True crime cases in Missouri span decades of criminal history, from unsolved disappearances in rural communities to high-profile investigations in the state's largest cities. Missouri law enforcement agencies, from local police departments to the state bureau of investigation, have tackled cases ranging from cold-case homicides and serial offenders to fraud schemes and domestic violence tragedies. CaseSleuth tracks each Missouri case with comprehensive timelines, profiles of victims and persons of interest, evidence summaries, and links to media coverage and court documents. Browse the cases below to explore the full scope of criminal investigations in Missouri.
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Gypsy Rose Blanchard, a victim of years of Munchausen syndrome by proxy abuse at the hands of her mother Clauddine 'Dee Dee' Blanchard, conspired with her online boyfriend Nicholas Godejohn to murder Dee Dee in their Springfield, Missouri home on June 10, 2015. The killing was discovered days later after alarming Facebook posts from Dee Dee's account. Gypsy pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and was sentenced to 10 years in prison. She was paroled on December 28, 2023, after serving approximately eight years. Godejohn was convicted of first-degree murder in November 2018 and sentenced to life without parole.
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.