'I just knew something was off': Kristin Smart Murder Trials Wraps First Week With Smart's Father An
The first week of the Kristin Smart murder trial in the Monterey County Superior Courthouse wrapped Friday with a tense scene, at times, between the defense and Smart's father. Twenty-six years ago, the 19-year-old California Polytechnic student and Stockton-native disappeared, and prosecutors say Paul killed Kristin and his father, Ruben, helping him hide her body.