CONCORD, N.H. (AP) – Two participants in New Hampshire’s notorious Pamela Smart murder case may be freed from prison this year.
Raymond Fowler, who was a teenager who waited in the getaway car in the 1990 case and was returned to prison for violating parole was paroled again Thursday. Vance Lattime, who also was a teenager at the time, had his sentence reduced by three years in February, making him eligible for parole later this year.
John Eckert, executive assistant to the Parole Board, said Fowler, now 34, can leave state prison as early as June 14 if his parole officer is satisfied with Fowler’s job and housing arrangements.
Fowler was released last year but was returned to prison after being cited for a middle-of-the-night visit to his ex-girlfriend in Massachusetts. Fowler said he went to the apartment to talk to her after he was told she was doing drugs while pregnant with his child.
When she didn’t come out, police said Fowler let the air out of one of her car tires. He was accused of trying to persuade her not to testify against him. He pleaded guilty to witness tampering and was sentenced to one to three years.
Lattime, now 31, was convicted of second-degree murder and has been serving a sentence of 18 years to life in Thomaston State Prison in Maine.
In the Smart case, Fowler and Lattime waited in the getaway car while their friend, William Flynn, then 15, went inside Smart’s home and shot her husband, 24-year-old Gregory Smart.
Flynn was having an affair with Pamela, who worked at the teens’ Winnacunet High School. A fourth teen, Patrick Randall, held Gregory Smart down.
Smart is serving a life sentence in Bedford, N.Y., as the instigator in the murder.
Randall and Flynn are eligible for parole in 2018.
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