Bill Spencer
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On the stand, Billy went on to say that the next morning, Pamela Smart began a different kind of seduction.
Billy testified that the murder plot was planned over the course of at least two months.
You could hear a pin drop in court when the tearful, doe-eyed high school student described the killing.
Viewers were like jurors rendering a verdict in real time.
If the testimony from the young conspirators wasn't enough, prosecutors had Pamela in her own words, courtesy of another student, Pamela's intern, Cecilia Pierce.
Prosecutors believed Cecilia knew about the murder plot, but they didn't have enough evidence to charge her with conspiracy.
Investigators hoped Pamela Smart would implicate herself in Greg's murder.
On the tapes, she didn't come right out and say, I did it.
But she did sound like someone worried about being arrested.
On one recording, Pamela implies she knows plenty about the murder plot.
She also worries about what would happen if one of the teens involved in the plot started talking to police.
I tell you, they're the nail in the coffin.
As he wrapped up the state's case, Prosecutor Maggiato warned the jury not to be fooled by Pamela Smart the way Billy Flynn and his accomplices had been.
the prosecutors had little doubt that the always poised Pamela Smart was capable of doing just that.
Pamela Smart says the story told by the prosecutor was compelling fiction, a tale meant for the movies.
In fact, after the trial, her story became a movie, a breakout hit for Nicole Kidman.
If somebody can't remember Pamela Smart necessarily, you say, oh, the movie To Die For with Nicole Kidman.