Pamela Smart saw 122x more Wikipedia readers than usual

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Pamela Ann Smart is an American woman who was convicted of being an accomplice to first-degree murder, conspiracy to murder, and witness tampering in the 1990 death of her husband, Gregory (Gregg) William Smart. Smart, then aged 22, had conspired with her underaged boyfriend, then 15-year-old William "Billy" Flynn, and three of his friends to have Gregg murdered in Derry, New Hampshire. She is currently serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility for Women, a maximum security prison in Westchester County, New York.

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