Pamela Smart (born Pamela Ann Wojas) is an American author who was found guilty of the murder plot, witness tampering, and first-degree murder accomplice. At the age of 22, Smart was accused of plotting to have her 24-year old husband Greggory Smart killed in Derry, New Hampshire, with her juvenile sex partner, William “Billy” Flynn, and three of his associates.
She is presently incarcerated at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility for Women, a maximum-security prison in Westchester County, New York, where she is serving a life sentence.
Pamela Smart Age
Smart is 54 years old as of 2019, he was born on August 16, 1967, in Windham, New Hampshire, United States. She celebrates her birthday on 16 August every year and her birth sign is Leo.
Pamela Smart Height and Weight
Smart stands at an average height. She appears to be quite tall in stature if his photos, relative to her surroundings, are anything to go by. However, details regarding her actual height, weight, and other body measurements are currently not publicly available. We will update this section when the information is available.
Pamela Smart Education
Pamela went to Pinkerton Academy in Derry for secondary school, where she was a cheerleader, and graduated with a degree in communications from Florida State University (FSU). She had hosted a collegiate radio show while at FSU.
Pamela Smart Family, Parents
Pamela Smart was born in Windham, New Hampshire, on August 16, 1967, the daughter of John and Linda Wojas. She grew up in Miami, Florida, before her family moved to Derry, New Hampshire when she was in the eighth grade.
Pamela Smart Siblings
It is not known if she has any siblings. We will update this section once this information is available.
Pamela Smart Husband, Wife, Dating
Pamela met Greggory Smart in 1986 while on vacation in New Hampshire for the holidays. In February 1987, they began a serious relationship and married two years later, with Greggory traveling to Florida to live with Pamela during her senior year at Florida State University.
Heavy metal music was a mutual passion between the two. However, seven months after their marriage, they began to have relationship problems. Pamela accepted a position as a media coordinator at Winnacunnet High School in Hampton, New Hampshire, where she met high school sophomore William “Billy” Flynn while volunteering at Project Self-Esteem, a local drug awareness program at Winnacunnet High.
They bonded over their mutual interest in heavy metal. Pamela also met another intern named Cecelia Pierce, who was friends with Flynn.
Pamela Smart Salary
Details about Smart’s salary are not yet disclosed. However, information about how much she makes will be updated as soon as it is available.
Pamela Smart Net Worth
Smart’s net worth is publicly not available. Her primary source of income is her career as an author. Through her various sources of income, we believe that Smart has been able to accumulate a good net worth but prefers to keep it private. We will update this section once this information is available.
Here are some interesting facts and body measurements you should know about Pamela Smart.
Pamela Smart Wiki
- Full Names: Pamela Ann Wojas
- Popular As: Pamela Smart
- Gender: Female
- Occupation / Profession: Author
- Nationality: American
- Race / Ethnicity: White
- Religion: Not Known
- Sexual Orientation: Straight
Pamela Smart Birthday
- Age / How Old?: 54 (2021)
- Zodiac Sign: Leo
- Date of Birth: August 16, 1967
- Place of Birth: Windham, New Hampshire, U.S.
- Birthday: August 16th
Pamela Smart Body Measurements
- Body Measurements: Not Available
- Height / How Tall?: Not Known
- Weight: Not Known
- Eye Color: Blue
- Hair Color: Blonde
- Shoe Size: Not Available
- Dress Size: Not Available
- Breast Size: Not Available
- Waist Size: Not Available
- Hip Size: Not Available
Pamela Smart Family and Relationship
- Father (Dad): John Wojas
- Mother: Linda Wojas
- Siblings (Brothers and Sisters): Not Known
- Marital Status: Widow
- Husband/Spouse: Greggory Smart (m. 1989; died 1990)
- Children: Not Available
Pamela Smart Net Worth and Salary
- Net Worth: Under Review
- Salary: Under Review
- Source of Income: Author
Pamela Smart: Murder of Gregg Smart
Pamela Smart returned home from a business meeting on May 1, 1990, to discover her apartment ransacked and her husband Greggory slain.
