'Evil incarnate': Russ Faria reacts to Pam Hupp being charged with wife's murder

Pam Hupp waited until her friend Betsy Faria was weak and lethargic from a chemotherapy treatment before she began stabbing her repeatedly as she lay on a couch under a blanket. Then, she dipped the victim's socks in her own blood and spread it around the house to make it look like her husband killed her in a domestic assault, according to court documents filed Monday charging Hupp with the 2011 murder. Among the many oddities prosecutors noted about the crime scene was Betsy Faria's dog, who had been left outside when her husband returned home that night. Hupp was afraid of the dog, and she was the last person to see Betsy Faria alive, according to the court documents outlining first-degree murder and armed criminal action charges against her. Lincoln County Prosecutor Michael Wood discussed the latest developments Monday afternoon, where he also announced a new investigation into "potential prosecutorial and police misconduct in the Betsy Faria case." Wood also said he's going to seek the death penalty against Hupp. "One of the aggravating factors was she murdered for the insurance money, this case struck very deep into our souls and into our conscience with a level of depravity we haven’t seen before," he said. "She murdered her friend, mutilated the body, staged the scene, testified against an innocent man in court...I can’t pick a case more depraved than that, this is it." There has long been suspicion that Hupp was involved in Faria's death. Hupp was the last person to see Faria alive before she was stabbed dozens of times and left for dead in her home on Dec. 27, 2011. Hupp became the sole beneficiary of Faria's $150,000 life insurance policy just days before she died. Hupp is the second person to be charged with murder in this case. Faria's husband, Russ, was convicted of the crime in 2013 and spent more than a year in prison but was acquitted in a retrial two years later. He agreed to a $2 million settlement from an insurance company for the Lincoln County police officers who investigated the case. The officers did not admit to wrongdoing as a term of the settlement. "The only way that I can describe Pam Hupp is evil incarnate," Russ Faria said Monday. "Compare her to people like Charles Manson." FULL STORY: https://www.ksdk.com/article/news/cri...