in a walking the streets for two decades Heaven. Did the sheriff genuinely he told his college roommate, has he There is mounting evidence that first before moving further with the deposition conducted by the Smarts’ with complete impunity. At this and sincerely submit his request? We killed anyone else? The relatives of Kristin Smart was murdered on the case. attorneys. He rejected a deal that had point, some would say, ‘what happen to know that Sheriff Ian S. Amber Lee Hill believe that Paul was Cal Poly campus, and buried in the If the Sheriff Parkinson digs been put together in conversations difference does it make?’ Simply Parkinson is held in very high regard involved in Amber’s 2007 murder left rear corner of the home belonging up the Flores backyard and finds between the district attorney and his stated, there are two aspects to the by virtually every one of the County and disappearance. Amber and Paul to the Flores family at 529 E. Branch Kristin, he’s got another problem. A lawyer. Kristin Smart case; Board of Supervisors. If the sheriff both worked for the Coca-Cola Street, Arroyo Grande, California. tremendous public outcry will rise The terms required Flores to plead really wanted his cold-case detective Company in Los Angeles. Amber There is also mounting evidence up to demand that Paul Flores be guilty to involuntary manslaughter, 1. Retrieving Kristin’s body to give position funded, all he had to do was was working on the same shift and that law enforcement entities, know arrested and charged with murder. reveal what happened to Kristin her family the long-sought closure to pick up the phone and it would in the same department as did Paul Kristin is or was buried behind the If Sheriff Parkinson has insufficient and lead authorities to her body. In they need and deserve. have been funded. For some reason, Flores, but at different bottling Arroyo Grande home, but do not evidence to prove murder, the jury exchange, he would receive a six-year the sheriff didn’t pick up the phone. plants. Amber disappeared after want to retrieve Kristin’s body (at will find Paul “not guilty.” This means sentence and the Smarts would agree 2. Holding those who killed and Why? But let’s say that he did pick leaving work on January 9, 2007. least not right now). that Paul might receive minimal time not go after him in civil court. buried Kristin accountable for up the phone and all the supervisors Her body was found on January 24, Specifically, these are thein jail for burying a body, then set The Smarts, in fact, have filed their heinous crimes. told him, ‘sorry sheriff, there’s no 2007, wrapped in bubble wrap used reasons we believe Kristin Smart is free. Can we now see the importance a wrongful-death suit, but it has more money to help you solve the in the bottling plant. It still remains buried in the backyard of the Flores’ of the “bloody” earring which was been stalled by the refusal of law Law enforcement only gets one Kristin Smart case.’ What then? an unsolved mystery. Whittier Police Arroyo Grande home? allegedly “lost” by the sheriff’s enforcement officials to turn over shot at this thing. We understand An impassioned, leadership- say they have no connection between department about six months after evidence gathered in an active case. that! Presently, the sheriff and district driven sheriff would request Stan Paul Flores and the death of Amber 1. Paul’s college roommate Derrick Kristin went missing? In response to the lawsuit, Flores has attorney obviously believe they and Denise Smart drive to San Luis Lee Hill, but Amber’s sister believes Tse said Paul told him he killed her denied “both generally and specifically will not be able to get a conviction Obispo for a press conference. At Paul was indeed involved with her (Kristin), and she is at his mom’s. for murder even if Kristin’s body that point, the money necessary for death. is removed from Susan’s backyard. a team of detectives is guaranteed. Paul may have been deeply 2. Paul lied about how he received This begs the question; do they No one wants to tell a crying mother affected by the way his father treated his black-eye noticed by fellow think waiting twenty or thirty more that fixing sidewalks in Paso Robles him and his mother. After a few students the day after Kristin years will improve the chances of a is more important that finding her drinks, Ruben would occasionally disappeared. Furthermore, Paul had conviction? Some people are at the daughter. It’s safe bet that upon closer use his wife (Susan) as a punching no plausible explanation for the point where they just want closure examination, we would discover bag. At one time she was admitted scratches on his arm. The scratches for the Smart family more than many things were funded in the to an Arroyo Grande hospital may have been made by Kristin as punishment for the perpetrators. 2015-16 budget far less important because of an alleged beating she she attempted to pull his arm away That, my friends, is probably the than solving the Kristin Smart case. received from Ruben. Sometimes, from her throat gasping for air. reason Parkinson has not obtained One person we spoke with was young men grow up believing that a warrant to dig up the suspicious far more cynical saying the sheriff abusive behavior towards women is 3. The bloody earring found on concrete planter box in the Flores probably made the request to give acceptable conduct, especially when the backyard patio of 529 E. Branch backyard. If he digs, it’s highly likely him cover with the parents. In this they witness verbal or physical abuse Street by Mary Ann Lassiter. When it Parkinson will find Kristin’s body in way, he can tell Stan and Denise from their own father towards their was described to Kristin’s mother she Susan’s backyard and he will then be Smart, ‘See, I’m doing all I can to mother. Did Paul pick up some of remembered a similar set of earrings compelled to arrest Paul Flores. So find Kristin. The politicians are your daddy’s bad habits with regards to that were Kristin’s favorite pair. The is this a stalemate? Is there nothing enemy, not me.’ While we have been how he treats women? turquoise earrings were never found that can be done? How about more highly critical of Parkinson handling The picture of Paul Flores is that in Kristin’s personal belongings. The deputies to investigate, would that of the Kristin Smart case, we doubt of a mixed up young man. He tried earring was received as potential help? Read on McDuff, read on... he would use the buget process as a desperately to fit in and be accepted, evidence by the San Luis Obispo ploy for political cover. But, we still only to be rejected and ridiculed. County Sheriff’s Department, and Excerpt taken from page C-125 of the proposed county budget where FUNDING DENIED don’t know why the sheriff did not the budget office recommended the County Board of Supervisors NOT Paul probably felt that no one then carelessly or intentionally “lost.” is JUSTICE DENIED pick up that phone to get his cold- FUND the sheriff’s request for a full-time cold-case detective. On June understood him, or cared about him The Politics of the case detective position funded. 16, 2015, the San Luis Obispo County Board of Supervisors approved personally which could have resulted 4. Paul’s father, Ruben Flores Kristin Smart Case FINAL RESULT: the San Luis the budget, thereby approving the recommendation denying Sheriff in angry outbursts from time to allegedly tells a phone contractor Parkinson the cold-case detective he requested. Obispo County Board of Supervisors time. Some of us are good managers by the name of Gus, “That bitch Actions always speak louder rejected funding that would have of anger, and others are not. Aristotle deserved to die.” FORMER SHERIFF each and every allegation” raised than mere words. The San Luis helped the sheriff solve the Kristin said, “Anyone can become angry, that EDWARD C. WILLIAMS against him. Obispo County Board of Supervisors Smart case. is easy...but to be angry with the right 5. Eyewitness came forward who Was Sheriff Ed Williams upset may tell you they are genuinely Had it been approved, the person, to the right degree, at the right believes he may have actually There are those who believe because the district attorney, and concerned about the Kristin Smart sheriff planned to pay that cold- time, for the right purpose, and in the witnessed Paul Flores digging that Paul’s father Ruben Flores Paul’s attorney Melvin DelaMotte case, but their recent actions tell a case detective $178,787 per year or right way...this is not easy.” Kristin’s grave the weekend she had some sort of association with were negotiating behind his back? much different story. Most people $14,899 per month. Nearly $15,000 disappeared. former Sheriff Ed Williams when Mel DelaMotte purportedly told the will admit that good police work and per month is excessive. We could SUSAN FLORES the Flores family lived in the LA Smart family attorney Jim Murphy effective crime fighting costs money. hire three seasoned detectives for the 6. A witness said Ruben Flores told area. All we know is that the Flores they were willing to negotiate a plea The lead investigator in the Kristin same amount of money and solve Paul’s mother Susan Flores may him at a party that Kristin was rolled family and Ed Williams once lived bargain so long as the sheriff was not Smart case has other duties which this case very quickly. have been deeply protective of her up in carpet and buried in concrete. in the Los Angeles area, beyond involved. Was this public statement apparently does not allow him to We won’t be so crass as to son. She may have even stepped in that, any association they may have by Sheriff Ed Williams an effort to give the Kristin Smart case the focus insinuate our supervisors don’t care on several occasions to protect Paul 7. FBI Special Agent Jack Shafer had is unknown. Williams was the derail any plea bargain attempt? it demands. if the Kristin Smart case is ever from his father’s physical or verbal said the failure to dig up the concrete sheriff when Kristin disappeared Sheriff Williams’ not-so-cryptic On page C-125 in the proposed resolved. But, we can say without a abuse. Susan may have gone so far as planter box in the left rear corner and when the earring was found on message to Paul Flores was, ‘shut up 2015-16 county budget, the sheriff doubt, that solving the Kristin Smart to protect Paul from the law as well. of the property was a “missed the patio behind the Flores home, and you will remain a free man.’ requested funds to hire a full-time case is just not a very high priority. We have some readers who fervently opportunity.” which disappeared from the sheriff’s Sheriff Parkinson continues to detective to focus on homicides and believe in psychics. It’s interesting to custody. Williams was sheriff of San have a problem. If he digs up Kristin’s other high level unsolved crimes FBI SEARCH WARRANT note that, a psychic told one of our 8. Six cadaver dog alerts on the soil Luis Obispo County from 1986 to body in the Flores backyard before that might now be solvable through readers that Susan Flores is the one around the left rear corner of the 1998. evidence of Paul’s involvement in DNA examination and current FBI Special Agent Jack Shafer who came up with the idea to bury Flores’ home, four from BUSTER, her death is obtained, he could blow investigative methods. While he drafted a search warrant back in the Kristin in the backyard, that she is and one from two other cadaver dogs LA Times Reporter Peter H. King the case. The double jeopardy rule could not request a full-time detective year 2000. It was a fill-in-the-blanks the one who “wears the pants” in the each, both of which are certified. wrote in a June 18, 2006, article… prohibits anyone from being tried to work specifically on the Kristin form, so all the sheriff’s department family and makes all the decisions. twice for murder. If the sheriff acts Smart case, it was understood by all, had to do was enter the proper dates While we don’t necessarily believe in 9. Even though the Flores family In the end, (Paul’s) black eye too soon, Paul may be found guilty the requested funds were earmarked of when they planned to conduct the psychics, it may be indeed true that allowed a voluntary provisional and bad body language and barking of unlawful internment (burying to help solve the disappearance of search and file it with the court. Why Susan was the main decision maker. search of their property in 2007, (cadaver) dogs, the radar anomalies someone illegally in the backyard), Kristin Smart. Our sources tell us in the world it took over four years It may have been her idea to bury before sheriff deputies decided to Kristin under the backyard patio. search the