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    When Pamela Hupp is tried in 2016 murder, her lawyers don't want 2011 deadly stabbing mentioned

    By Robert Patrick
    St. Louis Post-Dispatch

    ST. CHARLES COUNTY • Attorneys for Pamela Hupp, facing capital murder charges for fatally shooting a man in O’Fallon, Mo., in 2016, said that Hupp was never a suspect in the murder of her friend in 2011, and asked a judge to bar any mention of that crime.

    In 68 pages of legal filings filed late last week, attorneys for Hupp predicted that the state would attempt to claim at Hupp’s June trial that a reinvestigation of the death of Elizabeth “Betsy” Faria led Hupp to fatally shoot Louis Gumpenberger more than four years later during what she said was a kidnapping attempt.

    But lawyer Kim Freter wrote that no member of law enforcement contacted Hupp or intended to contact her to either re-interview her or tell her she was a suspect. She said despite that, prosecutors would try to establish that Hupp was a “person of bad character with the propensity to commit crimes, specifically the crime of murder.”

    “Without intervention by this Court, the state will, at every opportunity, present its ‘Pamela murdered Elizabeth’ theory to the jury,” Freter wrote. Freter said that prosecutors “will never be able to provide” evidence that Hupp was a suspect in Faria’s death, or that there was even a re-investigation of the case. She said any claims otherwise would create “substantial and impermissible legal prejudice.”

    Freter asked St. Charles County Circuit Judge Jon Cunningham to bar any mention of Faria’s death, the acquittal of her husband on a murder charge, the potential motive for Hupp of an insurance payout after Faria’s death or the fact that Hupp stabbed herself after her arrest on a murder charge in the death of Louis Gumpenberger in 2016.

    In his own filing, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney Philip Groenweghe wrote that Hupp injected the Faria murder into the Gumpenberger case by trying to frame Faria’s husband, Russell Faria, for Gumpenberger’s death. She did that, they claim, by telling police that she was being kidnapped to get “Russ’ money” and via a kidnapping note she placed in Gumpenberger’s pocket referring to the case and the Farias.

    Groenweghe said prosecutors are not claiming that Hupp murdered Betsy Faria. They say she could have been trying to frame Russell Faria because she was afraid of being falsely accused of the Betsy Faria murder or because she “genuinely believed that Russ Faria murdered her friend.”

    Groenweghe said jurors would have to have at least a “rudimentary” knowledge of the Faria case to provide context to the note and Hupp’s kidnapping claim.

    Hupp’s filings quote Groenweghe as saying during a bench conference in a hearing last month that “Pam Hupp stabbed herself in the neck as part of a suicide. That will be admissible in the trial and evidence of consciousness of guilt. We also think it should be admissible as evidence of consciousness of guilt as a way of her, even in her attempt at death, tying this to the Faria case.”

    Betsy Faria was found by her husband with a knife in her neck after being stabbed dozens of times.

    Russell Faria was convicted of his wife’s murder by a jury before that conviction was overturned, in part because his attorneys were unable to try and blame Hupp. He was acquitted by a judge in a retrial.

    Hupp has denied any role in Faria’s death to both the Post-Dispatch and KTVI (Channel 2), which have jointly investigated Faria’s death since 2013.

    Freter wrote that prosecutors would try and confuse jurors at her trial in believing that a not guilty verdict for Russell Faria was equal to a judicial finding that Hupp was guilty of that crime.

    “The Faria evidence changes Pamela from a 60-year-old woman with no prior convictions who shot a man in her own home into a ‘serial killer’ responsible for two murders,” Freter wrote.

    Freter also said that St. Charles County prosecutors have repeatedly been faulted by appeals courts for the erroneous admission of “unconstitutionally prejudicial propensity/character evidence through prior bad acts.”

    The filings follow a hearing on the issue of the Faria evidence last month. Both sides will also have a week to respond to each other before Cunningham makes a decision.

    Hupp shot Gumpenberger, 33, on Aug. 16, 2016, while on the phone with 911. Prosecutors claim she tried to lure two others to her home by posing as a producer for NBC’s “Dateline” seeking help in re-enacting a 911 call.

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    Pamela Hupp pleads guilty in bizarre 2016 murder plot, avoids death penalty

    By Lauren Trager
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    ST. CHARLES (KMOV.com) -- Pamela Hupp has pleaded guilty to murder, in a bizarre plot that claimed a man’s life back in 2016.

    Hupp entered an Alford plea, a somewhat complex legal term which means she does not admit guilt, but acknowledges that the state had enough evidence to convict her beyond a reasonable doubt.

    Her plea reversal applies to both the charges of first degree murder and armed criminal action.

