opera. unfortunately it was my life and wasn t a soap opera for me. it was tv s first blockbuster trial. scandalous and sensational. her sexuality was the star of the pam smart show. the explosion of flashbulbs. it s body heat, it s fatal attraction. pamela smart accused of bewitching a teenage student into murdering her husband. i pulled the trigger. another look at the frenzy. it was just crazy. the trial. i made a mistake. was killing your husband one of those mistakes? no. it s not at all who she was or is. the case some say changed the way americans witnessed justice. i don t know enough will ever be enough for anyone in this case. pamela smart liv. the beautiful, young widow stepped hello and welcome to dateline. you ve heard about it. pamela part lived it. the beautiful young widow from her small town into america s most gripping trial. a very real drama that inspired a hollywood hit movie. now you re about to hear the chilling story from th
house. we had no children and no property. there was nothing to loose. why would billy flynn kill gregg with the help of these other teenagers? i think he felt that was the only way to be with me and as long as i was married, i wouldn t have been with him. is there anything that you said or done? the only thing i said i m not going to be with you because i ll be with gregg. still, it is hard to explain the tapes. pamela told us there is a story behind those tapes. her attorney warned her that cecilia might be wired, but pamela talked to her any way and i was completely cut off. on those tapes, she is acting, pretending to know more
flynn testified that while pamela s husband was away on a ski trip, she invited him into her bedroom and then. she told me she was going to dance like that for me. what did like that mean? like provocative, like a strip tease kind of thing. what happened after that? we had sex. and intercourse? yeah, we made love. on the stand, billy went on to say the next morning, pamela smart began a different kind of seduction. she started crying. that got me upset. she was saying that the only way we re going to be able to be together is if, you know, if we kill gregg. if you love me, you ll do this because you ll want to be with me. what did you say to her as she was saying this to her? i told her that i did love her. i loved her very much.