{"id":286043,"date":"2020-01-07T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-07T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1109078"},"modified":"2020-01-07T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-07T18:00:00","slug":"pamela-smart-sits-down-with-20-20-after-3-decades-behind-bars-for-new-tainted-love-special","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/pamela-smart-sits-down-with-20-20-after-3-decades-behind-bars-for-new-tainted-love-special\/","title":{"rendered":"Pamela Smart Sits Down With 20\/20 After 3 Decades Behind Bars for New &#8220;Tainted Love&#8221; Special"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/202007\/rs_600x600-200107092052-600-pamela-smart-ch-1720.jpg?fit=around|600:467&amp;crop=600:467;center,top&amp;output-quality=90\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"video-int-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"38\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-video-text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"16\">\n<p><strong>Pamela Smart<\/strong> seemed to have it all with new husband <strong>Gregg<\/strong>. Until she didn&#8217;t. Now, after three decades in prison convicted on charges related to her husband&#8217;s murder, she&#8217;s speaking to <em>20\/20<\/em> for a new special, &#8220;Tainted Love, Murder &amp; Pamela Smart.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The two-hour installment details the series of events surrounding Gregg&#8217;s murder that eventually led authorities to make several arrests and charge Pamela with being an accomplice to first-degree murder. Pamela&#8217;s trial was one of the first in US history to be broadcast on television from start to finish. Now, three decades later, Pamela still maintains her innocence and in a new interview with <strong>Juju Chang<\/strong>, she reveals all about that night Gregg was killed and ow she could have a new chance at freedom.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"64\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"18\">\n<p>&#8220;My name is Pamela Smart. I&#8217;ve been incarcerated for 29 years. I have bene portrayed as \u2018ice princess,&#8217; \u2018black widow,&#8217; and a \u2018killer,&#8217; and none of those things could be further from the truth,&#8221; Smart says in the exclusive preview above.<\/p>\n<p>The trailer above features Chang talking to Smart about her affair with a 16-year-old boy, admitting she crossed a line when she was 22 year old and involved with the teenager. Now, the admitted killers are out of prison, but Smart remains behind bars. &#8220;We all wondered what it would be like to meet this woman, a woman that a jury was convinced had masterminded her husband&#8217;s murder,&#8221; Chang says in the video above. &#8220;Turns out there is one thing Pam Smart can do today that could give her that chance to get out of jail.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-3\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"58.14606741573\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"9.6910112359551\">\n<p>The trailer promises new details and interviews with people surrounding the case. <strong>Linda Wojas<\/strong>, Pamela&#8217;s mother; <strong>Mark Sisti<\/strong>, Pamela&#8217;s attorney; and <strong>Paul Maggiotto<\/strong>, former New Hampshire assistant attorney general who prosecuted Pamela&#8217;s case, are interviewed for the special, as is <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/nancy_grace\">Nancy Grace<\/a><\/strong>. <strong>Diane Sawyer<\/strong>&#8216;s old interviews with Smart will also be included.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-4\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"57\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"4\">\n<p>&#8220;Tainted Love, Murder &amp; Pamela Smart&#8221; airs on <em>20\/20<\/em> on Friday, Jan. 10 at 9 p.m. on ABC.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1109078\/pamela-smart-sits-down-with-20-20-after-3-decades-behind-bars-for-new-tainted-love-special?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! 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