Pamela Smart

Pamela Smart is currently serving a life sentence for conspiring with her boyfriend, William Flynn to kill her husband, Gregory Smart. When the case went to court, Flynn and his two accomplices went forward with a plan to put all of the blame for the case on Pamela. This resulted in the three men getting short jail sentences while Pamela Smart was convicted of the crime and sentenced to life in prison.http://www.biography.com/articles/Pamela-Smart-14418616

The whole murder case later became the subject of a 1995 film called To Die For. The film was directed by Gus Van Sant and starred Nicole Kidman, who played the role of Pamela in the film.http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114681/

Pamela Smart was a schoolteacher at the time of the murder in May of 1990. She allegedly constructed a plot with a 15 year-old student, Billy Flynn. In the court case, evidence revelaed that two had been lovers and that Smart used this to persuade Flynn to murde her husband. Flynn and his two accomplices murdered Gregory Smart in his home and set the case up to look like a robbery. However, in court. Flynn would testify against Pamela, saying that she set up the entire plot of the murder. Flynn would be sentenced to 28 years in prison for second degree murder, while Pamela got life in jail.http://wermenh.com/pame.html