Authorities in California search a home connected to Paul Flores as part of the long-running investigation into Kristin Smart, a 19-year-old college student who went missing in 1996. According to reports, the San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Office obtains and executes a search warrant at the property linked to Flores, who was convicted in 2022 of killing Smart. The searches are aimed at locating Smart’s remains, which have never been found. Smart disappears in May 1996 after returning from an off-campus party near California Polytechnic State University. She is later declared legally dead in 2002. The new operation follows Flores’ conviction and prison sentence, and investigators indicate additional updates for the public are expected as the search continues. Multiple outlets describe the action as a new search tied directly to Flores and the case file, with law enforcement continuing to pursue evidence decades after Smart’s disappearance.