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Hi Crime Junkies, I'm your host Ashley Flowers. >> And I'm Britt. And the story I have for
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you today is one of the San Luis Obispo Sheriff's office's most enduring [music]
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mysteries. And it's not the one that you're probably thinking of. I mean, for most Crime Junkies, when you hear San
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Luis Obispo, one thing comes to mind. >> Yeah, Kristin Smart. Exactly. But her case, now solved, was never the most
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baffling one. Far from it. The strangest case that the Sheriff's office is tasked
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with solving is [music] from 16 years before Kristin Smart went missing, when two little [music] girls vanished off
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the street in broad daylight in the middle of San Miguel, a town with only 800-ish residents. [music] Everyone is a
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suspect, and every theory is still on the table, even after their bodies were discovered [music] and there were plenty
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of strange clues and physical evidence. The only reason you don't know about this case is because it's never been
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told in full before. Not until today. And this is one that you're going to want to pay attention to, because even
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though this [music] case is 45 years old, big things are about to happen. The current lead detective on this case
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literally came out of retirement just to solve it. And he just so happens to be the same guy who solved Kristin Smart's
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case in 2022. And he has fresh leads and DNA on his side [music] now for this case, and it's closer than ever before
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to being solved. But now it's a race against time to make sure that justice comes while the girls' families are
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still alive to witness it. This is the story of Teresa Flores and Martha Mesa.