Bone Deep - Murder & Wrongful Conviction: The Russ Faria Story

Today on Crime & Entertainment we take you on a unbelievable ride of murder, wrongful conviction & incarceration. Imagine walking in your home to find your wife lying dead, stabbed to death on the floor. The sight of that alone is enough to send someone over the edge but imagined being accused of doing such a heinous act. Thats exactly what happened to our guest today, Russ Faria. On December 27th, 2011, Russell Faria returned to his Troy, Missouri, home after his weekly game night with friends to an unthinkable, grisly scene: His wife, Betsy, lay dead, a knife still lodged in her neck. She’d been stabbed fifty-five times.

First responders concluded that Betsy was dead for hours when Russ discovered her. No blood was found implicating Russ, and surveillance video, receipts, and friends’ testimony all supported his alibi. Yet incredibly, police and the prosecuting attorney ignored the evidence. In their minds, Russ was guilty. But prominent defense attorney Joel J. Schwartz quickly recognized the real killer.

The motive was clear. Days before her murder, the terminally ill Betsy replaced her husband with her friend, Pamela Hupp, as her life insurance beneficiary. Still, despite the prosecution’s flimsy case and Hupp’s transparent lies, Russ was convicted—leaving Hupp free to kill again. This is the story of what can happen when police, prosecutor, judge, and jury all fail in their duty to protect the innocent—and let a killer get away with murder.

Check out the detailed book on this case below
Bone Deep: Untangling the Betsy Faria Murder Case: Bosworth Jr., Charles, Schwartz, Joel: 9780806541976: Amazon.com: Books

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