the couple were divorced. In September 2020, Hupp filed a motion to vacate her conviction, claiming she was pressured to take a plea; it was denied the following March as untimely. Media coverage St. Louis station KTVI broke the Betsy Faria story, reporting continuously on the case from December 28, 2011, through 2022, generating more than fifty reports and investigations. Chris Hayes of KTVI was the only reporter to attend Russ' first trial in November 2013, and the first to report questions about Hupp that same month; upon his release from prison, Russ thanked Hayes for his coverage. Betsy's murder was the subject of six Dateline NBC episodes: "The House on Sumac Drive" (2014), "Game Night" (2015), "Return to Game Night" (2016), "Stranger Than Fiction" (2016), "The Thing About Pam" (2019), and "The Real Thing About Pam" (2022). As of 2019, the murder had received more coverage from Dateline than any other subject aside from the O. J. Simpson murder case and the death of JonBenét Ramsey. In September 2019, the murder of Louis Gumpenberger was the subject of a Dateline NBC true crime podcast. It spent several weeks as one of the most popular Apple podcasts. In July 2019, filmmaker Daniel Blake Smith announced that he was writing and producing Proof, a feature film based on the stories of Russ and his defense attorney Joel Schwartz. In October 2019, the Riverfront Times dubbed Hupp St Louis' "best local girl gone bad" of that year, observing that "few stories are quite so made-for-TV" and "the tale of Pam Hupp screams for serialization". In May 2020, NBC News Studios and Blumhouse Television announced that they were co-producing a new scripted television series based on the murder of Betsy Faria. In February 2021, they disclosed that the six-episode series would be called The Thing About Pam. Renée Zellweger, who had become interested in the case after becoming "obsessed" with the Dateline NBC podcast, served as executive producer for the series and also portrayed Hupp using facial prosthetics and a fatsuit. Other cast members included Josh Duhamel as Schwartz, Judy Greer as Askey, and Katy Mixon as Betsy. Filming was conducted in New Orleans; it was delayed by Hurricane Ida but was underway by October 2021. During filming, Zellweger received criticism for wearing a fatsuit. In February 2022, it was reported that Blumhouse and NBC News Studios had declined to share profits from