<div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>A US high school worker manipulated her 15-year-old lover into murdering her husband, a jury found on </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/today-in-history" rel="" target="" title="March 22, 1991"><span>March 22, 1991</span></a><span>.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/world/today-in-history-march-22-what-happened-on-this-day/116e71b8-30e5-46a7-bb99-38b5d116deb8" rel="" target="" title="Pamela Smart"><span>Pamela Smart</span></a><span> had conspired with her teenage boyfriend and his three friends to kill her husband the previous year.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Smart, then 22, threatened to withhold sex from her lover unless he killed the man she had married only a year earlier.</span></div></div><div><div id="adspot-mobile-medium"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/world/today-in-history-march-20-what-happened-on-this-day-princess-anne-kidnapping/28eae109-7afb-4aec-84fa-6cb5face085e"><strong><span>Princess Anne tells would-be kidnapper 'not bloody likely'</span></strong></a><span></span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>After being caught talking about the murder on a wire, Smart was confronted by a detective in her school's car park.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"I have some good news and I have some bad news," the detective told her.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"The good news is that we've solved the murder of your husband. The bad news is you're under arrest."</span></div></div><div><div class="OUTBRAIN" data-reactroot="" data-src="//www.9news.com.au/world/today-in-history-march-22-what-happened-on-this-day/2b02c286-01f4-45a8-9b12-21247818e8da" data-widget-id="AR_5"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>One of the first trials in US history to be televised, Smart became famous nationwide.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>In the trial she was portrayed as a cold-blooded mastermind by her teenage accomplices.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/world/today-in-history-march-12-what-happened-on-this-day/1d873918-5057-4a15-a8e6-4e0da54eb438"><strong><span>How a stationery store owner crashed an entire economy</span></strong></a><span></span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>She was given a mandatory life sentence without the possibility of parole.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>She remains behind bars, though her co-conspirators have since been freed.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/today-in-history" target="" title="For more from our Today in History archive, click here."><strong><span>For more from our Today in History archive, click here</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/how-to-follow-9news-digital/29855bb1-ad3d-4c38-bc25-3cb52af1216f" target="_blank"><strong><em><span>DOWNLOAD THE 9NEWS APP</span></em></strong></a><strong><em><span>: Stay across all the latest in breaking news, sport, politics and the weather via our news app and get notifications sent straight to your smartphone. Available on the</span></em></strong><span> </span><a href="https://apps.apple.com/au/app/9news/id1010533727" target="_blank"><strong><em><span>Apple App Store</span></em></strong></a><span> </span><strong><em><span>and</span></em></strong><span> </span><a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nineNewsAlerts.nine.com&amp;hl=en_AU&amp;pli=1" target="_blank"><strong><em><span>Google Play</span></em></strong></a><strong><em><span>.</span></em></strong></div></div>