2010 photo, growing old in prison Name: Pamela "Pame" Smart Born: 16 Aug 1967 School: Winnacunnet High School, Hampton, New Hampshire Postion: Media coordinator Arrest: 1 Aug 1990 Conviction: 22 March 1991 Charges: First-degree murder, conspiracy to commit murder and witness tampering Sentence: Life in prison Child: William Flynn (her 15-year-old lover) and three accomplices Pamela Smart was convicted of conspiring with William Flynn, her 15-year-old lover, and three accomplices to murder her husband, Gregory Smart, on 1 May 1990. On 22 March 1991 she was sentenced to life in prison without parole. In 1996, she was assaulted and seriously injured by two fellow inmates. In 2006, she sued the state of New York for pictures of her that had appeared in National Enquirer in 2003 and that she claimed had been taken by a prison guard who had assaulted her. She was awarded $23,875 in 2009. Pamela Smart's story has been the subject of two movies and a novel: To Die For (1992), by Joyce Maynard Murder in New Hampshire: The Pamela Wojas Smart Story, starring Helen Hunt and Chad Allen To Die For (1994) starring Nicole Kidman, and Joaquin Phoenix Her case has been addressed in several other books: Teach Me to Kill, by Stephen Sawicki Deadly Lessons, by Ken Englade The Longings of Women, by Marge Piercy The books and movies that are currently available can be purchased here. Links: Wikipedia: Pamela Smart (biography, background) Seacoast Online: N.H. files: Profile of a murder(good chronology of the case to Jan 2003) The Pamela Smart Murder Case (chronology 2002 - 2010) "The Official Website of Pamela Smart" -- of course it claims that she was wrongly convicted
Links to stories ... Seacoast Online (7 June 2000): Pardon Hearing Unlikely Seacoast Online (11 June 2000): No pardon in Smart case Seacoast Online (30 July 2000): Smart Talks -- interview with the Portsmouth Herald Seacoast Online (8 June 2004): New trial for Smart is denied Seacoast Online (7 Jan 2005): Pam Smart Seeks Pardon -- Pame wants out Seacoast Online (11 Jan 2005): No pardon for Smart -- opinion piece Seacoast Online (11 Jan 2005): Not much chance of Smart pardon -- odds are low that she'll ever be getting out Seacoast Online (20 Feb 2005): Life, with nothing to lose -- interview with Pamela Smart Seacoast Online (27 Feb 2005): Where are the Smart boys 14 years later -- updates on the four accomplices Seacoast Online (27 Feb 2005): Pamela Smart is no model -- reader complains about picture of Pamela Smart Seacoast Online (8 Mar 2005): Fowler pleads guilty to charge -- one of the accomplices is headed back to prison for another crime MSNBC (3 Feb 2006): A violation behind prison walls? -- about her sexual assault, semi-nude photos in the National Enquirer, and lawsuit NY Daily News (3 Oct 2008): 'To Die For' killer teacher Pamela Smart may get payday in lawsuit -- discussion of possible payout over her treatment after "after her half-nude photos appeared in a supermarket tabloid" Seacoast Online (4 Nov 2009): Pamela Smart settles lawsuit over racy photos-- "Pame" awarded $23,875
Pamela Smart, Gregg Smart: Sizzling Sex Affair Between Teacher, Teen Student On Reelz’ ‘Murder Made Me Famous’ Tonight In the season premiere of tonight’s episode, Reelz viewers will learn the story of Pamela Wojas Smart, a beautiful teacher who had a sexual affair with one of her high school students–a student who was later arrested for the murder of her husband. Continue reading... http://www.inquisitr.com/2905114/pamela-smart-gregg-smart-sizzling-sex-affair-between-teacher-teen-student-on-reelz-murder-made-me-famous-tonight/
Pamela Smart & Billy Flynn: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know Pamela Smart and Billy Flynn met when Smart was a 22-year-old teacher and Flynn was her 15-year-old student at a New Hampshire high school. They became friends when Flynn was producing a juice commercial for a contest. The friendship quickly turned to love, and love turned to murder. Gregg Smart, Pam Smart’s husband, was fatally shot by the teen who called on the help of his friends to murder the 24-year-old insurance salesman. Pamela Smart was a teacher and media services director at Winnacunnet Regional High School in Hampton, New Hampshire. She had no criminal history, and her friends and ... 1. Pam Smart & Billy Flynn Met at School While Making an Orange Juice Commercial for a Contest Pamela Smart was a teacher and media services director at Winnacunnet Regional High School in Hampton, New Hampshire, where William “Billy” Flynn was a student. Flynn was 15 when they met and 16 at the time of the murder. The affair began with orange juice. Pam Smart met Billy Flynn and another student, Cecelia Pierce, while the students were producing an orange juice commercial for a contest. The affair quickly turned to murder, when Smart told her young lover they could only ... 