Chapter 1: What was the initial reaction to Greg Smart's murder?
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This really was a soap opera. Unfortunately, it's my life, and it wasn't a soap opera for me.
It was TV's first blockbuster trial, scandalous and sensational.
Her sexuality, that was the star of the Pam Smart show. This explosion of flashbulbs.
It's body heat. It's fatal attraction. Pamela Smart, accused of bewitching a teenage student into murdering her husband.
Did you have sex with him? Yes. I said, God forgive me. I pulled the trigger.
Now, another look at the frenzy.
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Chapter 2: How did Pamela Smart's life change after her husband's death?
Not at all. Greg Smart's short life was over. Now, as police try to find out who killed him, life for his young widow was about to enter a strange new reality. And what happened next would raise questions about justice and fairness that are still being asked today.
Students with a deadly secret about to be revealed when we come back.
If they hadn't told people, I'm not sure how this would have turned out.
And one of those students had an intimate connection to Pam Smart.
Somebody came and told me that he had a crush on me or something. I thought it was cute, but I wasn't interested.
A well-liked young man had been gunned down at home in a quiet New England town. Bill Spencer, who now reports for NBC affiliate KPRC in Houston, was just starting out in New Hampshire when he picked up the story of who killed Greg Smart. He has his whole life ahead of him. He's a successful life insurance salesman.
He's got a beautiful young wife, and he has been, for some reason, shot to death at the doorstep of his own home. Why?
Why?
Police were asking the same question and trying to learn more about Greg. Sonya knew him well. Greg was the life of the party. He was always big dimples, smiling, having all the jokes and acting a little crazy. Police learned that Greg met Pamela in New Hampshire about four years earlier when she was home for a holiday break from college.
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Chapter 3: What details emerged during the investigation into Greg Smart's murder?
Not long after that, her husband was dead, and the teenage student she'd been sleeping with was under arrest.
It was a complete shock. And then when I first heard it, I thought, oh, my God, they found out about the affair. I'm somehow part of this one way or another because I had this relationship with him.
The kids under arrest may have been young, but they were also tough. They weren't talking, but police were tougher and figured that getting the teens to talk was just a matter of time.
Coming up... It's body heat. It's fatal attraction.
The drama builds as the student who shares Pam's smart secret does talk. What was his version of events to you? Pam had said to him that they could never be together unless Greg was killed.
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In the days after the murder, Pamela Smart spent a lot of time with police, talking about her life with Greg and what happened the night he was killed. But she had left out one important detail. If you're being interviewed for hours, though, one might think it's relevant to say, I was having an affair. That's a possible... Looking backwards, I should have said that.
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Chapter 4: How did the affair with Billy Flynn complicate the case?
After you pointed the gun at his head, what'd you do?
I just stood there.
How long was it?
Um, a hundred years, it seemed like. I said, um, God forgive me.
After you said God forgive me, what happened to him?
I pulled the trigger.
Viewers were like jurors rendering a verdict in real time.
I feel sorry for the kids. They're so young and everything, and they've ruined their lives.
The story of the wedding ring was devastating. Don't take that wedding ring. My wife will kill me. Oh, my God. There's no soap opera to this. It's real stuff. It's real stuff.
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