Flores’ property on East There are those who believe that Branch Street is still a mystery. The Susan Flores is the nicest person you foregoing is Shafer’s exact warrant would ever want to meet. Others, he gave to Sheriff Hedges to effect believe she is the devil incarnate. a search of 529 E. Branch Street in Years ago, the Flores family endured Arroyo Grande belonging to Susan a tragedy when Susan’s 91-year-old Flores. grandmother was burned to death. Susan’s mother, Ruth Kinsley was BEGIN WARRANT: *************** battling cancer and could no longer care for Susan’s grandmother, Erma On May 28, 1996, California Gilbert. The decision was made to Polytechnic (Cal Poly) State have grandma Erma move in with University Police Officer R. Susan at her home on 529 E. Branch Cudworth took a missing person SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS Street. Whether she liked it or not, report. The missing person, Kristin Section Page Section Page A3 The California Register A3 Denise Smart (DOB: 2-20-77), enough in the room for the dogs to “Yes I killed her and brought her to BH: Okay? It’s--we see you with a California and his wife, Susan the cement itself had to have been was last seen on May 25, 1996 at detect. my mom’s and she is still there.” black eye... Flores, was living at 529 East Branch poured at some time. Do you have approximately 2:30 a.m., when Street, Arroyo Grande, California. any idea when it was poured? Paul Flores (DOB: 10-22-76) and On May 28, 1996, Investigator On May 30, 1996, Cal Poly University F: Yeah. Therefore, when Paul Flores stated Cheryl Anderson, (DOB: 10-10- Kennedy spoke to Paul Flores in Police Investigators Mike Kennedy to Derrick Tse “Yes I killed her and JL: A guess is about 10 years. It’s old 77) escorted Kristin Smart, who room #128, Santa Lucia Hall. During (K) and R. Cudworth interviewed BH: ...Cal Poly sees you with a black brought her to my mom’s and she is cement. appeared to be intoxicated, to Muir this conversation, Paul Flores was Paul Flores (F). This interview was eye. Friends of yours sees you with still there” and “Yeah, she’s at my Hall, the dormitory in which she sitting on the bed located on the tape-recorded. The following is an a black eye. As a matter of fact, house eating lunch with my mom,” Jim Murphy continued his resided. north [left] side of the room and excerpt from that interview: one of your friends asks you how it Paul Flores made reference to 529 questioning of Joseph Lassiter (page indicated that the bed he was sitting happened.And you know what you East Branch Street, Arroyo Grande, 29): The Cal Poly missing person report on was his bed. K: Take your hat off for a second Paul. say to them? California, his mother’s residence. indicated that Cheryl Anderson last (Unintelligible) … what happened to M: How wide--what are the saw Kristin Smart at the intersection Cal Poly Police conducted a records your eye? F: I say I got an elbow playin’ On January 24, 1997, Lauri Quinn, dimensions of the planter boxes? of Grand Avenue and Perimeter Road check and determined no reported basketball. Susan Flores’ neighbor living at 531 whereat Cheryl Anderson separated deaths occurred in Room #128. Cal F: I got elbowed playing basketball. East Branch, appeared for a civil JL: They’re all different sizes. They from Paul Flores and Kristin Smart. Poly Police Detective Mike Kennedy BH: No. No. Absolutely not. Unless deposition (Smart vs. Flores, San range--the biggest one is probably Cheryl Anderson walked on Grand conducted a records check and K: Oh you did. they’re lying. Maybe this is a big Luis Obispo County Superior Court about the length of your desk, say, Avenue toward Sierra Madre Hall, determined Paul Flores resided in conspiracy against PAUL. I don’t case #CO79998) and deposed she six feet. the dormitory in which she resided, Santa Lucia Hall, Room #128 during F: (unintelligible) think so. saw Paul Flores and his father, Ruben and Paul Flores and Kristin Smart the spring semester 1996 (Refer Flores, constructing lattice work in M: Really? walked on Perimeter Road toward K: Okay. Uh, who were you playing F: And--oh --. the backyard of 529 East Branch. their respective dormitories. As basketball with? After the construction work ceased, JL: Yes. Cheryl Anderson departed, Paul BH: You said, “I don’t know how I Lauri Quinn deposed she saw newly Flores told Cheryl Anderson that he F: Uh, I was playing with my friend got it.” Exact words. “I don’t know.” constructed concrete planter boxes M: Does it look like it was dug up or would ensure Kristin Smart got to Jeremy and uh—and two other guys. cut into the existing cement. Lauri tilled or anything like that? her room. F: I--I might have said that but I Quinn could not fix the date of this On June 19, 1996, DA Investigators know --I --I --I know I didn’t tell construction. JL: No, but I’ve already gone out The Cal Poly missing person’s report Lawrence Hobson (LH) and anyone that I hit it on a steering there, and it only goes six inches indicated that Paul Flores last saw William Hanley interviewed Paul wheel though. On June 19, 1996, San Luis deep. Then it’s cement underneath Kristin Smart as they neared the Flores at the Arroyo Grande Police Obispo County District Attorney it. conjunction of the walkways leading Department. This interview was LH: Why? Investigators William Hanley and to Santa Lucia Hall and Muir Hall. At videotaped. During this interview, Lawrence Hobson (LH) interviewed M: Is that the same for each of the this intersection, Paul Flores walked Paul Flores admitted he lied about F: Because I make me sound like a Paul Flores(PF). This interview was flower boxes? toward his dormitory and Kristin how he received the injury to his eye. klutz. videotaped. In the following excerpt Smart walked toward her dormitory. The following is an excerpt from that from the transcript of videotaped JL: It’s for the whole block. It’s got a Kristin Smart has not been seen to Attachment 2, Search Warrant interview: LH: Okay. You tell us you got it interview, Paul Flores fixed the time big retaining wall, and the cement since that date and time. Muir Hall Affidavit for 50 Shooting Star, p.15). playin’ basketball. Then you tell us of construction at 529 East Branch as shoots out like eight, nine feet and Santa Lucia Hall are next to each LH: Now, one thing—one thing that you got it hitting it on the steering on or before June 19, 1996 (Refer to underneath, I guess. other, with Muir Hall being slightly On May 30, 1996, Cal Poly University really does look bad—I don’t know wheel. What do you tell your friends Attachment 8, the transcript of Paul uphill from Santa Lucia Hall. Police Investigators Mike Kennedy if you want to discuss this now…but how you got it? Flores videotaped interview, page M: Did you ever dig up the dirt to see and R. Cudworth interviewed Flores. we might as well. Um…that we—we 48): the condition of the cement that was The Cal Poly missing person’s report This interview was tape-recorded. need to really get clea—cleared up F: I told some of them, I guess-- I underneath? indicated that, Kristin Smart’s Investigator Kennedy asked Paul is… last time we talked to you, you guess, um, maybe I said to someone, F: Well, there isn’t anything but--but roommate, Crystal Calvin, said that Flores to describe his activities from had a black eye. you know, I was telling people I just as I said, I already have to go. So, is it JL: No. none of Smart’s personal property, the last time he saw Kristin Smart got it playin’ basketball. alright then. including identification, personal and go backwards. The following F: Yeah. On May 20, 2000, FBI Special toiletries and clothing were missing excerpt reflects Paul Flores’ answer: LH: Well, what else did you say? You LH: No. Not yet. We’re not through Agent Schafer spoke with Phillip from her room (Refer to Attachment LH: Remember that? just woke up with it? (UNT) yet. We haven’t worked this out. Sheppard, the owner of Shepard 1, the Cal Poly missing person “Okay uhm, she walked that way, I Okay? Where do you gotta go at four Construction. Phillip Sheppard report). walked that way. That’s the last time F: Yeah. F: Yeah. I--well--well, b--because I o’clock? has been continuously engaged in I saw her. Then the other girl left at woke on, um... the construction and the cement On June 29, 1996, a search was the--at the corner over there and LH: Okay. What did you tell us? F: I just have to go. laying business for 22 years. Phillip conducted on the Cal Poly campus, then uh--and--and a couple times LH: PAUL, why--why do you ... Sheppard was presented with Joseph using search members from the like on the way, maybe probably F: I told you I got it playing basketball. LH: Where? Lassiter’s description of the flower California Rescue Dog Association twice you know, I went like that, just F: ...on Monday. boxes in the backyard of 529 East (CARDA). The CARDA members gave her kinda like a hug, ‘cause she LH: That’s right. And where did you F: What? Branch. Phillip Sheppard said used cadaver dogs in their searches. was freezin’. I---I---I remember that. get it? LH: ...tell a lie about something that something is “fishy” if the bottom of These dogs are trained to search for means nothing? It’s very important, LH: Where? the flower box is filled with cement human remains. And then I thought--I remember F: In my car. why lie about it? and only six inches of soil on top the one time over the --it probably was F: I have to clean up some stuff. cement. Phillip Sheppard said that On June 29, 1996, a search of the about the health center, like I told LH: What car? F: Well--well, it was on Monday, I Some concrete. cutting and removing the existing Cal Poly campus was conducted uh--because uh--because Roxy guess, you know, that’s that’s the way concrete for the construction of with members of CARDA and their [Kristin Smart’s nick name] was F: My...Ranger. I figured, it was on the steering wheel LH: Where? the flower box retaining walls is search dogs. Four dogs searched walking real slow and so then uh--I- and like the day later. consistent with standard practice. Santa Lucia Hall separately. Each dog -I told the other girl that she can go LH: Un-huh. The Ranger? And when F: My mom’s house. alerted to room #128. The door to if she wanted to. I remember saying did it happen? LH: Can you see where we’re coming Phillip Sheppard said that pouring room #128 was opened and the dogs that to her. from? On January 24, 1997, Joseph Lassiter concrete inside the bottom of the were allowed to enter at separate F: On, uh...on Memorial Day? What? (JL) appeared for a civil deposition flower box after the construction of times. Each dog alerted on a corner And then uh--be--’cause I was like- Or Labor Day, whatever it was. F: Yeah. (Smart vs. Flores, San Luis Obispo the retaining walls is not consistent of a bed mattress on the north [left] -and then uh--and I don’t even County Superior Court case with standard practice in that the side of the room. The dogs showed remember what we were talkin’ LH: Monday? Paul Eckman, a professor of #CO79998) and deposed he and his flower box will not drain properly no interest in the other mattress or about during the whole time. We psychology at the University of wife, Mary Lassitor, rented the house thus, promoting mold growth and any other part of the room. were just--we were just walking F: Yeah. Happened about two o’clock California, San Francisco, is a at 529 East Branch Street, Arroyo root rot. Phillip Sheppard said the (unintelligible).” in the morning. noted researcher in the field of Grande, California on October 1, proper construction procedure On June 29, 1996, the mattress on detecting deception. Paul Eckman 1996. The following questions were is to remove the existing cement, the left side of Santa Lucia Hall On June 19, 1996, San Luis Obispo LH: Why two in the morning? wrote Telling Lies - Clues to Deceit asked by claimants’ attorney, Jim construct the retaining walls, fill the Room #128 was seized as evidence District Attorney Investigators in the Marketplace, Politics, and Murphy (M): bottom of the flower box with gravel, and removed from the room. The Lawrence Hobson and William F: ‘Cause I was, um, installing my Marriage. In this book Eckman placed mulch on top the gravel, and cadaver dogs were brought back to Hanley interviewed Paul Flores. radio, cause I’ selling the truck wrote: “When there is a choice M: Any construction or then place soil over the mulch. Santa Lucia Hall. The four dogs again This interview was videotaped. about how to lie, liars usually prefer improvements that you are aware of alerted on Room #128. The dogs were Investigator Lawrence Hobson asked LH: UH-huh And where were you concealing to falsifying. There are as having been done, let’s say, within