How Pam Hupp Murdered Her Best Friend & Almost Got Away With It | the Murder of Betsy Faria
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My jaw is hanging open. You weren’t lying. This is actually the worst investigative work I’ve ever heard of. Holy shit.
Look up the Invisible Man case. It's worse.
Good ol Missouri boys for ya 💯💯💯
fkn horrible!
Idk the Johnny Gosch case might have something to say about that
@@TH-camSupportSucks I was just about to say that 😂 sorry it’s not funny it’s just ridiculous 🤦🏽♀️ at how bad the police work was in that particular case at the time
Pam: changed story, life insurance, last one to see Betsy, set on driving her home, didnt take polygraph test
Russ: told where he was, video camera proof
Detectives: its russ
Not to mention it was stated that he was convicted because his alibi was “too good.”
@@andrewjessicahersh9466 hows that even possible 😭😭
🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️ Poor Russ!
One of my biggest fears is being charged and convicted of a crime I did not commit..
Pam is a greedy seedy evil person. My heart goes out to Betsys family , and Russ. I hope he restablished relationships with his daughters
Nothing screams “I DID IT” when you buy a 4 bedroom house with the money you told the dead woman you would save for her children.
right lol
Hummm......you're RIGHT 🥴🥴
I hope there are severe consequences for the law enforcement officers that botched the investigation and the prosecution team. Their misconduct hurt so many lives.
the public pays for it from taxes as usual
I hope so too, because they quite literally purposely railroaded him
But why?
Zero repercussions.
I'd hate to be on that jury abd fine out details like the life insurance after imagine living with the guilt
I think it's interesting that the police find saving a dollar on cigarettes is more suspicious than changing the life insurance document to the person who took her home at the day of the murder.
Ha! True, why did they want to pin in it on russ so badly i wonder , very strange..
Even though I agree with you that changing the life insurance beneficiary to the person who took her home on the day of the murder is extremely more suspicious than saving a dollar on cigarettes, due to the arrogance of the head detective in charge of the case, Ryan McCarrick and others involved in law enforcement, they never even considered that due to incompetence or depraved indifference to justice.
Lol I am sorry but that it’s funny because it’s so Fckn true
@@smurfylee Bias most likely. It’s usually the spouse and it looked like a crime of passion with the condition of her body.
@@Lynn-zx3th because it was, by Pam
A lot of people will think Pam is a smart woman, but that's not the case at all; everyone around her was just exceptionally stupid.
periodt.
Honestly they were🤦♀️
Bingo. Excellent comment. 👏👏
She was smart enough to get Betsy to change her life insurance policy. I wonder if she had been undermining Russ in some despicable way.
@@tessforbes8687 I read that Pam was a life insurance administrator, I wonder if Betsy even changed her life policy or if Pam just figured out a scam to have it changed. She forged letters and documents throughout the story so I wouldn’t be surprised.
I felt like my heart was being ripped out of my body when I heard Russ’s 911 call. I just can’t imagine…. The love he had for her is palpable 😢
I know! The poor guy. :( you can hear the shock and pain in his voice during the call. Its so sad that he had to then go into interrogation for this murder that he clearly did not commit, and also have to mourn over his loved one. I can not even begin to image his pain :(.
I cry every time I hear it....and to think that he was mocked over it on top of it all. My heart breaks for him, her girls, her mom and whole family as well as his and anyone who knew and cared for them. Pam Hupp is a vile person.
Yes. It's like you just feel what he is feeling in that sobbing. That can't be faked. Man.. 😢
Yes! Usually, the killer would call 9-1-1 to avoid suspicion but Russ’s grief was palpable and you can hear his grief and shock!!!
That poor man and Betsy deserved nothing but a happy life! 😢😢😢😢
i had to skip it, literally broke my heart :(
Russ's 911 call: full of emotion and genuine sadness and terror that you could practically feel in the air through the phone through the news through the youtube video.
Pam's 911 call: has the emotional capacity of a middle school student being forced to try out for a play they don't want to be in.
I was looking for someone down here who said something about this!! I had to pause the video just to laugh at how pathetic her acting was.
Genuinely sounded like she was reading off of a script.
I agree, it was absolutely atrocious, there’s more convincing dialogue in porno movies 🙄
I’m sorry but 2 million dollars isn’t enough for everything Russ went through. The system is so fucked up.
Send the whole Jury to jail, along with the judge. Everyone in that courtroom who “investigated” this send them to jail.
I was think the same damn thing. ONLY, 2 million???
@@obvioustroll3736 Exactly! WOW. It was a whole conspiracy, for no reason!
@@obvioustroll3736 the jury didn't know much about Pam tho
I agree! They should also charge the prosecutors and the doctor who wrote the note as accessory to murder
He made it seem like he didn't do it BECAUSE HE DID NOT DO IT
And "they're just trying to blame Pam Hupp" because PAM HUPP DID IT
That juror that stated that she did not believe bc his aliby was too good should Never be on a jury again mark her off the list.
