Pamela Smart Snapped : Season 2 Episode 13

At 22, Pam Smart had a devoted husband and a good job. Though she had ambitions of being on television, she enjoyed working with teenagers as the media director at Winnacunnet High School in Hampton, New Hampshire. Then in May of 1990, Pam's life took a tragic turn when her husband, Gregg, was found shot to death in their home after an apparent robbery. Pam was devastated and appeared on numerous news programs asking for help in solving her husband's murder. A tip led police to the high school where Pam worked, where they arrested two teen-aged boys. One of them was Billy Flynn, a 15-year-old student who claimed Pam was his lover. Flynn told the authorities he had killed Greg Smart at Pam's request. Another teen, Cecelia Pierce, agreed to help police record conversations with Pam about the murder. Caught on tape coaching the girl on what to say, one-time media darling Pam Smart was arrested and charged with murder. Prosecutors claimed she was bored with her husband and had him killed so she could collect his life insurance money. The defense insisted the teenager had acted on his own, executing Pam's husband so the he could be with her. After hearing the wiretaps, the jury found Pam guilty of murder. She is serving life in prison without the possibility of parole.