On January 23, 1997, Mary Lassiter allowed into the room at separate Paul Flores to describe the place up workin’ on your car? many advantages. For one thing, six months of your moving in appeared for a civil deposition (Smart times and all four dogs alerted on to where he walked Kristin Smart on concealing usually is easier than vs. Flores, San Luis Obispo County the left side of the room, where the May 25, 1996. The following excerpt F: In my garage. falsifying. Nothing has to be made Superior Court case #CO79998) and mattress had been removed. reflects Paul Flores’ answer (Refer to up (page 29)...By falsifying only a deposed she and her husband, Joseph Attachment 5, a copy of the interview LH: In the garage? And how did you failure to remember, the liar avoids Lassiter, rented the house at 529 East Adela Morris, a CARDA dog handler transcript, p. 13): get the black eye? having to remember a false story; all Branch Street. While washing the said the dogs are trained to alert to that needs to be remembered is the car in the backyard Mary Lassiter human remains. Adela Morris said “Up to, um...’cause--well, it has the F: I hit the steering wheel. That’s untrue claim to a poor memory” found a woman’s earring. human body begins to decompose driveway. (UNT) must be over about it. But-but like how often do (page 30). the moment death occurs and the there and just like I remember...I- people hit their eye on the steering On January 24, 1997, Joseph Lassiter cadaver dogs detect changes that -I walked with her to where the wheel? So.. Ekman continued, “Another, related appeared for a civil deposition take place the moment death. Adela driveway was and then I went up to technique is to tell the truth but (Smart vs. Flores, San Luis Obispo Morris said the cadaver dogs’ alerts my dorm because the walkway goes LH: I don’t know. with a twist, so the victim [person County Superior Court case indicated a strong possibility that that way towards my dorm and then lied to] does not believe it. It is there? #CO79998) and deposed he and a deceased body had been in that she started walking that way.” F: ...see. It—it was like right here so telling the truth...falsely (page his wife, Mary Lassiter were in room. then I—went like that, popped that 37).” Based on Paul Flores’ evasive JL: Somebody just cut planters in the possession of a woman’s earring Sue On July 12, 1996, San Luis Obispo up and then— answers regarding the last time he cement. I think their son-in-law or Lassiter found in the backyard of Andy Rebmann of Canine Specialty Sheriff’s Detective H. Stewart saw Kristin Smart and his evasive something. their residence at 529 East Branch Search Associates in Redmond, interviewed Derrick Tse. Derrick LH: Ok. Let me ask you this. explanations as to how he sustained Street. Joseph Lassiter described the Washington has been training Tse said he asked Paul Flores about his eye injury suggests that Paul is M: Where is the cement at? earring as hooped with beads with cadaver dogs since 1978. Andy Kristin Smart’s disappearance. F: What? deliberately withholding critical a flat piece which connects to the Rebmann said cadaver dogs have Derrick Tse said Paul Flores just information regarding Kristin JL: The whole back yard is covered ear and a “little beaded thing that the capability to detect bodies from joked about it and said, “Yeah, LH: Listen to me. Why didn’t you tell Smart’s disappearance. Based on with cement. And like up against the hangs down.” Joseph Lassiter said right after the time of death to one she’s at my house eating lunch with us that? Paul Flores’ answers to Derrick fences, they cut square boxes out to the earring had red “stuff” on it that, documented case where a cadaver my mom” (Refer to Attachment Teas’ inquiry, suggests Paul Flores put plants in. according to the people to whom dog confirmed the location of a body 6, SLOCSO report of interview of F: Be—because it doesn’t sound like is “telling the truth falsely” in such he showed the earring, resembled 26 years after death. Andy Rebmann Derrick Tse). a very likely thing. a manner as to make Derrick Tse M: Do you know where the cement blood. Lassiter tendered the earring said the dogs detect human believe that Paul Flores is merely was installed? to the San Luis Obispo County decomposition, through either fluids On September 30, 1996, FBI Special Later, during the same interview, joking. Sheriff’s Office for examination. or odors. Andy Rebmann said that Agent Kevin MacGinnis spoke with Paul Flores gives another explanation JL: It wasn’t installed. It was taken During the course of processing the the dog’s performance correlates Paul Flores’ roommate, Derrick for his eye injury. The following is an On November 14, 1997, Paul Flores’ out. earring, it was misplaced by San Luis to the training and experience of Tse. Derrick Tse said he spoke excerpt from that interview. father, Ruben Flores, appeared for Obispo County Sheriff’s deputies the handler. Andy Rebmann said with Paul Flores one week after the a civil deposition (Smart vs. Flores, M: I mean. and has yet to be found. the circumstances regarding the disappearance of Kristin Smart. BH: We’re not making this--yeah, San Luis Obispo County Superior dogs alerting to Room #128 and no During this conversation Tse joked we’re not making this stuff up. Court case #CO79998) and deposed JL: They cut holes in it. On March 4, 1997, San Luis Obispo other rooms indicated that some with Flores saying “You killed her on May 25, 1996 he was living at County Sheriff’s Deputy H. Stewart odor related to a cadaver was strong and drug her body off,” Flores replied, F: (AST) Yeah. 710 White Court, Arroyo Grande, M: They cut holes in the cement, but spoke with Gary Mann. Gary Section Page Section Page A4 The California Register A4 Mann said he conducted a ground- for an unknown period of time. “unfinished business.” The sheriff’s office can obtain (ground penetrating radar) to look for missing, her parents still grieve and penetrating radar (GPR) search at Based on the information in this a search warrant within fifteen abnormalities, but did not find any. the sheriff is still searching. Year 529 East Branch Street. Gary Mann affidavit, Paul Flores is responsible 12. Gary Mann saw that dirt in the minutes if they really wanted to. For after year, it’s the same old thing said he felt there was an older man- for or has direct knowledge of backyard at 529 East Branch Street some reason, it took the San Luis Also someone pointed out that over and over again; blah, blah, blah. made type excavation below the Kristin Smart’s disappearance and/ was disturbed and appeared to have Obispo Sheriff’s department over the retaining wall has a very wide There is no real news, just a painful second step on the east side of the or death. Reasonable cause exists to been piled up next to the house four years to get a search warrant base that would have extended yearly reminder that a college coed house. Gary Mann said it does not believe that Kristin Smart’s body is and residual dirt splattered on the for the backyard of the Flores’ home. underground to support the volume of vanished from the Cal Poly campus. look like a natural geographic feature buried in the back yard of 529 East cement block fence located on the This is especially disturbing when earth on the hill on the other side of Retired police detective Paul and is about six feet long and five Branch Street. This belief if based on Westside of the property. law enforcement knew that concrete the wall. And this wide underground Dostie who brought his cadaver dog and one half feet deep. Gary Mann the following: was poured in the backyard the same base support would preclude someone BUSTER to sniff the area around said he would run the data again 13. Gary Mann observed pieces weekend Kristin disappeared. They from burying a body there. I disagreed the Flores’ Arroyo Grande home to confirm his findings, but felt the 1. Kristin Smart left behind all of her of cement which were supposedly also knew the alleged bloody earring and still disagree. I learned that the contacted KSBY news journalist easiest way to rule out this feature personal property, including but not placed there by Paul Flores and his was found on the back patio of the real reason was that the police did not Amanda Starrantino in May 2015. would be to see if it continues on limited to: personal identification, father, Ruben Flores, at or near the Flores’ Arroyo Grande home about want to break up the concrete under Dostie both emailed and spoke the other side of the fence (Refer to time Kristin Smart disappeared. six months after she disappeared. the flower box because they did not with Starrantino saying he was glad Attachment 10, Mann’s statement to Law enforcement also knew the last want to pay to replace the cement in to give KSBY the “Holy Grail” on Investigator Stewart). 14. Paul Flores sets the date for the person to see Kristin alive received the event Kristin’s body was not found. how cadaver dogs work and the construction of the cement work he a black eye and scratches on his arm My contention all along was that Paul significance of the alerts behind the On March 10, 1997, San Luis Obispo did in the backyard at his mother’s that weekend, which he lied about with the help of his father (Ruben) Flores home. Starrantino responded County Sheriff’s Deputy H. Stewart house, 529 East Branch Street to twice. When law enforcement finally and, at least, with the knowledge of back to Dostie saying she would ‘chat spoke with Gary Mann. Gary Mann on or before June 19, 1996. In that got around to requesting to inspect (his mother) Susan, buried Kristin with her managers’ and get back to said he conducted additional GPR Paul Flores said he had to clean up, Paul’s mini-pickup truck, Paul said under the flower planter. I was him. Dostie never got a returned call. testing at 523 East Branch Street, the the actual construction took place he lost his pickup or it was stolen or disappointed when I learned that they KSBY was simply not interested. house adjacent to 529 East Branch at least several days before June 19, some other ridiculous explanation. did not look under the flower box. In small communities like San Street. Gary Mann said the feature 1996. When law enforcement finally Luis Obispo, people in authority he detected in the backyard of 529 searched the Flores home over four I was not there for the search tend to look out for each other. This East Branch did not appear to be a Based on the information in this years after Kristin disappeared, warrant, so much of my information means the rule-of-law frequently natural geographical feature since it affidavit, I believe that Kristin Smart Undersheriff Steve Bolts told Dennis is hearsay and the two times I looked takes a back seat to protecting “good did not continue under the fence to is deceased and that her death and/ Mahon “we took a vote” on whether into her backyard in order to prepare time Charlie.” It also means that local the adjacent property. or the disposal of her remains are a to dig up the suspicious concrete the search warrant. If the flower box news-gathering organizations prefer personal toiletries, and clothing; result of a criminal act. Therefore, planter box. When the “ballots” were has been altered or not there anymore, to accept official statements from On April 8, 1997, San Luis Obispo I request to search 529 East Branch tallied, it went against digging up the then I can see why Susan would allow local governmental authorities, and County Sheriff’s Deputy H. Stewart 2. Kristin Smart has not been seen Street for Kristin Smart’s remains, suspicious planter box. When a San a second search because Kristin’s pass it along to their viewers, readers spoke with Gary Mann. Gary Mann or been in contact with anyone since personal effects and other items that Francisco Chronicle reporter asked remains would have been removed and listeners as truth. Why conduct said he felt the feature he discovered the date of her disappearance; constitute evidence pertaining to why deputies did not dig up the during the renovation. an investigation, when parroting in the back yard of 529 East Branch this case and previously mentioned planter box, the Undersheriff’s story official statements is faster, easier Street was backfill of some kind and 3. Paul Flores admitted to and was in this affidavit. changed. This time he blamed it on I also recall that a dog hit on the corner and cheaper? No muss, no fuss. looks to be man-made. identified as being the last person to a poorly written search warrant. The of the yard where the trash cans were The people are happy, the college is be with Kristin Smart on the date she END WARRANT ****************** new excuse for not digging up the located. This spot is