in St. Louis, then visited her mother's house. Afterward she was driven home by Hupp, the last confirmed person to have seen her alive. Betsy had originally been scheduled to be driven home by Russ, or else stay with her mother, until Hupp unexpectedly drove to her mother's house and insisted on driving her home. Hupp claimed that she dropped Betsy off at home at approximately 7 p.m. At approximately 7:21 p.m., a call to Betsy from one of her daughters went unanswered. Russ spent the evening at his friend Michael Corbin's home, watching movies from 6 p.m. until 9 p.m., then drove to an Arby's in Lake St. Louis before returning home. At 9:40 p.m., Russ called 9-1-1, saying that he had found that his wife had killed herself. Betsy had been stabbed over 55 times, with her wrists cut to the bone and a serrated kitchen knife left lodged in her neck. A second knife was found under a pillow on the couch she was lying on. First responders arrived within ten minutes and concluded that Betsy had been dead for at least an hour or longer. Her time of death was later reported as being between 7:20 p.m. and 9:41 p.m.. Conviction of Russ Faria Russ was arrested the day after his wife's death. His initial assertion that Betsy had killed herself was considered "ludicrous" by first responders who saw her body. A police search of the house unearthed a bloodstained pair of slippers in his closet. His agitated emotional state was regarded as "suspicious" by police, and he ostensibly failed a polygraph test. When interviewed by police, Hupp claimed that Russ had a "violent temper"; that he was a heavy drinker; and that he had threatened Betsy, who had considered leaving him. At Hupp's behest, police searched Betsy's laptop and found a document in which she purportedly expressed fears that her husband would kill her. It was later revealed that the document was written in Word 97, software that had not been installed on the laptop; it was the only document on the laptop with an "unknown" author. On January 4, 2012, the day after Betsy's funeral, Russ was charged with first-degree murder and armed criminal action. Unable to make $250,000 bail (), he was held in the county jail until his trial began on November 18, 2013. During Russ' trial, his defense attorney, Joel Schwartz,