I was mad. You got to fight for whats right. Now a mind bogging new development. Shes facing murder charge herself. They said pam hupp shot somebody. She shot until the gun stopped firing. Now im starting to panic. Are there more twists to come . Three people died suspiciously. You feel like youre in a movie that you cant wake up from. Such a bizarre scheme. Its nuts. Truth is really stranger than fiction. Heres keith morrison. Reporter theres a story here in the distant suburbs of st. Louis, missouri. A case so outrageous, so full of surprises, its huh, how to describe it . If it wasnt so serious, it would be almost a skit on a comedy show. If it were a movie, it wouldnt reporter disturbing . Yes. Shocking . Certainly. And more than that. I think its impossible to describe this case in a few words unless its unbelievable or crazy or unprecedented. Reporter so we will tell you the story and, as youuee, the strangestof its crazy twists and bizarre surprises. The woman inside the suv told her that she was a producer for reporter occurred long after the event that first brought us here. The one that happened on a cold winters night 2011. It was a 911 call. 9 40 p. M. , december 22nd. What is the location of your emergency . I need you to take a couple deep breaths so i can see whats going on. I just got home from a friends house and and my wife my wife phone was hysterical. What is her name . Her name is betsy. Betsy . Yes. Reporter betsy faria. And the crying you can hear is her husband, russ. Oh, my god, no. Russell, do you think that shes beyond help right now . I think shes dead. Okay. Oh, my god. Reporter betsy faria was dead and gone at just 42. This, the event from which all else flows, the old allegation and the very new ones. Of sex and secrets and lies and wild recovered memories. And that Something Else so devious, so cruel. Who would think of such a thing . About betsy faria. Little sister to mary rodgers and julie sweeney. Betsy was the most outgoing and the most social. Reporter kind of gregarious, right . Gregarious is a great word for her. Very colorful, very lively. Shes with an individual. You couldnt tell her no. She did what she wanted to do. She started deejaying at the age of i think she was 18 maybe younger than that. Reporter wow. She could start up a party. She was in her element when she was out there. She could get anybody on the dance floor. Whether they wanted to or not. Reporter betsy was a single mother of two daughters, leah and mariah, when she met russ. He seemed just about perfect for her. Funny, outgoing, big heart says russ cousin. Hes a happy person. Hes a jokester. You never seen him without him laughing. Reporter and, said russ, she was the perfect woman for him. Which led to a better job, more money, things like that. Which i probably wouldnt have done had she not come along. Reporter when russ met betsy, her daughters were very young. Mariah still a tiny girl. We really created a big bond, and leah, you know, bonded with me as well. Reporter betsy and russ got married in january 2000. And, like many couples, they had good times and then less good times. For more than a year, they actually lived apart. Its always darkest before the dawn, they say. Reporter then betsy told him shed found a church that meant a lot to her. Maybe hed like to come. The first week we went there, they were starting a series on marriage. Which was kind of like an omen. Reporter that, said russ, is when their marriage got better again. You know, we kind of refell in love with one another. Reporter but life will have its way with a person, like it cancer. Christmas of 2009 she told us that she thought she had it and it was diagnosed in january 2010. Thats when she had her mastectomy. Went through a lot of cry kg, a lot of heartache, you know, and just a lot of hard time, but we kept our faith and we kept praying. And she handled it with such grace. She just amazed the millions of people that she knows. She just continued playing tennis. Youd never know she was going through chemo. Reporter and maybe that helped her beat it. In the winter of 2011, betsys doctor told her the cancer was in remission. So she and russ decided to celebrate. They organized a caribbean cruise, invited their friends and family to come along. And then she thinks im free and clear, and then this bomb gets back. Had spread to her liver. It was inoperable. It was too far in her liver that they couldnt take it out. Reporter she had, with luck, three to five years, perhaps less. So what did russ and betsy do . They went on that cruise anyway, took their whole gang with them. Betsy got to swim with the dolphins, a dream shed had for years. Just seeing how happy she was made me happy. She told everybody that this was a second honeymoon for them. That happened. They had the best sex that they could ever have while they were on this cruise. 