"I'M NO BLACK WIDOW": PAM SMART SNEARS HIGHSCHOOL LOVER, MURDERS HUSBAND, TO WALK FREE?
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
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🗓️ 25 April 2026
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Convicted killer Pamela Smart, 57, serving life without parole for masterminding the 1990 murder of her husband, Gregg Smart, claims her conviction was tainted by faulty audio evidence and media bias. Smart’s legal team filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus, arguing that transcripts of audio tapes played at her 1991 trial were inaccurate and created "expectation bias" among jurors.
The state of New Hampshire has asked a judge to dismiss the petition. Smart's co-conspirators under the age of 18 at the time of the killing, has been released from prison.
Joining Nancy Grace today:
- Randy Kessler - Trial Lawyer, Emory Law School Professor, Past Chair ABA Family Law Section, Author: "Divorce, Protect Yourself, Your Kids and Your Future", www.KSFamilyLaw.com, Instagram: @rkessler23, Twitter: @GADivorce,
- Allison Paganelli - Board Certified Forensic Psychologist, website: parkdietzassociates.com
- Dr. Kendall Crowns - Chief Medical Examiner Tarrant County, Host of Podcast "Mayhem in the Morgue”, Lecturer: Burnett School of Medicine at TCU (Texas Christian University),
- Colleen Cronin - Reporter from the Boston Herald, website: BostonHerald.com, X: @colleen_cronin
- Sydney Sumner - Investigative Reporter, ‘Crime Stories
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:03.4 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:05.8 | Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. |
| 0:12.1 | I'm no Black Widow. |
| 0:15.7 | Pam Smart snares a high school lover to murder her husband, and now she's going to walk free. |
| 0:23.5 | This after 22 disciplinary problems behind bars, many of a sexual nature. |
| 0:31.8 | I'm Nancy Grace. |
| 0:32.6 | This is Crime Stories. |
| 0:33.8 | I want to thank you for being with us. |
| 0:35.4 | Pamela Smart marries her boyfriend, Greg, expecting a fairy tale future, but it quickly spirals into tragedy. |
| 0:43.9 | Pam Smart, a media consultant at a local high school, snares a teen lover, and between him and his buddies manages to murder her husband. |
| 0:56.0 | But now she's set to walk free. |
| 0:59.0 | Okay, what I don't understand is why he is still in the coffin, yet she wants to walk free. |
| 1:07.0 | The stereo had been removed from the stereo rack and it was pulled out. There was speakers piled up by the rear door where it looked like they had exited. There was jewelry boxes overturned. |
| 1:18.1 | Dairy police find the Smart's condo ransacked and Greg Smart lying in the front entryway with a towel wrapped around his head and a single gunshot wound to the back of his skull. |
| 1:28.1 | While the condo is messy, a few valuable items are missing and other things appear to have been left behind in a |
| 1:33.4 | hurry. Greg Smart still has his wallet in his pocket and his wedding band on his ring finger. |
| 1:38.8 | Officers question if Greg's murder was a botched robbery or an execution. That didn't really make a lot of sense because the time of day and nighttime burglary in a |
| 1:49.5 | neighborhood like that, there were a lot of residents there. |
| 1:52.1 | That last time from our friends over at Oxygen, you may not remember the name Pam, Pamela, |
| 1:59.4 | smart, but I'm sure you remember the name Nicole Kidman and |
| 2:03.6 | one of her many, many fantastic performances in To Die For? I'll never forget it because I had |
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