2. Pamela Smart Was a Former Disc Jockey Who Dreamed of Becoming the Next Barbara Walters & Work on 20/20 Pamela Smart and William “Billy” Flynn met in school. Smart was a 22-year-old teacher and Flynn was a 15-year-old student. Fynn was 16 at the time of the murder. Smart worked as a high school media services director and met Billy Flynn while he and another student, Ceceilia Pierce, were making a commercial for orange juice for a contest. Smart did not have a criminal record, and she did not have a troubling reputation, according to a Boston Globe article ... 3. Prosecutors Alleged Pam Smart Favored Murder to Divorce Because She Did Not Want Her Husband to Get Their Dog, House & Furniture Prosecutors in the murder case painted Pamela Smart as a woman who valued her dog, house and furniture over the life of her husband. Instead of divorcing her husband of less than one year, she conspired with 16-year-old Billy Flynn to murder Gregg Smart because she did not want him to take her dog, townhouse and furniture through divorce proceedings, according to a Boston Globe article from August 12, 1990. “If Greg is looking down on all ... 4. Billy Flynn Bonded With Pamela Smart Over Heavy Metal & Pam Called Herself ‘The Maiden of Metal’ Both Pamela Smart and her teen student and lover, Billy Flynn, were fans of metal music. Pamela Smart called herself “The Maiden of Metal.” She was a fan of Van Halen and even had a vanity plate which said, “HALEN,” according to a Boston Globe article from August 12, 1990. One of Van Halen’s most popular songs was “Hot for Teacher,” which includes a music video that appears to show a teacher seducing her student. “Flynn, a heavy metal fan, was quickly ... 5. Billy Flynn Testified ‘I Did it For Pam’ at Her Murder Trial William “Billy” Flynn testified at Pamela Smart’s murder trial in the death of Gregg Smart, saying he did it so they could be together, according to a Boston Globe article published March 23, 1991 following the trial. “I did it for Pam,” the newspaper quoted him as saying. “I loved her, and she told me that was the only way we could be together.” He called on his friends to help him murder his lover’s husband after she told him their relationship could not continue otherwise, according ... Quotation from court decision:' Shortly after their affair began, the defendant told Flynn that in order for them to continue their relationship they would have to kill her husband, Gregory, a twenty-four-year-old insurance salesman to whom the defendant had been married less than a year. Eventually the defendant and Flynn together planned that Flynn would commit the murder with the help of his friends, and would stage the killing as if committed in the course of a burglary of the defendant’s home. According to the plan devised by the defendant, she would leave open the bulkhead door to the basement of her home to provide entry for Flynn and the others before Gregory returned home. The perpetrators were to park their car in a shopping center behind the residence and change into dark clothes before approaching the apartment. The defendant advised Flynn that he and his accomplices should wear gloves to avoid leaving fingerprints and should ransack the apartment, taking away whatever they wanted as compensation. Pursuant to the defendant’s plan, her husband was to be killed with a gun upon entering his home as if he had surprised burglars. Flynn discussed the plan with his friends Pete Randall and Vance Lattime, Jr., also teenagers from Seabrook. With the aid of another boy, Raymond Fowler, Flynn set out from Hampton to commit the murder one night in April, using the defendant’s car. When the two arrived at the defendant’s apartment complex, however, they saw her husband’s truck and abandoned the plan. After this unsuccessful attempt, Flynn recruited Randall and Lattime to help execute the plan. He told them that the defendant had agreed to pay them five hundred dollars each for committing the murder. Lattime provided his father’s .38 caliber revolver and his grandmother’s car to transport the boys from Seabrook to the defendant’s Derry apartment. After school ended on May 1, 1990, the defendant drove Flynn, Randall and Lattime to pick up Lattime’s grandmother’s car in Massachusetts. The defendant discussed with them the various details of the murder plan, seeking advice on how to react when she returned home and discovered her husband murdered. Lattime and Randall returned