    The guilty plea takes the death penalty off the table, but she will serve life in prison without parole.

    "This culminates a three-year effort to bring some justice and closure to the victim’s family," said St. Charles County Prosecutor Tim Lohmar.

    Prosecutors have long said that Pamela Hupp lured Louis Gumpenberger to her O’Fallon, Missouri home in 2016 with the intent to frame someone else connected to a separate murder from 2011. Gumpenberger was fatally shot once he arrived to Hupp’s home.

    Prosecutors say the motive was to frame Russ Faria.

    Faria’s wife, Betsy Faria, was murdered in 2011 in Lincoln County. Faria was originally convicted but later acquitted. Hupp was a key figure in the case. She collected life insurance in the case and some speculate if she was involved in the murder.

    Evidence seemed to be mounted against Hupp, who was charged within weeks of Gumpenberger’s murder. Police searched her car and the safe in her home. One key clue: money found in Gumpenberger’s pocket on the day he was killed almost exactly matched the serial numbers of currency found in Hupp’s home. Data from Google maps also showed Hupp was outside Gumpenberger’s home a half an hour before the shooting. Prosecutors claimed she lured him to her home. Hupp has claimed that Gumpenberger was an intruder and that she shot him in self-defense.

    Her criminal case has now been in three years in the making. Prosecutors announced they would seek the death penalty in the case and due to heightened public scrutiny, a judge also had ruled that jurors would have to be brought in from Clay County, on the other side of the state.

    A trial was scheduled in September, 2018, then in June of 2019, but both dates were continued.

    Russ Faria is suing numerous officials in Lincoln County in federal court, regarding the case against and his ultimate acquittal.

    Experts have also scrutinized the death of Hupp’s mother, Shirley Neumann. Neumann fell from her third floor balcony at a senior living home back in 2013. Though the death was initially ruled accidental, a medical examiner later changed the death report to say it was “undetermined.” Hupp was the last person to see her mother alive.

    She has not been charged or implicated in either her mother or Betsy Faria’s deaths.

    Hupp faced a judge in St. Charles county Court at 2:00 pm today in the Gumpenberger case and entered her plea.

    At a press conference later, Lohmar noted Hupp's Alford plea doesn't mean she has to formally confess.

    "I don’t think she had the courage to say that she did it. She’s a coward and she’s been manipulative since day one," he said.

    She will be sentenced on August 12.

    https://www.kmov.com/news/pamela-hup...e29cd94ad.html
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    Woman gets life term in death of mentally disabled man

    By Jim Salter
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    ST. LOUIS (AP) — A Missouri woman was sentenced Monday to life in prison without parole for killing a mentally disabled man, apparently as part of a complicated plot to divert attention from an unsolved homicide from several years earlier.

    Pamela Hupp, 60, of the St. Louis suburb of O’Fallon, entered an Alford plea in June on a first-degree murder charge in the 2016 death of 33-year-old Louis Gumpenberger. The plea wasn’t an admission of the crime but conceded that evidence existed for a conviction.

    Hupp claimed she killed Gumpenberger in self-defense when he tried to kidnap her on Aug. 16, 2016. In reality, St. Charles Prosecuting Attorney Tim Lohmar said, Hupp killed Gumpenberger to distract from the re-investigation of her friend Betsy Faria’s 2011 death.

    Faria was stabbed to death in neighboring Lincoln County after Hupp became the beneficiary of Faria’s $150,000 life insurance policy.

    But it was Russ Faria, Betsy’s husband, who was charged and initially convicted in the killing. That conviction was overturned and Russ Faria was acquitted at retrial. He has pointed suspicion at Hupp.

    Lincoln County Prosecuting Attorney Michael Wood re-opened the Betsy Faria case. He said in an email that his office has hired an investigator to review it and expects the process to take at least a few months.

    Lohmar, at a news conference in June, spelled out the bizarre circumstances surrounding Gumpenberger’s death.

    Lohmar said that Hupp first approached a woman while claiming to be affiliated with the NBC program “Dateline,” and promised to pay $1,000 if the woman would record a scripted sound bite about 911 calls. The woman at first agreed but backed out when Hupp failed to show any credentials.

    The woman went to police, and surveillance video showed Hupp’s SUV’s license plate. Lohmar said Hupp was “vetting a potential victim.”

    Lohmar said Hupp then turned to Gumpenberger, who was left physically and mentally impaired after a 2005 car wreck.

    Hupp originally told police that she got out of her car on her driveway and Gumpenberger pulled a knife and demanded she take him to a bank “to get Russ’s money,” an apparent reference to the insurance money she collected from Betsy Faria’s death.

