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Broken Vows

20/20

ABC News

True Crime

3.87.3K Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2024

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

Pamela Smart, who was sentence to life in prison without parole for her involvement in the 1990 murder of her husband, talks about the case. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

My name is Pamela Smart.

0:07.0

I have been portrayed as Black Widow, Ice Princess, a killer, and none of those things could be further from the truth.

0:17.5

And so just to be clear, did you mastermind the murder against your husband?

0:22.6

No, I did not.

0:24.3

That was then.

0:25.6

This is now, and this is new, just this summer.

0:29.1

I found myself responsible for something

0:32.0

I desperately didn't want to be responsible for.

0:36.3

This story had it all, a beautiful young woman, a seductress of a young teenage boy.

0:43.0

And perhaps most importantly, murder.

0:45.0

Hands, do you have anything to do with your husband's murder?

0:48.0

People were asking why this happened and why Pam Smart could lure a young man into killing for her.

0:54.0

I never would have done it if Pam didn't tell me to.

0:57.0

She was the first girl I loved.

0:59.0

I pulled the trigger.

1:01.0

God forgive me.

1:03.0

Your trial defined media frenzy.

1:07.0

This was the first trial to be broadcast alive from start to finish before OJ, before the Menendez

1:12.4

brothers.

1:13.0

It was reality TV before there was a reality TV.

1:16.0

So when will it happen?

1:17.0

I think it's made into a movie to die for which starred Joaquin Phoenix and Nepal Hittman.

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