some distance happy and the sheriff is happy, even On November 27, 1998, FBI Special disappeared; planter box was because the warrant from the flower planter. I spoke with the suspects are happy. Everyone is Agent Amy Willeke spoke with Gary The California Register has a was written too narrowly, which a dog expert and she told me that with happy, except the Smart family and Mann. Gary Mann said he conducted 4. Paul Flores made inconsistent standing request with the sheriff for prevented deputies from digging concrete is not unusual for the scent to those of us who believe in the reason a ground penetrating radar (GPR) statements to investigators regarding the actual search warrant that was further. The author of the warrant, migrate under the concrete until it hits for our First Amendment. search at 529 East Branch Street and the last time he saw Kristin Smart filed with the court. The court where FBI agent Jack Shafer emphatically a crack or a seam, which was formed We are certain that Amanda discovered some anomalies on the and about the eye injury he received the actual warrant was filed said they disagreed. Shafer said he wrote the in the corner of the yard where the Starrantino is sincerely interested west side of the backyard. Gary Mann on or about the date Kristin Smart did not have a copy. According to warrant specifically to dig up the trash cans were located. in doing an intellectually honest said he revised his earlier findings disappeared. In fact, Paul Flores court procedures, unless an arrest is suspicious concrete planter box. and professional job as a video and was 85 to 90 percent sure that admitted that he lied to investigators made, all documents are destroyed When criminal suspects begin Another dog expert said that the news journalist. Unfortunately, the his conclusions that the anomaly he about how he sustained the injury. after ten years. We then went to changing their stories, it’s a warning dog hit on rotten animal bones and decision-makers at KSBY made the discovered were a natural excavation A person who was not involved in Sheriff Parkinson requesting a copy flag. When law enforcement officials possibly chicken, beef, or pork bones decision to limit Amanda’s reporting or erosion. However, Gary Mann the disappearance of Kristin Smart of the warrant under the California begin changing their stories, it’s no that were thrown out. The first dog and provide KSBY viewers with only a said he harbored a slight doubt as to would have no reason to deliberately Public Records Act. The reason for less suspicious. expert told me that dogs are taught to sanitized version of the Kristin Smart the origin of this anomaly because withhold information or make our request was that a comparison of Why are the search warrant and discriminate between animal remains story, thereby omitting critically this was the first search he conducted inconsistent statements or lie to the warrant drafted by the FBI, and related documents so important? and human remains. important information. Were they for a grave site and because he did investigators. the warrant that was actually filed The California Register believes that told by the sheriff’s department not not own the ideal equipment for with the court, may shed light on new information could be surmised I also recall that a police officer to mention BUSTER’s alerts? Or, did such a search. Gary Mann said, as he 5. Court certified cadaver dogs from why the suspicious concrete planter by comparing the search warrant found a piece of Southwestern-type they decide on their own to ignore understood, a 200-megahertz radar CARDA alerted on Paul Flores, box behind the Flores home was drafted by the FBI with the warrant jewelry in Susan’s backyard with a BUSTER’s alerts. can image the edges of an excavation room and more specifically on the never excavated. There seems to be which was actually filed. Did the brownish reddish dried substance on Perhaps, KSBY has such a tight while a 400 megahertz shielded radar mattress used by Paul Flores. These lots of finger-pointing going on and filed warrant exclude the planter it. Unfortunately, the police officer lost budget that taking the extra time to will image a skeleton. Mann used a dogs walked through the dormitory, we wanted to get to the bottom of it. box? Or, did law enforcement this evidence on his way to the police make phone calls and more interviews 200 megahertz unshielded unit. passing by numerous other rooms, basically use the warrant drafted by station. I believe it was an earring. would have been too expensive. and did not alert on any room COUNTY LAWYER ANN the FBI which called for digging up Did Kristin like Southwestern-type Maybe their budget did not allow Gary Mann said while conducting but Room #128 where Paul Flores DUGGAN SAYS NO the planter box? A search warrant jewelry? Nonetheless, I think the police for an adequate investigation of the the GPR search, he saw broken pieces resided. is a command of the court. Law missed an opportunity to resolve this Kristin Smart story. Of course, that’s of concrete he understood were Deputy County Counsel enforcement had no choice in the question one way or the other. I hope a very weak defense. It doesn’t take placed there by Ruben Flores and 6. Susan Flores’ neighbor, Lauri Ann Duggan representing Sheriff matter but to execute the warrant as this helps. Just remember I’m relying very much money or time to make Paul Flores about the time Kristin Quinn, saw Paul Flores and his Parkinson denied our request for it was drafted and approved by the on my memory of several years ago. a simple phone call. Had they done Smart disappeared. Mann said he father, Ruben Flores, constructing a copy of the 15-year-old search court. Did sheriff’s deputies comply so, they would have discovered the considers 529 East Branch Street lattice work in the backyard of 529 warrant filed in year 2000, pertaining with the command of the court and KSBY BECOMES “PBS” fact the most famous cadaver dog “unfinished business” as he was East Branch. After the construction to the search of 529 East Branch fully execute the warrant, or did they (Parkinson Broadcasting System) in the world has alerted four times troubled by stains on the west side of was completed, Lauri Quinn saw Street, Arroyo Grande. Duggan pick and choose what areas of the behind the Flores’ home in Arroyo the house that showed dirt had once new concrete flower boxes cut into stated the documents we requested property they were going to search? More and more, it appears that Grande. They would have discovered been piled against the house and by the cement. are protected from disclosure A comparison between the draft and KSBY TV-6 news division has also that soil samples from the area “splatters of dirt” on the fence four pursuant to Penal Code section 6254 the warrant which was actually filed become nothing than a mouthpiece were sent to other police officers, feet from the house. 7. Joseph Lassiter deposed that (f). She went on to say, the documents might answer that question. for Sheriff Parkinson. We are and their dogs also alerted. In other within six months of renting the we requested were previously the told by our NBC contacts in Los words, KSBY would have discovered On March 3, 1997, CARDA members residence at 529 East Branch Street, subject of two subpoenas from FBI TO MRS. SMART Angeles that many dedicated and that a human being is buried behind using cadaver dogs conducted a flower boxes and cement steps were 1996 and 2002, which also sought the Flores’ home in Arroyo Grande. search of the backyard of 529 East installed. Joseph Lassiter deposed disclosure. The subpoenas were in On Mar 01, 2007, FBI agent Jack Not only is it easier and cheaper Branch Street. The dogs showed that one of the flower boxes is connection with two different civil Shafer wrote an email to Kristin’s to ignore these cadaver dog alerts interest in a corner of the yard, approximately six feet long and the cases; Smart vs. Flores, Case No. mother… in the Kristin Smart case, it’s also where trash cans had once been kept, bottom of this flower box is filled in CV79998, and Smart vs. Flores, Case politically wise. Ignoring multiple but they did not alert to any specific with cement. No. 20315. As I recall, Susan’s (Flores) backyard dog alerts and the soil forensics, area or make any significant finds. The first involved a case which was almost completely filled in with made it not only less expensive to The cadaver dog handlers speculated 8. Phillip Sheppard, an experienced was dismissed by the Smart family in cement. Centered at the far end of the produce the television segment, that the dogs showed interest in the cement worker, said that the 2000. The second (2002) subpoena backyard there was planter measuring but it also keeps the sheriff on your corner of the backyard because trash presence of cement in the bottom was also denied, but appealed. The approximately 6 feet by 3 feet. This side. Again we ask, has the sheriff’s cans were once kept there and the of the flowerbox is “fishy” in that court handed down a decision saying planter was unusual in that it was spokesperson who used to work dogs were stimulated by the residual the flower box in the backyard of the criminal file on the case should built directly on the cement. I went for KSBY requested the station odor of rotting refuse. 529 East Branch will not support be protected from disclosure to the to a landscaper and asked him if this not mention BUSTER’s alerts? healty plant growth without proper parents as well as the general public. was the correct way to build a planter. Once again we have to ask, is the Gary Mann’s initial findings and the drainage. According to Duggan, the court’s KSBY news division an extended cadaver dogs’ interest in a corner decision prevents disclosure because He said definitely not because the mouthpiece for the sheriff’s office? of the backyard at 529 East Branch 9. Mary and Joseph Lassiter deposed the public’s interest in protecting the planter could not drain properly; the What does KSBY risk by going Street were discounted because they found an earring in the integrity of the criminal investigation plants must have access to the earth along to get along? The only risk investigators believed, at the time, backyard of 529 East Branch Street outweighs the parents desire to below the cement to drain and grow professional people work at KSBY. we an envision is that KSBY could Paul Flores’ mother, Susan Flores, with an unknown red substance know. properly. In other words, the bottom We must therefore be guarded not end up with irate parents screaming did not reside at 529 East Branch on it. Lassiter said this substance Since the court’s decision was of the planter must not be filled with to stereotype an entire organization in the lobby and demanding to Street at the time of Kristin Smart’s was not on the metal of the earring “unpublished,” it meant the court cement. because a few people are making bad know why they are not telling the disappearance. Later investigation where rust would appear but on the would consider reviewing the case decisions with regards to the Kristin whole story about their daughter’s determined that, in fact, Susan turquoise stone which cannot rust. again in the future. It’s been well As I recall, the planter was built the Smart case. Each year, since Kristin disappearance. What if diehard Flores did reside at 529 East Branch over a decade since the court heard weekend after Kristin disappeared. Smart disappeared; KSBY-TV, and supporters of the effort to find at the time of Kristin Smart’s 10. Cadaver dogs showed interest in the case and they might be willing Paul even mentioned this fact during other news-gathering organizations, Kristin descended on KSBY with disappearance. Given this new a corner of the backyard at 529 East to revisit the issue. If you are an an interview he did with the police. have provided their viewers, readers their signs and bullhorns demanding information, it is possible Kristin Branch Street. attorney who believes in Freedom Additionally, the neighbors saw Paul and listeners the annual obligatory to know why they are not telling the Smart’s dead body was temporarily of Speech, contact us immediately. and others building the planter and news segment on the disappearance whole story about Kristin Smart. placed in the corner of the backyard 11. Gary Mann conducted GPR The parents wanted a release of the thought it was unusual because they of Kristin Smart, on or near the Because of the obvious and subsequently buried therein. search of the backyard at 529 East entire sheriff’s file. We, on the other worked late into the night to get it anniversary of her disappearance. embarrassment, we doubt KSBY Branch Street and initially