Cases from 2011 include criminal investigations, trials, and notable events that occurred during the year. Whether they involved new charges, breakthroughs in cold cases, high-profile trials, or tragic incidents that captured national attention, the cases documented here reflect the state of the criminal justice system in 2011. CaseSleuth provides detailed, chronological coverage of each case with timelines, evidence breakdowns, profiles of key people involved, and links to primary sources and media coverage.
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Pam Hupp is a Missouri woman who benefited financially from the 2011 stabbing death of her friend Betsy Faria, allowed Betsy's husband to be wrongfully convicted, and in 2016 shot and killed a disabled man she had lured to her home in a scheme to frame the exonerated husband. She pleaded guilty to the second murder in 2019 and faces trial for the first.
Nursing student Holly Bobo was abducted from her home in Parsons, Tennessee in April 2011. Her remains were found in 2014. Zachary Adams was convicted of her kidnapping, rape, and murder in 2017.