The crime scene seemed to be an interrupted burglary, according to police. Smart was eventually charged with wooing Flynn, then threatening to cease having sex with him unless he killed her husband.
With the support of friends Patrick “Pete” Randall, Vance “J.R.” Lattime, Jr., and Raymond Fowler, Flynn was able to pull it off. During the investigation, Lattime’s father presented police with a.38 caliber revolver he had discovered in his home, assuming it to be the murder weapon.
Pierce was also aware of the scheme, according to an anonymous report received on May 14.
Police talked to Pierce, who agreed to wear a wire and record conversations with Smart in hopes that she would say something incriminating, which she did. On August 1, 1990, Detective Daniel Pelletier approached Smart in her school’s parking lot. Smart recognized him, having spoken to him on at least six other occasions. Taken by surprise, she asked, “What’s up?” “Well, Pam,” Pelletier said in the recording, “I have some good news and I have some bad news. The good news is that we’ve solved the murder of your husband. The bad news is you’re under arrest.” “What for?” Smart asked. “First-degree murder.”
Smart was then handcuffed and arraigned at the Derry District Court and jailed at the New Hampshire State Prison for Women, which was in Goffstown at the time.
Trial
Smart’s trial was one of the first in the United States to allow television cameras into the courtroom, and it drew a lot of media interest. If convicted, she might spend the rest of her life in prison. The prosecution’s case was built largely on the testimony of Smart’s adolescent co-conspirators, who had already agreed to plea deals before her trial began.
Assistant Attorney General Diane Nicolosi characterized the adolescents as naive victims of a “evil lady bent on murder” when oral arguments began on March 4, 1991. Pamela Smart was presented by the prosecution as a cold-blooded mastermind who abused her young sex partner.
Smart allegedly recruited Flynn in order to persuade him to murder her husband so that she could escape an expensive divorce and take advantage of a $140,000 life insurance policy, according to Nicolosi.
Smart admitted to having an “affair” with the minor boy in her testimony but claimed that Flynn and his buddies were solely responsible for her husband’s murder as a result of her telling Flynn that she wanted to cease their “relationship” and restore her marriage. She stated that she was not a member of the murder plot and that she had no prior knowledge of it.
Despite Flynn’s claims that he fell in love with Smart when he first met her, Cecelia Pierce testified at trial that Smart and Flynn were only friends at the time.
When Smart revealed to Pierce that she “liked Bill” in February, Pierce sensed a shift. During his trial, Flynn stated that he was a virgin before having sex with Pamela Smart. Smart was found guilty of being an accomplice to first-degree murder, conspiracy to commit murder, and witness tampering after a 14-day trial in Rockingham County Superior Court on March 22, 1991.
Pamela coerced Cecelia into not speaking to authorities or lying, which resulted in the tampering.
Smart’s conviction was partly based on the testimony of her co-conspirators and covertly taped conversations in which she appeared to contradict her statements of wanting to reconcile with her husband and not knowing about the boys’ plot.
The prosecution considered charging her with capital murder but decided against it. She was given a mandatory sentence of life in jail without the possibility of release later that day.
As she recounted in the 2014 HBO documentary Captivated: The Trials of Pamela Smart, Smart claimed that the media had impacted her trial and conviction.
Imprisonment
Smart was transported from the New Hampshire State Prison for Women in Goffstown in 1993 to the maximum-security Bedford Hills Correctional Facility for Women in Westchester County, New York, where she is serving her life sentence.
Officials in New Hampshire stated at the time that the relocation was made for “security concerns.” William Flynn and Patrick Randall, co-defendants, were also moved out of state, to the Maine State Prison in Warren, Maine.
The reasons for Smart’s transfer remain a mystery. Smart was reassigned owing to disciplinary issues, according to a senior assistant in the state attorney general’s office who informed the Keene State Equinox in 2007.
