(NECN: Lauren Collins) - Dean Smart is used to it by now -- every couple of years the woman convicted in his brother's death is back in the spotlight. So he wasn't surprised to learn that Pam Smart would be on Oprah.
"Over the course of 20 years, does that get tiresome?"
"Oh of course, very tiresome," he says.
"Pam Smart was interviewed from the New York prison where she's been since 1991, serving a life sentence for plotting with her teenage lover and his friends to kill her husband.
She says in the interview aired Friday, "I never wanted him dead, I never asked anybody to kill him. I didn't suggest it. I didn't plant the idea in anybody's head. And I've spent 20 years in prison already for something I didn't even do."
Dr. Eleanor Pam, a spokeswoman and mentor for Pam Smart tells NECN, "She continues to assert her innocence and will forever, even though this has prejudiced her in the eyes of the public and the legal system. She is in the dilemma of all innocent persons who are unwilling to trade a lenient sentence and better treatment for a false but pragmatic admission of guilt."
"I realize that's something that she has to do," says Dean Smart, "but it doesn't really mean that she's innocent or that anything's going to change for her."
Pam has never reached out to dean or his family, though she says she has regrets, namely her affair.
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"I really am sorry I made the choice to get involved with bill in the first place."
Dean is about to release a childhood memoir of his older brother. It's called Skylights and Screen Doors. Skylights for the one in the bedroom he and Gregg shared.
"You could open it up and stand right out on the roof and so we used to stand out there at night and talk every night," he remembers."
It's not easy for Dean to talk about Pam or Gregg's murder. It's not easy for him to know that Billy Flynn, the boy convicted of pulling the trigger, will be out of prison in a few years. But it is easy for him to keep his brother's memory alive.
"I try to stand up for Gregg. It's easy to stand up for Gregg. I loved him. He was a good guy."
For more information on Dean Smart's memoir, you can check out his website, www.deanjsmart.com.
