3,014, This story has been shared 2,595 times. However, neither side called Hupp to testify during the retrial. Youll watch the lengths to which one woman would go to try to implicate Betsys husband, Russ, in a murder. Hupp had been named the sole beneficiary on a $150,000 life insurance policy held by Betsy days before the murder; following her death, she did not give any of the money from the policy to Betsy's daughters despite her reported wishes. [2] A housekeeper found Neumann dead beneath the balcony of her home at 2:30 p.m. the next day. [45], The decision not to investigate Hupp had been widely criticized; a former employee of the prosecutor's office said, "There were several of us that kept thinking, why are we not pursuing Pam Hupp? Pam Hupp, the personality that Rene Zellweger plays, is an offender who has actually been punished to life behind bars without the opportunity of parole. Make it look like Russ' wife. Judy Greer, Josh Duhamel, Gideon Adlon, Sean Bridgers, Suanne Spoke, Mac Brandt, and also Katy Mixon are several of the other stars in the actors. Pamela Hupp is a strange woman. This is one of the poorest examples of investigative work that I as well as my team have ever encountered, Wood said then. [] They were just locked down on Russ. [29], An initial motion for a new trial was rejected by Judge Christina Mennemeyer in December 2013. And so all of that investigation, including the one in Lincoln County and the one in St. Charles, became pertinent information [] I was no longer willing to say it could be an accident." The Missouri woman will spend the rest of her life in prison after admitting that prosecutors had evidence to convict her of killing a mentally disabled man in what authorities believe was part of a complicated plot to divert attention from another homicide case. This episodic series presents a compelling look at the allegations against Hupp while touching on the broader implications for the criminal justice system. In a bizarre turn, it was revealed during the retrial that Hupp had newly claimed to a detective that she and Betsy were lovers. IE 11 is not supported. In August 2016, she fatally shot Louis Gumpenberger, a mentally and physically disabled man, in her home. When she dropped Betsy off at home at approximately 7 p.m. the two called Pams husband, Mark Hupp, to check in. This was to frame Pam Hupp's friend's husband. There were no traces of blood on his body or clothes. Pam Hupp demonstrated for police detectives how she held the gun in both hands as she shot Louis Gumpenberger, after having claimed she had shot an intruder in her home. She ultimately entered an Alford plea before charges of first-degree murder and armed criminal action could go to trial. [69] A preliminary hearing was scheduled for February 2022, but was delayed indefinitely after Hupp's public defender died of a heart attack;[16] in August 2022, Hupp waived her right to a preliminary hearing. [107] Hupp is serving her sentence at the Chillicothe Correctional Center. [12] Hupp admitted that she had lied about what she intended to do with the life insurance proceeds. Docudramas . [102] In August 2018, Hupp's trial date was set for June 2019. Because its Pam, and anything can happen. Or listened to our hit podcast, The Thing About Pam. Hupp has pled not guilty. When her husband Russell Russ Faria found her on the floor he believed his terminally ill wife, whose breast cancer had metastasized to her liver, had taken her own life. In August 2019, Pam was sentenced to life in prison without parole. Pam Hupp was the one who told the authorities about this suspicious note. A carpet swatch found by police appeared to have been positioned to protect a rug in Hupp's home from Gumpenberger's blood. [84], Hupp claimed that Gumpenberger, armed with a knife, had jumped out of a car (driven by another person) into her driveway, accosted her while she sat in her SUV in her garage, and demanded she drive to a bank to retrieve "Russ' money". [2][3], In 2011, Hupp and Betsy Faria, a friend terminally ill with cancer, reportedly collected money for a family also impacted by cancer. [70] In October 2022, Hupp's trial was moved to Greene County, Missouri, being transferred to the 31st Judicial Circuit. [16], Russ spent the evening at his friend Michael Corbin's home, watching movies from 6 p.m. until 9 p.m., then drove to an Arby's in Lake St. Louis before returning home. Pam Hupp Documentary About. But this case stands alone in its heinousness and depravity such that it shocks the conscience.. [72][74] A retired homicide detective suggested to KTVI that one of the vertical bars appeared to have been "kicked out". The real Pamela Hupp testifying in court. In her young adulthood she held several jobs in the life insurance industry; on two occasions, she was fired for forging signatures. '1923' Episode 7 Recap: "The Rule of Five Hundred". Hupp has also been investigated in connection with the death of her mother, Shirley Neumann, who