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That we would have a family and children. Pamela Smart, who goes by Pame, worked at a local high school as a media and journalism coordinator while her husband went into the insurance business with his father. On May 1, , Smart said she came home from work to find her husband dead from a gunshot wound to the head inside their condominium.

I keep thinking of how afraid he must have been and how senseless this whole tragedy was. A lot of the times, I still can't even believe that he's gone. Police were investigating the case for six weeks before they got their first break. Vance Lattime Sr. Once ballistics results confirmed a match between bullets fired from the gun and the bullet that killed Gregg Smart, police brought in Vance Lattime Jr.

Welch told police he had a conversation with Lattime Jr. He said he heard the boys discuss how Lattime Jr. Welch said Lattime Jr.

They set it up to make it look like a burglary. Investigators were at a loss for how these high schoolers were connected to Pamela Smart. Then, police got an anonymous tip about Cecilia Pierce.

Pierce, another high school student who was interning for Smart, provided the link police were missing: Pierce said Smart was not only hanging out with the high schoolers she worked with but she had also begun an affair with Flynn, the young man who Welch claimed pulled the trigger.

It was only a short relationship. In July , Pierce wore a police-monitored body wire that recorded Pamela Smart's apparently telling Pierce to lie to investigators.

Smart argues, however, she was only pretending to be involved, hoping it would make Pierce give her information about what police knew. Smart says that her attorney had even warned her not to trust Pierce before this conversation took place. Smart was arrested in August But the young man Smart said she had developed feelings for decided to cooperate.

Vance testified he took the gun, a. ON JUNE 12 after a short escape to Connecticut where Flynn, Lattime, and Randall unsuccessfully hid for several hours, the youths turned themselves in to Seabrook Police after coaxing by their parents. Key evidence linking Mrs. Smart to the murder was gathered after a [student] agreed to surreptitiously tape conversations with the widow, tapes which later led a jury to believe Smart knew about the murder plot beforehand. Those audiotapes were made in mid- July.

On August 1, police arrested the Florida State University honor graduate at her school office across the street from Winnacunnet High [School]. The case really jelled in January of this year when Flynn, Lattime and Randall plea-bargained with the state for a reduced sentence in return for testifying against Smart.

Only 15 years old at the time, Flynn said he was immediately attracted to the petite blond and more so after he found the two liked the same heavy-metal bands, Motley Crue and Van Halen. Then came the video project. Smart received a flyer in the mail inviting high school students to submit a rock-music video promoting orange juice. Flynn, Pierce and Smart became close friends by working on the orange-juice video over the winter, and by February , the relationship between Flynn and Smart got even juicier.

On February 5, according to Flynn, Smart summoned the boy to her office where she professed her love. It was after this romantic interlude that Smart first brought up a desire to dispose of her husband, according to Flynn.

Flynn testified that it was Smart who told Flynn to use a gun instead of a knife to kill her husband so as not to get blood all over the white leather living-room furniture. The plan in place, Smart gave Flynn, Lattime, and Randall a ride to Haverhill the afternoon of the murder to pick up the getaway car.

Later, the three teens plus Fowler headed to Derry in a Chevrolet Impala belonging to his grandmother. They ate pizza and looked in a music store at a nearby mall while they waited for nightfall to hide their approach to the condominium. Flynn told of how an unsuspecting Gregg Smart opened the door. Randall dragged him into the condominium and after a struggle forced the victim to his knees. Holding his head by the hair with one hand, and a knife at his throat with the other, Randall testified without visible remorse how he asked his victim to hand over his wedding ring.

Gregg refused and Randall asked why. Flynn pointed to his inside jacket pocket, where he stashed the. She was the first girl I ever loved. While she now admits to the affair, she kept her sexual secrets from police when the murder investigation began. Prosecutor Maggiotto criticized Smart for not leading police to Flynn — someone who may have had a motive to kill her husband.

Miss [Cecelia] Pierce recorded two telephone conversations on June 19 and wore a body wire to tape face-to-face conversations with Smart on July 12 and It was the tapes which convinced a jury of seven women and five men to unanimously find Smart guilty on all three counts.

If the Supreme Court grants an appeal, as it is expected to do partly because the jury was not sequestered at the onset of the trial, Smart may be retried. Another local boy, year-old Raymond Fowler was in the car, as well; he said he waited out in the car with J. But it was Cecelia, who had grown close enough to Pamela to win her confidence, who provided the gotcha moment for the prosecution.

Pamela has said that, actually, she was putting one over on Cecelia and had been trying to elicit information from her while conducting her own investigation into her husband's death.

A friend of Gregg's testified that Pamela was purposely trying to get Cecelia to share information with her. Like Billy, Pete pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and was also sentenced to 40 years to life, minus 12 years for good behavior.

Ray Fowler, who pleaded to conspiracy to murder and attempted burglary, was sentenced to 30 years but got out in He violated the terms in , was locked up again and then released in On March 22, , Pamela Smart was convicted of witness tampering, conspiracy to commit murder, and being an accomplice to first-degree murder—the last of which on its own carried a mandatory life sentence.

She admitted she was surprised she had been found guilty, thinking she'd either be acquitted or get a hung jury. While in prison, he earned his GED and an electrician's assistant license, and got married, so he had a wife and teen stepdaughter waiting for him upon his release.

Questioned by one of Gregg's cousins about his comment at trial about wanting to feel what it was like to kill someone, Pete replied, "I've felt the guilt for what I've done. I said, 'That's what it is. I only hope this brings closure of a sense. Moreover, Dean added, "Every time [Billy's] been to court, he's cried. I've seen you apologize once.

I don't see the remorse that Billy had. Nevertheless, both Billy and Pete were released on June 4, When Pete got paroled, a spokeswoman for Pamela released a statement condemning a system that, she said, had railroaded her client.

Eventually people will realize "that Pamela Smart is being punished for the sin, not the crime. Her obscene and punitive sentence is a scar on the justice system of New Hampshire. It is time to end the madness. Gregg's family has said that, so long as Pamela wasn't admitting to anything more than the affair, they couldn't really forgive her. James Smart also noted, "Through this whole thing it's always been about Pam and Billy. Everybody forgot about Gregg except for us.

Ray Fowler told the Boston Herald in that he was torn as to how he felt about Smart still being in prison. That being said, he snickered at her longstanding claim of innocence. That's how it works," he said. Biggest Unsolved Murder Mysteries. Ray took responsibility for his role in the crime, saying, "I made my own decisions. She didn't make me do anything. The decisions I made, I did on my own. I ain't going to put no blame on her.

I took all the blame myself. I made the decisions I made. I made the choices I made and it put me where I was. I made the decision. Already a petty thief with a record, Ray had testified that he was along for the ride because he thought they were going to go steal some stuff.

As it stands right now, Pamela Smart isn't getting out. According to the Washington Post , she's one of only four female prisoners from New Hampshire locked up outside her home state. At Bedford Hills, she wasn't allowed to wear her wedding ring, so she gave it to her mother for safe-keeping.

In response to her latest petition to have her sentence commuted to at least life with the possibility of parole, the New Hampshire Attorney General's Office has countered that she "places the blame for her crimes and her current predicament everywhere but where it belongs, squarely on herself. Smart also recalled sitting down for prison movie night back in the mid-'90s, only to find out the feature was To Die For.

She reiterated her thoughts on the film from a few years ago, saying Kidman portrayed her "as flaky, like an airhead. Ambitious to the point where she was willing to step on anybody who got in the way of her ambitions. In the movie she came across as very narcissistic. I'm so not that way at all. And those who believe in Pamela's innocence are going to continue to try to get her out trying every legal lever possible.

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