Remember the movie To Die For, starring Nicole Kidman? Did you realize it was based on a true story?
Pam Smart was Mary Kay Letourneau before Mary Kay Letourneau was Mary Kay Letourneau. Or something.
Smart is one of the most notorious criminals in the history of New Hampshire, so notorious that her local library has an entire page devoted to her and her trial. This probably isn’t too surprising considering Derry has a massive population of roughly 34,000 and Smart killed her husband with the help of her 16 year old lover and his three friends.
I’m thinking this would have been a big story just about anywhere.
Pamela is currently serving a life sentence in prison, and actually just recently asked for a pardon. She was denied.
It all started with something called “Project Self Esteem”, where Smart seduced 15 year old William “Billy” Flynn. Pamela wasn’t terribly happy with her marriage, so she thought it’d be a good idea to threaten to leave Billy unless he took out her husband. He thought that was reasonable, and he went ahead and killed Mr. Smart with the help of a few buddies.
Smart to this day says that she’s innocent and that Flynn killed her husband without her knowledge.
Fun fact: Pam has finished two Master’s degrees in prison, so she’s keeping busy.
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what prison is billy flynn in? has he done any interviews since his arrest?
haha nice pic of her starin at her news report, she should enjoy living in jail forever….! you know this is totally bad , if you dont want to live with ur hubby/wifey then just go and tell them and get a divorce, just freaKING separate, that will be good for both.
Let Pamela Smart out of prison. She has been there long enough. She is being punished for something that she did not do. If anyone belongs in prison, it is the Media. They had her convicted before the trial even started. I will never believe that she is guilty. They say “life is not fair” this is a very good example of it. She needs to be free. She is a very nice person and I am very proud to say that I know her. I will always fight for her release.