… It did produce some information that I believe was valuable,” he said.ĭenise Smart, Kristin’s mother, has also praised the show.

“What Chris did was take a local story and turn it into an international story. How are we not all talking about this every day until she’s found?”Īfter Paul and Ruben’s arrests, Sheriff Ian Parkinson revealed that Lambert’s podcast helped move the investigation forward. “But it was a local story and the thing that stood out to me is that nobody was talking about it anymore. “ True crime podcasting is not something that particularly captivated me,” Lambert told Rolling Stone last year.

The case recently reentered the public eye with the 2019 launch of the popular true-crime podcast, Your Own Backyard, hosted by musician Chris Lambert, who has spent his life haunted by a missing person’s billboard featuring Smart’s face. Paul invoked the Fifth Amendment when the DA’s office subpoenaed him to testify before a grand jury in 1996 and after the Smarts filed a $40 million wrongful-death lawsuit against him during a 1997 deposition, he again pleaded the Fifth. The county sheriff’s office searched his room once more during the weekend of June 29th, when a team of cadaver dogs signaled the smell of human decay.įlores and his parents have always maintained that he had nothing to do with Smart’s disappearance. By then, the semester was over and the room had been cleaned out. Flores was first interviewed by Cal Poly police investigators near the end of May 1996, according to The San Luis Obispo Tribune, and the Cal Poly police didn’t search his room until June 10th.

Serial killer skateboard clothing