died in 2013 from injuries sustained in a fall from the balcony of her third-floor apartment in Fenton, Missouri. There was no evidence to suggest Faria knew the fundraiser was questionable, with her friends recalling that she said she was excited to be helping a struggling family, even though she herself was dying. This brutal crime set off a chain of events that would expo Read allBased on the 2011 murder of Betsy Faria that resulted in the conviction of her husband, Russ, but he insisted he did not kill her. Police investigators were skeptical that Gumpenberger would have been capable of carrying out the acts Hupp said he had given his mental and physical disabilities. Whatever car she thought Russ was driving, shed say she saw in the drive, Schwartz told St. Louis Magazine. If you cant watch live, tonights Dateline will be available for next-day streaming (more on that below), and both the original Dateline episode about the case as well as an episode of Snapped about Pam Hupp are currently available on Peacock. The fatal shooting prompted police to take another look at the 2013 death of Hupps mother, Shirley Neumann, who fell from the balcony of her third-floor apartment. Watch The Thing About Pam: Becoming Pam Hupp, Watch The Thing About Pam: She's A Killer, Watch The Thing About Pam: She's A Star Witness, Watch The Thing About Pam: She's A Good Friend, Watch The Thing About Pam: Renee Zellweger Is Pam. Lincoln County Prosecuting Attorney Mike Wood said he would seek the death penalty for Hupp. The St. Charles County prosecuting attorney and the O'Fallon chief of police theorized that Hupp had lured Gumpenberger to her home by presenting herself as "Cathy",[85] a producer for the television program Dateline NBC, and offering to pay him to reenact a 9-1-1 call, then shot him in order to implicate Russ in an attempt on her life (and "take heat off her"), planting the knife, the note, and the money on Gumpenberger's body. [141], In August 2022, the case of Hupp and Faria was featured in an episode of People Magazine Investigates airing on Investigation Discovery and discovery+.[142]. [2][6] Betsy had originally been scheduled to be driven home by Russ, or else stay with her mother, until Hupp unexpectedly drove to her mother's house and insisted on driving her home. The Rene Zellweger-led series The Thing About Pam may have aired its series finale on Tuesday, but NBC isnt done exploring the bizarre story of Pam Hupp. She's a graduate of Hofstra University with a B.A. [73] She spent the night of October 29, 2013, with Hupp following a hospital visit. Co-author Schwartz represented Faria's husband, Russ, in his 2013 trial, and later fought for his client's release after he was wrongfully convicted of murder. All Rights Reserved. [63] He further suggested that, by the time of Russ' second trial, Lincoln County prosecutors were acting to protect their own civil liability rather than seeking justice. A mother is found dead, another woman targeted at home, two mysterious crimes tied together with a shocking common ground. Based on the 2011 murder of Betsy Faria that resulted in the conviction of her husband, Russ, but he insisted he did not kill her. Excessive pride proves to be the downfall of one sinful perpetrator trying to preserve their reputation. It's twisty and I can see why a show would have been warranted. [17] His initial assertion that Betsy had killed herself was considered "ludicrous" by first responders who saw her body. Pam Hupp is in prison for the murder of Louis Gumpenberger and is currently going to trial for the murder of Betsy Faria where Prosecuting Mike Wood will be seeking the Death Penalty. The series will be a joint venture between NBC and Blumhouse Television. "[14][21][38][39] Meanwhile, KTVI found other problematic cases involving Mennemeyer. This brutal crime set off a chain of events that would expose a diabolical scheme deeply involving Pam Hupp.Based on the 2011 murder of Betsy Faria that resulted in the conviction of her husband, Russ, but he insisted he did not kill her. Hupp later said that Betsy had wanted her to keep the money for herself. You have reached your limit of 4 free articles. She has pled not guilty. Pamela Marie Hupp (ne Neumann; born October 10, 1958) is an American murderer serving a life sentence in Missouri's Chillicothe Correctional Center for the 2016 shooting of Louis Gumpenberger in her home in O'Fallon, Missouri. Prosecuting attorney Leah Askey countered that Russ' friends were providing a false alibi and had conspired with him to perpetrate the murder including holding onto his cellphone and posing as him to buy food at Arby's to falsify his whereabouts as an "ultimate role play". She saw a bigger picture. [14][33] During the retrial, Schwartz was allowed to introduce evidence implicating Hupp as the perpetrator. The 9-1-1 operator who had taken Russ' call believed he had been genuinely shocked and upset. 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