Case 1: Pamela Hup
A Missouri woman staged a home invasion in 2016, murdering a disabled man, Lewis Gumpenberger.
The motive was to frame Russ Faria, whom she had previously helped convict for the 2011 murder of his wife, Betsy.
Hup had befriended Betsy, manipulated her into making Hup the beneficiary of a $150,000 life insurance policy, and then killed her. Russ Faria's conviction was later overturned.
Facing new scrutiny in 2016, Hup staged the home invasion to make it seem Russ was targeting her.
She entered an Alford plea for Gumpenberger's murder (life without parole) and was later charged with Betsy Faria's murder.
Case 2: Terry Blair
A serial killer who strangled at least six women in Kansas City in 2004, leaving their bodies in a small radius.
Blair had served over 20 years for a previous murder and was on parole.
He chillingly called 911 to report the locations of his victims.
Convicted in a bench trial, he received six consecutive life sentences and died in prison in 2024.
Case 3: Carla Hughes
A Mississippi teacher had an affair with a coworker, Keon Pitman, who was engaged and expecting a child with Avis Banks.
Obsessed and unable to accept Pitman's commitment to Avis, Hughes borrowed a gun and knife, then ambushed and murdered the pregnant Avis in her garage in 2006.
Overwhelming evidence, including the murder weapon from her cousin, led to her conviction for two counts of capital murder. She received two life sentences without parole.
Case 4: Lindley Renick
The wife of famous reptile breeder Ben Renick conspired to murder him in 2017.
Facing financial ruin from her failing spa and marital strife, she first attempted to poison him, then recruited an ex-boyfriend, Michael Humphrey, to shoot Ben in his reptile facility.
The plot unraveled years later via a jailhouse informant. Humphrey was convicted and testified against Lindley.
Lindley was convicted of second-degree murder and armed criminal action, receiving a 16-year sentence.
Case 5: Gary Muelberg (The "Package Killer")
A cold case from the early 1990s where four women were murdered, their bodies left in containers around St. Louis.
The killer was unidentified until 2022, when DNA from evidence matched Muelberg, who was already serving life for a 1993 murder.
After a 14-year review by a persistent sergeant, Muelberg confessed to the four murders and a possible fifth victim.
He pleaded guilty in 2023, receiving additional life sentences.
Case 6: Lisa Jo Chamberlain
Chamberlain and her boyfriend, Roger Gillett, murdered his cousin Vernon Hewlett and Vernon's girlfriend, Linda Heinselman, in Mississippi in 2004 during a robbery.
They dismembered the bodies, transported them in a freezer to Kansas, where they were discovered.
Both were convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death. Gillett later accepted a life sentence.
Chamberlain remains on death row, with appeals ongoing; she could be the first woman executed in Mississippi since 1944.
Case 7: Kev