@@lyndawadsworth8572 that's the most infuriating part. The police try to poke holes in his alibi and he covers them up because he actually has one, and everyone is like, "Well proving that you didnt do it proves that you did." What a fucky catch 22.
@@lyndawadsworth8572 literally pissed me off. like he has the most solid alibi ever and multiple people that can say that it’s true and they say “your trying to hard”
@@lyndawadsworth8572 reminds me of the juror who basically said "it was all hearsay and we convicted her" for the woman who "murdered" her husband when it was a home invasion. I don't remember the name but they claimed she tied herself up and locked herself in the closet
it sucks that 3 people had to die at the hands of pam for people to finally start looking into her…. because of the prosecution’s incompetence, she became a serial killer before she was caught.
Absolutely absurd, this was SUCH a frustrating case 😢
Right? How do u even believe someone who killed her own MOTHER. Goodness
The woman is sick in every way. Her mother brought her to the world and she took her out of it. I couldn’t even imagine.
3 ppl that we know of.
i feel so bad for her kids. they were young and everyone around them was telling them that their step-dad had murdered their mum. you can tell how distraught they are that they testified against him and that their relationship with him will probably never be the same. pam murdered betsy and the police/prosecution helped pam destroy her family.
😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊
Let ppl ok😅 IMO pop😊 on
Pam isn’t the only evil one, the investigators in the case are just as evil. They all belong in jail.
Hopefully they get whats coming to them! What they did to Russ and his daughters smh so sad!
The investigators and the former Lincoln County prosecutor , Leah Chaney (a.k.a Leah Womack Askey) and the judge, Chris Kunza Mennemeyer.
Amen to that!!!!
Agreed. Its so scary to consider that this is happening in the legal system, probably way more than we even realise.
Seriously this woman did EVERYTHING to incriminate herself, what kind of personality or connections to the FBI did she have to dupe the investigators at this level?
Pam literally could've killed Betsy in front of the detectives and they still would've blamed Russ
Typical idiot "Mizz-urr-uh" cops and prosecutors. Literally the closest they've ever come to an explanation of why they only focused on Russ was along the lines of "we didn't think a woman would be capable of a crime like that."
Literally, she could walk back and forth across the front of the police station wearing a sandwich board saying 'Stupid cops! I killed Betsy.' And they'd still screw it up.
I don’t know why but your sandwich board comment cracked me up.
😭
She could have looked the detective in the eyes and said she killed Betsy and go into details on why she killed her and how she did it no matter what she said or did they would have still blamed Russ which is messed up for Russ I feel bad for him
Wow. She killed a cancer patient, a mentally impaired man, and probably her own mother. I can’t believe I haven’t heard about this case before. This woman is off the charts evil
The real mystery here is how did Pam get away with being a Psycho literally her whole life??
They usually are good at hiding it. Those people can sell themselves and are really quite convincing.
The poor husband. I can’t imagine being targeted by the police from day 1. You can hear the pain in his voice on the call. I hope he finds some peace.
Me too. The cruelest thing for me is that they didn’t just target him from day 1, the police officers and prosecutors basically manipulated his children against him. It’s sickening.
srsly tho i was abt to cry listening to it. pam is evil
I'd bet Russ is looking forward to testifying against Pam if her case goes to trial. He sounded so vindicated in that end clip when the new District Attorney announced he was investigating the cops and prosecutors because their actions handling the case were basically criminal.
Yes, I hope he finds peace and hopefully be a family again with his stepdaughters.
They wanted to put him in jail, it didn't matter how. They were just manipulating information and ignoring other facts. It's disgusting
Pam: “there’s SOOOO many other people I could’ve killed for money.”
Police: “welp, nothing suspicious here. Have a good day ma’am.” 🤦🏻♀️
Pam to officers: How is your marriage going? Do you need me to be beneficiary on your life insurance policy?
Officers: Haha! Yeah, where do I sign? 😂 omg
Thats our crappy police force for you. LINCOLN County MO's finest 👌 💯
👮🏻♂️🤡🤡🤡
@@dianamatakovic there should really be an emoji with a police officer wearing clown makeup
If he would’ve embraced her then they would’ve said he was being over the top and did it on purpose to ruin evidence, smh. He couldn’t win. I’m so sad for him, the 911 call was heartbreaking. Rest In Peace to this poor woman, her murder was absolutely brutal.
And they would also say “he has blood in his clothes, he obviously did it”
Comparing it to other killers’ 911 call, yeah. There was way more spontaneous emotion than an all of those put together.
@@Kaigirl27E
This story is INSANE in EVERY WAY!!!! My God! Poor Russ... Poor Betsy and poor daughters. And all that money is gone. Luckily they got 2 million. My God! And are they not going to investigate Pam's MOTHER'S DEATH!? WTF!?
Ikr. Absolutely infuriating. 😑
wait so its possible that pam is a serial killer and no one suspects that?
That’s what I was thinking too
@@lostworldofjj Yes she probably is if she killed 3 people
okay but the fact that Pam lied about having an affair with Betsy...just for Pam's friends to say that she's the most homophobic person they've ever met LMAO
I mean, most homophobes are just super closeted, and their "phobia" is based in self loathing.
