Legally Brunette: The Disappearance of Kristin Smart
Legally Brunette
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4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 2 June 2026
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
The 30th anniversary of Kristin Smart’s disappearance was last week, so Emily and Shane are breaking down all of the details, including a discovery that was made just last month.
Kristin’s body has never been found… How did they convict her killer? Was his family allegedly in on the crime? What were the most crucial mistakes made throughout this investigation?
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:05.8 | Hi, guys. Welcome to an episode of Legally Brunette. |
| 0:09.1 | I'll be your host today, Emily Simpson with Shane. |
| 0:13.8 | Shane. |
| 0:14.8 | All right, Shane, we are going to talk about a case that just now reached its 30th anniversary over Memorial Day weekend. |
| 0:24.5 | I don't know if you remember it because you are from California, but back in 1996. |
| 0:30.5 | Wait, well, in 90, oh, okay, no, I don't know. |
| 0:33.5 | Well, I haven't even said what it is yet. |
| 0:34.9 | I didn't live in the country in 96. |
| 0:36.3 | I have no idea what was going on. Go ahead. Oh, you mean you weren't around in 1996? Well, you still might even said what it is yet. I didn't live in the country in 96. I have no idea what was going on. |
| 0:37.7 | Go ahead. |
| 0:37.9 | Oh, you mean you weren't around in 1996? Well, you still might remember it. So the case is Kristen Smart, who was a 19-year-old college freshman at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. Now, you know that school because your niece and nephew both went there and graduated from there. Right. Right. Also referred to as slow and they're the |
| 0:56.2 | Mustangs. They're slow and they're the Mustangs. I've actually, SLO, slow. SLO, right. I've been on the |
| 1:01.3 | campus. Oh, that's right. You went there. Yeah, a few years ago when my niece first started going to Cal Poly. |
| 1:07.1 | And I remembered the Kristen Smart case. And I remembered that she was in the dorm called |
| 1:12.9 | Mirror Hall and so I made sure to check it out to take a little look at it while I was on |
| 1:19.1 | campus. |
| 1:20.6 | Kristen Smart disappeared on Memorial Day weekend in 1996. |
| 1:24.5 | She was last seen by Cal Poly student Paul Flores, who walked her home that night from a |
| 1:29.9 | college party. After relentless searching, her body has never been discovered, even though we'll |
| 1:35.4 | talk about in a little bit, this case has been, why it came up in my mind again was because |
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