Pam Hupp

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Pamela Marie Hupp (née Neumann; born October 10, 1958) is an American convicted murderer serving a life sentence in Missouri's Chillicothe Correctional Center for the fatal shooting of Louis Gumpenberger in her home in O'Fallon, Missouri. In August 2016, Hupp staged the killing of Gumpenberger (a disabled man) by luring him into her house and shooting him. Hupp's claim that she had killed Gumpenberger in self-defense was not accepted by law enforcement and she ultimately entered an Alford plea before charges of first-degree murder and armed criminal action could go to trial. 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, Russ was exonerated after his defense attorney was permitted to introduce evidence that had been withheld from the original trial jury, some of which implicated Hupp – the beneficiary...

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