Complete that with a ‘Chill Chugz” giant fountain drink (which I think is a knockoff of ‘Big Gulp’), and Zellweger disappears into this role.ĭateline was behind this series, which seems fair since Hupp herself posed as a Dateline correspondent to lure in a victim. Zellweger wears a ‘fat suit’ and facial prosthetics for her Hupp role. If Zellweger keeps this up, she could make a lot of money playing villains in future movies and shows. Both Umbridge and Zellweger’s Hupp can make you angry just standing there with a fake patronizing smile while thinking those evil thoughts inside their head. She reminds me of Dolores Umbridge from the “Harry Potter” series. You’re ready to hate on her every time she shows up, gritting your teeth with every fake smile she gives.
Zellweger plays Hupp as that person you’d love to hate. It’s perfect! But I never have seen Zellweger act like this: a manipulative, prying “Murder Karen.” She condescends down on everyone, from Lincoln’s prosecutor to her own husband.
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Hupp was already a real-life TV show villain and Zellweger was able to use her as an actual TV villain. Renée Zellweger has been making a comeback in the last few years, but this performance was a complete surprise from her. It’s even weirder to think that before 2019, you could have walked past Hupp at your nearby QuikTrip or waited in line behind her at Schnucks or Dierbergs. There is no definite answer as to whom killed Betsy and Neumann, but Hupp is still involved and they remain a part of this psychotic scheme. Hupp is only shown recruiting and then killing Gumpenberger, which is appropriate since his murder was the only one she was found guilty of. Maybe this could be the start of shows like “CSI: The ‘Burbs” or “Law & Order: Midwest Crimes.”įor the show, both Betsy Faria’s and Shirley Neumann, Hupp’s mother, deaths happen off-screen, like in an episode of “Law and Order” or “CSI.” It never reveals the actual act, although heavy implications are on Hupp.
It honestly sounds like something from a crime drama in my own neck of the woods. This is probably one of the craziest stories I ever heard of coming from this county.
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This leads to Hupp being incarcerated in prison for life without parole.īetsy Faria’s murder, Russ Faria’s trial and then retrial, and Gumpenberger’s murder are all true events that happened in Saint Charles County between 20. However, Hupp decides to take the Alford Plea, maintaining her innocence while accepting the evidence against her.
To try to keep her own innocence, Hupp sets up disabled Louis Gumpenberger as a hitman sent by Russ, but it ultimately backfires (because Hupp wasn’t much of a CSI viewer, I guess). Hupp loses her public image after winning a lawsuit from Betsy’s children, who never got the money from Betsy’s life insurance. After Russ is a freedman, Hupp becomes the prime suspect, due to her being the benefactor of Betsy’s life insurance. It first covers Russ Faria’s wrongful conviction of his wife’s murder and his retrial years later which proves his innocence. The NBC chronicles Hupp’s involvement from Betsy Faria’s murder to Gumpenberger’s murder, the latter being her downfall. “Dateline” correspondent Keith Morrison provides the narration.
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Judy Greer (FX’s “Archer”) plays Leah Askey, Lincoln County’s prosecutor, and Mac Brandt (Audience Network’s “Kingdom”) as Detective McCarrick assigned to Betsy Faria’s murder case. “The Thing about Pam” stars Renée Zellweger (“Bridget Jones’s Diary”) as Pam Hupp, Josh Duhamel (the “Transformers” films) as Joel Schwartz, Katy Mixon (CBS’s “Mike & Molly”) as Betsy Faria, Glenn Fleshler (Showtime’s “Billions”) as Russ Faria, Alice Barrett-Mitchell (“13”) as Cathy Singer, Gideon Adlon (“The Mustang”) as Mariah Day, and introducing Jeff Ryan Baker as Louis Gumpenberger. Charles County residents, this story is closer to home than what’s comfortable. What’s surprising is that these murders only happened in the last couple of years, possibly as far back as 2011. “The Thing about Pam” is based on Pam Hupp, a Missouri woman serving life in prison for murder and believed to be behind more murder cases currently under investigation. And in Troy, Mo, Betsy Faria’s murder would spark a shocking conspiracy involving Pam Hupp. The popular video game “Minecraft” came out. The year President Obama announced Osama bin Laden was killed by U.S. Editor’s note: This article contains spoilers for the “The Thing About Pam” limited series.
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