EPISODE · Dec 7, 2025 · 8 MIN
This Woman is The Worst Person I've Ever Covered - The Pam Hupp Story
from Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast · host Ray William Johnson
Pam Hupp is a Missouri woman at the center of one of the most notorious wrongful-conviction cases in the U.S. in 2011, after her close friend Betsy Faria was brutally stabbed to death, Hupp- who had secretly made herself the beneficiary of Betsy’s $150k life-insurance policy just days earlier- helped steer police toward Betsy’s husband Russ Faria, who was wrongly convicted and imprisoned for nearly three years before being fully exonerated; when investigators began refocusing on Hupp in 2016, she staged a fake kidnapping plot to frame Russ again and instead murdered Louis Gumpenberger, a cognitively impaired man she lured with a fake Dateline acting job.
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Pam Hupp is a Missouri woman at the center of one of the most notorious wrongful-conviction cases in the U.S. in 2011, after her close friend Betsy Faria was brutally stabbed to death, Hupp- who had secretly made herself the beneficiary of Betsy’s $150k life-insurance policy just days earlier- helped steer police toward Betsy’s husband Russ Faria, who was wrongly convicted and imprisoned for nearly three years before being fully exonerated; when investigators began refocusing on Hupp in 2016, she staged a fake kidnapping plot to frame Russ again and instead murdered Louis Gumpenberger, a cognitively impaired man she lured with a fake Dateline acting job.
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