THE JURY BELIEVED (click here) she seduced William Flynn, now 17, then threatened to end their steamy relationship unless he killed her husband. Smart told Flynn her husband hit her, and that she couldn’t get a divorce because he would never leave her alone. Smart risked losing her dog Haley, the furniture, and money, and would have to move out of the couple’s Morning Misty Drive condominium.
Flynn admitted to pulling the trigger of the .38-caliber revolver used to kill Gregg while Flynn’s best friend, Patrick “Pete” Randall, 17, held the pleading victim by the hair with a butcher knife at his throat. A third youth, Vance Lattime Jr. provided the murder weapon and drove the getaway car. A fourth, Raymond Fowler, 19, kept Lattime company while Flynn and Randall killed Gregg after first ransacking the apartment to make it look as though the victim interrupted a burglary when he got home from a business meeting at 10 p.m. May 1, 1990.
Reports of teachers (click here) accused of unlawful sexual relationships with their students continue to make headlines. Here are some of the stories covered in recent years.
Lockhart, Texas, police said Sarah Fowlkes, a 27-year-old high school teacher, had an improper relationship with a 17-year-old student. She turned herself in after a warrant was issued for her arrest in March 2017....
