LINCOLN COUNTY, Mo. – Pamela “Pam” Hupp, the Missouri woman charged in the bizarre 2011 death of Betsy Faria, is one of three suspects featured in a new Tubi true crime docuseries called “Ms. Murder.”

The docuseries, which premiered Wednesday on Tubi, consists of three one-hour episodes, each profiling a complex murder case involving a female murder suspect.

Pam Hupp is currently serving a life sentence for the 2016 death of Louis Gumpenberger. Her current charges and pending trial are also connected with Faria’s death.

Hupp was first exposed as a possible suspect in a series of investigations by FOX 2 that began more than a decade ago.

Betsy was found dead at her home on Dec. 27, 2011 with more than 50 stab wounds. Her husband, Russ Faria, was initially arrested and convicted of her murder in 2013. A judge then exonerated Russ in 2015 during a retrial, citing that no circumstantial evidence tied him to the murder.

During the course of the murder investigation, authorities learned that Betsy changed the beneficiary of her $150,000 life insurance policy to Hupp, signed just days before the murder. While this raised suspicions around the time of Russ’ retrial, though Hupp was off the hook from charges at the time.

In 2016, authorities say Hupp shot Louis Gumpenberger, a man with disabilities, and alleged he was a home intruder. The O’Fallon Police Department determined she had lured Gumpenberger and drove him to her home, where she staged a scene and fatally shot him outside her living room door.

Hupp submitted an Alford plea to Gumpenberger’s murder in St. Charles County in 2019. This means she acknowledged that prosecutors had enough evidence to convict her but did not admit guilt. She is serving life in prison for his death.

Around that time, the Lincoln County Prosecutor reopened Betsy’s murder case. A St. Charles County prosecutor also said Hupp staged Gumpenberger’s murder to deflect attention in fear that authorities were catching up to her on Betsy’s case.

The Lincoln County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office formally charged Hupp with first-degree murder in 2021 in connection with Faria’s death. Prosecutors allege she killed Betsy for financial gain and set up Russ as a fall guy.

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Hupp pleaded not guilty to the murder charge in March. Prosecutors are hoping to begin her trial into Betsy’s murder in the summer of 2025.

Hupp is the subject of the first episode of the “Ms. Murder” docuseries . The documentary explains that various evidence from the 2016 scene, including a hand-written note and $100 bills, raised suspicions as to Hupp’s alleged account of Gumpenberger’s murder, while behavioral patterns indicated possible ties to Betsy’s death.

The docuseries also includes parts of an interview with Russ Faria and details how he was eventually acquitted. Retired O’Fallon Police Lieutenant Brian Hilke and former St. Charles County prosecutor Tim Lohmar also offer insight in Hupp’s episode.

The other two “Ms. Murder” episodes that premiered Wednesday delve into the murder cases of Julene Simko out of Ohio and Stacy Castor out of New York.

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