Pamela Smart - in Media

In Media

• "Scorned: Love Kills," a series on the Investigation Discovery channel, dedicated an episode to the story on February 11, 2012

• Dean J. Smart, brother of murder victim Gregg Smart, released Skylights and Screendoors (ISBN13: 978-1-936680-02-3), his memoir, on April 7, 2011.

• Smart appeared on Oprah on October 22, 2010. On the show, Smart claimed she was innocent and believes that her sentence for life in prison is too harsh.

• The trial was the basis of the television movie Murder in New Hampshire: The Pamela Wojas Smart Story, starring Helen Hunt and Chad Allen

• Joyce Maynard drew several elements from the case for her 1992 novel To Die For (ISBN 978-0451186072).

• Maynard's novel was adapted by Buck Henry for Gus Van Sant's 1995 movie To Die For, starring Nicole Kidman and Matt Dillon as the fictional wife and husband, and Joaquin Phoenix as the wife's teenaged lover.

• The case was also the subject of several best-selling true crime books, including Teach Me To Kill (ISBN 978-0380766499) and Deadly Lessons (ISBN 978-0312927615).

• The character of Becky Burgess in feminist writer Marge Piercy's novel The Longings of Women (ISBN 978-1570420443) was inspired by Pamela Smart and the conspiracy to kill Gregory Smart.

• The crime series American Justice played an episode on the case "Crime of Passion: The Pamela Smart Story."

• Incident parodied in an episode of Family Guy, "Fast Times at Buddy Cianci Jr. High".