May 1, 1990, began as any other day would for this woman.

She arrived at Winnacunnet High School, where she worked as the media coordinator, and proceeded to a meeting there. When she returned home, she discovered her husband, dead in a pool of blood.

But what initially appeared to be a random attack ended up being something completely else. Police discovered during their investigation that four neighborhood youngsters had visited the residence in Derry, New Hampshire, that evening.

Two stories with ferociously opposing viewpoints came to light in a trial that riveted the nation. According to the teenagers, this black widow encouraged them to kill her husband all the while, she vehemently disputed it.


This is the case of "black widow" Pamela Smart