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Bone Deep

Untangling the Betsy Faria Case

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Bone Deep

By: Charles Bosworth, Joel Schwartz
Narrated by: Gary Bennett
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Two days after Christmas, 2011, Russel Faria returned to his Troy, Missouri, home to find his wife, Betsy, dead, a knife still lodged in her neck. She had been stabbed 55 times in a brutal murder that would set off a chain of events leading to one man's wrongful conviction and imprisonment, another man's death, the revelation of a diabolical scheme, and an astounding miscarriage of justice left unresolved for another 10 years.

First responders concluded that Betsy was dead for hours when Russ discovered her. No blood was found implicating Russ, and surveillance video, receipts, and friends' testimony all supported his alibi. Yet incredibly, police and the prosecuting attorney ignored the evidence. In their minds, Russ was guilty. But prominent defense attorney Joel J. Schwartz quickly recognized the real killer.

The motive was clear. Days before her murder, the terminally ill Betsy replaced her husband with her friend, Pamela Hupp, as her life insurance beneficiary. Still, despite the prosecution's flimsy case and Hupp's transparent lies, Russ was convicted - leaving Hupp free to kill again. Bone Deep takes listeners through the perfect storm of miscalculations and missteps that led to an innocent man's conviction-and recounts Schwartz's successful battle to have that conviction overturned.

©2022 Charles Bosworth Jr. (P)2022 Tantor
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Excellent account of a story which is almost too far fetched to be believed.
Judge Mennemeyer and prosecutor Leah Askey Chaney should be in prison. Leah Askey Chaney is a sociopath as bad as the killer and I hope she’s been struck off and barred from practicing in any legal capacity whatsoever. Just own up and apologise if you have any self-reflection and decency whatsoever! This story really highlights the travesty which is the American justice system. If a prosecutor can create a show of baseless and manipulative accusations to coerce a jury toward a verdict then this is no different than a show trial in any country with a dubious regime. Luckily there are other more intelligent people who won’t give up until the truth is brought to light. Really highlights the need for the innocence project. A robust and fair system should be able to convict the guilty as well as let the innocent go. Listening to this I realised with horror that lawyers, police, and judges are as blind, corrupt, and selfish as everyone else. Still, it was an excellently and thoroughly documented account of everything that happened around this sad case. Highly recommend.

Incredible!

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I can't think of anything worse, as in this true story, than being wrongly accused of killing my beloved - and not being able to prove my innocence due to judicial failures and, sadly, wrong-doing. However, karma is a mighty thing - although long-awaited in this case. This audio book is defo worth a listen - engaging and well told. I loved the last lines - wise, wonderful words ...

A gripping tale of being better - not bitter ...

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What a true story, to be convicted of your terminally ill wife's murder not only once but twice and on very flimsy evidence. to find out its her friend who committed the murder and it wasn't her first crime either.

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A defense lawyer is supposed to give us more personal details like small events and talks to make it feel real. Instead it's written in an impersonal style that at times feels less exciting than it could be. A lead detective wrote a JonBenet book that is extremely personal. A guy on the prosecution team wrote a great book about Casey Anthony. Those books feels like TV shows. While this book is made a tad less relevant as the excellent TV show version basically gives us all main details in less time. This book should have been better. I'm reading it to get more details not less.

It's still a great and recommended read if you really want to learn the story this way. But you may as well just watch the TV show. I have seen interviews with the lawyer and he's extremely charming so it's weird he didn't want to write this with a personal voice. He does lack info on other parties here and focused on the wrongly conviction trial of the husband. Yet even here we learn very little about him. At one point he randomly mentions the husband lied to the police about having an affair. That's stuff that should have been explored from the start. Give us all evidence and let us experience the timeline. Jumping in time this way feels weird.

The reader also feels impersonal.

Great true crime but lacks the personal touch

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What a cracker of a book. Just when you thought it was the husband. So wrong. Poor guy.

Bone deep

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how did this happen?? true crime at its most jaw-dropping best! read it, you will not believe how rhings can go wrong

how??

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I was not aware of this case and it is truly jaw dropping and shocking. The twists and turns right up to the end make it very compelling. No need for lots of boring repetition as the story was so complex and long running. One of the best true crime audio books I've listened to. Loved the narrator's voice too. Well worth a listen.

Unbelievable story

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All it takes for Evil to thrive is for good people to do nothing.

How many like Russ had or have no one to speak up and bring forward the truth.

Everyone should read/listen to this book, education in the evil that can visit any family and how never to give up on the truth

Insightful

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Well researched and narrated. I've listened to a few audible books recently, about murders I've never heard of. And it's true when they say real life is stranger than fiction. This one also, was well worth every minute of listening time.

Engrossing from start to finish

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That pam is pure evil setting up the poor man for murder for her own greed god people like her need to be locked up in jail forever fantastic book listened right through

What a evil woman

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