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Not Another True Crime Podcast

The Murder of Betsy Faria

Not Another True Crime Podcast

Betches

Comedy, True Crime, Society & Culture

3.82.5K Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2026

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Sara and Danny are back to cover a case chuck-full of twists and turns: the murder of Betsy Faria. They start off with some background about Betsy and her life before diving into the details of the murder. They discuss the night of the murder and her husband's account of it, and how the investigation might've been too quick to zero in on him. They also get into the trial of her husband, and the retrial that followed it years later. To round it all off, they discuss the bizarre looking show based on the story called "There's Something About Pam," and play a game testing their knowledge on iconic neighbors in popular media. RESOURCES: https://www.oxygen.com/true-crime-buzz/who-was-betsy-faria-from-the-thing-about-pam https://www.nbcnews.com/dateline/pam-hupp-charged-first-degree-murder-2011-stabbing-death-betsy-n1273772 https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/husband-of-lincoln-county-woman-found-dead-in-home-is/article_b6c38638-3720-11e1-8c21-001a4bcf6878.html https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/husband-of-lincoln-county-woman-found-dead-in-home-is/article_b6c38638-3720-11e1-8c21-001a4bcf6878.html#tncms-source=login https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/note-incriminates-defendant-in-lincoln-county-murder-trial-but-did/article_2c52c55f-e4cc-5a42-a8fb-1a9e2a0f12b3.html https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/pamela-hupp-charged-with-murder-in-alleged-frame-up-tied/article_916845ac-de2f-5d1e-ae5d-2b11a25b7287.html https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/timeline-from-the-betsy-faria-murder-to-the-shooting-death-of-louis-gumpenberger/html_19adbe2c-2b05-53f4-9fa1-234f045a2d19.html https://fox2now.com/news/fox-files/betsy-farias-daughter-says-dont-forget-victims-when-watching-pam-hupp-tv-series/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

On December 27th, 2011, Betsy Faria texted her husband Russ that she was getting a ride home from her friend Pam in Troy, Missouri.

0:09.7

But when Russ arrived home that night, he found Betsy lying lifeless, stabbed 55 times.

0:16.2

The investigation immediately focused on Russ, and after troubles in the marriage were revealed, it seemed to be an open and shut case.

0:24.2

After a short trial, Russ was convicted and imprisoned for the crime, but questions remained.

0:29.2

Was he really guilty of his wife's murder?

0:40.4

Welcome back to Not Another True Crime Podcast.

0:41.9

I'm Sarah Levine.

0:43.1

And I'm Danny Murphy.

0:44.9

You know us for your partner's wine crime time.

0:47.8

We're just in your, we're hanging out every week, which is like our favorite thing to do.

0:50.2

Pretty much, pretty much.

0:52.6

Although, Danny, not so much wine for you, he says, right? I know.

0:52.9

I'm in my cleanse era. So, um, if anybody

0:55.9

else is entering that phase, like, please DM me and join me because I am now fully obsessed

1:02.5

non, in a non-sponsored way with Katie Perry's non-alcoholic wine. And it's actually very good.

1:08.2

I actually do want to try some of that kind of stuff. I've been into mocktails lately, just like, I don't know if I meet my friend for drinks on a Tuesday, it's like, I don't actually want alcohol in my body today. Like, it's not really, it's not worth it. So I'm like, let me just get a mocktail. Yeah, because also it's a thing too where now it'll be like, oh, I would have two glasses

1:28.7

of wine. And I'm like, oh, I'm hung over for three days and not in like the like headache. Just like, you're just so tired and run down. And I'm like, I was like, oh, I'm already like actively pretty annoying so I can still go out and like piss people off without the drinking element. So it really has been fun.

1:44.0

So if anyone wants to join me, if anyone's on their own, do you and like piss people off without the drinking element. So it really has been fun.

2:18.1

So if anyone wants to join me, if anyone's on their own detox journey, let me know. It's a party. Oh my God, absolutely. I got some good recommendations, some good bubbly, non-alcoholic recommendations. That's good to know. I do want non-alcoholic wine. I think that's a move. one thing I've seen a lot of is people being like, oh, yes, flavored, non-hard, seltzer. And I'm like, so, seltzer. Like, what? I'm like, this already exists. Like, I don't even, why, okay, I'm just going to buy LaCroix. Like, if that's, I'm not like, oh, a soft white claw. Like that's the thing. It's like, it's like, it's like how they're like making all these streaming networks into TV channels, but like, so we're going back to regular TV. We're going back to regular Seltzer, but they're trying to be like, it's a non-alcoholic white claw when it's like yeah that has existed right that that was how it

2:35.6

came first so um i don't really need you uh oh man well today we're going to be talking about a crime

2:44.3

that's been in the news again because of a new show on what is it NBC yes they they

2:50.1

they up their budget to get an Oscar winner to put on prosthetics and here we are. And like a fat suit, right? I'm like, what? I can't believe we're still doing that in 2022. It also seems a lot more expensive. Yes. My question is always is like, are people this dumb? Like, do you think that that is just like going to fly? But I guess it always has in the past, so they're just going to keep on doing it. It is flying. Yeah. I will also say, like, with the exception of Charlize Theron as what's her name, Megan Kelly. Yes. There's no real reason to cast a famous person to then not look anything like themselves. Yes. I know. Like what is the draw? I will say, but Charlie's is good at that because remember when she was Elizabeth Warnow's show? She is. No, she's really good. I feel like she sounded like exactly like Mike and Kelly. I watched that movie for like 15 minutes with my mom and then we both turned to each other.

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