Lure a young man into killing for her. To be seductive to, get him to kill her. I never would have done it if pam didnt tell me to. She was the first girl i ever loved. I pulled the trigger. God forgive me. Your trial defined media frenzy. This was the first trial to be broadcast live from start to finish before o. J. , before the menendez brothers. It was reality tv before there was reality tv. I meet pam smart. Shes beautiful, shes intelligent, shes an adult, and she likes me. It gets made into a movie, to die for which stars phoenix and nicole kidman. A lot of people felt like they knew everything about me because they saw the movie. Why is it pamela smart served a life sentence with zero percent of parole . Nobody cared anything about me being a human being, a person with feelings, im nothing but that mistake. What do you think is your best hope for getting out . There is one thing pam smart could do today that could give her that chance to get out of jail, but she wont do it. Were going sit here, if thats okay. I know this is not your first rodeo. No, its not. It was such a notorious crime that i was really intrigued when she agreed to a jailhouse interview. She had been maintaining her innocence for decades. We all wondered what it would be like to meet this woman, a woman the jury was convinced masterminded her husbands murder. Just to be clear, did you mastermind this . I did not. I spent almost three decades and it hurts. You talk about all that you lost, including the potential to be a mom. Yeah, and that makes me sad because i love children. I wanted to be a mother and now,en why, i lost all my years. It seems like to whole worlds passing by, and, you know, im still here. Pamela was really the golden girl of true crime in the 90s. It was a story we never really heard before. In the 90s she was right up there with tanya and amy fischer. This was the era of the bad girl for sure. Right around this time is when you got madonna doing erot erotica. Erotic put your hands all over my body and the sex book and the idea women arent the victims but they can put notches in the bed post the same as the the reasons why the crime had taken place, the motivations, the passions that resulted in what happened seemed to fascinate people. It all starts in miami, florida. Mom, dad, dont worry about the weather, about the weather my name is diane dimond. I am a veteran journalist reporter, and ive been covering the pamela smart case since the mid 90s. Pamela is one of three children. She has a sister and a brother. Her mother, a homemaker who took homemaking very seriously. She was always there, and when we had a problem, we didnt have to wait till she came home from work, because she was home. My husband was a pilot. Pam loved bein with dad. She was very close to him. She was very happy. She was a sweet child. She had a lot of friends. Kinda happygolucky. I think so, yes. Then her family moved to New Hampshire. This is the american dream. A low crime rate, beautiful parks, greenery, people are friendly. Then came time for college. Pam smart decides to return to florida, and she enrolls at fsu. When i went to college, i worked three jobs, 52 hours a week and graduated from college a year early. Pamela smart was an overachiever. She received a degree in communication arts, and her goal was to be a Television News reporter. My aspiration was to be a journalist and to be in the media. She wanted to be another barbara walters. Didnt we all . Dont touch that dialle youre listening to tallahassee. She was a deejay on the College Radio station and hosted not one, but two different radio shows. I did the rock show at night. She loved van halen. Jump, jump she loved motley crue. Her moniker was, the maiden of metal. I didnt go to college and go out partying. I worked all the time. So you skipped adolescence . I kinda skipped relationships. I had no boyfriend in college until i met my husband, and that was it. In 1994, everybody wanted to hear from pamela smart. She gave her first interview to my colleague diane sawyer. And were rolling. How did you meet gregg smart . I met gregg when i came home for christmas during a break one year. Originally, i wasnt attracted to him, but i then became attracted him. What about him . He was very outgoing and always smiling. He seemed fun to be around. He was a rocker. The long hair, the attitude. She loved him. She said,en why you know, mom, hes the one. We liked him, too. Gregg and pam smart bonded over van halen, songs like, you really got me. Girling you really got me now hot for teacher. I got it bad so bad im hot for teacher gregg seemed very glamorous to her. He had this magnificent head of hair. Thats the guy pam told me she fell in love with. So what does he do . He leaves town and moves to florida to be with pam. Theres something very innocent and very normal and very sweet about it. They fell in love. They dated for a while. 