Episode 464: The Pamela Smart Case (Part2)

<p>A little after 10:00 pm on the evening of May 1, 1990, Pamela Smart returned home from work to find her husband, twenty-four-year-old Gregg Smart, lying dead just beyond the front door of their condominium, a single bullet hole in his head. Detectives from the small town of Derry, NH arrived to find what appeared to be the scene of a robbery; though, very little looked to have been stolen and to investigators the scene felt staged. Two days later, Derry Police Captain Loring Jackson announced that Gregg Smart’s death wasn’t a random attacked, he’d been murdered by someone who knew him. The murder of Gregg Smart, and the trial that followed, shocked the population of New Hampshire, where it remains perhaps the most notorious criminal trial in the state’s history. As the first criminal trial to be televised from beginning to end, the case of Pamela Smart and her teenage lover captivated a national audience, leading to television and feature films, several nonfiction books, and countless television specials in the decades that followed.</p><p><br></p><p>Special thank you to the brilliant David White for research assistance</p><p>References</p><p>Baker, Frank. 1990. "Smart to be jailed until trial." <em>Concord Monitor</em>, August 14: 1.</p><p>—. 1990. "Widow charged as accomplice." <em>Concord Monitor</em>, August 2: 14.</p><p>Carton, Barbara. 1991. "The Pamela Smart story." <em>Boston Globe</em>, Marcg 21.</p><p>1991. <em>NH v. Smart: Opening Statements.</em> Directed by Court TV. Performed by Court TV.</p><p>Derry News. 1990. "Family and friends puzzle over murder." <em>Derry News</em>, May 4: 1.</p><p>Englade, Ken. 1991. <em>Deadly Lessons.</em> New York, NY: St. Martin's Press.</p><p>Gaines, Judith, and Alexander Reid. 1991. "Jurors say tales a key to their decision." <em>Boston Globe</em>, March 23: 1.</p><p>Hernandez, Monica. 2023. <em>Accomplice in Smart murder asks for sentence reduction.</em> January 10. Accessed May 1, 2023. <a href="https://www.wmur.com/article/smart-murder-vance-lattime-sent