any misconduct and stated she had never seen the destruction order. In May 2022, officers from the St. Charles Police Department suggested that "several" law enforcement personnel could face criminal charges. In July 2021, Hupp entered a "not guilty" plea. On September 8, 2021, the armed criminal action charge against Hupp was dismissed. A preliminary hearing was scheduled for February 2022, but was delayed indefinitely after Hupp's public defender died of a heart attack; in August 2022, Hupp waived her right to a preliminary hearing. In October 2022, Hupp's trial was moved to Greene County, Missouri, being transferred to the 31st Judicial Circuit. Death of Shirley Neumann Shirley Mae Neumann, Hupp's mother, a widow since 2000, was living alone in a third-floor apartment in the Lakeview Park Independent Senior Living Community in Fenton, suffering from dementia and arthritis. She spent the night of October 29, 2013, with Hupp following a hospital visit. At approximately 5 p.m. on October 30, Hupp dropped Neumann off at her apartment, instructing staff not to expect her for dinner that evening or breakfast the following day. A housekeeper found Neumann dead beneath the balcony of her home at 2:30 p.m. the next day. The aluminum balcony railing was broken. Following a police investigation, assistant medical examiner Raj Nanduri concluded that Neumann had died from blunt trauma to the chest resulting from an accidental fall. An autopsy found that she had .84 mcg of the sedative Zolpidem in her blood, over eight times the expected concentration for someone having taken a normal dose. The next month the Lincoln County Sheriff's Office received an anonymous note suggesting Hupp, the last person known to have seen Neumann alive, had murdered her mother for the life insurance. Hupp and her siblings each received approximately $120,000 () of investments held by Neumann, as well as sharing a $10,000 () life insurance payout. Earlier that year, prior to her mother's death, Hupp had been videotaped saying, "My mom's worth half a million that I get when she dies [...] if I really wanted money, there was an easier way than trying to combat somebody that's physically stronger than me". The police reopened their investigation, but after interviewing the housekeeper who had found Neumann's body and Neumann's son Michael both of whom said that Neumann was "unsteady" again concluded that her death was accidental. They did not interview Hupp. After Hupp was