    Hupp told authorities she knocked the knife out of Gumpenberger’s hand and ran inside, got a gun, and fatally shot Gumpenberger, who had followed her inside.

    Police found $900 in plastic bags in Gumpenberger’s pocket after his death, and a note that appeared to be instructions to kidnap Hupp and collect Faria’s money. Authorities said the money and note were planted.

    Data from Hupp’s phone indicated that Gumpenberger was not a stranger as Hupp had claimed — GPS showed she was at his apartment, 13 miles (21 kilometers) from her home, less than an hour before the fatal confrontation.

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    Pam Hupp to be investigated for murder of Betsy Faria

    By Chris Hayes and Kevin S. Held
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    LINCOLN COUNTY, Mo. – Pam Hupp, who is already spending life in prison for a 2016 murder, will be investigated for the 2011 murder of her best friend.

    On Thursday, Lincoln County Prosecuting Attorney Michael Wood requested the Major Case Squad of Greater St. Louis to review the murder of Betsy Faria.

    Faria was murdered on December 27, 2011. Her husband, Russ, found her stabbed approximately 55 times in her Troy, Missouri home. The case gained international attention, with network specials and high-profile podcasts detailing the investigation.

    In 2013, Russ Faria was convicted of killing Betsy. But in a new trial two years later, a judge found he was not guilty while raising questions of Hupp's possible involvement.

    Faria served more than three years in prison while Fox 2 revealed evidence of his airtight alibi – his cellphone records, which placed him in Lake St. Louis, far from his wife’s murder. We also showed how Hupp went out of her way to drive Betsy home the night of the murder and also benefitted from Betsy’s $150,000 life insurance policy, which had just been signed over to her.

    Betsy was already dying of cancer, with possibly just months to live.

    Fox 2 continued its reporting, including investigating the bizarre death of Hupp’s mother — her unexplained fall through the railings of a third-floor balcony — and her life insurance proceeds.

    St. Charles County prosecutors said Hupp wanted to escape the heat, so she plotted the murder of a random person in order to frame Russ Faria.
    Enter Louis Gumpenberger.

    Gumpenberger was shot and killed inside Hupp's O'Fallon, Missouri home in August 2016. He was 37.

    Hupp had claimed Gumpenberger invaded her home and that she killed him in self-defense. An O’Fallon police investigation revealed evidence Hupp plotted the whole thing and picked Gumpenberger as her pawn. She was indicted later that month.

    In June 2019, Hupp cut a deal to avoid the death penalty in Gumpenberger's murder. Hupp entered an Alford plea, acknowledging county prosecutors had enough evidence to convict her of murder and agreed to a sentence of life imprisonment without the possibility of probation or parole.

    The St. Charles Police Department also agreed to house all physical evidence relating to this new investigation regarding Betsy Faria's murder. This is being done for ease of access and "to preserve investigate integrity." Earlier this week, it was revealed that every piece of evidence collected by Lincoln County that led to a wrongful arrest is missing. All of the follow-up Pam Hupp interviews, in which she changed her story, were also missing.

    https://fox2now.com/2019/10/03/pam-h...f-betsy-faria/
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    Pam Hupp charged with first-degree murder in death of Betsy Faria

    LINCOLN COUNTY, Mo. (KMOV.com) – New charges have been filed against Pamela Hupp in connection to Betsy Faria's 2011 death.

    Hupp was charged with first-degree murder and armed criminal action Monday, according to online records. Prosecutors in Lincoln County plan to hold a press conference to formally announce the charges.

    Lincoln County Prosecuting Attorney Michael Wood also plan to launch an investigation into “potential prosecutorial and police misconduct in the Betsy Faria” case. Faria’s unsolved murder was examined again by the Major Case Squad of Greater St. Louis in 2019. Faria was stabbed 55 times in December 2011, soon after Hupp became beneficiary of Faria's $150,000 life insurance policy. She became a key figure in the case but previously denied killing the woman to investigators.

    The Faria killing was "a high-profile case," Lincoln County Sheriff's Department Lt. Andy Binder said in a 2019 interview. "There's a bunch of public scrutiny going on regarding it, so we're going to look at it again."

    At the time, it was the latest development in a string of events including Faria's husband, Russ Faria, being convicted in the killing in 2013. The conviction was overturned and Russ Faria was acquitted at retrial in 2015. He pointed suspicion at Hupp during his criminal trials and in a lawsuit against Lincoln County officials.

    One year later, Hupp was back in the headlines in connection to the 2016 murder of Louis Gumpenberger in another county. She entered an Alford plea on a first-degree murder charge. The plea wasn't an admission of guilt but conceded that evidence existed for a conviction. She was later sentenced in to life in prison without parole.

