Pamela Smart

So she had a basement office of her own at the Winnicott High School with a secretary of her own and a salary of $22,500 a year, which at the time for a graduate in 1989 was pretty serious money.

One thing that we do need to state with this case, because three and a half decades of people reporting on this case have taken some liberties with it, Pamela Smart was never a teacher.

So let's just get that clear before we go on with the case.

Get it through your skull, guys.

So they tried again the next day in a car parked in the car park.

And in that car, Pam talked.

Across the two recordings admitted at trial, the jury would hear how Pamela Smart owned up to the affair and coached the 16-year-old witness on how to lie to the police.

She said that if Ralph and Raymond had kept their mouths shut, this would have been the perfect murder, and she set out her entire legal strategy in one single exchange.

A judge in New Hampshire says no to a bid for a new trial by a woman whose nineteen-nineties case inspired a book and movie.

Pamela Smart is serving life in prison for orchestrating the murder of her husband and had petitioned the court for a new trial, arguing that prosecutors misled the jury during her nineteen ninety-one trial.

Smart, who is now fifty-nine, was a twenty-two-year-old high school media coordinator when she began an affair with a fifteen-year-old boy who later shot and killed her husband, Gregory Smart.

She denied knowledge of the plot at the time of the murder, eventually taking responsibility for her husband's death in twenty twenty-four.

[music] A judge in New Hampshire rejects a second chance for a woman whose 1990s murder case inspired a book and a movie.

Pamela Smart is serving life in prison for orchestrating the murder of her husband and had petitioned the court for a new trial, arguing that prosecutors misled the jury during her 1991 trial.

Smart, who is now 59, was a 22-year-old high school media coordinator when she began an affair with a 15-year-old boy who later shot and killed her husband, Gregory Smart.

She denied knowledge of the plot at the time of the murder, eventually taking responsibility for her husband's death in 2024.

You don't see a lot of crimes come out of there.

I'm waiting for a Pam Smart reference to hit the like button.

Well, I can give you a Pam Smart reference.

We still have not heard...

the uh judge's ruling on whether she's going to get an evidentiary hearing so there's your pam smart reference for the day still haven't heard it's been over 30 days he said somewhere between 30 and 60 days so i'm hoping it's coming soon and obviously i will let you guys know what happens when i hear um i thought people on trial could wear their own clothes sometimes they have to make a motion for that though and i don't know if this guy knows how to make a motion because he's not a lawyer he's a plastic surgeon so who knows Yes, you heard that right, Mary Malarkey.

He is representing himself.

Oh, this is a great trial to watch if you want to understand why you should never represent yourself.

... with these female people accused of murder that are becoming celebrities.

You know, w- w- you know, and it goes back in time through Lizzie Borden and Pamela Smart and Casey Anthony, you know, and th- these are the next ones that are here.

And, you know, there is a fascination with females who are charged with murder or commit murder.

Um, so that's a part of it.

Disturbances were rare on the quiet cul-de-sac, which was largely made up of condominiums occupied by young couples.

As Fred stepped into the street, he almost collided with his 22-year-old neighbor, Pamela Smart.

Pamela had been running away from the unit she rented with her 24-year-old husband, Gregory.

"What is it? What's the matter? What's happened?" Fred asked.

Pamela frantically replied, "It's my husband.

He's been killed.

He's dead." As Fred began moving toward the Smart residence, Pamela grabbed him and yelled, "No, don't go in there.

It wouldn't do any good.

They have Murdoch, Holmes, Maxwell, others.

Um, I love this one though, because this is the case that, you know, brought Rebecca and I together, and this is the case we probably know the most about besides, for me, Pamela Smart.

Um-

We have our PhDs

Oh, today's episode takes place in Port Hope, Ontario, which was used as the fictional town of Derry in It Chapter One, It Chapter Two, and the TV series It, Welcome to Derry.

It was also used as the backdrop for the 1995 Nicole Kidman movie To Die For, which was based on Pamela Smart.

Ah, yes.

For more information on Pamela's case, check out episode 133.