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Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

Desperate search for missing Kristin Smart

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline

True Crime, News

3.97.6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2017

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Kristin Smart was a 19-year-old student at California Polytechnic State University when she disappeared on May 25, 1996, after attending a campus party. No one has ever been charged in her disappearance and she is still missing more than 20 years later. Kristin's parents Denise and Stan Smart have never given up in their search for answers. They discuss their daughter's case with Nancy Grace, victims advocate Marc Klass and forensics expert Joseph Scott Morgan in this episode.

Transcript

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0:00.0

The

0:03.2

20 Year Search for Kristen Smart has a new twist.

0:14.6

Investigation has led us back here where it first began.

0:17.1

The campus of Cal Poly, and that is a place where Kristen was last seen.

0:21.2

A new lead in the long-going investigation was determined over the past couple of years

0:25.0

after a comprehensive review of the case.

0:27.6

That lead led us to this location.

0:30.6

We brought in especially human remains detection dogs.

0:34.8

We're hopeful that this will lead to the finding of Kristen or evidence that will bring closure

0:40.6

to the family.

0:45.0

This beautiful girl, beautiful girl Kristen Smart, a student at Cal Poly, one night she

0:53.2

attends a birthday party.

0:56.2

She's never seen again.

1:00.0

What happened?

1:01.0

I'm Nancy Grace.

1:02.9

This is Crime Stories.

1:05.0

Thank you for being with us.

1:06.9

What happened to Kristen Smart?

1:10.7

With me now her family Denise and Stan Smart.

1:15.0

Also with me, Mark Klass, founder of Klass Kids Victims Advocate Life Long Mission.

1:22.7

Also with me, Crime Stories, Investigator Reporter Larry Mayer.

1:27.5

Everyone thank you for being with us.

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