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Going West: True Crime

Kristin Smart: New Evidence Thirty Years Later // 608

Going West: True Crime

Dark West Productions

Society & Culture, News, True Crime

4.610.8K Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2026

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

In May of 1996, a 19-year-old college freshman vanished from her San Luis Obispo university in the middle of the night. When she never returned to her dorm room, what began as a missing-person case quickly gripped California and sparked decades of questions, rumors, and nationwide attention. With recent arrests in the case, investigators would uncover a slew of evidence: from stained soil to horrific video footage taken by the main suspect. This is the murder of Kristin Smart.

Transcript

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0:00.0

What is going on true crime fans? I'm your host Teeth. And I'm your host Daphne.

0:18.6

And you're listening to Going West. Hello everybody.

0:23.1

Today's case has been recommended so many times over the years. So it just so happened that we

0:28.1

already had it ready to go for this month because it's a May case as these new updates are coming

0:34.3

out, as I'm sure many of you have seen on the news. So this is a fully up-to-date

0:38.9

episode with all the new findings. But big thank you to those who have sent this one in since

0:44.8

like 2021. Yes, there's been a lot of you guys. Big shout out to Jessica, Esidro, Haley, Jennifer,

0:52.9

Daisy, Allison, Devin, Anna, Brittany, and Isaac for sending this one in today.

0:59.4

And we're so sorry that it took us so long to get to this one.

1:02.5

Seriously, it's funny.

1:03.8

I consider Kristen's smart story to be a bigger, more well-known story.

1:09.3

And I was kind of surprised to see that there's not a ton of

1:12.6

podcast coverage on it. And I think that's because there was a podcast called Your Own Backyard,

1:18.3

fully dedicated to this story. And I think everyone's like, I'm not going to touch that. I'm going to

1:22.3

let them do it. But yeah, we really wanted to kind of try our hand in it and perfect that there is some new information anyway.

1:30.2

So we have a lot to get into today.

1:33.7

Well, all right, guys, without further ado, this is episode 608 of Going West.

1:39.7

So let's get into it.

1:52.8

Okay. Let's get into it. Before we dive into this case, as you guys know, Heath and I love doing happening now stories

1:58.2

so that we can discuss the cases that we're all invested in

2:01.9

and hearing about on the news. And because we're so in tune with true crime news, we thought

2:07.7

that it would be fun to add a segment to our Friday episodes called Rapid Fire, where we basically

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