to Seabrook in Lattime’s grandmother’s car. The defendant drove Flynn back to Seabrook to meet them and then went to Winnacunnet High School to attend a meeting scheduled for that evening. Flynn, Randall and Lattime picked up Fowler and drove to the defendant’s residence. While Lattime and Fowler waited with the car at the shopping center, Flynn and Randall entered the defendant’s apartment through the unlocked bulkhead into the basement. After ransacking both the upstairs and downstairs of the apartment, they waited for Gregory to return home, with Flynn carrying the gun and Randall holding a knife he had taken from the kitchen. When Gregory came home, the boys forced him to his knees. While Randall with one hand held Gregory’s head down and with the other hand held a knife in front of his face, Flynn shot him once in the head. Taking a pillowcase they had filled with jewelry, the boys fled to meet Fowler and Lattime, and the four drove back to Seabrook. The next day, Lattime replaced the gun among the rest of his father’s collection. On June 10, Ralph Welch, a friend of Lattime, told Lattime’s parents that Randall and Lattime had admitted to him their participation in the murder. Lattime’s parents took the gun to the Seabrook Police Department, accompanied by Welch, and subsequent ballistics tests confirmed that the gun had been used in the murder. Worried because of Welch’s intentions to go to the police, Randall and Lattime went to see Flynn and the defendant at the latter’s new condominium in Hampton. After discussing the matter, the defendant drove them to Seabrook in an unsuccessful attempt to retrieve the gun. The next night, June 11, Lattime, Randall and Flynn were arrested. Continue reading... https://heavy.com/entertainment/2020/01/pamela-smart-billy-flynn-pam-william/
'I never stood a chance': Pamela Smart trial, a three-decades-old frenzy, then and now Pamela Smart has had a lot of time to think about the murder of her husband, Gregg, and the trial that resulted in her conviction and put her behind bars with no chance for parole. She maintains to this day she is not the cold-blooded vixen portrayed in the movie “To Die For” or the Black Widow mastermind behind her husband’s death. “I didn’t get a fair trial,” said Smart, 53, in a recent interview from the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility for Women in New York. “It was a media circus, and I was found guilty in the court of ... Continue reading... https://www.seacoastonline.com/stor...art-murder-gregg-smart-hampton-nh/6871852002/ | Find in Internet Archives | [google]'I never stood a chance': Pamela Smart trial, a three-decades-old frenzy, then and now[/google]
Pamela Smart, Ex-Teacher Who Recruited Student to Kill Husband, Puts in Parole Request Pamela Smart, the former teacher found guilty of coercing her teenage lover into killing her husband, is requesting that she be released on parole. Smart has put in a request to New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu and the Executive Board of the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility, where she has been incarcerated for over 30 years. According to her lawyers, she requested parole because she has "accepted responsibility for her role in Gregg Smart's murder, expressed deep remorse and anguish concerning her conduct." Gregg Smart was shot dead in the couple's condo in May 1990. Smart and four other individuals were ... Continue reading... https://www.newsweek.com/pamela-sma...dent-kill-husband-puts-parole-request-1657477 Find in Internet Archives [google]Pamela Smart, Ex-Teacher Who Recruited Student to Kill Husband, Puts in Parole Request[/google]
Pamela Smart’s lawyer asks court to order sentence hearing A lawyer for Pamela Smart, a former high school employee convicted of recruiting her teenage lover to kill her husband, is asking New Hampshire’s highest court to order a state council to hold a hearing on her request to reduce her life-without-parole sentence. Smart, 54, has been in prison for more than 30 years and now has to go through New Hampshire’s Executive Council for any change in her sentence. The council rejected her request for a hearing on March 23, the third time it has done so. A petition filed Thursday by Mark Sisti, one of Smart’s lawyers during ... Continue reading... https://www.boston.com/news/local-n...