held several jobs in the life insurance industry; on two occasions, she was fired for forging signatures. In 2001, Hupp and her husband settled in O'Fallon, Missouri, where she worked as an administrator for State Farm and flipped houses on the side via a company called H2 Partners LLC. By 2010, Hupp had stopped working and was claiming disability benefits for back, leg, and neck pain. In 2011, Hupp and Betsy Faria, a friend terminally ill with cancer, reportedly collected money for a family also impacted by cancer. St. Louis station KTVI discovered several years later that the family did not know about the collection; information was presented to Lincoln County authorities in 2014, but was not investigated further. There was no evidence to suggest Faria knew the fundraiser was questionable, with her friends recalling that she said she was excited to be helping a struggling family, even though she herself was dying. One of them, Kathleen Meyer, said, "This was going to be a legacy for her, to leave something like this behind in her memory." Death of Betsy Faria Elizabeth Kay Meyer Faria ("Betsy") was a coworker of Hupp at State Farm. She lived in Troy, Missouri, with her husband, Russell Scott Faria ("Russ"), and two daughters from a previous relationship. In 2010, she was diagnosed with breast cancer. In October 2011, Betsy learned the cancer had metastasized to her liver and was terminal. On December 22, 2011, days before her death and unbeknownst to her family, Betsy changed the sole beneficiary of her $150,000 () State Farm life insurance policy from her husband to Hupp, who originally said that Betsy had asked her to give the money to her daughters when they were older. Hupp later said that Betsy had wanted her to keep the money for herself. Betsy's daughters launched a legal challenge against Hupp and her husband to attempt to claim the life insurance policy in 2014, which was dismissed in 2016; Russ launched his own legal challenge against State Farm in 2016. Hupp admitted that she had lied about what she intended to do with the life insurance proceeds. Prosecutors later speculated that Russ had been angered by Betsy's actions, giving him a motive to kill her. Russ remained the beneficiary on a separate $100,000 () policy. Five days later, on December 27, 2011, Betsy underwent chemotherapy at the Alvin J. Siteman Cancer Center