On Friday, April 15 at 9 p.m. ET, “ Dateline” vented a new occasion fastening on the Betsy Faria murder case, as depicted in “ The Thing About Pam.” “ The Real Thing About Pam” was the title of the piece.
Did Pam Hupp Try To Kill Herself? Stabs Self With Pen
Pam Hupp stabbing herself in the bathroom with a pen in an apparent attempt to kill herself was the start of Episode 6, dubbed she’s a Killer.
According to Newsweek, Hupp was arrested and charged with the assassination of Louis Gumpenberger on August 23, 2016.
Furthermore, after being detained, she proceeded to the police station’s restroom and allegedly attempted suicide by stabbing herself in the neck and wrists with a ballpoint pen.
That’s why, after being seen extensively wrapped in her booking photo, she was placed on suicide watch at the St Charles County jail.
Hupp’s attempted suicide was highlighted by prosecutors in court. The act was committed with “knowing of guilt,” according to Assistant Prosecutor Phil Groenweghe of the St. Charles County prosecutor’s office.
Who is Pam Hupp?
Pamela Marie Hupp (née Neumann; born October 10, 1958) is an American murderer serving a life sentence in Missouri’s Chillicothe Correctional Center for the 2016 murder of Louis Gumpenberger in her O’Fallon, Missouri home. Hupp’s claim that she had shot Gumpenberger (who had mental and physical disabilities) in self-defense after he pursued her into her home wielding a knife was not accepted by law enforcement. She ultimately entered an Alford guilty plea before charges of first-degree murder and armed criminal action could go to trial.
she and her husband settled in O’Fallon, where she worked as an administrator for State Farm and flipped houses on the side. By 2010, Hupp had stopped working and was claiming disability benefits for back, leg, and neck pain.
