THREE LIVES LOST
The deaths of Hupp’s mother, Shirley Neumann, friend Betsy Faria and Louis Gumpenberger remain under review.
P amela Hupp seemed to be having a run of particularly tragic bad luck. Her friend Elizabeth “Betsy” Faria, 42, was murdered in 2011, fatally stabbed in her Lincoln County, Missouri, home. Next, Hupp’s 77-year-old mother, Shirley Neumann—whom Hupp had just visited—died falling off her third-floor balcony less than two years later in what was then deemed a tragic accident. And then on Aug. 16, 2016, Hupp called 911 to say she had been accosted in her O’Fallon, Missouri, driveway by a man who put a knife to her throat and demanded she drive him to the bank. But after shots rang out on the call, responding officers found Louis Gumpenberger,…