Despite the fact that she received 22 disciplinary complaints, all but two were for minor infractions. According to Deputy Compact Administrator Denise Heath, there were concerns at the time that the State Prison for Women would not be fit for a high-profile inmate such as Smart, and that it would be too simple for someone to get her out.
Heath believed the transfer was a “commissioner to commissioner” arrangement because New Hampshire had never had a formal transfer agreement with New York. Smart’s family claims they were never notified of the move.
Despite maintaining her innocence, Smart has said that her husband would still be alive if she hadn’t had a “affair” with Flynn, a minor. Smart has educated other inmates while in prison and has earned two master’s degrees from Mercy College, with concentrations in literature and legal studies, which were paid for with Mercy College’s private funds.
Smart joined the National Organization for Women, which advocates for the rights of women in jail. Smart was badly attacked by fellow convicts Mona Graves and Ghania Miller in October 1996.
A plastic plate was inserted into the left side of her face as a result of this.
The two inmates beat Smart after they accused her of snitching on them about their prison relationship. Graves and Miller were convicted of second-degree assault in the attack on Smart at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility and were subsequently transferred to separate prisons.
As a result of the beating, she takes medication for chronic pain and sometimes thinks of suicide. Her counselor, Dr. Eleanor Pam, says that “she has many, many, many dark days.” Smart says she still keeps track of Flynn because she regards him as being the key to her freedom. “He is one of the few people that could actually get me out of here, by coming forward and telling the truth, but he’s never gonna do that,” said Smart.
In 2003, photos of a scantily clad Smart were published in the National Enquirer. She filed a complaint against the prison and was placed in solitary confinement for two months. Smart sued, claiming that the photos were taken by a prison guard who had raped her, but the lawsuit was dismissed.
In 2004, Smart and fellow inmate Carolyn Warmus sued officials of Bedford Hills, claiming sexual harassment, and sexual assault by a corrections officer, who they said coerced them into posing for the suggestive pictures published in 2003.
On November 5, 2009, a U.S. District Court Judge approved a $23,875 judgment to Smart from the State of New York. Smart received $8,750, while her attorney received the remaining balance for attorney fees.
While serving her sentence, Smart took part in a writer’s workshop, which was facilitated by playwright Eve Ensler. The workshop and Smart’s writing were exhibited in the 2003 PBS documentary What I Want My Words to Do to You.
In April 2004, the First U.S. Court of Appeals upheld a 2002 ruling by a federal judge who rejected her federal habeas petition. Previous to her federal appeal, Smart had exhausted all judicial appeals at the state level.
In July 2005, the New Hampshire Executive Council unanimously denied a pardon request for “any conditions the governor may seek to impose.” In an interview with ABC News, Smart indicated she is afraid of growing old and dying in prison and would rather have been given the death penalty.
Co-conspirators
In 1992, Bill Flynn was sentenced to life in prison for second degree murder; not eligible for parole for 40 years with 12 years of the minimum sentence deferred if he maintains good behavior.
Flynn was incarcerated at the Maine State Prison in Warren, where he earned his GED, has been active in charity work and worked as an electrician at the prison.
In 2007, Flynn sought a sentence reduction after serving 16 years, stating that he had vowed not to do so until he had spent as many years behind bars as he had spent free. He also apologized to Gregg Smart’s family for murdering him. The Smart family opposed the request.
On February 12, 2008, the request was denied, although Flynn’s earliest parole eligibility date was reduced by three years to 25 years, making him eligible for parole in 2015. In July 2014, Flynn was moved to a minimum-security facility in Warren, Maine; the transfer allowed him to participate in a work-release program.
Flynn was granted parole by the state parole board on March 12, 2015, and was released from prison with lifetime parole on June 4, 2015, a few days past the 25th anniversary of Gregg Smart’s death.
Like Flynn, Patrick Randall was also sentenced to life in prison for second degree murder, eligible for parole after 40 years with 12 years deferred, making him eligible as early as 2018.
