California officials say an inmate accused of attacking Paul Flores this summer, shortly after Flores reported to prison to serve his conviction for murdering college student Kristin Smart, strangled his own serial killer cellmate two years ago.
FILE - Paul Flores listens during his murder trial in Monterey County Superior Court in Salinas, Calif., on July 18, 2022. The California inmate who allegedly attacked Flores, the man convicted of murdering college student Kristen Smart, in August 2023, had previously killed another prisoner in 2021, state officials said.
Budrow is serving life without parole for fatally strangling his girlfriend in 2010 in Riverside County. In a jailhouse interview that year with, he described himself as a “Satanist” and sported a “666” tattoo above his right eye. He also was convicted in 2006 of sexually assaulting a teenager.who was known as the I-5 Strangler in the 1970s and 1980s.
The state would not say whether Flores was also in restricted housing at the time of the attack, which occurred somewhere between the recreational yard and the medical clinic. Authorities also haven't disclosed a possible motive. Prison officials have recommended that prosecutors charge Budrow in the attack on Flores. They referred questions about whether charges would be filed or whether Budrow has a lawyer to the Fresno County district attorney's office, which didn't immediately respond to a Friday request for comment.
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