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Reason First: How Calculating can One Smart be?-The Killer Pamela Smart

The absence of morals derailed this case of sex, obsession, and murder.

By Skyler SaundersPublished 6 years ago 3 min read

In the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility for Women in New York State, a high profile inmate serves her time. That inmate is Pamela Smart. Found guilty and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility for parole, Smart made a disaster of her life. By hiring three young men including Billy Flynn to dispatch her husband Gregg, Smart knew what she was doing.

While she claims her innocence, conflicting stories and significant evidence points to her as the orchestrator of the murder.

Flynn shot Gregg. He did this without regard or remorse. The two other men escaped capture in the whole operation by offering statements. What continues to be a blistering case over three decades from when it happened makes the whole affair to be sordid and unseemly.

Smart carried on an illicit affair with a minor, to which she admitted. But she still has not dropped the bomb and fully admitted her guilt in putting together the death of Gregg Smart. For not acknowledging the fact that she received a conviction based on her inability to deal with reality. She held the world in flux with everything changing around her save for one thing: the truth.

This same woman who maintains her guiltlessness posed for racy images that appeared in the National Enquirer. This came after she had been severely beaten by two fellow inmates and required plastic surgery to correct her face.

All of this did not have to happen. Had she not pulled the strings on seeing to it that her husband die, Smart would be breathing freedom. Instead, she has to fend for personal space and possibly pose for more bizarre and risqué photographs.

Flynn received a 28-year sentence. His role in this whole ugly occasion must not be overlooked. And again, once he was paroled, the Smart family gave allowance to Flynn’s crime, despite the fact that he killed Gregg. How can this be?

How do people find it in their minds to give people a pass for their dire iniquities? Pamela Smart made the case a spectacle which threw further shade on her side of the story. While Flynn may have been a model inmate, there is no room to commend him for this. He is a vicious murderer who was guided by the toxic mind of Pamela Smart.

As an affair with a minor was already heinous, the fact that she coordinated the killing of her husband brings into focus the root of this scenario: irrationalism.

The absence of thought led to the elimination of Gregg Smart. While Pamela felt that the she had placed all the pieces on the board and moved them strategically, she actually got sloppy and deserved the fate that has befallen her.

The weirdness and the seemingly unfazed state that Pamela put herself in demonstrated her conviction. Her ugly soul is a result of her not focusing on the truth and reality. She took it upon herself to schedule for the last breath of someone who should have been her top value. Rather, she did not think of the ramifications. Not just the incarceration, which is obviously important and profound, but her consciousness must eat away at itself every waking moment. Her nightmares must be horrific.

And it serves her right. To act as a mini-Hitler by not pulling the trigger herself but instructing others to take part in evil, she should rot in her prison cell.

The only way for Smart to have some semblance of rectifying the situation is to finally confess. With a word of truth regarding the case, she could just allow the shackles to fall in her mind if not physically. She should not be forgiven for her terrible deeds. She should still be locked up until the day that she dies.

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