@@sarahboo9140 Couldn't agree more.
I wonder what Pam's husband thought about the lesbian affair! In fact about everything, for example, when she was answering questions for him in the first investigation, didn't he think something was odd?
@@elizabethcox100 he was probably thinking "uhhh my wife had taste..."
I had to pause the video and cackle because I LOST it when Kendall said that.
russ seems like such a teddy bear 🥺 LARPing with his friends, having dinner with his mom every week, and then he sat in prison for something he didn't do and he loved his wife 🥺
Literally brought me to tears 😭 he thought he did something wrong and then goes to prison 😭 poor Russ I’m so sorry for his loss 🙏🏼❤️
My guess at the game they were playing was d&d. Russ must be protected at all costs.
@@nathanchung27 not only was he playing dnd, but he was playing a monk in a weekly session with his buddies :(
the pain in his voice is clearly very real. i almost cried. i could tell he really loved his wife
Yeah, his shock and devastation at finding his wife dead was so obviously real. The poor guy. Good husband, really supportive, cared about all the people in her life and his.
It blows my mind how they didn't immediately suspect her even after changing her story multiple times
Especially considering it wasn't minor changes that anyone could mix up while emotions are high. There's no way she would have forgotten if she went into the house or not
Dang, I hope I never get accused of something. "Why did you go to three different grocery stores." "Because I am super cheap and wanted to save $3." "Why did you walk out of the library to your car, then back into the library." "Because I was convinced I had forgotten my water bottle but actually I had put it in my book bag" She's GUILTY!
I think about stuff like this!! I must watch too much true crime youtube but I often wonder if my taking a longer route from school or choosing a further away Walmart will be looked at suspiciously when I was simply looking for a specific brand of cheddar popcorn. LOL
Call a lawyer whether guilty or not
imagine getting blamed for murder because your alibi is TOO GOOD
Most of the time it’s not having a good enough alibi, or no alibi at all. Who knew you could have an alibi be too good?
Exactly like wtf it’s “too good “ because it’s grue
It like they say "You can't prove a negative."
That's the worst feeling ever
MANY folks bribed w/cash or blackmail --- mini-dc, duh ...
Ugh, the pain in russ's voice in the emergency call is heartbreaking.
it was so hard to listen to :'(
How could you possibly think that man was guilty after listening to that call I could never
I had chills 😪
I know, made me feel sad as fuck, poor Russ.
@@esmeshearing113 I agree, how in the world did they miss the Real in that man. They must Be tone deaf
I’ve read comments from the prosecutor Leah Askey- she is a complete narcissist and is deranged…. It’s beyond horrific to know that people like her have power and control over us. Why she hasn’t been disbarred is atrocious. She blamed sexism for the criticism over the handling of the case… absurd and beyond offensive. How can she sleep at night is beyond me.
hearing russ on the 911 call I immediately felt like crying. I saw someone once said if you don’t feel empathy towards someone in distress then it’s possible that person isn’t actually in distress. I felt Russ’ shock and disbelief in that call. I can’t even imagine what it was like for him to walk into this and then experience everything after. My heart really goes out to Russ
I feel so bad for Russ. Imagine losing your wife so brutally and having everyone believe that YOU murdered her. Being convicted after you wife's daughters testified against you... Going to prison for it...
I just... my heart breaks for him
Missing all the time with the kids
exactly shows how sexist the court system is towards men
Hes got $2mil now. I bet those kids are sorry they didnt support their dad before.
@@beckyweaver5981 he’s probably helping them financially
I’m sorry but if my spouse was clearly deceased I wouldn’t embrace them with a knife sticking out of their throat….and if I knew it wasn’t me I wouldn’t want to contaminate the crime scene
I'm glad she got to swim with her dolphins before this happened. This is so sad :(
Yea bet the dolphins who are locked up 247 in a small tank are having the time of their lives .. ANIMALS ARE NO ENTERTAINMENT
@@N0N4M30 this isn’t about dolphins. Are you kidding me?
@@N0N4M30 oh i know, and i am completely against cetacean captivity (unless it’s a rescue sanctuary, but that’s different)- but i am still happy for betsy for having a fun time with some cute dolphins before her tragedy.
@@N0N4M30 dude it was in the ocean… they don’t take the dolphins they go to the dolphins. plus let’s not act like the dolphins are more important that this lady with cancer who got murdered. do some research before you yell at random people on the internet. go donate to dolphin sanctuaries if you’re that upset, complaining to strangers won’t do anything to help them ffs.
@No Name ur an idiot
No tears means nothing. I get that way. Sometimes you're in total shock or so upset your body doesn't function as expected. He clearly was extremely upset and it was 100% genuine. Those "investigators" were listening to everything in this case with their egos. Not with their brains and certainly not with their intuition.
He had to have some terms of her death with the cancer twice. Of course his emotions are all over. He knew he could lose her but not yet and not like that.