    Hupp initially claimed she killed Gumpenberger in self-defense when he tried to kidnap her on Aug. 16, 2016. St. Charles Prosecuting Attorney Tim Lohmar said Hupp killed Gumpenberger as part of a complicated plot to distract from the potential re-investigation of Faria's death. She originally told police that she got out of her car on her driveway in O'Fallon, Missouri, and Gumpenberger pulled a knife and demanded she take him to a bank "to get Russ's money." That was an apparent reference to the insurance money she collected from Betsy Faria's death.

    The new charges against Hupp will be announced at 2 p.m. and News 4 learned Russ Faria will be in attendance.

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    Lincoln County Missouri prosecutor will seek the death penalty against Pam Hupp in Betsy Faria murder

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    Pam Hupp has been charged with first degree murder and armed criminal action for the December 2011 murder of Betsy Faria, Lincoln County Prosecutor Michael Wood announced at a press conference on Monday.

    The charges are the latest chapter in a long and twisted case.

    Pam Hupp was the last person known to have seen Betsy Faria alive before she was stabbed to death in her Troy, Missouri home just after Christmas, 2011. Betsy’s husband Russ discovered her body when he returned home from his weekly game night with friends.

    According to court documents obtained by Dateline this week, Pam Hupp tracked her friend’s every move on Tuesday, December 27, 2011, waiting until she was weak and lethargic from chemotherapy that day, and gave her a ride home, knowing Betsy’s husband Russ would not be there.

    Betsy was stabbed repeatedly, and court documents allege Hupp then dipped Betsy's socks in her own blood and spread it around the house to make it look like her husband killed her in a domestic assault.

    The court document goes on to outline what Lincoln County Prosecutor Michael Wood describes as a “compelling circumstantial murder case, one that is very difficult to deny.” Yet, the facts of the case were ignored, he added, announcing that there will be a new investigation into “potential prosecutorial and police misconduct in the Betsy Faria case.”

    "To me it felt as if this was confirmation - bias in its purest form, largely driven by ego," he said. "I can confidently say they weren't interested in finding any evidence that pointed anywhere else.”

    At the press conference
    on Monday, Wood also announced that they will be seeking the death penalty, saying “I do not take lightly the decision to pursue the death penalty, but this case stands alone in its heinousness and depravity, such that it shocks the conscience.”

    “One of the aggravating factors we’re obviously able to rely on with the death penalty was that she murdered for the insurance money, but I will specifically say this case struck very deep into our souls and into our conscience with a level of depravity not regularly seen,” Wood said Monday. “What I can say is that we have a person who not only murdered her friend, then mutilated the body, staged the scene, testified against an innocent man, and then once he was acquitted, went and murdered someone in St.

    Charles County to prevent herself from being considered as a suspect. I can’t pick a case more depraved than that.”

    Four days before the murder, Betsy, who had terminal cancer, had made her friend Pam the beneficiary of a $150,000 life insurance policy in place of her husband. It was a change Betsy’s other friends and family members, including Russ, said they knew nothing about.

    Russ was charged with Betsy's murder in 2012 after an investigation in which Hupp pointed the finger at Russ. Hupp went on to testify against him at his trial in November 2013. He was convicted by a jury and sentenced to life in prison.

    Russ Faria’s conviction was later overturned.

    At his retrial before another judge in November 2015, Faria’s defense attorney Joel Schwartz pointed to Hupp as the person with the motive and opportunity to kill Betsy. Hupp was not called by either side to testify. This time, Faria was found not guilty. The Lincoln County prosecutor at the time, who led the state's case against Russ at both trials, continued to maintain that Russ was Betsy's killer.

    Then, in August 2016, Hupp shot and killed a man she claimed had accosted her in the driveway of her O’Fallon, Missouri home, demanding “Russ’s money” and threatening to kill her. Investigators determined that the man, Louis Gumpenberger, was not an intruder but was instead an unwitting participant in a scheme Hupp had devised to frame Russ Faria and portray him as a violent person.

    According to investigators, Gumpenberger, who had a brain injury, was approached by Hupp posing as a Dateline producer. Investigators believe Hupp lured Gumpenberger into her car with a bogus promise of money to re-enact a 911 call for an upcoming episode, something Dateline would never do.

    A week after the incident, Hupp was charged with Gumpenberger's murder. In a St. Charles County, Missouri courtroom in the summer of 2019, Hupp entered an Alford plea in the case allowing her to avoid a death-penalty trial. Without admitting guilt, Hupp acknowledged that prosecutors had enough evidence to convict her of killing Gumpenberger. She was sentenced to life in prison.