discovered hand, requested only the search built. According to a former KSBY would air any video of upset parents Based on the information in this what he thought to be a man-made warrant on the Flores home (and all employee, the first airing of anything in their lobby. Nor would they affidavit, it appears as if Kristin excavation approximately six feet related documents). This included I also recall that there were three on Kristin Smart occurred on July 23, interview any of the protesters in Smart disappeared under suspicious long and five and one-half feet the affidavit, all attachments, return smaller planters adjacent to the 1996. We could never find out why in their parking lot. KSBY’s reporting circumstances and/or foul play. deep. Although Gary Mann later to search, police report and service long planter. At the time, I recall the world it took two months before on Kristin Smart’s disappearance Based on the information in this revised his findings because he was of the warrant. thinking that the 6’ by 3’ dimensions KSBY aired anything on Kristin’s is severely lacking and material affidavit, Kristin Smart is deceased inexperienced and did not use the of the planter was eerily similar to disappearance from Cal Poly. KSBY’s facts affecting the case. For some and either died in Paul Flores, right equipment, he considered the SEARCH WARRANT the dimensions of a grave. During reporting has always regurgitated unknown reason, the truth of what is dormitory room or was placed there backyard at 529 East Branch Street IMPORTANCE the search warrant, they used GPR the same information; Kristin is still going on behind the scenes is being Section Page Section Page A5 The California Register A5 denied to their viewers. KSBY finds in the mind of the jury. The drug within the first two hours if given the need closure, but do they deserve themselves in a difficult place. The not only makes the victim unable to leeway and money necessary to do it. closure. The injured party would over 32 years station is walking a tightrope. On resist, but makes it more difficult to Unfortunately, there’s no urgency to probably say no. In the final analysis, of experience! the one hand, they need to appease remember the specific details of the solve the Kristin Smart case. There it’s about law and justice, but it’s also Stan and Denise Smart along with rape. In that regard, it was a perfect never has been. about closure. One thing is for sure, their die-hard supporters, while date-rape drug. The victim cannot People are torn between whether until Kristin comes home, there preserving a good relationship with resist, nor can she bear witness either. the Kristin Smart case was just poor will be no peace and no closure the county sheriff. It appears that Did Paul Flores buy Ketamine police work by the Keyston Cops, or for anyone; the Smart family, the KSBY’s strategy has worked perfectly from the Cal Poly campus book store something more sinister. We believe community and Flores family as well. for two decades. If ignoring material to keep in his pocket for a target that someone inside the sheriff’s We offer a special invitation facts of the case is a business decision of opportunity? Did Kristin Smart office back in 1996-97, knows what to the Flores family: Contrary to to save money, that’s one thing; but, become that target of opportunity happened to the earring found on what you may think, The California Specializing in if ignoring material facts is being that night at the party in 1996? Did the backyard patio of the Flores’ Register endeavors to be as fair orchestrated to prop up the integrity Paul stalk Kristin during the party home. The earring was allegedly as possible to all parties in any restoring of a dubious investigation, that’s and successfully dope up her drink turned over to a sheriff’s deputy by dispute. If you have a rebuttal, we antique quite another matter. with a plan to get laid that night? Were Mary Ann Lassiter who was renting will print it. If your rebuttal is clean Make no mistake, KSBY has cash-register tapes from the campus the home at the time. While repeated enough for family consumption, it furniture many dedicated and professional bookstore retrieved after Kristin attempts to get Mrs. Lassiter to talk will be printed unedited. The only people, but their investigation of the disappeared to see if Paul Flores was about the earring have failed, there stipulation is that you stand behind Kristin Smart case has been pathetic a purchaser of the Ketamine drug? may be others who have information what you say. We will need a recent at best. We think it’s time they start The truth of what really happened as to what happened to the earring picture of the person who wrote the really investigating the Kristin Smart may never be known because so once it got to the station. rebuttal. case and provide their viewers with much time has elapsed, and due to And to anyone out there a clear picture of what is going on, law enforcement’s bungling of the THE IMPORTANCE OF CLOSURE having information about Kristin’s and more importantly, what’s not case. Some believe it was “bungling” disappearance; as the publisher of going on. If for no other reason, do and poor police work, others believe The primary goal is to give this newspaper, and someone who it because “The people have a right the entire Kristin Smart case was the Smart family the closure they has defended whistle-blowers before, to know.” intentionally covered-up? desperately need and deserve. The you have my personal guarantee for second goal is to hold everyone complete anonymity. SUBTLE VISUAL DECEPTIONS WHO WOULD GAIN BY involved with Kristin’s death Again, all signs say that Kristin COVERING UP THE accountable. All of us know (or is buried in the left rear corner of the As viewers, we must be very KRISTIN SMART CASE? should know) the importance of Flores property. Keep that in mind Pete’s UPHOLSTERY careful when we watch television holding people accountable for when you drive through Arroyo not to be lead down a primrose path When things don’t make sense, criminal acts. But, most people don’t Grande and pass 529 E. Branch 1085 Grand Ave., Grover Beach, CA 93433 by deceptive editing. In the June 20, ask yourself who would gain or realize the importance of closure in Street. The body of a Cal Poly coed Office Phone: 805-481-4766 2015, segment aired by KSBY-TV, lose if Kristin Smart was found. cases such as these. Even though we is entombed 75 feet from the road they briefly showed some video of a If Kristin was found, would there touched upon this in our first article you’re driving on. Kristin is there large piece of excavation equipment be any other losers besides the about Kristin Smart, we think it’s alright, and always has been. digging away in the backyard of people connected with her death important to once again address the the Flores’ home. This made the and disappearance? If Kristin’s vital importance of “closure” for us DET. DOSTIE AND BUSTER viewers believe that no stone was drinks were laced with a date-rape humans. CONTINUE TO SERVE left unturned to find Kristin Smart. drug (Ketamine) purchased as the In life, we expect everything to Visually, it appeared to be a thorough university bookstore, the liability for inevitably end. It’s part of the natural Paul Dostie and his incredible search of the property. The deception her death would go into the ozone. order of things, part of the circle dog BUSTER are working two works well until you realize that If Ketamine was purchased from the of life which is so important to us missing person cases in Trinity over nineteen years and two alleged campus bookstore and contributed psychologically. When there isn’t a County, California. In violation of searches of the Flores’ property, to Kristin’s death, could Cal Poly proper end, there is no closure, which the law, the sheriff of Trinity County they always avoided digging up the could be considered an accessory is unnatural and unhealthy. Having failed to enter data into the missing suspicious concrete planter box to murder before the fact? Or, was it closure allows us to let go. Letting go person’s database on one of the cases. tucked in the left, rear corner. just a case of simple negligence? in this case, does not mean forgetting In both cases, BUSTER has proven When any news-gathering If a student purchased a date- Kristin, nor does it mean no longer the sheriff of Trinity County is either organization intentionally ignores rape drug at the campus bookstore caring for Kristin. It means caring for corrupt of inept. important material facts, they resulting in the death of a Cal Poly her in another way, and on another BUSTER found victims are practicing the art of lying by coed, the public relations hit could level. Closure means being at peace murdered in the 1940’s behind omission. Facts omitted by design to potentially have been catastrophic. with the parting, or a particular George Hodel’s house who is deceive people in the hope they will There might be a precipitous fall off outcome or decision. Truly letting believed to be the Black Dahlia killer. embrace a certain version of a story or of recruiting with each headline, as go is one of the hardest things to do BUSTER also found a victim in narrative. Lying by omission is an art the trial would drag on in the courts. in the world, but letting go without the backyard of Mack Ray Edwards that politicians use to guide people For example; if a rape and murder closure is virtually impossible. It’s who happens to be one of Los to a desired conclusion. Seldom are trial dragged on in the courts for an open psychological wound that Angeles’ most prolific serial killers. fact-omitters ever accused of lying. three years or more, recruitment never heals. BUSTER has also discovered But make no mistake; omitting facts of new freshmen, especially coeds, Sadness, fear of separation, and three more bodies from the Barker with the intent to deceive is simply might suffer badly, lasting many change; all make it tough to truly Ranch where the Manson family GRAND another form of lying. It’s just as years during and beyond the trial. let go. When one lets go, it means lived. In a phone call from prison, HAIR SALON wrong as direct, bald-faced lies. Or, maybe Cal Poly officials weren’t overcoming that particular life Charlie Manson told Detective 1010 West Grand Ave. There’s generally a tacit policy in worried about recruiting deficits at episode and moving on with life. In Dostie, “I don’t want to talk anymore. Grover Beach, CA 93433 small towns across America, which all. Cal Poly annually receives about the process of “letting go,” we draw BUSTER is going to get me the gas (right behind Jalapeños Restaurant) basically states that the good name 17,000 enrollment applications and lessons from it and grow as a result. chamber if I keep talking.” and reputation of the town along accepts only about 3,000 to 4,000. Only when we let go of the past, with its leaders are to be protected With a hard-hitting Madison can we move on to the next chapter 805-481-6328 from scandal at all costs. Truth and Avenue advertising firm hired to in life. Closure allows us to clear the justice go right out the window. With counter truth-driven, chronically- path and open the next door. And Haircuts the Kristin Smart investigation, now bad headlines, maybe Cal Poly would that’s the point; the Smart family going on two decades, it’s painfully simply view all of it as the cost of cannot open that next door, until BUSTER Perms obvious that San Luis Obispo is doing business. On the other hand, Kristin comes home. The crime Color Style stricken with the same disease. The the revelation that students can be committed against Kristin Smart tacit policy of silence is understood murdered in Cal Poly dorms, and the was also committed against everyone Highlites by everyone, without being openly extent to which Cal Poly will go to who knew and loved her. Shampoo/Set expressed. The rule-of-law is cast cover-up such crimes, could possibly Closure is a time set aside for aside when any event occurs which become a problem no advertising grieving. The loss or end of anything might taint the idyllic vision people firm could quickly reverse. deserves enough time for grieving in have of their town and university. Aside from a possible public order for a fitting closure to occur. Skin Care relations hit, the university would When there is proper closure, we feel A DATE RAPE DRUG SOLD have to contend with a wrongful satisfied even though there is a sense Facials IN CAL POLY’s BOOK STORE death lawsuit from the parents. of profound loss. The disappearance On June 25, 2015, BUSTER Waxing Cal Poly could be viewed as aiding of Kristin Smart has both delayed arrived in Oakland, California Here’s