Pamela Smart was born in Coral Gables, Florida. She is the second of three children, with her sister Elizabeth, six years older, and her brother John, three years younger. Her father worked as a commercial airline pilot, while her mother worked part time as a legal secretary.When she was in elementary school, she moved with her family to Windham, New Hampshire. Pamela Smart went to high school at Pinkerton Academy in Derry, where she was a cheerleader, cheering for both basketball and football teams.
After high school she went to college at Florida State University and graduated with honors with a communications degree in 1988 in a little more than three years, with an accomplished 3.85 grade point average. During her college radio career, Pamela combined her passion for heavy metal music with her career aspirations. She hosted a one-night-a-week radio show at Florida State University that she called “Metal Madness", using the alias "Maiden of Metal".
After high school she went to college at Florida State University and graduated with honors with a communications degree in 1988 in a little more than three years, with an accomplished 3.85 grade point average. During her college radio career, Pamela combined her passion for heavy metal music with her career aspirations. She hosted a one-night-a-week radio show at Florida State University that she called “Metal Madness", using the alias "Maiden of Metal".
Pamela Wojas met Gregory Smart at a 1986 New Year's Eve party. They formed a serious relationship in February 1987, and married two years later. They both shared a passion for heavy metal music. Greg bought Pam a Shih Tzu and she named it "Haley" after her favorite rock group Van Halen. Seven months into the Smart's marriage, they began having serious problems in their relationship. As they neared their first wedding anniversary Gregory Smart admitted he was having an affair. After this, every time they argued Pam mentioned the affair. A couple months into her marriage she took a job as a media coordinator at Winnacunnet High School in Hampton, New Hampshire. Smart met one of her students Billy Flynn at "Project Self-Esteem" a local drug awareness program at the school, in which Smart and Flynn were both volunteers. All freshmen were expected to participate in the program. She was able to impress them with her interest in heavy metal music. Smart was also employed as a media services coordinator with the Hampton school board, and Flynn was a sophomore. She had also met another intern named Cecilia Pierce who was friends with Billy Flynn. Flynn was always going out of his way to be helpful during the sessions and also visited Pam every day in her office.
Pamela Smart is serving a life sentence for accomplice to first-degree murder, conspiracy to commit murder and witness tampering in New Hampshire. Smart was convicted for conspiring with her 15-year-old lover, William Flynn, and three friends of Flynn's to kill her 24-year-old husband, Gregory Smart in Derry, New Hampshire in 1990.
Murder of her husband
On May 1, 1990, Smart came home from a work meeting to find her condominium ransacked and her husband murdered. Murder was rare in Derry, New Hampshire, and this would be the only murder investigation that year. Police officials say the crime scene looked like a disrupted burglary. Smart was later accused of seducing 15-year-old William "Billy" Flynn and threatening to stop having sex with him unless he killed her husband. Flynn did so with the help of friends Patrick "Pete" Randall, Vance "J.R." Lattime Jr., and Raymond Fowler on May 1, 1990. Flynn shot Gregory Smart as Randall held him down, while Lattime, the driver, waited in the getaway car outside with Fowler.
During the investigation, J.R. Lattime's father brought a .38 caliber pistol he had found in his house to the police, believing it might have been the murder weapon. An anonymous tip also indicated that a teenager named Cecilia Pierce was aware of the plan. Police talked to Cecilia, and she then agreed to wear a wire and record some conversations with Smart, in hopes that she would say something incriminating, which she did. On August 1, 1990, at 1:05 p.m., Detective Daniel Pelletier entered Smart’s office unannounced. 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. Stand up and face the wall.” Smart was then handcuffed and arraigned into the Derry District Court and jailed at the Rockingham County Jail, having been arrested for the murder of her husband.
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