Dark Enigma - The Murder of Betsy Faria Part II

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Welcome heathens welcome to the world of the weird and unexplained. I’m your host, Nicole Delacroix and together, we will be investigating stories about the weird, wonderful, unexplained, eerie, scary and down-right unbelievable. There will be tales of ghosts, murder, supernatural beings and unexplained mysteries. So, sit back, grab your favorite drink, relax and prepare to be transported to today's dark Enigma....

And on today’s Dark enigma we are picking up where we left off from last week and finishing up the story about the murder of Betsy Faria. As always, we will be playing our drinking game and as you know, the drinking game is only for those of us that are at home and have nowhere else to go tonight. I will leave the choice of libation up to you, so choose your venom accordingly… Alright, for the game part this week, how about we keep it easy and use the same as last week, so every time I say money that will be a single shot and every time I say knife, that’s a double shot. Ok, now that the business end is out of the way we can jump headfirst into today’s dark enigma… And the crazy ass story of Betsy Faria’s murder, her husbands’ trial and her so-called best friend’s multiple stories ok so to recap….

Betsy Faria had survived one round of chemo and had just celebrated her birthday only to find out that her cancer was back. Her friend Pamela Hupp had talked her into changing her life insurance so that Hupp was the beneficiary instead of Betsy’s husband and children. Then Betsy’s husband, Russ, despite having a rock solid alibi and never wavering from his story was arrested and on trial. And Pam Hupp has changed her story multiple times and hasn’t provided any alibi, but yet is not on trial for anything and has received funds from life insurance policies to boot. Ok, so I don’t know about you guys, but I smell something seriously rotten in Denmark… and it’s not the cheese… so let’s jump right back in to it where we left off.

Detail by detail, Schwartz went through the forensics, timing, and alibi. He even addressed Askey’s earlier theory, that Russ had stabbed his wife in a spontaneous fit of rage and cleaned up in a matter of minutes. This was a murder designed to look like rage, Schwartz said. “There were no irregularities in those stab wounds.” They were methodical, neatly aligned, no wiggle to the blade. Many were likely inflicted after death; they hadn’t bled. As prosecutor, Askey had the final word: “There isn’t any evidence that points anywhere else.” When Schwartz objected, the jury was told to disregard the statement, but many of them must have agreed with it. One juror actually scribbled a note: “They’re trying to pin this on Pam Hupp.” In four-and-a-half hours, they returned a verdict of guilty.