Yeah thats how I am when I'm extremely upset too. I'll have bursts of crying then just nothingness its like I go numb and can't cry anymore and then I'll just start crying again cause the feelings suddenly come back. It'll just go in a circle until I calm down fully or tire myself out. Gods forbid my coping mechanisms come into question if I EVER have to deal with the death, natural or otherwise, of a loved one, because by these cops logic I killed my Grandmother and my Great Grandmother when it was just cancer/old age. Absolutely disgusting conduct on the investagators part.
Testosterone makes it hard to cry just physically speaking. You just don't produce tears like estrogen let's you. So it's very easy he just ran out of tears by then too.
That’s why I hate when people say they can tell who is guilty based on body language or emotions. It’s bullshit and not backed by any science.
Imagine being so scared that you are going to die from cancer and then your, “best friend,” murders you and frames your husband?? This is absolutely tragic for so many people.
Me 30 minutes in: “oh man she’s so guilty!!”
*realizes there’s 40+ more minutes* 👁👄👁
I do the same thing with Dateline lol.
I was doing the dishes and I was like “oh time to choose another episode” and then I saw the time and went “😳😠 SHES NOT CUAGHT YET?!”
I read this exactly as I was 30 mins in saying the same thing LOL
@@StoneOfMoon seriously I was six minutes in and checked to see how much time was left. I couldn’t believe there was over an hour left.
Literally me
this case makes me wonder how many other people are sitting in jail right now for a crime they didn’t commit. it’s awful.
A lot...and even more for stupid things.
Too many is there answer to that :-(
Unfortunately there are a lot 😭
*will Smith pose aggressively to many many many many many poc in the system* if this had been poc this would go much more differently.
This is one big reason I am against the death penalty.
In the perspective of Russ this is so sad. Finding your wife dead, having to grieve while going through a trial being blamed for her death then being sentenced to life. You can see the pain in his eyes.
hearing that guy at the end saying they’re launching an investigation into the prosecutors and police that handled betsy’s case gave me chills. i love when justice gets served
“His alibi was too good to be true”.
BECAUSE IT WAS THE TRUTH 🤦🏻♀️
the truth is always crazier than you expect. yet nobody thinks of that.
That made me absolutely crazy
RIGHT i cannot believe that his alibi sounding "too true" could be used to against him crazy
Right
@@Ishizu09 they just had to have been picked up from the circus, they’re all a bunch of clowns. You’d have to be a drunk crackhead to come back with a guilty plea. That judge was garbage too.
I’m heartbroken for Russ, yeah he’s got 2 million now but that won’t make up for the years he lost locked up while his wife’s murderer basks in her murder money
2 million dollars will never make up for a decade that was stolen from that poor man.
It was my understanding that in most states, if a spouse is removed from beneficiary status, it must be signed by both spouses in front of a Notary.
You can tell, immediately, that Russ didn't kill her. He said "she's got cancer" present tense. Killers usually slip up and use past tense because they've had more time than everyone else to process the person has died.
Yeah good point
Yessss!! Good observation
That’s the first thing that stood out to me!!
I agree I noticed that too
Also, usually when asked about the victim in interrogation, people that are guilty will paint them out to be not the best etc but he just talked about how amazing she was
That prosecutor needs to go to prison. You think that Russ is the only person she screwed over? I seriously doubt it. Let the flood gates open of cases that are probably similar. Expose them all as frauds.
Right!! I hope we hear about any they find.
Exactly !!!
Imagine how corrupt and evil you have to be to knowingly keep the bad people from going to prison while sending innocents in there. Digusting.
S T E V E N A V E R Y
AND Brendan Dassey!!!!!
Usually the killer on 911, will immediately give themselves excuses. Russ just answered the questions 😢
You gotta be the devil to kill someone that’s dying from cancer😖
And a disabled person 😰 what kind of evil is that
@@trinathompson5656 And an elderly lady...
yeah she barely had any time left as it was and then to just murder her??? disgusting :(
Pam using the “I have a condition” card is such a K.A.R.E.N move
She even looks like a Karen
I mean, her name is Pam.. which is a level Karen name along with Sue-Anne
Enough with the “Karen” crap.
@@lighttheway5088 ez mad? 😂
@@littlebug6746 ew. my mom’s mothers name is pamela sue …….what a karen
ok but isn’t Pam asking her doctor to write her a note so she can get out of taking a polygraph suspicious enough?
She left the most literal paper trail!
Not really, since polygraphs aren't trustworthy, but it doesn't help that she actually committed the crime
I mean cant he lose his license for that?
It's not what you know, it's what you can prove in court. Beyond a reasonable doubt and all that.
What fucking doctor does that anyways? I've had people trying to get a doctors note because they are PHYSICALLY SICK to write an exam and the doctor questions them like they're on trial and even denied them for no reason...
And the police of this case... jeez there is really no hope for this world
I'm starting to believe the police department was involved with this. No way theyre THIS incompetent
Pam seems so obsessive towards Betsy and knowing that Pam brutally ended her life is so chilling.
