her sexuality, that was a star of the show. it s explosion of flashbulbs. it s body heat. it s fatal attraction. pamela smart but she s a bewitching her murdering her husband. now, more than three decades later, another look at the frenzy. it was just crazy. the trial. i made a mistake. was killing a s been one of those mistakes? no. that s not at all who she is or was. and the case some say change the way americans witness justice. i don t know if enough will ever be enough for anybody in this case. hello and welcome to dateline. you ve heard about it. pamela smart lived it. a beautiful, young widow stepped from run into america s most quipping trial. the case had it all, sex, betrayal and murder. a very real drama that inspired a hollywood hit movie. now, you re about to hear the chilling story from the woman at the center of it all. here s andrea canning with deadly secrets. you were the big show in town? this story, people could
said god forgive, me i pull the trigger. decades later, another look at the frenzy. it was just crazy. the trial. i made a mistake. was killing your husband been one of those mistakes? no. that s not at all who she is or was. and the case some say change the way americans witness justice. i don t know if enough will ever be enough for anybody in this case. hello and welcome to dateline. you ve heard about it. pamela smart lived it. a beautiful, young widow step from her small new england town, into america s most quipping trial. the case had it all, sex, betrayal and murder. a very real drama that inspired a hollywood hit movie. now, you re about to hear the chilling story from the woman at the center of it all. here s andrea canning with deadly secrets. you were the big show in town? it was. i mean, this story. people couldn t get enough of it. when i look back at the footage, i look like a baby. i look so young, and i look so afraid. that s e
Pamela says the jury was infected by oppress that caricature at her as an evil seductress. she says, the tabloids were full of law is. like those bikini photos. but they weren t shot to tempt billy flynn. they were taken for fun, for modeling contest. somehow the narrative escaped, or got created, that i took these pictures for bill flynn, gave them to him to seduce him. that s totally awful story. by the time pamela took the stand, there was a lot to dig out of. she had to testify in court that, yes, she had been a school district employee, who had slept with a student. did you expect that when he was over, you would have sex with him? yes. did you have sex with him when he came? yes. did you make love to him? u.s.. but i did think was, right that it was wrong, but i want to be with greg. he kept saying, why did not
I did not intend to hurt his feelings. not long after that, her husband was dead. and the teenage student that she had been sleeping with, was under arrest. it was complete shock! and then, when i first heard it. i thought. they found out about the affair. and now, i am somehow part of this one away or another. because i have this relationship with him. the kids under arrest may have been young, but also tough. they were not 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. it s what s pours millions into theater every weekend. and it is right here in new hampshire. the drama builds as the student who shares pam smarts secret dots talk!
There was nothing to lose. why would believe flynn kill greg, kill your husband, with the help of these other teenagers? i think he felt like that was the only way he could be with me. it was very clear that as long as i was married, i was never gonna be with him. looking back, do you think there was anything you might have inadvertently said to billy flynn, or done, that could ve provoked him into doing this? the only thing i ever said was that i m not going to be with you because i m going to be with greg. still, it s hard to explain those tapes. i m afraid when they are gonna come in here and you re gonna be wired by the police and i m gonna be busted. pamela told us there s a story behind those tapes. her attorney says he warned her that cecilia might be wired, but pamela talk to her anyway. the police weren t giving me any information, i was completely cut off. she says almost tapes, she s acting, pretending to know more than she did, in order to pump sicilian fo