Oxygen: 'The Infamous Case of Pamela Smart'

Source:Oxygen- showing a clip from the NBC Dateline piece on this story.

"Pamela Smart is often considered one of the first true crime "celebrities," a seemingly normal everyday woman accused of murdering her husband. Messy theories, a tampered crime scene, and a series of strange factors made for a heavily publicized case leading to her eventual imprisonment. Watch new episodes of Dateline: Secrets Uncovered, Wednesdays at 8/7c on Oxygen." 

From Oxygen 

I was in junior high when this story broke in early 1990. Actually, I just a few years younger than William Flynn, who Pamela Smart hired to kill her husband. I might have heard a little something about this story when he broke in 1990, but it's really the last 5-10 years when a real effort on her part has been made to get herself a sentence reduction and give her a chance at freedom on the outside again, that I've been following this story closely. 

I guess it's her guilt that's never been a question for me. I think she's definitely guilty as far as I'm concern and has even finally admitted that the last few years. It's her sentence that I've always had a problem with. Her accomplices are currently free, even though they're the ones who actually killed Greg Smart (Pamela's husband) and did it in first degree and killed him simply because Pamela wanted them to and perhaps promised sex in exchange. 

I think had Pam Smart just confessed and to her part in the crime which was hiring the boys to murder her husband, she might not be a free woman right now, (and I'm not a lawyer) but I doubt she would've received life without the possibility of parole. Maybe 25-30 years to life and have a real shot at freedom, especially with the life that she's had in prison and what she's done with her time the last 30 plus years or so. 

I think even if she never confessed to the crimes, since her accomplices who actually murdered her husband are currently free, life without no possibility of parole, especially in a state like New Hampshire, which obviously doesn't have a lot of murderers in it, that's known as the live free or die state, I think 30 to life would've been more acceptable. And then the parole board could say: "We appreciate everything that you've done with your time in prison. But if you want to get out, you have to pay full responsibility for your role in this crime." 

Pam Smart has really been her own worst enemy in this case, staring with hiring teenage boys to murder her husband. And then denying her involvement in the crimes the last 30 years and trying to get released and off free for them.  

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