sleeping with billy flynn. and that would caricature her.ike the bikini photos that they were not shot. they were taken for fun for a modeling contest with friends. >> somehow the narrative escaped or got creative that i took these pictures for bill flynn and gave it to him to seduce him, and that is a false story. >> there was a lot to dig out for that yes, she had been a school district employee who slept with a student. >> you suspect when it is over that you would have sex with him? >> yes. >> did you have sex with him? >> yes. >> did you make love to him? >> yes. and then when i did, i told him that i didn't think it was right and that it was wrong, and i wanted to be with gregg, and he kept saying why didn't i just get a divorce and i said because i love gregg. >> she said billy didn't want the relationship to end. >> he started crying and he said he couldn't live without me. >> how did that make you feel? >> i felt bad. i didn't want to hurt his feelings. i still wanted to be friends with him and he was still a nice person. >> and the

. >> the defendant initiated an affair with billy flynn.'re telling us that just you and pam are spending the night together? >> i think it's weird, man. >> juju: smart, now 56, plead for a hearing with new hampshire governor sununu hoping to have her sentence of life without parole commuted. >> imrespectfully asking for the opportunity to come before you, the new hampshire executive council, and have an honest conversation with you. >> she's been in prison a long time. she's got nothing to lose here. >> juju: in 1990, the execution-style murder of 24-year-old greg smart shattered this close-knit town of derry, new hampshire. pam, who worked as a media coordinator at a local high school, seemingly grieving for her husband. authorities soon discover her illicit relationship with 16-year-old billy flynn. >> pamela smart had two big problems at trial. number one is all the young people involved in this turned on her. number two is there was an audiotape, a secret wire that one of them made of her, when in the end was devastating. >> juju: ceci

old teacher in new hampshire back in 1990, when she began an affair with a 15 year old student, billy flynnhe would later kill smart's husband, greg, who was on his knees when he was shot in the head. flynn pleaded guilty to second degree murder, but smart, who was accused of recruiting flynn for the killing, was charged with being an accomplice to first degree murder. >> if this story were a made for tv movie and it surely will be, you might not believe it. >> her trial became a media circus, inspiring the hollywood movie to die for. >> do we have to get, permission slips from our parents for this? >> no, no, that wouldn't be necessary. smart denied knowledge of the murder plot, but a jury didn't buy it. >> she was convicted and sentenced to life without parole. but now, in a new video, smart admits that she previously deflected blame for gregory's murder, and she's now asking new hampshire's governor to reduce her sentence. >> i had to acknowledge for the first time in my own, you know, mind and my own heart how responsible i was. >> greg smart's family says they're not convinced by the n

the four men convicted for their roles in the killing including billy flynn, who pulled the trigger, prison. greg smart's uncle, jim smart, said she still hasn't paid the price for what she did. >> until she admits that he planned it, that she's guilty of it, she should stay in jail if she doesn't say that. >> pamela told us that she won't confess to things she didn't do just to get out of prison. during her 34 years in prison she's earned three master's degree, a ph.d. in divinity. she's a minister and has tumored countless inmates and dozens of high profile supporters have written letters for her freedom. she is pleading to meeted with clemency officials after accepting blame in this way. >> robin: you talked to her several times over the years. >> multiple times over the years and has sat with her and talked with her about all these issue. >> michael: you can see more of her story tonight on "nightline." >> absolutely. >> michael: thank you very much for that, juju. now the close call on a train track. the driver of an 18-wheeler managed to escape just before a train smashed into

i love that, yeah, playing billy flynn. >> so you didn't want to be typecast.e beenin typecast. do you feel you've been in the shadow of that character at all over the years? yeah. >> oh, definitely. i mean, i would love to have done something like downton abbey. i could have played above stairs, you know. yeah. if you like, you can do posh. i could, i could, yes, or below , you know. but, so yes, or below, you know. but, so i wouldn't have been considered for that. i can understand it in a way, because, you know, people say, oh, what's nick cotton doing below stairs? yeah. downton. you know, they would. i'm afraid so. and i've done it. i've done it for so long. but there you go . there you go. >> well, listen, it's been a great career, which, of course, continues to this day, you just were watching some of that footage during the introduction of june brown , your mother dot of june brown, your mother dot cotton, and you've got happy memories of working with her, don't you? >> oh, very happy memories. yeah. and we got on from the start, actually. and my real mo