He too served his sentence at the Maine State Prison in Warren, Maine. In March 2009, a judge reduced Randall’s minimum sentence by three years to 25 years, making him eligible for release as early as June 2015.
Randall was granted parole by the New Hampshire Parole Board after a hearing on April 9, 2015. He was released on June 4, 2015 on lifetime parole, the same day as co-conspirator Flynn’s release and a few days past the 25th anniversary of Gregg Smart’s death.
Co-conspirator and driver Vance Lattime was sentenced to life in prison as an accomplice to second-degree murder, eligible for parole after 30 years with 12 years suspended, making him eligible in 2008. In 2005, his minimum sentence was reduced by three years, and he was paroled that same year, 15 years after Gregg Smart’s death.
Co-conspirator Raymond Fowler (who waited in the car during the killing) was sentenced to 30 years for conspiracy to murder and attempted burglary, and parole eligibility after 15 years. Fowler was paroled in 2003, 13 years after Gregg Smart’s death, but was sent back to prison in 2004 for violating his parole terms. He was paroled again in June 2005.
Pamela Smart Books
The book American Murder: Criminals, Crimes, and the Media (ISBN 978-1788284660) written by Mike Mayo (2008), aims to clear criminal acts of fact from Hollywood fiction. Gregg Smart’s murder is cleared away from media outlet’s portrayals of crime.
Dean J. Smart, brother of murder victim Gregg Smart, released Skylights and Screendoors (ISBN 978-1-936680023), his memoir, on April 7, 2011.
Joyce Maynard drew several elements from the case for her 1992 novel To Die For (ISBN 978-0451186072).
The case was also the subject of several best-selling true crime books, including Teach Me To Kill (ISBN 978-0380766499) and Deadly Lessons (ISBN 978-0312927615).
In 1993, French publisher J’ai Lu published a French translation of Stephen Sawicki’s Teach Me to Kill, entitled Leçons particulières de meurtre.
The character of Becky Burgess in feminist writer Marge Piercy’s novel The Longings of Women (ISBN 978-0449909072) was inspired by Pamela Smart and the conspiracy to kill Greggory Smart.
Pamela Smart is reported on in the book Till Death Do Us Part: Love, Marriage, and the Mind of the Killer Spouse (ISBN 978-1416523130) written by Dr. Robi Ludwig and Matt Birkbeck, Introduction by Larry King, Foreword by Nancy Grace.
The details of Smart’s tale of sex and murder are depicted in the book Deadly Lessons: A Trial That Stunned a Nation. A Killer Whose Motive is the Most Shocking of All (ISBN 978-1626815162), author Ken Englade (2014 edition).
The key points of the Pamela Smart case are revealed in the book Evil Women (ISBN 978-1788284660) written by John Marlowe, published in 2017. The book covers the criminal acts committed by girlfriends, partners and wives.
Television and movies
The case was the basis for the NBC Television crime and drama series Law & Order Season 2, Episode 9 “Renunciation”, originally aired November 19, 1991.
The trial was the basis of the television movie Murder in New Hampshire: The Pamela Wojas Smart Story, starring Helen Hunt and Chad Allen, released in 1991.
Joyce Maynard’s novel was adapted by Buck Henry for Gus Van Sant’s 1995 movie To Die For, starring Nicole Kidman and Matt Dillon as the fictional wife and husband, and Joaquin Phoenix as the wife’s underaged sex partner.
Reel Crime/Real Story a short-lived crime documentary series from the Investigation Discovery channel, detailed crimes that became the basis for movies. Smart’s crimes are detailed in the episode titled “To Die For” Season 1, Episode 3, originally aired: June 12, 2012.
The crime series American Justice played an episode on the case: “Crime of Passion: The Pamela Smart Story”, aired May 25, 1996.
The murder was parodied in an episode of the animated sitcom Family Guy, “Fast Times at Buddy Cianci Jr. High”, season 4, episode 2, aired May 8, 2005.