    That case prompted newly-elected Lincoln County Prosecuting Attorney Mike Wood to reopen Betsy Faria's murder case, which eventually led to today's charges.

    Pam Hupp has repeatedly denied having any involvement in Betsy Faria’s murder.

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    Pamela Hupp pleads not guilty to murder charge, wants to skip hearing

    LINCOLN COUNTY — Pamela Hupp, accused last week of murdering her friend in 2011 and blaming it on the victim's husband, pleaded not guilty in a court filing Tuesday.

    Hupp had been set to make her first appearance on the charges of first-degree murder and armed criminal action in Lincoln County Circuit Court early next week. Stephanie Zipfel, one of her lawyers, filed a waiver of her appearance Tuesday. Zipfel did not immediately return an email seeking comment Wednesday.

    Lincoln County Prosecuting Attorney Mike Wood cautioned that the judge could reject Hupp's waiver and order her to appear on Tuesday.

    The murder of Elizabeth "Betsy" Faria has already resulted in two criminal trials, as well as a related killing in 2016. It has drawn national attention, with several books on the case said to be in the works, as well as a scripted TV series starring Renee Zellweger.

    Wood said last week that he would seek the death penalty against Hupp if she was convicted of the murder of Faria in her home outside Troy, Missouri.

    Charging documents say Hupp badgered Faria into accepting a ride home after chemotherapy treatments on Dec. 27, 2011. Hupp targeted that date because she knew Faria, who was dying of cancer, would be "weak and lethargic" after the treatment and because she knew Faria's husband was out with friends, the charges say. She was allegedly motivated by a $150,000 insurance policy, one Faria signed over to Hupp four days before the murder.

    Hupp launched her attack while Faria was lying on a sofa, stabbing her 55 times, the charges say, then staged evidence to implicate Faria's husband, Russell Faria.

    Russell Faria was convicted in 2013 of murder and sentenced to life without parole, but that conviction was reversed and he was acquitted in a retrial.

    Wood, the prosecutor, said the original investigation was deeply flawed and said he and newly elected Sheriff Rick Harrell have launched an investigation into “misconduct and potentially criminal behavior" by the former investigators and prosecutors who worked on the case.

    On Wednesday, Wood said before charges were filed, investigators talked to Hupp for four hours in prison about Faria's murder. He said she did not confess, and he declined comment when asked if she denied a role in the crime but said: "The statements solicited by detectives will be very useful in the state's prosecution."

    Wood said he would not send Hupp's case to a grand jury but would instead seek a preliminary hearing, a "mini-trial" after which a judge would have to decide if witnesses and evidence showed there was probable cause that a felony had been committed. They are typically held within 30 days if a defendant is in custody.

    Hupp has been in prison since 2019, when she was sentenced to life for a 2016 killing of a mentally disabled man at her O'Fallon, Missouri, home. Prosecutors said Hupp was trying to use the man to divert suspicion about Faria's death away from her.

    https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/...8909892b3.html

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    Hupp barred from skipping court hearing

    Lincoln County, Mo, - On Thursday, The Honorable Gregory Allsberry turned down a request by lawyers of Pamela Hupp, which would allow her to skip her initial hearing in her pending murder case next week.

    Hupp was charged July 12 with first-degree murder and armed criminal action in the stabbing death of Elizabeth “Betsy” Faria on Dec. 27, 2011. Her attorneys entered a “not guilty” plea on her behalf on Tuesday, and asked her appearance at the upcoming hearing be waived.

    According to the Lincoln County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office, Hupp, 62, stalked and targeted Faria that night knowing her husband, Russ, would not be home – and weakened by chemotherapy treatments. The motive was a $150,000 insurance policy, for which Hupp was the beneficiary.

    Russ Faria was initially the prime suspect, and was tried twice for the crime and convicted once in 2013, but was later exonerated. The handling of the original investigation is the subject of a separate investigation by the Prosecuting Attorney’s Office.

    Hupp is currently in prison for the 2016 murder of Louis Gumpenberger in O’Fallon, a case prosecutors hope to get in as part of their case against Hupp for the murder of Betsy Faria, which they feel is directly linked, because they believe Hupp murdered the mentally-disabled Gumpenberger to divert attention from herself once the Faria murder investigation was reopened.

    Hupp entered an Alford plea on that charge – and is currently serving a life sentence.

    The Lincoln County Prosecutor’s Attorney’s Office is seeking the death penalty against Hupp for the Faria murder.

    https://www.lincolnnewsnow.com/news/...7833c8a86.html

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    so i take it that this murderer is not on death row yet???

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    No she was just charged in July
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