The Teacher Who Seduced Her Student Into Murder

Hot On The Case

Breanna Heim

True Crime

5 • 714 Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

In one of the most infamous cases of the early '90s, Pamela Smart—a 22-year-old high school media coordinator—began a secret affair with her 15-year-old student. Months later, her husband, Gregg Smart, was found dead. The shocking twist? That same student pulled the trigger. This case wasn’t just about murder—it was about obsession, manipulation, and the media’s obsession with turning real crime into ratings.

From salacious headlines to a televised trial that played out like a movie, the Pamela Smart case became a national spectacle and set the stage for the true crime boom that followed

.Was Pamela Smart a cunning manipulator who orchestrated a murder—or a convenient villain in a made-for-TV drama?

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0:00.0	If this story were a made-for-TV movie, you might not believe it.
0:03.6	Can we admit that we're all transfixed by that sick little soap opera trial in Exeter, New Hampshire?
0:09.3	Teachers having an inappropriate relationship with one of their students.
0:14.0	Unfortunately, it's something that we see all the time.
0:17.6	In movies, in TV shows, even romanticized in teen dramas. It seems like every week
0:24.5	lately there's a new headline, another female teacher, another teenage boy, another case
0:31.2	that makes us stop and think, how does this keep happening? But the case I'm going to tell you today is unlike any other.
0:41.3	Yes, there was a woman in a position of power.
0:44.4	Yes, she was grooming and manipulating one of her 15-year-old students, but it ended in cold-blooded
0:53.1	murder.
0:53.7	What followed was an absolute media circus, the first ever
0:58.9	murder trial to ever be televised live, and the start of the true crime genre as we know it today.
1:06.2	The ones responsible for actually committing the murder and pulling the trigger are out free walking amongst
1:12.1	us today. And the woman accused of pulling the strings still sits behind bars for life. So you're left
1:20.8	wondering, how does something like this happen and was justice truly served? Well, I'm Brianna and I'm hot on the case.
1:30.5	Sitting quietly once you've made the house all shiny. Down time can be just fine, plain bangers
1:36.4	from them 90s. Tea break. Lunch break. Maybe listen to the outbreak. Sometimes it's not time
1:43.2	for some tomboola, right?
1:45.1	It's enjoying lasagna time, chilling with a book time, or time to visit your nan time.
1:50.9	Go on, play some other time.
1:52.8	Put your phone down.
1:54.0	Tombola.
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