The murder inspired Nicole Kidman’s film ‘To Die For’; Although Sensitive now admits she “deflected blame all the time,” a member of her dead husband’s family feels his video message “danced” around her actions.
Pamela Smart is acknowledging, “for the first time,” her role in the 1990 murder of her husband, Gregg Smart.
Now 56, the former New Hampshire high school media counselor was 22 when she convinced a 15-year-old boy she was having an affair with to kill her husband. Although she now admits that she always “deflected blame” in his homicide, Smart was convicted of being an accessory to first-degree murder and received time without parole.
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The teenager, William Flynn, shot Gregory to death while another person held him at knifepoint. After pleading guilty to second-degree murder and cooperating with prosecutors, Flynn was released from prison in 2015. Pamela, however, had all appeal requests rejected.
In a new video released this week in another attempt to lessen her sentence, Sensitive finally took some responsibility for what happened – after previously admitting to an affair but not the murder plot against her husband.
“My name is Pamela Sensitive. I have been incarcerated since 1990. I was convicted of being an accessory to murder and am serving a life sentence without risk of parole,” she said in a video sent to New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu and the state government. Advice.
After a chalkboard reading “Accepting Duty” appears on the screen, Sensitive is seen explaining that about 10 years after her time behind bars, she began to “go deeper into my own responsibility” after joining a new group of prison writers. .
“I always thought I was going to a deep place… and (the instructor) would stress us out and encourage us to transcend, into areas we didn’t want to be in,” she continued, before taking a long pause.
“For me, this was a lot of work, because going into these places, these areas is where I found myself responsible for something that I desperately didn’t want to be held responsible for, the murder of my husband,” Smart said. “I wanted to acknowledge for the first time in my own thoughts and in my heart how responsible I was, because I had been avoiding blame all along, I feel, almost like it was a coping mechanism, because being so responsible was so difficult. for me because I’m not a person who has spent my life hurting other people.
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“It was an area that was very uncomfortable for me and something new,” she continued.
Smart said she is now able to “see so many mistakes I made” and how “my judgment was skewed and how immature I was” at the time of her husband’s murder.
“Looking at it the other way around, I’m such a special person than I used to be, more thoughtful than before. I feel like things pass before I make decisions and (I’m) less impulsive and just more responsible and mature than I was back then,” Smart shared. “34 years is really a long time and up until this point I have done a lot of work on myself, a lot of religious work. I’ve had a huge development in who I am and the way I deal with problems and other people.”
She ended her video with a request for a meeting with the New Hampshire Council of Government, asking to have “a candid dialogue about my incarceration, my acceptance of duty, and any questions you may have, any concerns.” The footage also included a chalkboard stating that Sensitive had earned several levels of education, including Mastery of Science in Regulation, Mastery of the Wonderful Arts in English Literature, Mastery in Professional Research, and Doctorate of Ministry.
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In response to SHOVELnearly 30 letters of support were also included in the application – as was a letter written from Smart to Sununu.
“I made excuses, dismissed my own involvement, and blamed everyone else but myself,” she wrote, saying she “got comfortable with my twisted logic.” She also admitted, “I am responsible for your absence from this world.”
A member of Gregg’s family, cousin Val Fryatt, was unimpressed by the video – telling AP Smart “danced” his actions, didn’t mention the victim’s name once and just accepted responsibility “without admitting the news surrounding what happened.” made her ‘absolutely responsible’.”
The governor’s office said Smart will have the same opportunity to petition as anyone else, while Councilman Joseph Kenney said his request was “not yet on my radar.”
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