The amount of times I’ve screamed in anger during this video is astronomical
i feel so bad for russ. he was blatantly framed and i don’t understand how the detectives, and the JUDGE, didn’t see that
Sounds like a lot of bribes, bribes and more bribes imo. So fucking sad
Russ's phone call to 911 just broke my heart, I felt so sad hearing how heart broken and devastated he sounded. Poor guy he didn't deserve this 😔💔
Because they were probably all in on it.
✨corruption✨
that’s exactly my thought!
People like Pam are terrifying, because you never see them coming.
Yeah, she obviously could at least pretend to be nice & fun cause she was able to gain some friends.
This. "This is my Halloween costume. I'm a homicidal maniac. They look just like everyone else."
Exactly, I couldn't have said this better myself so thank you.
@@camvin575 My pleasure 🌼lol.
She sounds like a serial killer!
My heart breaks for Betsy's daughters. And Russ. What a beautiful soul he is. So thankful the truth has prevailed. One glance at Pam's face reveals her evil character. So utterly tragic.
Her mugshot- that smile- was chilling...
Jesus, that phone call from Russ to the paramedics... how horrific, poor man.
I couldn’t even imagine what it’s like being on trial for a murder you know you didn’t commit. Poor Russ.
I've had this fear. What if you were on death row for a murder you didn't commit?
And it being someone you were deeply in love with!!
Terribly sad
@@jenniferlester5126 it's definitely happened in the US. People get exonerated while on death row. Even worse, after their death.
Terrifying!
This entire case was so disgusting, but how they treated Russ was horrible. He had such an airtight alibi and chose to not corrupt the crime scene instead of embracing his wife.
😥
He lost his beloved wife, his step daughters and 10 years of his life. The poor man, it’s so dreadful
I hope he sued the shit out of everyone! Poor Russ
@@Leney735 he got 2 mil
@@thatsokay1701 He deserved more
I felt so bad for Russ. First to find the love of your life dead in such a horrific gruesome way and then to be basically framed for it so you don’t even have time to grieve or fight back, he must’ve felt so helpless.
It is clear to me from even the start of the video that he is a genuine guy.
Russ' reaction to his wife's body makes perfect sense! That's someone whose attention is both hyperfocused on and compartmentilizing a massive trauma. Too much emotion too fast to process so it was being stuffed down.
Russ: Has an entire airtight alibi, with witnesses, receipts and does what he can to not contaminate the scene. Doesn’t even have a real motive.
Pam: Literally cannot tell you whether she walked into Betsy’s house or not. Refuses to let the only person who can solidify one of her many stories actually speak to the police. Has a motive.
Police: Well clearly Russ is a horrible husband to murdered his ill wife
That's the reverse sexism thing at work as well. If you look even at contemporary newspaper accounts, when there is a criminal gang, the female members are often described as having cooperated under pressure, or having been coerced. Based on nothing but assumptions.
With violent crime, men are even more likely to be considered the perpetrators and the 'brains' behind the act. Sociopathic women often use men to do their dirty work and they're often not caught. (I was thinking e.g. of the collar bomb case where a woman got one guy to build a bomb, to strap it around another to rob a bank, because she wanted to use the money to hire a killer to get rid of her father...)
@@intrepidtomato it’s just sexism tho. Be careful with the “reverse -isms” bc it implies only one party can do the -isms
It's sickening
Right?! Sickening! Poor dude! And the slander that was printed of him….turning his step-children on him….I can’t even.
Yes, that’s just sick! I feel so sorry for Russ, the investigation was a BIG mess
How evil do you have to be to murder someone dying of cancer? In their final days, the only ones they have left with their family, you decide to end it sooner? Absolutely disgusting.
How evil and cruel can a person be this woman was dying of cancer and you do this you are a sick demented evil demented evil person I'm shocked this is beyond cruel and then she takes her mom out also.This breaks my heart.
To play devils advice a little here: Honestly it was very dumb she couldve not killed her let her die from cancer got the money and never went to prison
Or even after she had killed her “best friend” and mom if she hadnt killed that last person she may have gotten away with it all and been rich but no she is so evil that even the money wasnt enough the simple joy she clearly got of killing was what she wanted i mean 53 stabs it wasnt just greed that drove that she clearly enjoyed it its so sad that two deaths couldve been prevented easily if the investigators were competent
@@cashbeastegaming AND she didn't just kill her friend for money. She also framed her husband for the murder, which is at least as bad again. She would rather kill her friend and frame the husband for it than wait for her to die. So her motive seems more targeted to attacking Betsy's husband's reputation and life, while also stealing his insurance money.
She definitely deserves to be tortured.
If someone murders people because they are psychopaths, or out of passion, they should get tortured every day, for the rest of their prison sentence. And I’m talking physically tortured…
And I would love to see that as a law. Maybe, and just maybe, murder rates would lower.
It’s funny how Russ was consistent with his story and was found guilty, but Pam constantly changed her story and was not even considered as a suspect 🤦🏻♀️
I remember being 11 when this all happened... I didn't know betsy very well, I had only talked with her a few times. She was my mom's best friends sister. I remember seeing Pam at the funeral... it's surreal to see people I don't know talking about it
Pam (during the initial conversations with the police): "Betsy made me the beneficiary of the life insurance because she thought Russ wouldn't end up giving enough of the money to the girls."