more information you and abetting the killer by carelessly and prolonged the grieving process and alerted in the basement of the Manicures wouldn’t hear from KSBY. If you can selling date-rape drugs from the for two decades. home where Kristen Modaferri had Pedicures believe it, a popular date-rape drug campus book store with wanton When a loved-one passes on, we rented a room in 1997. Modaferri was actually sold at the Cal Poly disregard for what could happen. A mark the occasion with some sort disappeared after her shift at a coffee bookstore in 1996. All you needed lawyer representing Kristin’s family of ritual or ceremony we commonly house in San Francisco on June 23, was your student ID card to purchase would have no qualms about dipping refer to as a “funeral.” Funerals are 1997. After BUSTER alerted, soil the product. into Cal Poly’s coffers. According to symbolic gestures that mark the samples were taken and shipped It was called “Ketamine” a November 2014 report, Cal Poly end of a person’s life. The traditional to Dr. Vass in Tennessee who leads CENCOM (street name: special “K”), and contributes more than $1.4 billion to funeral is a formal farewell in a the world in soil forensic detection. was primarily used by veterinary the economy of San Luis Obispo. proper and dignified manner, which The sample from the basement was CENTRAL COAST COMMUNICATIONS students. Ketamine is often used for If Kristin Smart was a victim of provides a fitting ‘closing ceremony’. tested and found to have traces of its anesthetic and analgesic effects a stalker who purchased his drugs These ceremonies help to give human decomposition. With that on cats, dogs, rabbits, rats, and other from the campus bookstore, it would human beings the closure they need information, Oakland police can • Thorough Phone System Review small animals. It is an important part explain why Cal Poly authorities to move on with life. now declare the area a crime scene • Analysis of Customer Phone Needs of the “rodent cocktail”, a mixture of possibly took overt steps to destroy It’s hard to achieve closure and dig up the basement floor. • Customer Phone Preferences drugs used for anesthetizing rodents. evidence, first by sanitizing Paul’s when one remains puzzled, or can’t In November 2015, Dostie and Veterinarians often use ketamine dorm room, then sending in a find logical and reasonable answers BUSTER are headed to Europe on • Phone Bill Review and Analysis with sedative drugs to produce contractor to completely gut his to a sudden end (or disappearance) another missing person mission. • Complete Data Network Cabling Review balanced anesthesia and analgesia, dorm room, ensuring all evidence of of a person’s life. When there is no There are many cases which could • Internet Provider Service Review and as a constant-rate infusion to a crime had been destroyed. closure, but only many unanswered be solved, but for the barriers help prevent pain wind-up. Intentionally destroying evidence questions, it’s like emotionally created by politics. In one particular • Customer satisfaction reviews Ketamine was a popular date- of a crime would make the university bleeding to death and dying from egregious case, BUSTER has found • 100% Guarantee on Service & Repairs rape drug because when ingested guilty of murder after the fact. Did a thousand cuts. In that sense all of a location where as many as thirty • Same Day Service on Most Occasions orally, it takes effect within about ten these things really happen? Have law us have been harmed to one degree young women were believed raped, • 24 – Hour Emergency Service Available minutes and lasts about two hours. enforcement authorities conspired or another by the knowledge that a tortured and murdered then tossed The drug also causes confusion and with local power brokers to protect young woman could simply vanish into a mine shaft. The local sheriff amnesiac effects, which was very the good name and reputation of Cal from the Cal Poly campus. has refused to investigate, because good for the rapist. If a female victim Poly and San Luis Obispo? No one As crazy as it sounds, the Flores the property is owned by a powerful Business Phone Systems found herself on the witness stand knows, because no one is policing family needs closure also. For almost politician who is currently a sitting her recollection of events could be the police. Trust me folks when I twenty years, the whole Flores family Member of Congress. And folks, the 3563 Sueldo Street, Ste. T, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401 detrimentally affected helping the say, our law enforcement members keeps looking over their shoulder to hits just keep rolling in. §§§ Savings are just a phone call away: 805-781-2292 perpetrator(s) to introduce doubt are so good, they can solve a crime see if they are being followed. They Section Page Section Page B 6 The California Register B 6 The Amazing Life Story of Lynsie Ekelund & Excellent Investigative Talent of Detective Larry Montgomery

By: Nelson Sloan Lynsie Leigh Ekelund was the apple of her mother’s eye. They were as close as any mother and Lynsie at Graduation daughter could possibly be, because El Dorado High School in 1999 of tribulations they endured together. Last graduating class of the Lynsie’s mother Nancy made plans century to drive on Christmas Day from their Lynsie at 15 in the backyard in could to get the word out about home in Placentia, California to see Placentia, California Lynsie’s disappearance. With each Lynsie’s grandparents who lived in passing year, Nancy went to the Diego, which may have been a last Placerville, California. Mother and Lynsie at 18 in her backyard state fair in Sacramento and Orange minute decision by Lynsie. As far five-year-old Lynsie set off early in Placentia, California County Fair where she would pass as Nancy knew, Lynsie was going the morning, well before dawn for Since Nancy never had much in the out fliers all day long. Nancy’s to sleepover at Andrea’s home, and their nine-hour trip. way of money when she was growing hopes were given a boost when she then tutor her Vietnamese students. up, she raised her daughter Lynsie to They made it as far as Bakersfield received notice that a non-profit Nancy assumed Lynsie would return become very budget conscious. The at 7 AM when an inattentive driver, foundation wanted to help her keep home after her tutoring session two enjoyed cutting out coupons traveling at a very high rate of speed, awareness alive about Lynsie’s ended on Saturday afternoon. from the paper and going shopping rear-ended their car with such force, disappearance. About six months together. Trader Joe’s was one of The San Diego clubbing thing that Nancy’s car rolled over several after Lynsie disappeared, the Carole Lynsie’s favorite stores. didn’t happen. Chris and the three times. Lynsie was asleep when the Sund/Carrington Foundation offered girls wound up eating at a San Diego car was struck. As the car began to Nancy would give Lynsie twenty police $5,000 to keep the Lynsie Denny’s around 3 AM, then drove roll, Lynsie was ejected from the dollars to spend in Trader Joe’s and Ekelund investigation alive. Nancy back home. Chris dropped off one vehicle. As a result of the accident, told her to consider the tax and not to Lynsie at 18 was in the city council chambers High School Picture of the girls in Corona, CA, and the Lynsie suffered severe brain injuries, exceed her budget. Nancy watched to witness the official disbursement other girl in Anaheim. Chris later her lungs were collapsed and her leg her daughter as she discriminatingly her dream of becoming a journalist. ran away.” Nancy, snapped back, of funds to help find her daughter. said he dropped off Lynsie at her was broken. selected items and brought them to She was smart with a charming “You just don’t know my daughter, The news cameras also were there home in Placentia, CA, and drove to Lynsie was not expected to live. the checker. A trivial routine for the personality and a gift to write. she would never just run away.” to record the acceptance of the his apartment in Anaheim. He said rest of us, such as simple shopping grant money to the Placentia Police First responders quickly recognized THE NIGHT LYNSIE DIED Waiting all Saturday afternoon and he got home as the sun was rising Lynsie was near death and ordered and going through the checkout, all day Sunday was agonizing. Her Department. Nancy was utterly on Saturday morning. Chris told her airlifted to the Kern Medical was a major achievement for Lynsie. On Friday, February 16, 2001, stomach was tied up in knots. She shocked when the police department investigators he slept until about Center where they conducted Simple, sweet moments as these Lynsie told her mother she was couldn’t sleep because she knew her spokesman rejected the $5,000 offer noon on Saturday and stayed home immediate brain surgery. Two weeks would bring tears to her mother’s going to spend the night at girlfriend daughter was in some kind of trouble. saying, the police deemed Lynsie all day. eyes who witnessed her daughter’s Andrea’s home, then tutor some First thing Monday morning, Nancy to be a runaway and not a victim later, once Lynsie was stable enough A BEAUTIFUL LIFE struggle to function and be accepted young Vietnamese children in filed a formal missing person’s of a crime. Nancy’s excitement and to travel, she was transported to WAS TAKEN Children’s Hospital in San Diego. by society. English at 11 AM the next day. report. Placentia Police followed her hope was converted to despair when It would be five long months before Lynsie loved to watch Wheel of Nancy had come home from work on to her home and rummaged through police incredibly rejected additional Lynsie did not consider herself to Lynsie left the hospital, but she Fortune and the Golden Girls on Friday and was talking with Lynsie Lynsie’s personal effects seizing her financial help to find Lynsie. be Chris’s girlfriend. Once or twice on the floor of her room when the would return dozens of times for television with her mother. Every computer. COOKIES FOR COPS before, Lynsie slept on the couch at corrective surgeries related to those Friday for many years, going back doorbell rang. Lynsie had her small, his apartment because it was too late PLACENTIA POLICE Nancy recalled that one afternoon, sustained in the accident. to when Lynsie was still in a wheel overnight duffel bag packed, ready to go home. She didn’t want to wake GIVE UP WAY TOO SOON about a year or so after Lynsie had chair, Nancy and Lynsie would have to go. up her mother who would be forced As a result of her brain injury, disappeared, police called her and fun going out to dinner. While the A young man, Christopher Michael After filing the missing person’s to get up to unlatch the security Lynsie had several strokes resulting said that a new detective was working two would try different types of McAmis was at the door, ostensibly report, Nancy went to purchase her latch on the door. Unfortunately, in her left side being partially the case and they were coming over cuisine at various restaurants, Lynsie to take Lynsie over to Andrea’s first cell phone she ever owned. She Chris was an individual with paralyzed. Her left leg was in a to introduce him. She was excited to loved Mexican food. As Lynsie house. Nancy had never really met wanted the police and others to have anger management problems. For brace for about four years, from know the police were still actively was growing older, she participated Chris, but on four or five occasions direct and immediate communication example: a few months before Lynsie age five to nine. Lynsie also had looking for her daughter and decided in various events that made her in the past, she drove Lynsie over with her, no matter where she was. disappeared, Chris came home to three tracheotomies over a four year to bake some cookies for the police mother realize that her daughter to his apartment when other friends Unfortunately, she never got any see some fish in his aquarium dead. period, which her mother would tend calls from police. After only a few to enjoy when they arrived. Feeling that the crab in the tank to 24/7, getting only cat naps when was becoming more independent. were there. Normally, she dropped months, Lynsie’s disappearance Nancy did not know it was a setup. had killed his fish, he exploded in a she was able to do so. Nancy would The traditional Friday night dinners Lynsie off at 6 PM, then picked her went into the cold-case file. For Police suspected her of killing her violent tirade grabbing the crab from have to be ready with a syringe to with mom would occasionally give up at 10 PM. Occasionally, Lynsie’s years, Nancy would do whatever she own daughter and possibly burying the aquarium