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BREAKING: @slosheriff is currently executing a search warrant at the Arroyo Grande home of Susan Flores. She was served on her doorstep at 7:05am and left at 8:02am.
Public Information Officer Tony Cipolla just confirmed to me that this search is related to the Kristin Smart case.
To refresh your memory: Ruben Flores’ home was searched with ground penetrating radar in March of 2021, which resulted in the arrests of Paul and Ruben Flores after a 6-foot by 4-foot void under Ruben’s deck yielded several soil samples which tested positive for the presence of human blood. Prosecutors believed that Kristin Smart’s body was removed from that location some time prior to 2021.
Susan Flores’ home was last searched by Sheriff’s investigators on June 19, 2000, but her yard was not dug up at that time. A search on February 5, 2020 was limited to the collection of digital devices.
Suspicion has surrounded Susan’s yard since the Spring of 1997, when a tenant renting the house months after Kristin’s disappearance reported finding a turquoise earring in the yard. That earring was collected by a Sheriff’s detective, but was never officially booked into evidence. A report two months later indicated that the earring was misplaced and never located.
That same tenant later reported hearing a digital watch beeping in the backyard at 4:20am every morning until it eventually stopped. She believed the sound emanated from one of the freshly cut planter boxes in the concrete backyard, but never located the source.
After that tenant was evicted in March of 1997, Susan Flores moved back into the house with her former coworker and boyfriend, Mike McConville, and still resides there today. McConville passed away on July 11, 2025.
When I interviewed Sheriff’s detectives in 2020, they told me they did not have enough new evidence to return to Susan’s house at that time, because it was exhausted during the 2000 search. It’s reasonable to conclude that new evidence led to today’s search, but no details have been released. I will update as more information becomes available.
Statement from Sheriff:
The San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Office is conducting an additional investigation into the property in the 500 block of East Branch Street in Arroyo Grande. This investigation is related to the Kristin Smart disappearance. This activity is the result of a search warrant signed by a Superior Court judge.
The Sheriff’s Office remains committed to bringing Kristin home to her family.
No further information is available. At this time, the Sheriff’s Office will not be making any additional comment regarding this investigation.
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