Then Pam proceeds to never give any of the money to Betsy's daughters. How is that NOT the most damning evidence ever???
Mmm hmm
Exactly!!
So are they going to investigate Pam’s mother’s death as well? Even if she’s already locked up for life, she needs to be held accountable for her mother’s murder!
@Anna's randomness WhoCares that’s an interesting point. I wonder if there have been other people in her life who had “accidents” when she needed them to
I was wondering the same thing.
Truth
@@tickledtoffee thinking the same
💯, most definitely needs to be investigated! I, also, would trace any deaths that she was around. Look at Lori Vallow Daybell! People were dropping dead all around her for years. Her own children were murdered with her help/knowledge. Several other attempts on other family members had even been attempted by shooting. People are absolutely, out of their minds, insane!
The police: Do you have an alibi?
You: yes,of course. Here it is.
Police: It's too good,I don't believe it.
The police incompetence in this case makes me so mad!
AS SOON AS you said that Russ has dinner with his mom once a week, smokes pot, plays D&D every Thursday night, and went to Arby’s for some munchies, I KNEW this guy wasn’t violent.
I said what I said.
What does pot have to do with it?
🤨🤨…okay?
@@estherc.3525 People who smoke cannabis,are usually very mellow and non confrontational. As least in my experience! I've never smoked or taken my medication and thought,I think I'm in the mood to stab someone 55 times and frame their husband for it 🤷
@@CaseyMarie11-11 I don’t even wanna put the ice cream back in the freezer much less murder someone and run. It’s crazy.
@@CaseyMarie11-11 i’de like to differ from experience but alright
Why did everyone have such a hard on for Pam? She just looks like another crusty live laugh love Christian karen who buys an insane amount of yankee candles and clutches her pearls around anyone that isn’t white or straight
EDIT: I’m seeing some salty people in the comments upset that I called her a Christian. Y’all my boyfriend is a Christian and I think how connected he is with his faith is beautiful and I know many wonderful Christians, I’m not saying all Christians are bad. I’ve just noticed through experiences at church and from meeting people, that there is a small group of Christians like this that exist. There’s always bad people that clothe themselves with religion to look better and I feel she’s one of them. Not attacking the faith, attacking the crazy Karen that’s hiding behind it to make herself look better.
I bet pam was famiar with the prosecutors and shared the money with them….. I hope they all get the same amount of jeall time that Russ did in prison
You really described her vibes perfectly😂
Omg you nailed this! My little east Texas town is full of these women
If she were a christian she would remember THOU SHALL NOT KILL
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
That poor man! He deserves way more than 2million. His life will be affected for the rest of his life.
You are officially my new favorite crime channel. The detail you go into is unlike any other video I’ve seen. Along with the respect you constantly give to the victims, I found something bc to binge!
That phone call that Russ made is literally the saddest thing I’ve ever heard omg. I feel terrible for him this is devastating.
Same, I almost cried listening to it. It broke my heart! I can't imagine being in that situation...
his wife was brutally slain & almost all of the investigators have tunnel vision solely on him & disregard all of his details that explain away the possibility that he did it. hell they literally let the other suspect PAINT A PICTURE of him & they took her word as fact. this case disgusts me in how poorly he was treated.
The 911 dispatchers always sound so cold and disinterested. "You'll need to gather her meds for the medics." I would be screaming my head off.
@@minarosered6699 i think they have to speak that way in most cases. It can keep any tense situations from escalating, and if they panic it can send the caller into a hysterical state. It sucks, but people going through trauma are unpredictable and staying monotonous is the best way to keep them as calm as possible😔
Same
Alibi too good 😒😒 PAM WAS A WHOLE SERIAL KILLER 😴
I’m always so shocked to see you here lol , two of my fav TH-camrs 😅
Literally my two favorites youtubers!! True baddies like true crime!
Girl You need a old mama show, on how us oldies can still snag a sugar daddy lol. Or a how too
Lol
Ikr
A WHOLE ASS SERIAL KILLER indeed! Wrapped up with a bow and a tag that says “GUILTY” even! Gross misconduct and total lack of ethics in part of the justice system in this whole situation of cases 💔
This girls situation really hit close to home. My mom was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2018. She was a stage 3, bc it was in her lymph nodes. After going through chemo, radiation & a single mastectomy (no construction), went into remission. She was in remission just over 4 years, then a wk ago found out my mom's cancer came back. Her scans were clear 3 mths ago, but it had traveled through the blood to her liver so she's now a stage 4. My family is really close so getting this news absolutely devastated me. Cancer really is an evil thing.
This story makes me so mad! How DUMB and incompetent those cops were. Like have any of them ever heard any true crime stories?! It’s obvious that Pam was the killer. Her body had already been cold and was in rigor mortis when her husband came home and dialed 911.
Either Pam had some connections in the police department or she was paying them off. There’s just no way detectives are that nice to someone when they have as many inconsistencies as she did.
agree! money talks.