and smashing it on the remove matter should Lynsie begin way to other work or school related visit would last late into the night, engagements that lured Lynsie away. and she’d crash on the couch. could to keep her daughter’s name in her in the backyard. Placentia police floor with a hammer. to choke. Lynsie had pretty much the mind of local citizens in the hope Lynsie and Chris were friends and units descended on her home with a Chris’s favorite movie was lost the use of her left hand, and was Nancy works at the corporate that someone would come forward nothing more. Since Chris lived on document they demanded she sign American Psycho. The main forced to drag her leg as she walked. office of Mercury Insurance in Brea, with information to help bring Ball Road in Anaheim, Nancy and which was gave them “permission” character in the movie would go California. Lynsie’s father Stewart Lynsie home. Nancy kept telling Other children were unmerciful Lynsie would refer to him “Ball- to search her home. With nothing to “psycho” if he perceived he was Ekelund is a successful international herself that it simply wasn’t possible in their mocking of her disabilities. Road-Chris” to distinguish him from hide, Nancy signed the document and being disrespected. The woman Chris banker, presently working with that Lynsie would run away. The Their laughter was sometimes more other people with the same name. the police began tearing up property married after Lynsie disappeared Citibank in Orange County. Stewart bond they had was just too strong for painful than the injuries themselves. looking for clues of a murder. said he would frequently go into a Lynsie was forced to endure many blamed the automobile accident Nancy’s first impression of Chris that to happen. Police tore Lynsie’s bed apart and rage if, for example someone got to painful surgeries to help her gain on Nancy. If she had not attempted was that he looked like a clean cut Feeling that no one was doing dug up the backyard area slinging a parking space before he did when back a reasonable quality of life. to drive such a long distance on young man, lacking the long hair and anything to help find her daughter, dirt everywhere. A stunned Nancy they were out shopping. He’d say Her mother had lost count, but Christmas Day, the accident would tattoos that other twenty-somethings Nancy asked all the women and watched as the overbearing police things like, “I have to go lock myself believes it was over fifteen major have never occurred. proudly displayed. Nancy walked men she knew for their favorite food muscled their way through her home in a room, so I don’t hurt you.” surgeries. Nancy remembers that Their marriage fell apart not long out to Chris’s truck with Lynsie to recipes and published a cookbook converting it into a disheveled mess. even with all the vile insults from after the accident. While Stewart give her daughter a hug goodbye Chris and Lynsie, after dropping to raise awareness and funds to help The search turned up nothing, and fellow classmates and excruciating was Nancy’s first marriage, Nancy and because she forgot to lock her people off from their night out, had find Lynsie. She called her cookbook police closed the case believing that surgeries, Lynsie always had a big was Stewart’s fourth marriage. own car after coming home that gotten back too late from San Diego. “Recipes for Hope,” which contained Lynsie was a runaway and had not smile. Through it all, somehow she Nancy had no knowledge of the first afternoon. Lynsie got in Chris’s Lynsie did not want to go home at over 300 recipes. Over a two year been murdered. After tearing up her developed a wonderful personality. two marriages Stewart had. Stewart white, extended cab pickup truck four in the morning. Not only would period, Nancy singlehandedly raised home and treating her like a murder Instead of feeling sorry for herself, ended up living only lived five miles and the two drove away. Nancy she have to wake up her mother, but nearly $19,000 from the sales of her suspect, Nancy had absolutely no she rose above her disabilities. away, but was not part of Lynsie’s would never see Lynsie again. probably wanted to avoid twenty cookbook. communication from the Placentia life. As Nancy looked back upon it, The first inkling Nancy thought questions as to why she skipped the THEIR BOND Nancy noticed that people Police Department. sleepover in favor of a late-night trip BECAME STRONGER Lynsie would occasionally receive a something was wrong occurred the letter or card from her father about following day when she got a call were uncomfortable around her. About five years after Lynsie to go bar-hopping in San Diego. Invitations to parties and other Lynsie was an inspiration to every six months or so, but that was from the mother of the Vietnamese disappeared; Nancy heard on the Lynsie thought she would catch a events dried up. She had no friends everyone who took the time to know the extent of it. children saying Lynsie failed to radio that an unidentified female few hours’ sleep at Chris’s apartment her. She was happy even though she who would rise up to help her. There body had been found along the I-5 Fifteen years, a multitude of show up for her 11 AM English before heading over to her tutoring endured continual physical pain. Her was no loving husband to help her freeway. She immediately contacted surgeries and hundreds of doctor’s tutoring session. That was the session. Unfortunately, Chris didn’t chronic discomfort was exacerbated and stand by her side. There were Placentia Police and asked them to visits later, Lynsie Ekelund was moment when Nancy’s heart sank, want to sleep and made a move to from the cruel comments of other no family advocates, no candlelight find out if the body found along I-5 a twenty-year-old young woman she knew as only parents know, that have sex with Lynsie. She resisted children. The near-death experience vigils at the park, no bumper-stickers was Lynsie. The Placentia Police attending Fullerton College. She something was terribly wrong. In a his advances by hitting him in the and agonizing recovery pulled with her daughter’s face. Police were Department didn’t even extend her had her heart set on becoming a panic, Nancy began calling all the head with a phone receiver. In a fit mother and daughter together into ambivalent and had given up. Nancy the courtesy of calling her back. It’s journalist. Having a flare with the friends that she and Lynsie knew, but of rage, Chris strangled Lynsie to a bond that was as strong as anyone was all alone in her quest to find her suspected they didn’t lift a finger written word, she entered contests at no one had seen Lynsie. death. He then placed her body in could imagine. It was them against daughter. to check into it. Nancy felt truly various state and county fairs where Nancy went to the Placentia Police his truck and drove sixty miles North the world, struggling physically, abandoned by everyone. She was she usually won first or second prize. Department to file a missing person’s With the money she raised from to the Santa Clarita where he buried financially and emotionally. They deeply offended by the callous, Lynsie was very good at typing, even report, but was told she could not file the sale of her cookbooks, Nancy Lynsie under approximately four would tell each other with deepest insensitive way in which police were though she only could use her right a missing person’s report within 48 rented a billboard on the I-5 freeway feet of earth with a front-end loader. sincerity, “You are my best friend.” and took out expensive display ads ignoring the entire case. hand. She didn’t let a little thing like hours of a person’s disappearance. Chris got back in his pickup truck in the newspaper. Her awareness- not having two hands interfere with The police said, “She probably just WHAT HAPPENED TO LYNSIE to return to his apartment in Anaheim raising funds evaporated very but stopped at a convenience store quickly. Nancy did whatever she Lynsie may have originally planned to spend the night at Andrea’s before heading back. The use of his home, but instead went with two credit card at this store would come other girls and Chris McAmis who drove them down to San Diego to go clubbing that Friday night. Nancy knew nothing about the trip to San

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Lynsie at 10 enjoying the soothing Lynsie at Del Mar, California effects of the Pacific Ocean The location where she tossed her of their bumbling ineptitude and leg-braces in the ocean several screwed-up determination as to what years prior happened to Lynsie Ekelund. Lynsie at Placentia Linda Hospital on Chris’s door telling him that a During her impact statement for surgery to lengthen her wrist body believed to be Lynsie had been Lynsie at 13 on vacation in Puerto in court when Chris stood before muscle and tendons. found in the Santa Clarita area. Since her wearing his prison jump suit, Lynsie at 16 Vallarta, Mexico Lynsie at the Pumpkin Patch with Molly year after Lynsie disappeared who he was the last person seen with her Nancy said in a low voice, “I don’t alive, did he have any comment for reverse Mirandizing. The suspect located at Cal Poly Pomona back to haunt him later. Chris went confirmed that his son occasionally know if you’re sorry for this, but her article? Montgomery hoped the suddenly discovers much of the on about his life continuing to work worked for him during the week as Santa Clarita where he buried her it doesn’t make any difference suspect would get very nervous and information the police have gathered for his dad during the week at the a heavy equipment operator. Chris’s corpse utilizing the earth-moving anymore.” Nancy explained to the drive out to where he buried Lynsie and begins to realize, ‘They’re on to Lark Ranch in Santa Clarita. When bank account showed that he was equipment he operated for his dad court that her daughter was a loving, depositing his unemployment checks to verify if she had been found. me.’ It’s a bucket of cold water. The during the week. naive person who trusted everyone. construction debris needed to be suspect begins to accept that it’s only and some cash as well, because he Police placed a tracking device Unfortunately, she trusted Chris. discarded, Chris piled it on top of a matter of time before they clamp Nancy knew nothing about all was receiving money from his father on Chris’s truck which was parked Lynsie’s grave site in an effort to on the “bracelets.” the effort the Orange County DA’s Christopher Michael McAmis make it harder for anyone to discover under-the-table as compensation for on the street. As fate would have office was expending on her behalf. is a 36 year-old inmate at the her tomb. He knew that as long as no his work in Santa Clarita. it, Chris decided to drive his wife’s Montgomery shared some, but She didn’t know Detective Larry Correctional Training Facility one found Lynsie’s body, he would Chris became a suspect of high car which was in the garage. He not all of the information he had Montgomery had been working on located in Soledad, California remain a free man. interest because he lied about dropped his wife off at work, but with Chris. His evidence was very the case for over two years. All she serving an indeterminate sentence while driving noticed he was being strong and it all pointed to Chris DISTRICT ATTORNEY being home all day when Lynsie knew was Placentia police had given of 15 years to life, CDCR #AL3891. followed. Why and by whom was as being responsible for Lynsie’s ASSIGNS THE CASE TO disappeared. Montgomery suspected up on the case. Montgomery notified Chris has a minimum eligible parole unclear, so Chris drove to a nearby disappearance. The more Larry LARRY MONTGOMERY that something happened that the Placentia Police Department date (MEPD) of October 26, 2025. night and Chris knew more that police station to report the fact he spoke, the more Chris began to to let Nancy know they had found Thirteen months prior to his MEPD Eight long years elapsed when he was telling. Logic dictated that was being followed. Montgomery’s realize the walls were closing in her daughter. On October 27, 2010, date, (approximately September Lynsie’s case was handed to if Chris was involved in Lynsie’s tailing team immediately contacted around him. Chris was beginning Nancy received a call at work from 26, 2024), Chris will have his first Detective Larry Montgomery. Larry disappearance or demise, there’s the police station where Chris had to weaken, but not yet at the point the Placentia Police demanding that parole hearing to be considered for had retired from another police a good possibility her body was entered, so police would know they of confessing the crime. That’s she come