Deadly Secret

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4.4 • 38K Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Before the Menendez brothers, the Bobbitts or even O.J., Pamela Smart was television's first true crime fascination after her husband was found murdered. When police began to investigate, they discovered that Smart was keeping a big secret. She speaks out to Andrea Canning about the case that made worldwide headlines and inspired a Hollywood movie. Originally aired on NBC on July 29, 2019.

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0:00.0	This really was a soap opera.
0:04.0	Unfortunately, it's my life and it wasn't a soap opera for me.
0:08.0	It was TV's first blockbuster trial,
0:11.0	scandalous and sensational.
0:13.0	Persexuality. That was the star of the Pam Smart Show.
0:17.0	It's explosion of flash bulbs.
0:20.0	It's body heat. It's fatal attraction.
0:24.0	Pamela Smart, accused of bewitching a teenage student
0:28.0	into murdering her husband.
0:31.0	Yes.
0:32.0	I said, God forgive me.
0:34.0	I pulled the trigger.
0:36.0	Now, three decades later,
0:39.0	another look at the frenzy.
0:42.0	It was just crazy.
0:43.0	The trial.
0:44.0	I made a mistake.
0:45.0	Was killing your husband one of those mistakes?
0:47.0	No.
0:48.0	The woman.
0:49.0	It's not at all who she is or was.
0:51.0	And the case some say,
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