Nah. Just dumb cops that don't handle a lot of murders. They want a conviction and they don't want it to be difficult so it's gotta be the husband. It's the obvious choice.
Pam is white and Russ wasn’t
@@cottagozales619 more like Pam was a woman.
@@2000firegirl yes but also a white woman had this been a woman of color I don’t think they would of only pointed out her husband
“why didn’t you hug your wife”
DUDE HES IN SHOCK. poor guy; he probably thought he would hurt her if he touched her. also the absolute heartbreak in the 911 call was so hard to listen to 💔
If he would of hug her people would of been mad for intoxicating the crime scene
If I walked in to my husband stabbed to death first of all, I get queezy at the site of blood… I don’t know how I would react but I know I would freak the fuck out. I don’t think I’d touch him.. I couldn’t. If I know me… I couldn’t.
i feel bad for him. i would never hug a dead body
I wouldn’t want to hug a body covered in blood, especially if it could potentially be a crime scene. They screwed him over so much in this case.
If he had hugged the body, then they'd have used the fact that he was covered in her blood against him saying he claimed to hug the body to explain the blood from the murder
The evidence: It's Pam. The police & prosecutors: It's Russ. The evidence: It's Pam!!! The police & prosecutors: It's Russ!!! Pam could have set up a video recording of the murder & police would have still believed it was Russ. This video is over an hour but your presentation is fantastic & retained full interest, even describing things in minute detail. You have a new fan Kendall
I bet every one of them is still working and deciding who goes to jail and who doesn't using their incredible investigative skills.
This is truly stranger than fiction!! I'm so glad Betsy's daughters filed that motion. Poor Russ, Betsy and Shirley.
Edit: OMG and Louis!!
Truly wild how much she almost got away with,
RIP to Pam’s mom. Pam killed her straight up and no one is investigating that shit.
wonder how much she shares with the investigators. money talks.
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rip :(
it's being investigated... they switched it from Accidental to Undetermined... meaning the case has now been reopened.
I guess my question is…if she was able to ALMOST get away with this murder so easily, how many more times has she does this before Betsy? This really makes you wonder.
I think she might've killed her mother as well 👀
@@Aevelice I was waiting for her to say they're investigating that now too.
So true! Her poor mother!
Doubtful anyone could prove or disprove it, but the details shared here about her mom if true certainly hint that she might have dropped her own mother for some cash. I assume she tells herself its ok because the mom was old and her "friend" was dying of cancer so why not cash in?
She got away with it once, so she thought she could do it again. After betsy’s death and basically getting away with it, she couldn’t stand the public eye on her even though she was paying for her actions with little repercussions.. she wanted to be free in every way so she tried once again. Her greed was her demise
That's the most unhelp needed calls for help I've EVER HEARD IN MY LIFE!
The pain the daughters went through. Grieving for their mom, the pressure from the investigators and prosecutors...that too much for them. Pam's husband should be investigated too. They asked Lewis to frame again Russ.
I never understood the motive that Russ killed Betsy for her life insurance money. She had cancer & was dying from cancer. He didn't need to kill her to get the money because she was already dying and he would have gotten it anyways. This motive was one of the dumbest motives I have ever heard.
I didn't even think about that. I feel like the prosecution had to have had something to do with this. There's no way that would've held up considering... :(
I think they said it was because he learned Betsy changed it to Pam so he did it in a fit of rage.
And I think there's something sketchy in Betty giving the life insurance to Pam too.
@@MissHardmode they've said that one yes but they also said his motive was money wtf
This is a very good point. Especially by stabbing. If he was "planning" to fake her suicide, an overdose of her chemo meds which were sitting right there would have been most people's go-to, I would think from watching too many of these darned true crimes.
Thank God they’re investigating the prosecution too because this is one of the most ridiculous and disgusting cases I have ever seen in terms of police work. This is so horrible. Pam has hurt sooo many people and needs to be locked up for evvver.
Nice to see you here, love your channel! And I’m a few hours away from St. Louis but the cops seem pretty corrupt here too. :/
omggg its cool to see you here
Seriously.
This sort of thing happens way too often in Missouri. Our justice system in this state specifically is severely broken.
Right! Honestly it’s so horrible that they even got away with such poorly done work
There's NO DOUBT in my mind, if Pam had enough time before she was caught and incarcerated, HER OWN HUSBAND WOULD'VE DEFINITELY BEEN HER NEXT VICTIM! It seems only logical given the way she's so obsessed with greed.
This story is outrageous. I can't believe the justice system is so bad in some places. This is unreal.
I'm shocked it took three suspicious deaths for them to finally get to the truth. Two is a pattern. I don't care what court says, if you're the last person to see two people alive, I'm keeping my distance.
the police really do that with everything. on TV they make it seem like they’re committed. but in reality they let that happen for many reasons one they say not enough evidence. but what they really mean is “we dont have enough time and dedication to look for more evidence so we will wait for another crime to provide enough/more evidence. no lives matter type 😭
The thing is, a different set of police handled the murder of Louis. So, you can't even thank them for finally seeing the light.
