Welcome to Monday Morning Murder in the News with Alyssa Carroll.

Good morning heathens and happy murder in the news Monday that I'm going to try to release every single

Monday morning because the rest of the news is just hot scary garbage and you know

you'd rather be hearing me and my bullshit anyway.

So I've scoured the internet for the headlines as well as a couple of listeners.

Thank you, Jessica, so that you don't have to.

Happy commuting and here we go.

So our first article comes from KTLA 5, L.A.'s very own.

And the title reads, Two Environmental Scientists team up to find Kristen Smart's remains.

So a pair of scientists, along with a former analyst at the Federal Bureau of Investigation, have joined forces to find the missing remains of

Kristen Smart 27 years after her disappearance and murder.

While Smart's body has actually never been located, the case has gained renewed interest from the True Crime Podcast, Your Own Backyard.

Now in a mission dubbed Project Homecoming, two scientists believe the soil in a backyard may be the key to finding the missing Cal Poly San Luis Obispo students remains.

Dr Steve Hoyt is a Cal Poly graduate

and an environmental scientist whose business tests

soil samples.

Timothy Nelligen, I think it's pronounced Nelogen, an environmental engineer

who also attended Cal Poly had an actual run-in with the 19 year old smart.

Quote, she came knocking at our door a week before she went missing to use the telephone

to call somebody.

We followed the case ever since and wanted to help the family."

So Paul Flores, the last person to see Smart alive, is serving 25 years to life for killing

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