The funny thing about making Dateline is that a lot of times the murderer is pretty obvious.

So it's up to us to take you on a journey.

Make you question your own assumptions.

Your biases.

Your gut.

And this story seemed pretty straightforward, right?

Husband killed his wife.

The cops sure thought so.

Russ Faria was the prime suspect within a day of his 911 call.

And it didn't take much to get the neighbors whispering.

He must have done it.

Some of Betsy's friends believed it in time her family would too.

But was this an open-a-chat case?

Well, now we know it wasn't.

This time, instead of us creating the journey, we got sucked into one of our own.

In 2011, when Russ found his wife Betsy dead just after Christmas, he had no idea that

in a few short days he was going to be charged with her murder.

And that their entire marriage would become public father, dissected by everybody they

were close to.

Some warm memories came out in the beginning.

They were very happy.

I just thought that they were a happy couple.

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