Pamela Smart Case: Teen Lover’s Deadly Plot, 1990, New Hampshire
Relationship and Crime
Killing her current husband for a new teen boyfriend? Pamela Smart was having an affair with a teenage student, Billy Flynn. In 1990, she convinced Billy and his friends to murder her husband, Gregg Smart. Gregg was shot in the head at the couple’s home, and the crime was initially staged to look like a burglary gone wrong.
Legal Outcome
Pamela was convicted of being an accomplice to first-degree murder and conspiracy, receiving a life sentence without parole. The case gained national media attention and was the subject of the film “To Die For,” which dramatized the events leading up to and following the murder.