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Gregg and pam got married on may 7, 1989. We gave them a very beautiful wedding. We looked forward to having grandchildren. Pam smart was decked out like princess diana. The big, poofy, White Wedding dress. He was handsome in a steel gray tuxedo. When you look at the photographs and the video of that wedding, i dont know that ive seen a happier couple. I was only 21 years old when i got married. I was very much in love with my husband. I thought that gregg and i, would have a fulfilling future. That we would have a family and children. Do you still feel married to your husband . I do. And you know, its weird that you would ask me that, because i was just filling out an application for something for in here yesterday, and it says, are you married . And i put yes. Date of marriage. Because i am still married. Im widowed, but im still married. The couple moved back to New Hampshire. They move into a very welltodo neighborhood in a beautiful condominium. Its nickname is the space town. Its nicknamed because its the home toubtown of alan shepherd, the astronaut. Robert foster was from there. Something we were withholding made us weak. Pamela got a job at the local Public School system. And she became the Media Liaison among about a dozen Public Schools. Shes introducing students into television. She was able to write press releases. She was able to create content. This job, by no means, was what her Career Ambition was, but it was a stepping stone. I had a very good job. I made a lot of money for myself. I was 22 years old. I had a 40yearold something secretary. I had a job where i had four weeks paid vacation, full medical, dental, all of that. I was my own boss. I really made my own money. Gregg sort of settled down a little bit. He cut off his long hair. He went into the respectable Insurance Business with his father. So years later when pam smarts case would be infamous and theyre making tv movies about it, theres a scene in New Hampshire where greggs haircut was made out to be the first sign of trouble. I remember exactly filming that scene on the doorstep when gregg comes home, pam looks at him, hardly recognizes him. Hes shorn, hes cut everything off, and instead of being pleased, shes absolutely horrified. You hair, what happened to your hair . The barbers still sweeping it up even as we speak. He got a haircut because he had gotten a job. And she goes, horrified, she goes, you cut your hair. And he says i may look like donald trump, but i still feel like jon bon jovi. Real life sets in. He became an insurance salesman. She got a good job. Pretty soon it was a routine. It seemed that this couple had everything going for them good jobs, a nice, rented home, good furniture. They even had a little dog. So on the surface, it looks great. Its just not gonna turn out that way. Gregg was working a lot, and he would work at night, go to peoples homes, pitch insurance policies. And pam was left alone. When she first met her husband, he was kind of a rocker rebel, which is why she was drawn to him. And then after marriage, segued into this very traditional role. Her mother later told me that during this period, it seemed like pam finally stopped focusing on just work and became more social, but a little immaturely social. She started to hang around with the High School Students when she went to work every day. Greggs working all the time. Pamela is hanging out with teenagers. This marriage is getting bumpy. They were very young, which probably helped their marriage to deteriorate. Clearly there was a dynamic that wasnt working. In her first year of marriage, her husband had come home and talked to her about having an affair. And i think it crushed her deeply. I was very much in love with my husband from the time he was my boyfriend through when he was my husband, and he had an affair. And when that happened i was devastated. I thought there was something wrong with me. I thought i wasnt good enough. So she was feeling like her husband had betrayed her. In that exclusive interview with diane sawyer, pam remembers the night her husband didnt come home from work. One night i went to bed and i was expecting him to come home and when i woke the next morning, he wasnt there. He was out with a friend of his, and he had been drinking so he decided to stay at his house. And it turns out that that wasnt what happened. What did happen . He had met someone, and he had stayed with her the night. Was he sorry . Was it a fight . What happened . I was very angry, and i was very hurt. Did it change the marriage . Well, i believed it made me less trustworthy. It had an effect on my selfesteem. I thought originally that it was just,en why, he and i. And now i realized that someone could come between that, and i was scared of that. When he cheated on her, it obviously broke her heart and changed her, changed the marriage. Thats the turning point in this story. His affair. Pam had no idea that a chance encounter was about to change her world. Forever. I fell in love with her. I wrote this a long time ago. I dont know how old i was. I hope someday i will be on a real football team. Im katie sowers, offensive assistant coach for the San Francisco 49ers. Im not just here to be the token female, im here to help us win. The surface pro helps me get whats in my head and get it out on to the field. I would want to tell this little girl to keep pushing herself, your dreams coming. Dixie® ultras flexproof™ Technology Makes it twice as strong as the leading store brand. Thats strength you can count on. Like this is just a curve. And this a toy. But here, it becomes something more. Its the instance she knows shes got this. 