In Kristin Smart murder trial, prosecutors turn to graphic image

Without a body to show in the 1996 San Luis Obispo cold case, the prosecution concluded its presentation in the Kristin Smart murder trial with a sexually explicit screenshot of another woman with a red ball gag in her mouth on the accused killer Paul Flores' San Pedro bed. The image came from Paul Flores' computer, experts testified. Judge Jennifer O'Keefe on Tuesday instructed Monterey County jurors that it was only to be considered as corroborating evidence to a single detail from the testimonies of two women who told the panel they were raped by Flores and that he owned a red ball gag. One warm Friday night in late spring 10 years ago, Kristin Denise Smart and three other young women started walking from their dorms at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. Jurors had already heard those women testify that the man last seen walking with Kristin Smart on the Cal Poly San Luis Obispo campus on May 25, 1996, before she vanished, sexually assaulted them in Los Angeles separately in 2008 and 2011.