-lawyer-asks-court-to-order-sentence-hearing/ Find in Internet Archives [google]Pamela Smart’s lawyer asks court to order sentence hearing[/google] Pamela Smart's lawyer asks court to order sentence hearing A lawyer for Pamela Smart, a former high school employee convicted of recruiting her teenage lover to kill her husband, is asking New Hampshire's highest court to order a state council to hold a hearing on her request to reduce her life-without-parole sentence. Smart, 54, has been in prison more than 30 years and and now has to go through New Hampshire's Executive Council for any change on her sentence. The council rejected her request for a hearing on March 23, the third time it has done so. A petition filed Thursday by Mark Sisti, one of Smart's lawyers during ... Continue reading... https://omaha.com/news/article_bd741a23-4666-5f20-b221-daf7c579751c.html Find in Internet Archives [google]Be the first to know[/google] Pamela Smart's lawyer asks court to order sentence hearing A lawyer for Pamela Smart, a former high school employee convicted of recruiting her teenage lover to kill her husband, is asking New Hampshire’s highest court to order a state ... Continue reading... https://www.stltoday.com/news/article_84c9aafe-fd32-5c9a-b648-aa250d455120.html Find in Internet Archives [google]Pamela Smart's lawyer asks court to order sentence hearing[/google] Pamela Smart’s lawyer asks court to order sentence hearing A lawyer for Pamela Smart, a former high school employee convicted of recruiting her teenage lover to kill her husband, is asking New Hampshire’s highest court to order a state council to hold a ... Continue reading... https://www.wcax.com/2022/04/15/pamela-smarts-lawyer-asks-court-order-sentence-hearing/ Find in Internet Archives [google]Pamela Smart’s lawyer asks court to order sentence hearing[/google] Pamela Smart's lawyer asks court to order sentence hearing A lawyer for Pamela Smart, a former high school employee convicted of recruiting her teenage lover to kill her husband, is asking New Hampshire's highest court to order a state council to hold a ... Continue reading... https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/article/Pamela-Smart-s-lawyer-asks-court-to-order-17084122.php Find in Internet Archives [google]Pamela Smart's lawyer asks court to order sentence hearing[/google] Pamela Smart's lawyer asks court to order sentence hearing A lawyer for Pamela Smart, a former high school employee convicted of recruiting her teenage lover to kill her husband, is asking New Hampshire’s highest court to order a state ... Continue reading... https://tulsaworld.com/article_ab5200fe-43ef-5ab4-8ae0-de67475e5f95.html Find in Internet Archives [google]Pamela Smart's lawyer asks court to order sentence hearing[/google] Pamela Smart's lawyer asks court to order sentence hearing A lawyer for Pamela Smart, a former high school employee convicted of recruiting her teenage lover to kill her husband, is asking New Hampshire’s highest court to order a state ... Continue reading... https://omaha.com/news/national/pam...cle_bd741a23-4666-5f20-b221-daf7c579751c.html Find in Internet Archives [google]Be the first to know[/google] Pamela Smart’s lawyer asks court to order sentence hearing A lawyer for Pamela Smart, a former high school employee convicted of recruiting her teenage lover to kill her husband, is asking New Hampshire’s highest court to order a state council to hold a ... Continue reading... https://www.heraldsun.com/news/nation-world/national/article260463292.html Find in Internet Archives [google]Pamela Smart’s lawyer asks court to order sentence hearing[/google] Pamela Smart’s lawyer asks court to order sentence hearing A lawyer for Pamela Smart, a former high school employee convicted of recruiting her teenage lover to kill her husband, is asking New Hampshire’s highest court to order a state council to hold a ... Continue reading... https://www.ledger-enquirer.com/entertainment/article260463292.html Find in Internet Archives [google]Pamela Smart’s lawyer asks court to order sentence hearing[/google]
Pamela Smart, whose teen lover killed her husband in 1990, seeks reduction in life sentence A lawyer for Pamela Smart, a former high school employee convicted of recruiting her teenage lover to kill her husband, is asking New Hampshire’s highest court to order a state council to hold a hearing on her request to reduce her life-without-parole sentence. Smart, 54, has been in prison more than 30 years and and now has to go through New Hampshire’s Executive Council for any change on her sentence. The council rejected her request for a hearing on March 23, the third time it has done so. A petition filed Thursday by Mark Sisti, one of Smart’s lawyers during ... Continue reading... https://www.pennlive.com/crime/2022...in-1990-seeks-reduction-in-life-sentence.html Find in Internet Archives [google]Pamela Smart, whose teen lover killed her husband in 1990, seeks reduction in life sentence[/google]