@@StrongandGrand they would most likely still be aware of her time in court previously
they could have saved the lives of her mother and Louis. disgusting and infuriating
What's funny is the judge that acquitted Russ wouldn't allow in the evidence of her possibly killing her mom. However, he made a comment in court saying something like "I'm lucky I'm not closely related to her with a life insurance policy". He definitely thought she did it all by that point.
The police might as well have been holding Pam’s hand when she stabbed Betsy 55 times.
They might as well given Pam the knife. 🙄
@@DjEm10 and helped her clean up
It’s so infuriating - there are many partners/spouses who wouldn’t stand by there person when they get a diagnosis like cancer, especially twice, and here’s this stand up guy being there steadfast and then he ends up dealing with all this - just sad for him and hoping he is doing okay these days.
Pam put in an Alford plea in her charges relating to the murder of Louis Gumpenberger. She was sentenced to life in prison without parole. As for Betsy's case, the best that I could find stated that her trial has been suspended indefinitely because Pam's public defender died. She has pled not guilty to the charges for Betsy and the armed criminal action charge was dropped. In August 2022 Pam waived her right to a preliminary hearing and in OCtorber 2022 her trial was moved to Greene County in Missouri. I couldn't find anything else beyond that but if I do I'll add it in
How to tell that someone is guilty IMMEDIATELY: They never have the same story. If there's one thing I've learned from Judge Judy it's "if you tell the truth you don't have to remember a lot of details."
That's also something that I learned about someone who is telling you a story especially when it's supposedly the truth, I have took and used it through my life since I watched that episode of Judge Judy.
Lincoln county sucks!! I’m trying to get out of this town.
Also, if it doesn’t make sense, it’s probably not true. Love that woman. Lol.
Also by providing the narrative to investigators.
yeppp.
This case is absolutely tragic. The fact that the police and prosecution turned Betsys daughters and family against Russ broke my heart, it’s absolutely horrible and I wish nothing but the best for Russ and the family now
It made me angry, hearing about the gross miscarriage of justice, perpetrated by those who should uphold justice.
Definitely. I’m glad he got some compensation from the state from all that BS he went through. Bunch of bitches!
Right? The daughters testified against him saying they yelled and fought constantly
Pam looks evil!
Thanks, KR for another great case! This was just about the worst, most corrupt (and/or narrow-minded) display of incompetence and miscarriage of justice I've ever heard! Thank God this evil, selfish, greedy, serial murderer is finally behind bars and these wholly inadequate clowns who posed as prosecutors and detectives will face justice as well for literally making a mockery of our justice system!
That phone call hurt me so bad:( the pain in his voice is so visible. It’s so painful that she went this way.
Having a friend that overbearing is terrifying even without the murder
i had one of 14 years! Glad i finally saw the light
@@kaneohb I just got rid of one recently... and am still afraid of her.. haha
Sooo true it’s scary
@@kaneohb girl likewise
I had one in high school and now we are not in contact thank the lord
Pam’s 911 call of the “intruder in her house” is the worst most monotone acting I have ever heard. However, the handling of the case is even worse. How was everyone so duped by someone so clearly guilty?
h e l p h e l p h e l p
I can't stop laughing omg lolol
She was yelling in lowercase😂
Worst acting ever.
It reminded me of a 90's after school special.
@@pattyjuez Not the lowercase 😂😂
So the beneficiary of her life insurance changed to the last person to see her alive DAYS before her murder and the cops are like nope couldn’t be her…that’s criminal
Are they stupid, incompete or evil? Whichever they need to be held accountable.
so if you have no alibi that’s not good enough but if you have TOO GOOD of an alibi that’s also not good enough make that make sense, i feel bad for the entire family
This is such an infuriating case. To make accusations on someone with “such a good alibi”, yet Pam can’t keep a story straight, lied multiple time, and made false medical statements. This story made me so upset. My heart goes out to Russ.
And his wife. May she rest in peace ✌️❤️
And his step-daughters. I can't imagine dealing with all this at such a young age.
Masonic like Delphi murders. And Gabby Petito etc.Creepy masonic cops let the perps go every time
@@phillipgalan660 and Sarah Everade 🚨👮♂️
@@jessicawatson7360 who's that? I'll Google it ,but still...
being framed for murder sounds like one of the worst things that can happen to a person
yes, especially being framed for the murder of the love of your life
@@allykulhmann508 a living person lol
Chloeee💞💞
@@allykulhmann508 when the person is alive and being accused of murdering someone. It’s the worst feeling ever. It’s like moms who blame themselves cause there kids are sick (like cancer, diseases things like that) when it’s not there fault.
Credit to Mike Wood, that newly appointed prosecuting attorney…. this case was the most outrageous case of law enforcement negligence I’ve seen in awhile (and still is, Mike Wood’s statements don’t make it less true). But I was honestly relieved to hear those words come out his mouth “this is one of the poorest examples of investigative work that I have ever encountered” and that Wood is using it to launch an investigation into the police/attorneys who were involved in this.
They deserve to be in jail.
My goodness! I PRAY that I or anyone I know and love never come across someone so evil.