{"id":2266989,"date":"2024-06-13T14:25:01","date_gmt":"2024-06-13T18:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pamela-smart-finally-sort-of-takes-responsibility-for-husbands-murder-34-years-later\/"},"modified":"2024-06-13T14:28:31","modified_gmt":"2024-06-13T18:28:31","slug":"pamela-smart-finally-sort-of-takes-responsibility-for-husbands-murder-34-years-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pamela-smart-finally-sort-of-takes-responsibility-for-husbands-murder-34-years-later\/","title":{"rendered":"Pamela Smart Partially Admits Role in Husband&#8217;s Murder After 34 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpamela-smart-finally-sort-of-takes-responsibility-for-husbands-murder-34-years-later%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2266989&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Pam potsmonthly Smart, a woman famously linked to a 1990s scandal\u200c involving an affair with\u200b a 15-year-old boy who murdered her \u200chusband, has admitted her responsibility in the crime.\u2062 Now 56,\u200c Smart made this acknowledgment in a\u200b <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-tucker-carlson-reemerges-targets-us-media-and-political-system\/\" title=\"WATCH: Tucker Carlson Reemerges, Targets US Media and Political System\">videotaped statement<\/a> aiming to reduce her life sentence without parole. Reported by the Associated Press, she expressed this realization during \u200cher participation\u200d in a prison <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senate-confirms-biden-nominee-sara-hill-despite-opposition-from-oklahoma-governor\/\" title=\"Biden nominee Sara Hill confirmed by Senate despite Oklahoma governor's opposition\">writing group<\/a>. \u200dSmart, reflecting on her actions, recognized her \u200bown\u200d responsibility for \u2064her husband&#8217;s murder, a truth \u200bshe had previously deflected, possibly \u200das \u200ca coping mechanism. Having \u2064exhausted her appeals on convictions\u2063 including\u200d accomplice to first<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/da-dismisses-more-than-30-cases-involving-former-officers-charged-in-death-of-tyre-nichols\/\" title=\"DA Drops Over 30 Cases Against Ex-Officers in Tyre Nichols' Death\">-degree \u200cmurder<\/a>, this admission marks a significant shift in her legal and personal narrative.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p>Pamela Smart, the woman who became infamous in the 1990s for having an affair with a 15-year-old boy who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/history-repeats-itself-democrats-are-using-tactics-of-the-marxists-of-1917-in-russia-to-steal-2020-election\/\" title=\"History Repeats Itself: Democrats Are Using Tactics of the Marxists of 1917 in Russia to Steal 2020 Election\">eventually murdered<\/a> her husband, has finally acknowledged her responsibility for the death.<\/p>\n<p>Smart, 56, accepted responsibility for her husband\u2019s murder in a videotaped statement in an attempt to get her sentence for her role in the crime reduced, the Associated Press <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/pamela-smart-husband-killed-prison-video-8f3e0ca7d1a908cdcf2392b0e8f4ee83\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>. Smart was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for her part in the murder.<\/p>\n<p>In her taped statement, Smart said she had begun to \u201cdig deeper into my own responsibility\u201d while participating in a writing group in the prison where she is incarcerated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor me, that was really hard, because going into those places, in those spaces is where I found myself responsible for something I desperately didn\u2019t want to be responsible for, my husband\u2019s murder,\u201d she said in the video, according to the AP. \u201cI had to acknowledge for the first time in my own mind and my own heart how responsible I was, because I had deflected blame all the time, I think, almost as if it was a coping mechanism, because the truth of being so responsible was very difficult for me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Smart has already exhausted her appeals for her convictions on accomplice to first-degree murder, conspiracy to commit murder, and witness tampering. She\u2019s asking for a conversation with New Hampshire\u2019s Executive Council and Gov. Chris Sununu in the hopes of getting her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-corrupt-hunter-biden-whines-to-friend-every-great-family-is-persecuted-prosecuted-in-the-us-ignoring-biden-family-crimes\/\" title=\"EXCLUSIVE: Corrupt Hunter Biden Whines to Friend \u201cEvery Great Family is Persecuted, Prosecuted in the US\u201d \u2013 Ignoring Biden Family Crimes\">sentence reduced<\/a>. The council rejected her last request in 2022, which she appealed to the state Supreme Court. The highest court <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/pamela-smart-teenage-lover-husband-killed-sentence-3f078128d8cb216ee1f4dcd8634eeac2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dismissed<\/a> her petition.<\/p>\n<p>Val Fryatt, a cousin to Smart\u2019s murdered husband Gregory, told the AP that Smart accepted responsibility \u201cwithout admitting the facts around what made her \u2018fully responsible.\u2019\u201d Fryatt also noted that Smart never mentioned Gregory\u2019s name in her statement.<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-9096\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1712932862202000&#038;usg=AOvVaw0plT8RRdMy9XUpIhocnjQS\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>In a letter to Gov. Sununu, Smart said she is remorseful.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI made excuses, dismissed my own involvement, and blamed everyone else but myself,\u201d Smart wrote, adding that because she didn\u2019t pull the trigger, she didn\u2019t consider herself responsible, which \u201cbecame comfortable in my warped logic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Smart was 22 years old and working as a high school media coordinator in Derry, New Hampshire, when she began having an affair with then-15-year-old sophomore Billy Flynn, who would eventually murder Smart\u2019s 24-year-old husband. The couple was married less than a year before they started to have problems in their relationship.<\/p>\n<p>On May 1, 1990, Smart came home to find her husband dead. Investigators eventually learned about the affair with Flynn, and they were both charged with her husband\u2019s death, along with three of Flynn\u2019s friends. Flynn and the other three have all been released after serving their sentences.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pamela Smart, infamous for her 1990s affair with a 15-year-old who killed her husband, has acknowledged her role in the murder. 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