She was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole but all the while has maintained she had nothing to do with plotting his murder. For the past two decades, she has lost all her legal appeals.
Ms Smart, 47, now hopes that a new documentary examining the media fervour at her trial – which she believes swayed the public and ultimately the jury’s decision – will convince New Hampshire authorities to allow her a parole hearing. Mail online article 20th January 2015, ‘Ice queen’ newlywed, who conspired to murder husband with teen lover and became subject of Nicole Kidman movie, hopes new documentary will prove her innocence’
The early ’90s were a confusing time for Billy Flynn. The 15-year-old fell head over heals for an older married woman. He thought she felt the same way. But if they wanted to be together they’d have to get rid of her husband first. This is the story of Pamela Smart. True Crime Recaps: The Husband Had to Go: Pamela Smart’s Final Solution, Youtube 17.15, 2023
There lying facing down in a pool of blood was her 24-year-old husband. He’d been shot in the back of the head execution style. The house was ransacked. ibid.
The captain felt the scene stunk to high heaven. ibid.
Pamela had an iron-clad alibi; she was at a school meeting all night. ibid.
She was more concerned about he dog than she was about catching her husband’s killer. ibid.
SMITH, ERIC: Killer Kids TV - True Crime Recaps 2022
Many children struggle with self-control. But what happens when a child can’t cope and chooses murder as an outlet? What causes an ordinary child to take another life? Can films influence them? Or is it in their DNA? Do they have an internal instinct to kill? Killer Kids s2e6: A Scream and Banana Split, CI 2017
Savona on the outskirts of Rochester, New York … One of the many children who lived in Savona was 4-year-old Derrick Robey … Police found Derrick’s lifeless body in the woods near the park. A heavy rock had been found on Derrick’s head crushing his skull. ibid.
Investigators ask Eric [Smith, 13] to meet them at the crime scene where he last saw Derrick. ibid.
Eric was convicted of murder and sentenced to a minimum of nine years in prison. ibid.
Eric has been denied parole six times. ibid.
Back in ’93 Eric Smith made headlines as the 13-year-old who brutally murdered and sexually assaulted a 4-year-old boy in Savona … Eric Smith is now a free man at age 41. True Crime Recaps: Child Killer Going Free! Youtube 13.11, 2022
SMITH, GEORGE JOSEPH: Jane Robins - Fred Dinenage: Murder Casebook TV - David Wilson TV - Brides in the Bath 2003 -
George Joseph Smith was a charmer and of course a con-man and a killer. Jane Robins, author The Magnificent Spilsbury
How did he become known as the Brides in the Bath Murderer? Fred Dinenage s1e5: Murder Casebook: Brides in the Bath, CI 2011
In 1915 a trial took place at the Old Bailey in London. The man in the dock was George Joseph Smith, a serial bigamist ... Three of his wives had died while taking a bath. ibid.
Smith had eight [wives]. ibid.
He wasn’t the astute businessman he liked to think he was. ibid.
The famous pathologist Sir Bernard Spilsbury enters the story. ibid.
It took the jury all of twenty-two minutes to find Smith guilty of murder. ibid.
George Joseph Smith was executed. ibid.
This is a man who doesn’t love women, he simply uses them for his own ends. So even before the murders this is somebody who flits in and out of his partners’ lives. Professor David Wilson
I think Smith is motivated entirely by greed. Professor David Wilson
Two kinds of people you should never try to fathom: judges and women. Brides in the Bath 2003 starring Martin Kemp & Richard Griffiths & Tracey Wilkinson & Emma Ferguson & Charlotte Randle & Susan Brown & Carolyn Blackhouse et al, director Harry Bradbeer, Griffiths
Bessie’s misadventure was marrying a bastard like you. ibid.
No man is too bad to save – to try to save. ibid.
I wonder first – can my wife have a bath? ibid.
I’m his wife – his first and only legal one. ibid. Canadian wife
SMITH, SUSAN: Killer Trials TV - Biography online - Faking It: Tears of a Crime TV - True Crime Recaps 2022 -
Susan and David Smith of Union, South Carolina, appear on local TV to appeal for the safe return of their two missing children. Killer Trials s1e7: The Real Victims
After a nine-day search for her sons Susan Smith finally comes clean. There is no carjacker after all – she has killed her children. ibid.
Susan Smith is best known for her murder of her two sons in order to carry on a relationship with a man.
Susan Smith was born September 26, 1971 in Union, South Carolina. Smith's childhood was quite painful, following her parents’ divorce, her father committed suicide. On October 25, 1994 Smith claimed to have been carjacked by an African-American man, with her boys in the car. She later confessed to drowning them and was sentenced to life. Biography online article
Police recreate the last moments of two little brothers. Their mother’s story. It would take six minutes for the car to sink with the boys inside: Michael & Alexander. It was a story that gripped the world. Michael Smith, aged 3, and his brother Alexander, 18 months, had disappeared both reportedly in the backseat of a hijacked car. Faking It: Tears of a Crime s3e9: Susan Smith, Discovery 2021
Susan Smith: 27 year ago that young woman killed her two young sons the blamed it on a black man that didn’t exist. True Crime Recaps: Susan Smith: Someone Stole My Babies! Youtube 16.27, 2022
Then on the 9th day Susan finally confessed. ibid.
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[Todd Smith] opens fire on them … formally charged with the Myers High School shootings. Killer Kids s1e6: School Killers, Biography 2011
SMITHERS, DANA murder [viz Murder Cases Kohberger, Bryan]: True Crime Recaps 2023 -
What does Dana Smithers have to do with Bryan Kohberger? Lately there have been a lot of reports linking the accused killer to the death of a Pennsylvania woman. True Crime Recaps: Dana Smithers: How’s Her Horrid Death Linked to Bryan Kohberger, Youtube 5.13, 2023
In May 2022 45-year-old Dana Smithers was last seen alive in Monroe County, the same area in Pennsylvania where Bryan Kohberger lived before moving across the country to join the criminal justice program at Washington State University in Pullman. ibid.
Bryan was charged with the quadruple murder of four University of Idaho students. ibid.
He is most likely not connected … Dana’s mysterious death will continue to be investigated. ibid.
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One quiet summer’s night in Newark, New Jersey, a beautiful young woman [Jane Goodwin] was fatally stabbed and strangled in her own home. I think I know who did it, and he’s killed before. Dark Minds: Dance With the Devil
Ned Snelgrove is serving life in prison after strangling and stabbing two women to death, and trying to kill a third. ibid.
Bundy became Ed’s pin-up boy. ibid.
He was released. ibid.
Hackensack, New Jersey, 30th January – After admitting in 1988 that he had murdered a former girlfriend and stabbed another woman, Edwin Snelgrove wrote to a New Jersey judge about violent sexual fantasies that started when he was a second grader. He described images of strangling or hitting a woman on the head, carrying her limp body to a bed and ‘arranging her arms and legs in some kind of seductive pose’.
Mr Snelgrove, now 41, was sentenced that year to 20 years in a New Jersey prison as part of a plea bargain. He served 11 years, was considered a well-behaved inmate, and was freed in 1999 and returned to his parents’ home in Berlin, Conn.
Now he is back in jail, charged Thursday with the attempted kidnapping and assault of a woman who the Hartford police say he tried to pull into his car last September. The police say they have also searched his parents’ home and his car in connection with the death of a different woman, Carmen Rodriguez, 33, who vanished in September after dancing with him in a Hartford bar. Her body was found Jan. 6 in Rhode Island. The New York Times online article 31st January 2002