She was supposed to be her best friend. Instead, Pam allegedly saw her friend’s cancer diagnosis as an opportunity to get rich. Betsy was battling cancer when Pam convinced her to change her life insurance beneficiary. The policy was worth one hundred fifty thousand dollars, and Pam promised to place the money in a trust for Betsy’s daughters. But Betsy was still alive and still fighting. According to the case, Pam allegedly decided she could not wait. In two thousand eleven, Betsy was brutally murdered inside her own home. Her husband, Russ, quickly became the prime suspect. Pam then gave investigators damaging information about him and eventually testified against him in court. Russ was convicted and sentenced to life in prison. But the story did not end there. Betsy’s daughters discovered that the promised trust did not exist. Their civil lawsuit uncovered information suggesting that Pam had lied during Russ’s trial. In two thousand fifteen, Russ’s conviction was overturned after he had already spent two years behind bars. Then Pam allegedly attempted an even more shocking plan. She approached a cognitively impaired man named Lewis and convinced him that she was a television producer filming a crime reenactment. What happened next turned deadly, as Pam allegedly staged the scene to make it appear that Lewis had been hired by Russ to kill her. Investigators quickly began questioning her story. This is a disturbing story about friendship, greed, manipulation, wrongful conviction, insurance money, and the devastating consequences of believing the wrong person. Listen to this episode of WORLD CRIME REVEAL and discover how one woman’s story began falling apart.

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