May 1, 1990

AKA: Maiden of Metal

Murderer

Days before her first wedding anniversary, Pamela Smart had her teenage lover, Billy Flynn, murder her twenty-four-year old husband, Greg Smart. Flynn and two friends ambushed and shot Greg in his home, as he returned from work. They tried to make the murder look like a botched burglary. Chillingly, Pamela Smart had told her teenage lover to put her dog in the basement so that it would not be traumatized by the murder. Smart was sentenced to life with no chance of parole for being an accomplice to first-degree murder, conspiring to murder, and witness tampering.

A lovable, friendly Maiden of Metal

John and Linda Wojas moved their three children from Miami, Florida, to New Hampshire when their daughter, Pamela, was eight years old. Her parents later recalled nothing that would have indicated her future. “We try to think...