PAMELA SMART
Born
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Occupation
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Media
services consultant
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Criminal charge
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Criminal penalty
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Criminal status
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Spouse(s)
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Greggory
Smart
(m. 1989-1990, his death) |
Children
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None
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Parents
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John
and Linda Wojas
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Pamela Ann Wojas was born in Coral Gables, Florida. She was the second of three children, with her sister Elizabeth, six years older, and her brother John, three years younger. Her father worked as a commercial airline pilot, while her mother worked part-time as a legal secretary.
Smart combined her passion for heavy metal music with her career aspirations. She hosted a one-night-a-week radio show at WVFS that she called “Metal Madness", using the alias "Maiden of Metal".
Pamela Wojas met Greggory Smart at a 1986 New Year's Eve party. They formed a serious relationship in February 1987 and married two years later. They shared a passion for heavy metal music. Greg bought her a Shih Tzu and she named it "Halen" after her favorite rock group Van Halen. Seven months into the marriage, the Smarts began having serious problems in their relationship. She took a job as a media coordinator at Winnacunnet High School in Hampton, New Hampshire.
Smart met Winnacunnet High School student Billy Flynn at "Project Self-Esteem," a local drug awareness program at the school, in which both were volunteers. She was able to impress him with her interest in heavy metal music. Flynn, a sophomore, was always going out of his way to be helpful during the sessions and also visited Smart every day in her office. Smart also met another intern named Cecilia Pierce, who was friends with Flynn.
Aftermath
William Flynn and Patrick Randall
are serving their sentences at the Maine State Prison in Warren, Maine. Raymond Fowler
was paroled in 2003 but was sent back to prison for violating his parole terms
in 2004. He was paroled again in June 2005. Vance Lattime had his 30-year
sentence reduced by 12 years. In 2005, his sentence was reduced by three years,
and he was paroled.Cecilia Pierce, who was one of Pamela Smart's interns at the time of the murder, signed a $100,000 option for the screen rights to her story.
Recent events
William Flynn is incarcerated at
the Maine State Prison in Warren, where he earned
his GED, has been active
in charity work and worked as an electrician at the prison. In 2007, Flynn
sought a sentence reduction after serving 16 years, stating that he had vowed
not to do so until he had spent as many years behind bars as he had spent free.
He also apologized to Gregg Smart's family for murdering him. The Smart family
opposed the request. On February 12, 2008, the request was denied,
although Flynn's parole eligibility date was reduced by three years to 25
years, making him eligible for parole in 2015. March 2009, a judge reduced Patrick Randall's
minimum sentence by three years, making him eligible for release in June 2015. T E X T C O M P R E H E N S I O N
01-Choose the correct
sentence according to the text:
a)Pamela Smart
is forty five years old
b)Cecilia Pierce participated in the murder
c)John and
Linda Wojas are Greg Smart’s parents
d)Raymond
Fowler and Patrick Randall were enemies
e)Pamela Smart’s
dad was an airline pilot
02-The murder
happened in ______________________________.
a)Florida b)New Hampshire c)Maine d)New York e)New Jersey
03-Pamela Smart
has _________________siblings.
a)two b)three c)four d)five e)six
04-Nowadays
Pamela Smart is in _____________________.
a)New
Hampshire b)New York c)New Jersey d)Florida e)Maine
05-___________________killed
Greggory Smart.
a)Billy
Flynt b)Pamela Smart c)Patrick Randall d)Raymond fowler e)Vance Lattime
06-Greg bought
Pamela Smart __________________________.
a)a golden
jewel b)a luxury car c)a motorcycle d)a weapon e) a toy dog