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Between his sobs, russ told the operator hed returned home from an evening with friends to find his wife betsy dead on the living room floor. And he said it looked like she committed suicide. Shes got a knife in her neck. Reporter much later russ said something clicked when he saw her lying there. Well, she talked about it years before and actually tried it once or twice. Reporter and when you came in i saw slices on her arms and that was the first thing that just registered in my mind. Reporter early next morning betsys mother janet meyer got a knock on the door. One of them just looked right at me and said, betsys dead. And i said, well, how could she be dead . She just here last night. Reporter officers went to sister julies house. They said it was a possible suicide. I looked at her and kind of gave her this look like i dont think that sounds right. Reporter thing is, by the time police offered that suicide suggestion to betsys family, they already betsy faria was no suicide, not even possible. First responders could tell right away. And the medical Examiners Office found betsys body had been pierced many, many times including wounds most likely inflicted after she was already dead. Hardly surprising then that police might be casting around for suspects or that russ the husband, the man who supposedly discovered the body, had some explaining to do. So that night at the sheriffs department, getting him to focus god. But i think youre the only one that can help us with this right now. I dont know what to do. Reporter but investigators had a job to do find betsys killer. And they thought it might be russ who was incredibly emotional. Was he acting . Was this florid grief actually real . Whatever it was, russ seemed to what do you think happened to betsy . It look like she killed herself. Reporter but did he really not know about all those other stab wounds . And Something Else. Betsys body was cold and stiff when the First Responders arrived. Rigor mortis had already set in, the blood was drying. Based on that, it appeared that betsy had been dead for some time when russ called 911. So detectives zeroed in on betsy tell me about your night. Reporter russ said betsy had a chemo appointment that afternoon, planning to go to her moms house afterwards, then russ would drive her home. At least that was the arrangement. But when he called betsy some time after 5 00 p. M. I asked her if she needed a ride on my way home. And she said, no, that her friend was going to bring her home. And i said, okay. And she said she had something to talk to me about. And i said, well, is it good or bad . She said, well, its good. Dont worry. I said, okay, well ill see you at home later and i love you. And that was the last time i talked to her. Reporter after that, said russ, he ran some errands and then at 6 00, as he almost always did tuesday evening, he arrived at a friends house where a small group gathered for what they called their game night. We go over there and tuesday nights and usually we play games. But that particular night, my friend had gotten a couple of movies, and so we decided to said, stopped for a couple of sandwiches a t a local arbys drivethrough, then drove the 30 minutes back to his house in troy, which would have put him there about 9 40 p. M. He said he walked through the unlocked front door all unsuspecting, and then i was taking my jacket off and calling her betsy. And then i seen her there on the floor. Reporter will you ever forget what that was like coming into the house and see that . I see it every time i close my eyes. I fell down the looked and i saw cuts on her arm. And then i saw a knife in her neck. Reporter and that, said russ, is all he saw. So it looked to him like shed done it herself deliberately. And it comes back to this idea who may have harmed betsy . No. Everybody loves betsy. She was a positive soul. She always brought smiles to and she made me smile all the time. She made me so produce. Its not typical for someone thats going to commit suicide to do it by the way that she done it. And thats what concerns us. Reporter so it did. It always made russ the prime suspect. Coming up russ and betsys relationship. They shared that romantic cruise, but a friend of betsys is about to share Something Else. Of putting a pillow over her face. This is what its going to feel like when you die. And then act like he was well this heres a loadbearing wall. Well go ahead and rip that out. Its going to cause a lot of problems. Totally unnecessary and it triples the budget. Wouldnt it be great if everyone said what they meant . The citi . Double cash card does. Earn 1 cash back when you buy, and 1 as you pay. Double means double. . . Dont let the food you eat during the day haunt you at night. Nexium 24hr. Shuts down your stomachs active acid pumps. To stop the burn of frequent heartburn. Have we seen them before . Not long after russ faria found his wife dead, the police took him in for a long night of questions and a polygraph test the following afternoon. Though, said russ, when he saw the machine honestly, i dont even know if the thing was on or not. They told him he failed it miserably. So he must have done it, they said. Time for him to confess. The fact of the matter is you stabbed betsy. No, i did not. I wasnt even there. Russ, you were there. No. I found her like that when i came home. Reporter russ denied it again and again. I did not do this. Reporter but investigators didnt buy it. Why . In large part because of her. This womans name youll be hearing it a lot is pam hupp. Pam is married, has kids. Shed been palling around with betsy for a couple of years. But theyd known each other quite a bit longer. Met when betsy trained pam in the insurance business. Pam was the friend who drove betsy home from her mothers the evening she was murdered. In fact, she told detectives she had a lot of things to say about russ including what sounded like a big fat motive. Money. He makes comments about how much money hell have after shes gone because hes got this is what she said. I dont know for sure. Ive never seen their financials. But hes got Life Insurance on her at