Host Mel Barrett investigates a famous murder case that has split the community in her home state of New Hampshire right down the middle for thirty-four years. It’s a closed case, but based on what Mel uncovers this season in old police files (including surreptitiously recorded wiretaps), never before heard interviews, and a bombshell post trial interview with a juror that’s been hidden away, Mel is about to blow the case wide open.
On this season of The In Between Podcast, the Accomplice to Murder Trial of Pamela Smart goes under the microscope and Mel finds new evidence that may lead to a new trial.
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Pamela Smart answers various questions and discusses an appeal and what's next. You can binge all ad-free episodes and bonus content of The In Between over at the Grab Bag Collab Patreon page. Follow The In Between Podcast at: IG: @TheInBetweenPodOfficial FB: @TheInBetweenPod Bluesky: @inbetweenpod Web: inbetweenpod.com
Mar 11, 2025•1 hr 26 min•Ep 12•Transcript available on Metacast
Mel talks at length with someone very close to the case and the boys who perpetrated the murder, Raymond's brother, Robert. Robert goes into detail about what happened the night of the murder when the boys came back to his home and what it was like in the months leading up to the trial, including his thoughts on Pam Smart and her sentence. You can binge all ad-free episodes and bonus content of The In Between over at the Grab Bag Collab Patreon page. Follow The In Between Podcast at: IG: @TheInB...
Mar 04, 2025•37 min•Ep 11•Transcript available on Metacast
Even Manson had the option of parole. Mel speaks further with the Sentencing Project and a Democratic Representative from NH who is introducing a new bill that might offer the opportunity of parole for Pamela Smart. You can binge all ad-free episodes and bonus content of The In Between over at the Grab Bag Collab Patreon page. Follow The In Between Podcast at: IG: @TheInBetweenPodOfficial FB: @TheInBetweenPod Bluesky: @inbetweenpod Web: inbetweenpod.com...
Feb 25, 2025•22 min•Ep 10•Transcript available on Metacast
Mel got the chance to catch up with Pam, which gave her an opportunity to respond to the podcast so far. You can binge all ad-free episodes and bonus content of The In Between over at the Grab Bag Collab Patreon page. Follow The In Between Podcast at: IG: @TheInBetweenPodOfficial FB: @TheInBetweenPod Bluesky: @inbetweenpod Web: inbetweenpod.com...
Feb 18, 2025•25 min•Ep 9•Transcript available on Metacast
The media's role in creating the trope of the "manipulative ice princess" and how that categorization found Pam Smart's family desperately searching to find their daughter and sister within the prison system when she went missing during the first two years of her Life Without Parole Sentence. Listen to find out where she was and why her family couldn't find her until it was too late to say goodbye. You can binge all ad-free episodes and bonus content of The In Between over at the Grab Bag Collab...
Feb 11, 2025•35 min•Ep 8•Transcript available on Metacast
For fourteen days in March of 1991, the country and much of the world was riveted by a court case in a tiny New Hampshire town called, Exeter. The Pamela Smart Accomplice to Murder Trial. Perhaps everyone was so enthralled by the spectacle they missed the very real possibility of a miscarriage of justice, but there's the tape and transcripts. Mel takes a deep dive on the trial and errors that occurred. Can't wait for episode eight? You can binge all episodes of The In Between over at the Grab B...
Feb 04, 2025•46 min•Ep 7•Transcript available on Metacast
This episode wasn't planned, but Mel felt compelled to share it when she FINALLY tracked down one of the key players in this story, and he spent an hour with her. This is the only episode in the series that is comprised of an interview with a source. Listen to find out why. Can't wait for episode seven? You can binge all episodes of The In Between over at the Grab Bag Collab Patreon page. Follow The In Between Podcast at: IG: @TheInBetweenPodOfficial FB: @TheInBetweenPod Bluesky: @inbetweenpod W...
Jan 28, 2025•59 min•Ep 6•Transcript available on Metacast
The wire taps were the only physical evidence against Pamela Smart, so the questions remain: Was Pamela Smart acting when she was recorded by the Derry Police and Cecelia Pierce? She says she was. Were the wiretaps edited or spliced? Forensic audiologists say yes. Who transcribed the tapes? The prosecutor says some "secretary" in the Attorney General's office, not a certified transcriber. Mel dives deep into the tapes in this episode and even manages to get her hands on the famed transcripts. Ca...
Jan 21, 2025•1 hr•Ep 5•Transcript available on Metacast
Only one of the five teens involved in planning and carrying out the murder of Gregg Smart on May 1, 1990 was never charged and never served a day behind bars. Cecelia Pierce. In this episode, Mel goes on another deep dive to figure out why. She even comes across some potentially new evidence...if she can figure out where it exists. Can't wait for episode five? You can binge all episodes of The In Between over at the Grab Bag Collab Patreon page. Follow The In Between Podcast at: IG: @TheInBetwe...
Jan 14, 2025•39 min•Ep 4•Transcript available on Metacast
Hi friends! It’s Mel Barrett, the host of The In Between Podcast, coming at you with a very big announcement. On Tuesday, January 14th at 5:45 pm EST, Ellyn Marsh from I Think Not and Rabia and Ellyn Solve the Case, and I will be co-hosting a live event on the Grab Bag Collab Patreon for our “Behind the Scenes” and up tiers about my first season of TIBP, Live Free or Die . The first season of the pod, if you haven’t listened yet, is all about the Pamela Smart Accomplice to Murder Trial that happ...
Jan 11, 2025•1 min•Transcript available on Metacast
Mel takes you on a deep, deep dive into the teens involved in the murder and who they were at the time, and beyond. Was there a reason behind Bill Flynn's emotions on the stand? What did they actually do to Pam's dog? Listener discretion is advised. You've been warned. Can't wait for episode four? You can binge all episodes of The In Between over at the Grab Bag Collab Patreon page. Follow The In Between Podcast at: IG: @TheInBetweenPodOfficial FB: @TheInBetweenPod Bluesky: @inbetweenpod Web: in...
Jan 07, 2025•45 min•Ep 3•Transcript available on Metacast
Pam is angry. The men who pulled the trigger and killed her husband are out. They’ve been out for almost a decade while she still sits in prison without any possibility of parole. But Pam has been angry for nearly 34 years. Her anger is part of how we think of her, how we remember her. Can't wait for episode three? You can binge all episodes of The In Between over at the Grab Bag Collab Patreon page. Follow The In Between Podcast at: IG: @TheInBetweenPodOfficial FB: @TheInBetweenPod Bluesky: @in...
Dec 31, 2024•34 min•Ep 2•Transcript available on Metacast
In this debut episode of The In Between , host Mel Barrett takes you back to May 1990, when Gregg Smart was brutally murdered in the condo he shared with his young wife, Pamela Smart. Just down the road, a 15-year-old Mel listened closely as her family and neighbors confidently discussed the case: Pamela, they believed, had manipulated her 16-year-old lover into killing her husband. Now, thirty-four years later, Mel revisits what she was told back then, questioning the narrative that has lingere...
Dec 24, 2024•26 min•Ep 1•Transcript available on Metacast
Host Mel Barrett investigates a famous murder case that has split the community in her home state of New Hampshire right down the middle for thirty-four years. It’s a closed case, but based on what Mel uncovers this season in old police files (including surreptitiously recorded wiretaps), never before heard interviews, and a bombshell post trial interview with a juror that’s been hidden away, Mel is about to blow the case wide open. On this season of The In Between Podcast, the Accomplice to Mur...
Dec 13, 2024•4 min•Transcript available on Metacast