2008 Woodie Awards
From new kid on the block to trigger-man
Rebecca Roy
Issue date: 4/20/06 Section: Justice in New Hampshire
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They moved to New England to start a new life, a life that was all the way across the country from his father's, whose life all too suddenly came to an end. In court documents obtained at Rockingham County Court House, his mother explains, "I uprooted him from his friends in California and brought him to New Hampshire and, perhaps, in some way, he believed if I had never left his father, he never would have died in that tragic car accident."
In the spring of 1990, Bill was a sophomore at Winnacunnet High School, and like most guys his age he had a gang of friends and was into cars, heavy metal music and girls. He sported a fashionable mullet and acid washed jeans. But his mother described him under a different light, "Bill was a very angry and withdrawn young adolescent. He lost his father at a very vulnerable age and he blamed me for most of his unhappiness," she said.
In documents obtained at Rockingham County Courthouse, Elaine Flynn was documented saying, that Bill, "started to come out of his shell when Pete (Patrick Randall) and J.R. (Vance Lattime) decided to befriend him…the year of 1989 Bill spent most of his waking hours over J.R.'s house hanging out with his friends." He also befriended a fellow student named Cecilia Pierce. Bill became involved in a Self Esteem Project at Winnacunnet, and later became involved with the project's director.
At the age of 17, William Flynn confessed to the shooting of Greg Smart following a sexual relationship with Pam Smart, based on the desire to be with her. Flynn later testified that he committed the murder on Pam's instructions.
While their chronological age difference in March of 1990 was six years, it appears they were socially matched. In an exclusive interview with Pam Smart at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility, she said that she was 21 years old at the time the affair began with Bill Flynn, however she is documented as being 22-years-old at the time the affair went on.
"I was an immature 21-year-old and Bill was very mature for 16," she said in a prison interview. Her mother, Linda Wojas, echoes Pam's thoughts, "She [Pam] was incredibly socially immature…Greg came to her and told her he cheated on her. She was teaching a course on self-esteem when her self-esteem was in the basement."
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Nakeshia Johnson
posted 3/29/07 @ 5:27 PM EST
Well i do not know what to think about that case. But when you look at the tape it looks like Bill Flynn is telling the truth. And i belive she had something to do with it because the motive would be she was mad that her husban cheated on her and she wanted to get back at him but the only way was throw a young boy so she was embrass about that so she keep it to herself. (Continued…)
Mercedes
posted 3/29/07 @ 7:21 PM EST
I feel extremely bad for Bryan Flynn because he only commited the crime for love and boy did he get nothing! Sending him to jail until he's 43, is kind of cruel, though. (Continued…)
Lila McKenney
posted 4/09/07 @ 2:43 PM EST
I think Billy Flynn knew it was wrong, but Pam had him backed into a corner. She convinced him that she was being abused by her husband. I too agree that his punishment was harsh. (Continued…)
Billy Dominique
posted 1/02/08 @ 2:19 PM EST
Billy Flynn killed Greg and was given too easy of a sentence. He should have been given the death penalty. If you take a life, you should forfeit your life. (Continued…)
smith
posted 1/21/08 @ 7:25 PM EST
He pulled a trigger on the back of a man's head as he begged him not to. There's no amount of manipulation that would make a decent person do that.
If he's such a nice guy then I say he can continue to brighten up the cellblock. (Continued…)
HF
posted 1/29/08 @ 9:05 PM EST
I think Bill Flynn should be released from jail when his victim can get up and walk out of his grave.
Gail
posted 1/29/08 @ 10:42 PM EST
I just wrote to Pam Smart and told her Why would she have a loser like you to kill her husband,that she should have divorced him. So Why would you kill him,Oh Yah SEX!!! You are a LOSER!!!!!
Tonnie
posted 2/16/08 @ 4:37 PM EST
Pam Smart is exactly where she deserves to be. And it is SHE who should walk out of prison the day Gregg walks from his grave!
Bill Flynn has spent over half his life in prison for a crime he did while influenced by someone older and much more manipulative that his 15 years could've seen through. (Continued…)
ALS
posted 5/18/08 @ 6:44 AM EST
Pam Smart = mentally disturbed, emotionally disturbed, socially and emotionally immature.
Billy Flynn = a child emotionally and physiologically incapable of escaping the clutches and the influence of an older, more mature, more educated, more manipulative, PREDATORY adult. (Continued…)
Sunni
posted 6/15/08 @ 2:38 AM EST
Dear Pame,
How beautiful you looked on that magazine cover, so nice
to see you as an old bag rotting in hell!
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