work. Shes got Life Insurance. Reporter but that wasnt russ only motive, said pam. There was friction in the betsy confided in her that last day, said pam. Said she was going to tell russ they ought to move out of their suburban house and live with betsys family. Theyd save money that way and be closer for her chemo treatments. But, pam told those officers, betsy was afraid of how russ would react. She go, okay, well ill tell him but im telling you right now hes going to get very angry. Reporter why . Moving, hes staying in his house and thats it. She was going approach him . When he got home. Reporter they confronted him with the information that pam gave them about betsys idea and her fear. She never mentioned that to me. Well that was the news she wanted to share with you when you got home. I never got a chance to hear it. The first time i heard about it was when you told me. Reporter investigators didnt believe that. Especially when they heard the bombshell pam laid on them. A disturbing game pam said russ played with betsy. He started playing this game of putting a pillow over her face to see what it would feel like i dont know if she said, this is what its going to feel like when you die or whatever and then act like he was kidding. She was very upset. Did she sound scared in. Oh, yeah. Reporter they took that accusation to russ, too . Why would her friends tell the police that that you had done that and that she was scared of me. Shed never been scared of me. Reporter after they heard from pam hupp, investigators considered the evidence they found at the crime scene, though betsy was killed in the living room, they found her blood on a light switch in the master bedroom. And on a pair of russ slippers stashed in a bedroom closet. The fact of the matter is its a sloppy crime scene, theres blood on your clothes, in your residence, in your bedroom. I didnt even go to my reporter they confronted russ with the horrifying fact that betsy had been stabbed over and over and over again. Many, many times. Your wife was stabbed over 25 times. Oh, my god. No. 25 times. Theyre still counting. Oh, my god. A burglar doesnt do that, russ. A stranger doesnt do that. Somebody who loves that person does that. Somebody who goes into a blind rage does that. This murder, said the cops, looked like rage and looked like russ. Theres no one else that has any kind of motive monetary or crime of passion. I cant tell you what i dont know. I dont know. There was never a focus on anybody else. Reporter it was the day after the murder that russ cousin mary heard that betsy was dead and that husband was being questioned. And that didnt make sense to her. Few days earlier. Everything seemed fine then. Betsy was laughing and happy. She was even saving him a spot on the couch. Like here, babe, you can sit next to me. Reporter mary was so sure russ would not, could not have killed betsy, she set out to defend him any way she could. But by the time investigators released russ 48 hours after he was first brought in for questioning, the story was all over the local media. And boy, this case has really reporter betsys mother, though she said shed been close, very close to russ, remembered a few things that stuck out now like a sore thumb. He told a friend of mines husband that if he got into a pit with somebody, he would fight to kill. Reporter so when officers told her about all those stab wounds . When they said that, i didnt have any doubt in my mind. I never thought it could be anybody else but russ when they told me that. Reporter the investigators were thinking it, too. Mind you, there were several reasons to think russ didnt kill his wife. But whats the old expression . A lie can travel halfway around the world before the truth gets its pants on. So true. So true. Coming up what sounds like a slam dunk alibi from russ game night buddies. We knew that he could not have committed this crime. A man cannot be in two places at the same time. And later another puzzling death. There was a person shot. And guess who police say is behind it . Come into olive garden now for our never ending pasta bowl starting at 9. 99 endless combinations of your favorite pastas, plus unlimited salad and breadsticks. Hurry, this never ending value ends soon. At olive garden. Why the phelps face . Old computer slowing you down . You know. I know. New computers are superfast. 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He broke down, just talking to her all by himself, just him at the casket. And he fell to the ground. He was a broken man. It was hard. It was very hard. But it was really nice to see how many people that she touched and that came. Reporter but remember that story pam hupp told the detective about russ putting a pillow over betsys face and telling her thats what death feels like . Would russ have done such a thing . No. Now, would russ pull a cover over her head and fart underneath it and Say Something like that . Yes, he would. Reporter because he was a jokester . That he would do, yes. But would he put a pillow over her face and do that . Absolutely not. Reporter but, of course, that was the opinion of a woman who was vep in russ corner. So maybe you take it with a was there ever. The kind they call air tight. Remember that game night russ said he attended between 6 00 and 9 00 p. M. The night betsy was murdered . This is michael corbin, the host of game night. A few of his friends had been coming by tuesday nights for years. Essentially, its a way where we can all get together, be sociable and not really