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Kristen had tucked Margarita's room key into her shoe before they split up.

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Her roomate

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Crystal spent Friday night off campus but came back Saturday and saw Kristen's belongings spread out all over her bed.

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Took a missing persons report until Tuesday, May 28, four days after the party.

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Told police none of Kristens belongings were missing.

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Split up with Paul Flores: 300 feet

Split up with Tim Data: 1,000 feet

Walk took 11 minutes

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Senior at Cal Poly, fiend of Ryan Swampy Fells (his party), member of Capcai, majoring in International Management

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6'1 - Hard to miss!

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Cal Poly freshman, a speech communication major who lives in Sierra Madre towers on campus, doesn't know Kristen well

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A freshman majoring in food sciences, came from Royal Grade (15 miles south of Cal Poly), not a strong student (failing English composition and math, with a D in his introductory food sciences class, a GPA of 0.6), only class he passes is a bowling elective

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In December of 1995, a female student called campus police at 1AM to report a guy had climbed the trellis of her apartment and was peeping at her. It was Paul Flores and he was drunk.

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Believed to be creepy (called by Cheryl), people call him "Chester the Molester" because he flirts and gropes girls.

A few months ago, he tried to kiss Cheryl's roommate at another party.

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During the party, Tim Davis says he was lying above her.

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Several times during the walk back to campus, told Cherly that she could go ahead without them. Asked Cheryl for a good night kiss.

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In February of 1996, he was pulled over for speeding and blew a point 1-3 into the breathalyzer (1.5x legal blood limit in Cal).

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Saw Kristen on the floor with Paul on top of her. He is not sure if someone knocked her down or if they both fell together. This would indicate that they may have had an interaction before their walk home together.

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In March, 3 females filed a report claiming they were receiving constant phone calls from an unknown caller. Over spring break, they claimed that the caller had filled out their entire answering machine tape. Believed to be Paul Flores.

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By old acquaintance of Chris: Always called Scary Paul.

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Paul went to a Royal Grande High School from 1992 to 1995; "Emily" was a year younger.

Info from her:

Dated somebody that Paul hung out with.

Always showed up to parties.

"far off glazed overlook" in his eyes.

Responses to things would not fully line up.

Odd...

Thought to be harmless.

After hearing of the disappearance of Kristen, his involvement made sense... "he was so weird."

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Looks: Fair, Bleached hair, Fair blue eyes, spooky.

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Very white

Dad is Mexican

Takes after his mom: blonde hair, blue eyes, pale skin.

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Lives on central coast

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Paul had a stutter --> flustered mostly around girls and would get stuck on his words.

"Psycho Paul"

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When walking back, she saw Paul taking pauses when she was ahead of them and kept telling her that she didn't have to stay with them.

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Paul was physically violent with a female friend.

Friend laughed and Paul grabbed her and threw her.

Occasionally hung out with a group of guys who lived in Grover Beach.

Had a party there

Two of them found him in one of the rooms of the bunk bed with a girl passed out, and he was right next door.

Said he was straightening her clothes.

He had a green truck.

Park the truck far away.

Wasn't right with girls.

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Coworker of Paul -- worked at small hamburger restaurant

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Paul typically got kicked out of parties but typically never got invited to high school parties.

Jackie believes that she should have said something when she first saw unusual behavior.

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"He seemed to take joy in making you feel uncomfortable."

Paul was a cashier at the Burger Place in high school. He seemed to appear and disappear from work. During this time, his parents were [overly] invested in finding him friends.

Paul seemed to be following her home from work. Some guys at her work have him talking to her, but this only worked for some time. This would even happen when she was out of town shopping.

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Lisa worked with Paul. They became friends, but he was still mean to her. He would shove her in the refrigerator and stuff like that.

When she went to his house, his timid mother was shocked that she was there. He was generally rude to his mother when she visited.

When her parents were out of town, he came into her house. She said "no," but he had put his hand on his door.

He put his hand on her friend's leg while teaching her how to drive a "stick."

She says he went out of his way to be assertive.

He was very rude to another worker as well. He had groped her crotch at one point and threw onions in her face. She beat him up for this and was then fired.

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She was supposed to go back to Margaritas room the night she went missing

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There were many rumors and false truths regarding the case. For example, many people thought Crystal wasn't home all weekend.

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Her friends called the police and said she had gone missing, but they did not find it suspicious that a teenage girl was gone for Memorial break.

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Was the last to walk Kristen to her dorm but Kristen never made it??

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Tim saw Kristen on the floor with Paul (they had an encounter before that Paul neer mentioned to the police)

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Thought that Paul Flores was the one that is responsible for Kristen's disappearance.

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Multiple times during the night, Paul had his arms around her and told Sheryl to leave them alone. He also kept insisting on a goodnight kiss and wouldn't take her no for an answer.

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Her body was never found

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He was harmless but made her weirdly uncomfortable

She thinks Paul did it "anything that they said he did, he did"

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He was pulled over again for driving with a suspended license. He failed to show up in court and had a warrant out for his arrest.

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On May 27 (two days after Kristen went missing), Paul's dad brought him to the sheriff's department for his mugshot, which showed off his fresh black eye. He also had rugburn and scratches on the backs of his arms.

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Police don't start investigating the rooms until 16 days after she went missing. By then, all of the students left for the summer and all of Paul's belongings were out of his room.

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On June 20th, it was said that there was no evidence of any criminal activity. Therefore, they continued the case as if she was an adult missing under unusual circumstances. (they don't think Kristien was the victim of a crime)

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On June 26th, the police, as well as 400 volunteers, thoroughly searched the Cal Poly area. They use Cadaver dogs (dogs used to detect human remains).

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On June 29th, these Cadaver dogs were let into every dorm room at Cal Poly. They walked calmly up and down the hallways and walked through two entire buildings without showing any interest. Inside Santa Lucia Hall one of the dogs alerts her handler right outside of the locked room, 128. A second dog scratches at the same door half an hour later, and, finally, a third dog is let in and scratches at the same door outside of room 128. All three of the dogs are let in independently and all alert to the corner of a mattress on the left side of the room.

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His roommate said Paul claimed he walked with Kristen to the dorm. He also said that Paul joked around that Kristen was in his mother's house and later told police officers, after the investigation, that he had to leave to clean some things up in his mother's room.

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He tried to convince Sheryl to leave Kristin alone with him, claiming that he would get her home safe.

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Jackie went to high school with Paul Flores.

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She states that he would often get too close to people, follow people around, and make people uncomfortable.

She noticed that he began following her home regularly.

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Was documented with...

A black eye

Scratches on the backs of his hands

Rugburn on his knees

He claimed that the injuries were from playing basketball with his friend, Jeremy Moon, but Jeremy later confirmed Paul already had the black eye before they played basketball together.