The man convicted of killing 19-year-old Kristin Smart, who vanished from a California college campus more than 25 years ago, was sentenced Friday to 25 years to life in prison.
Monterey County Superior Court Judge Jennifer O’Keefe rejected defense motions to toss out Paul Flores’ first-degree murder conviction, acquit him and order a new trial.
She said Flores had been “a cancer to society” and in addition to his prison term must register as a sex offender for life.
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“You deserve to spend every day you have left behind bars,” O’Keefe said, noting that Flores had “lived free in the community” for more than two decades and, for his adult life, had engaged in “predatory behavior” against women.
Smart, 19, disappeared from California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo on the state’s scenic central coast over Memorial Day weekend in 1996.
Her remains have never been found, but she was declared legally dead in 2002.
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