Pam Hupp was the last person known to have seen Betsy Faria, a friend terminally ill with cancer alive before she was stabbed to death in her Troy, Missouri home just after Christmas, 2011. Testimony from Hupp had played a key role in the 2013 conviction of Russ Faria for the murder of his wife, Betsy Faria, who was stabbed to death in her home in Troy, Missouri, in 2011. After a successful appeal and second trial in 2015, Faria was exonerated after his defense attorney was permitted to introduce evidence that was withheld from the original trial jury, some of which implicated Hupp – the beneficiary of a life insurance policy held by Betsy – as the killer.