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Pamela Smart, a former high school employee, took over headlines after she conspired with her teen student/lover to get her husband, Gregory Smart, killed in 1990. She was convicted of being an accomplice to murder. The 56-year-old is now serving life imprisonment without the possibility of parole and has been incarcerated for more than 30 years.
Per NBC Boston, Pamela Smart is currently booked at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility in Westchester County, New York. During her time behind bars, she has earned three master’s degrees and a doctorate in ministry. Besides tutoring her fellow inmates, Pamela has been ordained as a minister and has been serving as a member of an inmate liaison committee.
What did Pamela Smart do & did she ever confess?
The former high school media coordinator was 22 when she had an affair with a 15-year-old boy, reported CBS News. The teenager fatally shot Gregory Smart in Derry, New Hampshire. Although Pamela denied plotting the crime, authorities convicted Smart of being an accomplice to the first-degree murder. Over the years, she has made several attempts to appeal her sentence. Previously, Smart even said that she would never admit the crime. However, Pamela Start has recently accepted her role in the murder of her husband in a new video.
In the statement (via NBC Boston), the convict revealed that she reflected on her past during her incarceration. She further shared they were encouraged to “go beyond and to spaces that we didn’t want to be in.” Pamela said this is when she found herself responsible for something she “desperately didn’t want to be responsible for.” The former high school media coordinator added that she acknowledged in her “mind and heart” for the first time how responsible she was. “I had deflected blame all the time, I think, almost as if it was a coping mechanism,” Pamela added.
Furthermore, she admitted that she has reflected on her mistakes and has undergone a change after 34 years behind bars. Pamela Smart is currently seeking an opportunity to present herself before the New Hampshire Executive Council. She wishes for an “honest conversation” about her “incarceration and acceptance of responsibility.”
Several documentaries have depicted the infamous crime over the years, including Pamela Smart: An American Murder Mystery.