Snapped, an American true crime television series, dedicated its 13th episode in the second season (2005) to the case.
The case is referenced on Psych, on the Season 5 episode “Dual Spires”, where a character is said to be “pulling a Pamela Smart” after she has allegedly killed a teenage girl while having a sexual relationship with an underage boy, aired December 1, 2010.
Smart appeared on Oprah on October 22, 2010. On the show, Smart claimed she was innocent and believes that her sentence for life in prison is too harsh.
Scorned: Love Kills, a series on the Investigation Discovery channel, dedicated the Season 1, Episode 4 titled “Hot For Teacher” to the story on February 11, 2012.
The HBO documentary Captivated: The Trials of Pamela Smart was directed by Jeremiah Zagar, aired August 14, 2014.
The USA Network series Corrupt Crimes, which investigates crime stories and interviews experts to analyze a wide variety of cases, dedicated an entire episode to Pamela Smart’s upbringing, career and murder trial in Season 1, Episode 62, entitled “From Student Seduction to Murder”, which aired on February 19, 2016.
The Reelz Network series Murder Made Me Famous, a fact-based crime documentary series, aired the Season 2, Episode 1 titled “Pamela Smart” on March 19, 2016.
The Oxygen Network series Snapped: Killer Couples, reveals couples whose attractions lead them to carry out crimes, released an episode of Smart and Flynn’s case on Season 6, Episode 10, entitled “Pamela Smart & William Flynn”, which aired on December 13, 2016.
In August 2018, the Investigation Discovery channel released a three-part program titled Pamela Smart: An American Murder Mystery, with a total run-time of 127 minutes:
◦ Episode 1: “A Death in Derry” details the murder of Gregg Smart and the police investigation leading to the arrest of three teens who are connected to Pamela Smart and the additional case load of her now being a suspect in her husband’s murder. 42 minutes, aired: August 19, 2018. ◦ Episode 2: “An Affair to Die For” the investigation reveals that Smart slept with her husband’s shooter, 15-year-old William Flynn, 42 minutes, aired: August 19, 2018. ◦ Episode 3: “Black Widow” secret audio recordings of Pamela Smart are played out to the jury at her trial; she takes the stand, 43 minutes, aired: August 20, 2018.In 2019, on French Chérie 25 channel : Snapped : les couples tueurs Episode 20 “Smart & Flynn”
The entire Pamela Smart story was recounted in an episode of ABC News 20/20 (American TV program) broadcast in January 2020 that included a new interview of Smart conducted by Juju Chang.
Who is Pamela Smart?
Smart is an American author who was found guilty of the murder plot, witness tampering, and first-degree murder accomplice. At the age of 22, Smart was accused of plotting to have her 24-year old husband Greggory Smart killed in Derry, New Hampshire, with her juvenile sex partner, William “Billy” Flynn, and three of his associates.
How old is Pamela Smart?
Smart is an American national born on 16th August 1967, in Windham, New Hampshire, U.S.
How tall is Pamela Smart?
Smart stands at an average height, she has not shared her height with the public. Her height will be listed once we have it from a credible source.
Is Pamela Smart married?
No, Smart shared a marital relationship with Greggory Smart from 1989 until 1990, when he passed away.
How much is Pamela Smart worth?
Smart has not yet revealed her net worth. We will update this section when we get and verify information about the wealth and properties under her name.
How much does Pamela Smart make?
Details about Smart’s salary are not yet disclosed. However, information about how much she makes will be updated as soon as it is available.
Where does Smart live?
Because of security reasons, Xy has not shared his precise location of residence. We will update this information if we get the location and images of his/her house.
Xy is a resident of Memphis, TN, USA, we shall upload pictures of her house as soon as we have them.
Is Smart dead or alive?
Smart is alive and in good health. There have been no reports of her being sick or having any health-related issues.
Where is Smart Now?
Smart is pursuing her career in journalism. she is working as a writer.
Pamela Smart Contacts
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