There was a wedding picture. and called her the ice princess. that she had murdered greg. i couldn t believe it. i 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 we re about to face immediate onslaught, and pamela was about to become part of a new kind of television phenomenon. coming up she told me she was going to would like that mean? but like, provocative like a strip tease. red-hot testimony. we had sex. cold blooded murder. i said, god forgive me
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
storms will submit to something i did not do to get out of prison? i do not get? it he said he had more strong words for pummel smart. more than once he s called her sociopath. it s a personal opinion? it s a personal opinion. i don t want to bring a psycho analyst to her and analyze her decisions. maybe she s not a sociopath, maybe she is a smart woman. pamela smart wrote you a note. she did. she basically said that i don t have remorse, and i do have remorse about what happens with the boys and what s happened with my husband s death. and i wrote her back and said i get that remorse but you have never expressed remorse for planning the murder and taking responsibility for the murder. will you ever say, i did this. or i told them to do? this no. because they did not tell them to do this. i did not ask them to do that. and no i will not.
Gonna be famous. and i would see her on tv. and in fact, a few days after the murder, pamela smart was on tv being interviewed by reporter bill spencer. she was wearing beautiful, vibrant, blue dress. her hair was all made up, make up perfect. she looked gorgeous. police watched pamela on television with a knees. we had eliminated the information going to pamela smart, because she liked talking to the media. while reporters work the story, police continued working the case. and then, came a break. it happened at a high school where pamela worked. kids there were spreading a wild story. if they had not told people, i m not sure how this would ve turned out. because i do not think the police had that much. some teenage boys at the school were telling people that they killed greg smart. and use one of their fathers
Cooperate. when cecilia pierce came on board and she decided to start cooperating with us, and talking to the family. authorities hoped that pamela smart, would implicate herself in the murder. on the tapes, she did not come out and say she did it, but she did come out worried of being arrested. i m afraid when they are in a company and you re gonna be wired by the police. on one recording, she implies she knows plenty about the murder plot. if you tell the truth, you re gonna have to send me to the slammer for the rest of my life. she also worries about what would happen if one of the teams involved in the plot, started talking to police. he s gonna turn against them, and he s going to write. i know he is, and that s gonna be in trouble. how critical of the tapes? they are nail in the coffin. if you really want the truth they are nail in the coffin. at the prosecutor s case,