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Somebody call 911, hurry, hurry. My husband, my husband. Yes, um, emergency in 4e, its, uh, summerhill condominiums, theres someone passed out. I dont know. A girl is hysterical in here. She just ran over. Her husband is passed out. I was working as an Investigative Reporter in New Hampshire. And the scanner radio goes off. And we understand that a young man has been murdered inside his condominium. The telephone calls that came to the Derry Police Department all came from neighbors who heard her screaming and yelling. Do you know why hes passed out there, maam . Help is on the way. Do you know why hes passed out . No, dont know. Pamela is outside. Shes sobbing. She wants to know whats going on. Is there a burglar in the house . Is gregg okay . Is he breathing . Whats happening . Pam smart found his body. He was in the entranceway to his condominium. He was sprawled out on the ground. The first thing we noticed was the body of the victim, gregory smart, there appeared to be a blue towel wrapped around his head. Hes got a bullet wound in the back of his head. This looks like a mob hit. This is an execution. Right away police had no idea who could be responsible. In most cases, pretty quickly, the murders make sense. Somebodys involved in gangs or drugs or theres a history of domestic dispute in their lives. In this case, heres this young man at the beginning of his life and career in insurance. Hes not married a year yet to a lovely young woman, and hes dead. The police were groping for leads at the time. He had apparently expired, they determined, almost immediately. Pam called the house and she was hysterical, and she screamed into the phone, mom, come quick. Greggs dead. Inside i was trembling and i thought, well, maybe theres been an accident. People in that house that night told me that she was a wreck. She was an inconsolable mess. She did seem extremely shaken at the time. Extremely emotionally distraught. She was soaking wet, her clothing, from sobbing. We were all a mess saying, how . Why . Is it true . In that first interview with diane sawyer, pam talks about the tragic night. What happened to gregg is the most horrible thing ive ever gone through in my life, and im still haunted every day by memories of what must have happened to him inside our house before he was killed. And although i wasnt there, i feel that because of that ill never know how greg was feeling at the time. I keeping thinking of how afraid he must have been and how senseless this whole tragedy was. A lot of the times i still cant even believe that hes gone. Gregg smart still has on the clothes from work. It looks like gregg mustve walked into the middle of a botched, screwedup burglary. We noticed that several things were moved. The stereo system had been ransacked. Cds were laying on the floor. Pillowcases had been ripped open. The stuffing had been removed. We found that the upstairs as well the dressers had been gone through completely. However, police find that gregg still has his wallet. He still has a gold wedding band on his hand. Pamela reported nothing much was missing except a few little pieces of her jewelry. This is not a usual burglary. Usually burglars in this region dont carry firearms or guns. Theyre not planning on any kind of confrontation at all. There was no forced entry at the front door or the back door. No signs, no disturbances of someone breaking in. Something just doesnt seem right here. Kitchen chefs knife is stuck into the ground. They found a marijuana cigarette, a reefer in his car. They say, well, maybe theres drugs involved. Dead end. The next lead is that gregg might have had a gambling problem. They search phone records, and they find that he had been calling a gambling service. They go to Atlantic City. Maybe he owed somebody money. Again, dead end. Nothing there. Every single lead that we got, all of them led to dead ends. At that point, they really are searching, and asking the publics help. Because they, frankly, dont have a break. And they need one. A dead body, killed execution style. That is a stunner for derry, New Hampshire. And then a few days after gregg smarts murder, something strang