FBI tells family of Kristin Smart, who vanished 23 years ago, to be prepared for news: report

Until something happens to his own children.

Doesn't sound like a normal way to tell people news like that!

I’m trying to think of a scenario in which the FBI would tease the family of a missing child and I cannot think of one. They either found her or her corpse.

Sounds like bullshit.

she's not dead but she's been arrested for 1st degree murder


Just a guess. Or maybe she's a man now or something.

The family of Kristin Smart, the California college student who vanished 23 years ago after attending a party near her school, was reportedly told by federal agents to be prepared for news and to secure a family spokesperson.

Denise Smart, the woman's mother, told the Stockton Record that she was contacted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and was told to "be ready."

"This is really going to be something you don't expect. We want to give you the support you need," she said she was told.

The report said the FBI was not clear on what the development was, she was told that her family might want to "get away for a while," and she should secure a family spokesperson.

The mother admitted to the paper that since she was told about the development she has had anxiety.

Smart, who was 19 when she vanished, attended California Polytechnic State University and was last seen in the early morning of May 25, 1996, while returning to her dorm after a party near the campus. At the time, another student told authorities he left Smart near her dormitory after they and another female student walked back.

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What crap. Tell a family something like this and still not tell them anything?
That's some real shitty agents and way of handling a case.

I feel really bad for that family and as a mother myself, this would have been unacceptable.

Or on his VHS -> DVD collection

THat's the ^ it exactly!

Why not tell them just before it breaks to the media so the family has time to get out of Dodge

Telling them so far in advance is just a mind fuck.

How the AF did the FBI become so grossly incompetent and traitorous?

The true crime groups I’m in have people saying this report is a hoax, but I am hopeful for a resolution in this case.

The Smarts expectation is probably that Flores did it and their daughter is buried in his mom’s back yard. This is based on the “Your Own Backyard” podcast. But, this line from the article that was posted earlier gives me pause.

Since cadaver dogs alerted on three locations in Paul’s room, it strongly suggests that Kristin died in that room. Only Paul Flores knows the exact details of what transpired in room #128 of Santa Lucia Hall on the Cal Poly campus. For seventeen years, Paul Flores has remained steadfast in his silence, while occasionally attempting to drown a nagging conscience in alcohol. “When the truth of this finally comes out, you are just not going to believe it.” These words were purportedly said to the Smarts’ attorney, by an attorney representing Paul Flores.

IMO, the police in this case bungled and dilly dallied it into failure. They didn’t take it seriously in the beginning, they lost evidence, they didn’t investigate the suspect and they wasted the warrant to search the back yard. It’s crazy.