home immediately, and release back into society. Within department, but was asked to come buried in close proximity to where were talking to a potential murder when Montgomery got even more saying “There has been a break in ninety days prior to his parole back and work with the Orange Chris had access to earth-moving suspect. Chris was asked to file creative. Everything he told Chris the case.” hearing date, approximately June 30, County District Attorney’s Office. a written complaint. The police was the truth and Chris knew it to be equipment. To find Lynsie’s body, It was the first time she had heard 2024, anyone can write to the parole For a while he worked in the DA’s women he spoke with asked if he so. That’s when Larry conjured up Larry Montgomery summoned the from anyone in six or seven years. board expressing their desire that homicide division, but asked to was on disability. Chris confirmed a story he hoped Chris would also help of Detective Paul Dostie from Nancy’s heart began to race. She he be released or kept in prison. We review unsolved cases, one of which he was. She told Chris it’s common believe was true in order to finally Mammoth Lakes, California and his thought that maybe the police were reached out to Chris for this article was the disappearance of Lynsie for fraud investigators to follow get him to capitulate and confess famous cadaver dog BUSTER. right all along, her daughter was but he never responded. Ekelund. people on disability to see if they to the murder of Lynsie Ekelund. a runaway and now she was found Detective Larry Montgomery BUSTER and other police dogs really are disabled. Chris apparently Detective Montgomery told Chris Larry did as he always does; he alive. Nancy had been confronted was very disappointed with Chris’s alerted in an area about 100 yards believed the people following him that a human arm had been found in painstakingly went through the with several “Lynsie sightings” from sentence. He felt the sentence should from where Chris worked at the Lark were fraud investigators. After the area where the dogs had alerted entire case mapping out a course of Ranch work sight. Montgomery people who were very sure they had have been more commensurate with action of places to visit and people to obtained before-and-after aerial spotted Lynsie. One of Lynsie’s own the heinous crime he committed. interview or re-interview. According photographs which revealed large teachers said that she saw Lynsie at Montgomery, an “aw shucks” kind of to the police file, Chris said he hung chunks of concrete and other a Michaels store saying, “I know it guy, is the consummate professional around the house all day on Saturday, debris being disposed of near a dry was her, I know her walk.” Without who seldom is recognized for but paged Lynsie twice leaving riverbed. Larry surmised that Chris any information her daughter was his remarkable police work. His messages on her pager. Chris said was continually dumping debris on dead or alive, Nancy began to believe dedication to his profession is stellar he left messages asking Lynsie if she top of Lynsie’s grave site in an effort that maybe those “Lynsie sighting” and unsurpassed by many in law wanted to go dancing with him and to make it much harder for anyone were valid. Maybe her daughter was enforcement. his girlfriend. By leaving messages to find. Soil samples from where alive and the police have brought her We were disappointed to learn on Lynsie’s voicemail pager, Chris the dogs alerted were sent to Dr. home. Maybe she was only minutes was merely attempting to establish from our sources in Placentia, Arpad Vass in Tennessee for analysis from hugging her beloved daughter California that Detective Corine a false alibi. When questioned by which came up positive for human again. Even though Nancy knew investigators, Chris told police he Loomis with the Placentia Police specific VOC’s (Volatile Organic that her daughter would surely never Department, took all the credit dropped all the girls off at their Compounds). Dr. Vass flew out to let her mother languish in pain year respective homes and went home for finding Lynsie’s body. But, help in the effort to locate Lynsie’s after year, she still wanted to believe Montgomery never gets upset when to sleep. He also told investigators, body. that no one could possibly kill such he was unemployed and collecting other people wrongfully claim credit an innocent, beautiful young woman. for his extraordinary police work. unemployment insurance. All during this time, as the Nancy got it into her head that police investigation was beginning to yield He’s content to stay quietly in the Larry Montgomery discovered found her daughter alive and when background, doing the hard work, information, Nancy knew nothing she got home there she would be. from police reports that one of the about Detective Montgomery’s work which good investigating always girls who went down to San Diego on the case. She was intentionally As she drove home, she became demands. Montgomery is the best of with Chris and Lynsie mentioned kept out of the loop to avoid the more and more excited about the the best, and Californian’s thank him Chris stopped at a gas station on the torment associated with a ride on yet Lynsie always trying to maintain a smile even under a mask while she prospect of holding her sweet Lynsie profusely for ending his retirement way back. Montgomery wondered another emotional roller-coaster. It endured one of her many fifteen surgeries in her arms. Nancy plunged from the to go get the bad guys. He continues if Chris stopped anywhere else that was better that she not know in case indescribable excitement and joy, to work on unsolved California cases day or that weekend and studied their leads went no where. leaving the police station, he drove and that police believed it was into an ocean of despair when police for Orange County District Attorney financial documents to verify where around a bit to determine if he was Lynsie’s arm. Montgomery made the disclosed Lynsie’s body had been Tony Rackauckas. The citizens of For three days, Montgomery’s he had used his card that weekend. being followed, then headed up information even more believable found. The harsh reality that Lynsie California can be justifiably proud team dug in the area where cadaver Larry noticed that Chris used his to Santa Clarita to check on the by telling Chris that even though the was gone forever enveloped her soul. of detectives like Larry Montgomery dogs alerted, but found nothing. Dr. credit card on Bouquet Canyon Drive location where he buried Lynsie. arm was recently found, it separated The original determination from the and district attorneys like Tony Vass said that because of the sandy, in Santa Clarita the morning when Unfortunately, the police felt their from Lynsie’s corpse when the area Placentia Police Department that Rackauckas. porous nature of the soil and being he said he went straight home and cover had been blown and stopped had flooded several years back. Lynsie was a runaway turned out to near a riverbed, contaminants from a Finally, this article is dedicated went to sleep. Larry now knew Chris tailing Chris. Police did not know he He knew that Chris would have be completely false. It gave Nancy decomposing human body may have to warm and beautiful spirit of the had lied about going straight home. went up to check the grave site. When remembered the flooding since he false hope that her daughter was still migrated and could be many yards loved and lost. Lynsie Ekelund’s life From Chris’s home in Anaheim to Chris filed his complaint that people worked in the area. Montgomery alive and contributed mightily to her away from their target site. Dr. Vass changed forever when she and her Santa Clarita was another 1.5 hours were following him, he put his cell told Chris they were just waiting on deep despair. had invented a machine that can mother were going to see grandma driving time North on Interstate 5. phone number on the form which DNA confirmation. detect 17 volatile organic chemicals At this writing, Nancy Ekelund and grandpa early one Christmas The truth was that for at least three was information Montgomery did (VOC’s) given off by a human The so-called discovery of a continues to work at the corporate morning. Lynsie rose above hours of driving time alone when not have. A new strategy emerged. decomposing body. To effectively human arm was fabricated to office for Mercury Insurance in calamity, enduring physical agonies Chris said he was at home sleeping, Montgomery went to obtain a tap on use it, you only need to dig down make Chris feel as though he was Brea, California. She has always that most of us thankfully, will never he was actually in Santa Clarita. his cell phone for GPS information about a foot or two and quickly now surrounded, and there was appreciated all that her employer has know. which might help them pinpoint This turned Detective Larry insert the machine’s sensors into no escape. Even though they were done for her during the years. “They Lynsie’s location should he ever go We can choose to remember Montgomery’s attention to the Santa the hole to detect human-specific close, Montgomery’s search team have been so very good to me,” she back to her grave site. Lynsie as a victim, or celebrate her Clarita area and Chris’s relationship chemicals. Many holes were dug had not found Lynsie. He hoped that said. The loss of Lynsie scarred her to that area. Larry wondered what amazing life story, a story about reducing the area down to a large REVERSE MIRANDIZING Chris would finally tell the truth to life forever. There is not a day that a courageous little girl with an Chris was doing up there the morning provide closure and end Nancy’s goes by that she does not think about oval. The movement of the human Detective Montgomery decided to indomitable spirit that flowered into Lynsie disappeared. Montgomery ten-year nightmare. her courageous daughter and all the chemicals through the porous, interview Chris utilizing a method a wonderful young woman well on also noticed Chris used his credit card good times they shared together. sandy soil was making it difficult to he calls reverse Mirandizing. Most Montgomery told Chris, it was her way to be a respected journalist. in the Santa Clarita area both before pinpoint Lynsie’s hidden grave. and after Lynsie’s disappearance, every American knows that when a only a matter of time before they To help Nancy move on with Lynsie’s story is about endurance suspect is arrested, he/she is given found the rest of Lynsie and asked her life, it’s been suggested that a and determination in the face of but on week days only, never on a TAILING THE SUSPECT weekend. Montgomery discovered their Miranda warning. We’ve all him to point out on a map where permanent dedication be created, overwhelming adversity. Chris’s father had a project going Even though narrowed down, the heard it a thousand times on TV, he originally buried her. Believing such as a park bench with a plaque The story of Lynsie Ekelund is on in the Lark Ranch area near search area was too large to excavate, “You have the right to remain silent. the jig was up, Chris pointed out bearing a laser-etched photo of also about the boundless nature of Santa Clarita. Upon reading the so Larry Montgomery got creative Anything you say or do can and will on the map where he buried Lynsie. Lynsie, be installed in an area a mother’s love and its remarkable police file, Montgomery noticed by having a police woman assume be used against you in a court of law. He agreed to drive to the area with befitting her daughter’s memory. power to comfort and soothe through police interviewed Chris’s father a the role of a journalist. She knocked You have the right to an attorney. If Detective Montgomery to pinpoint Nancy has attempted to have a a painful journey in life. May the you cannot afford an attorney, one the location. Chris ultimately plaque on a bench at the local police memory of their treasured time will be appointed to you. Do you confessed to attempted rape of department but so far, Placentia together extinguish all bitterness understand these rights as they have Lynsie Ekelund, then strangling her Police are not interested in having and give Nancy Ekelund the peace been read to you?” to death. He transported her body to a permanent and daily reminder necessary to move forward with her The Miranda warning is what every own life. §§§ police officer should say before they begin questioning any suspect. What if the detective doesn’t want to ask the suspect any questions, but wants the suspect to listen to the evidence they have amassed against him/her. This is sometimes referred to as

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