Death Insured: The Pam Hupp Story

As the ad goes: “You’re in good hands with ALLSTATE,” but not if you are Betsy Faria. The brutal murder of Betsy Faria, on December 27, 2011, set off a maelstrom of events that resulted in an innocent man's imprisonment and another man's death. It would take a decade to unravel all the misdirection in the Faria murder case, the misconduct of the prosecution team, and the insidious mind of a murderer that St. Charles County Prosecutor Tim Lohmar called "The Worst of the Worst!" Betsy Faria was stabbed over 55 times. The murder scene was staged in an effort to frame the victim's husband Russell Faria. Through an investigative trial filled with perjury, tainted evidence, and misdirection, Russell was found guilty and spent 3 1/2 years in prison before his tenacious lawyer won him a second chance. It was during that second trial that the shadows fell away and the real murderer, Pam Hupp, was revealed. But, before they could bring her to justice, several people would be stalked as potential victims, and one man would eventually lose his life in her effort to deflect suspicion from herself. Along the way, her mother mysteriously plunged from her third-floor balcony and died. And at the bottom of it all…pure greed!

Rebecca Pittman has written a book more comprehensive and riveting than any documentary or made for T.V. movie and she joins me now on Murder Most Foul to share with us COUNTDOWN TO MURDER: PAM HUPP (Death Insured).