So, naturally, we were concerned that they were going to be affected,” Sisti said. In New York, Pam — Smart’s academic adviser and spokeswoman — fends off people who try to inject themselves into the saga. Pamela Smart, who has spent 29 years in prison, maintains her innocence in new #ABC2020 exclusive interview. Powered by. I guess the guy tried to run or something, they grabbed him, they threw his dog in the cellar,” Welch said. Pamela Smart, who goes by Pame, worked at a local high school as a media and journalism coordinator while her husband went into the insurance business with his father. She had to have a plastic plate surgically implanted and has lost feeling on the left side of her face. On June 10, Ralph Welch, a friend of Lattime, told Lattime’s parents that Randall and Lattime had admitted to him their participation in the murder. Even as the trial was unfolding, it was clear the saga was destined for Hollywood. Among those who have written to the state on her behalf are Gloria Steinem, “Vagina Monologues” playwright Eve Ensler and Kate Millett, the groundbreaking author of “Sexual Politics,” who visited Smart in prison before her death last year and strongly proclaimed her innocent. She had a series of conversations with Cecilia Pierce that were monitored by police using a phone wiretap and body wire. Pamela Smart and Billy Flynn met when Smart was a 22-year-old teacher and Flynn was her 15-year-old student at a New Hampshire high school. Billy Flynn was only a teenager when he found himself at the center of one of the century’s biggest and most salacious televised media trials. But just as often the notion of dying in prison pops into her head uninvited. But at times, she says, she’s been angry. Gregg was married to Pamela Smart, then 22; she was having an affair with the impressionable Flynn and said the only way they could continue to see each other is if her husband was out of the way. “I thought there was something wrong with me and I wasn’t good enough,” Smart says. In 1990, at age 22, Smart was accused of conspiring with her underaged sex partner, then 15-year-old William "Billy" Flynn, and three of his friends to have her 24-year-old husband Greggory Smart killed in Derry, New Hampshire. Watch the full story on "20/20" Friday, Jan. 10 at 9 p.m. this link is to an external site that may or may not meet accessibility guidelines. The man who pulled the trigger in the Pamela Smart case was granted parole on Thursday after 25 years in prison. "Flynn will be one of the last two of Pamela Smart's co-conspirators to be released from prison. It was only a short relationship.”. "I will try to do something with my life that makes a difference.