UPDATE (3:30 p.m.) – The San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Office has announced that Sheriff Ian Parkinson will hold a press conference on Friday morning to discuss the search warrant served at Susan Flores’ home this week. The press conference is scheduled for 9 a.m. It can be viewed live on KSBY.com.
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UPDATE (1:59 p.m.) – Investigators remain on scene. Shortly before 2 p.m., soil scientists continued going back and forth between Susan Flores’ yard and her neighbor’s yard.
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Samples could also be seen being collected from Susan’s yard while ground-penetrating radar equipment was taken into the backyard.
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UPDATE (12:45 p.m.):
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UPDATE (10:20 a.m.): By 10 a.m., work as part of the search warrant was taking place on the far side of a home next door to Susan Flores’s home. Soon after, the same process was taking place in Susan Flores’ front yard.
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The execution of a search warrant at the home of the mother of Kristin Smart’s convicted killer is now on day two.
Shortly before 9 a.m. Thursday, law enforcement could be seen coming and going from the backyard of Susan Flores’ home on East Branch Street in Arroyo Grande. People involved in soil testing also arrived at the scene.
The sheriff’s office first served Flores with the search warrant early Wednesday morning.
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Sheriff’s officials tell KSBY Flores is not allowed on the property while the warrant is being executed. It’s unknown when it will wrap up.
While the sheriff’s office has not elaborated on what prompted the latest search or whether anything of significance has been found, digging sounds could be heard coming from the backyard on Wednesday and various people on site, including former cold-case investigator for the sheriff’s office, Clint Cole, and San Luis Obispo County Sheriff Ian Parkinson.
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Flores’ son, Paul, was convicted in 2022 of murdering Kristin Smart 30 years ago this month.
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Investigators have said Flores was the last person to be seen with the 19-year-old Cal Poly freshman on May 25, 1996.
While Smart was later declared legally dead and Flores now serving a 25 years-to-life sentence for the murder, her remains have never been found.
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