Bill Spencer

She was 22 and he was 16.

Up until then, it was a murder case and it had a lot of interesting parts to it.

This is a real live soap opera.

NBC News did a story about covering the story with Bill Spencer's boss, then the news director of WMUR.

It's body heat.

It's what pours millions into the theater every weekend.

And it's right here in New Hampshire.

The tabloids loved it, especially when these pictures surfaced.

Pamela Smart posing in a bikini.

She gave those pictures to young, innocent Billy Flynn.

The story went, supposedly, all part of her seduction.

The story moved like wildfire around the country.

I went in a gas station, I saw Star Magazine, and there was their wedding picture.

And it called her the Ice Princess.

And that she had murdered Greg.

I just couldn't believe it and bawled my eyes out.

There was no way this was her.

When the media was talking about Pam, I couldn't recognize who they were talking about because it's not the person that I know.

The families and friends of Pamela and Greg Smart were about to face a media onslaught, and Pamela was about to become part of a new kind of television phenomenon.

It was the first week of March 1991, 10 months after Greg Smart was killed and Pamela Smart was on trial for his murder.