Pamela Ann Smart is an American woman who was convicted of being an accomplice to first-degree murder, conspiracy to murder, and witness tampering in the death of her husband, Greggory Smart, in 1990.
32 Facts About Pamela Smart
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Pamela Smart is currently serving a life sentence at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility for Women, a maximum security prison in Westchester County, New York.
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Pamela Smart was born Pamela Wojas in Coral Gables, Florida, on August 16,1967, the daughter of John and Linda Wojas.
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Pamela Smart grew up in Miami before her family moved to Derry, New Hampshire, when she was in the eighth grade.
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Pamela Smart took a job as a media coordinator at Winnacunnet High School in Hampton, New Hampshire, where she met sophomore student William "Billy" Flynn at Project Self-Esteem, a school drug awareness program where both were volunteers.
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Pamela Smart met another intern named Cecelia Pierce, who was friends with Flynn.
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On May 1,1990, Pamela Smart came home from a meeting at work to find her condominium ransacked and her husband Greggory murdered.
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Pamela Smart recognized him, having spoken to him on at least six other occasions.
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Pamela Smart's trial was widely watched and garnered considerable media attention, partly because it was one of the first in the US to allow TV cameras in the courtroom.
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Nicolosi claimed that Pamela Smart seduced Flynn to get him to murder her husband, so that she could avoid an expensive divorce and benefit from a $140,000 life insurance policy.
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Pamela Smart insisted that she neither participated in the murder plot nor had any foreknowledge of it.
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The tampering stemmed from Pamela Smart's coercing Pierce to lie to authorities or not to say anything to them.
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The conviction was largely the result of the testimony of her co-conspirators and secretly taped conversations in which Pamela Smart appeared to contradict her claims of having wanted to reconcile with her husband and of having no knowledge of the boys' plot.
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Pamela Smart could have been charged with capital murder, but the prosecution decided against it.
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Pamela Smart is serving her life sentence at the maximum-security Bedford Hills Correctional Facility for Women in Westchester County, New York, where she was transferred in 1993 from the New Hampshire State Prison for Women in Goffstown.
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In 2007, a senior assistant in the state attorney general's office told the Keene State Equinox that Pamela Smart was transferred due to discipline problems.
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Pamela Smart's family maintains they were never informed of the transfer.
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Pamela Smart became a member of the National Organization for Women, campaigning for rights for women in prison.
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In October 1996, Pamela Smart was severely beaten by two fellow inmates.
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Pamela Smart sustained a fractured nose and a broken eye socket, which resulted in the insertion of a plastic plate in the left side of her face.
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Pamela Smart says she still keeps track of Flynn because she regards him as being the key to her freedom, before the 2023 ruling.
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In 2003, photos of a scantily clad Pamela Smart were published in the National Enquirer.
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Pamela Smart filed a complaint against the prison and was placed in solitary confinement for two months.
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Pamela Smart sued in relation to her placement in solitary, but the lawsuit was dismissed.
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Pamela Smart received $8,750, while her attorney received the remaining balance for attorney fees.
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The workshop and Pamela Smart's writing were exhibited in the 2003 PBS documentary What I Want My Words to Do to You.
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On March 29,2023, it was reported that Pamela Smart lost her final appeal.
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On June 11,2024, as part of an effort to get a sentence reduction, a videotaped statement was released where for the first time ever, Pamela Smart accepted responsibility for her husband's death by asserting that she should have "seen the signs", in regards to her allegation that Flynn's actions were of his own volition.
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Pamela Smart claimed it was done as part of some inner work she was doing on herself.
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Pamela Smart apologized to Gregg Smart's family for murdering him.
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Pamela Smart too served his sentence at the Maine State Prison in Warren, Maine.
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Pamela Smart was released on June 4,2015, on lifetime parole, the same day as co-conspirator Flynn's release and a few days past the 25th anniversary of Gregg Smart's death.