It Was A Dark And Stormy Book Club

We are taking a few weeks off to spend the holidays with our families. During this time, we will be replaying a few of our favorite episodes from this year. The first will be a recast of episode 210 and we visited with Joel Schwartz. He is an attorney and the author of “Bone Deep: Untangling the Twisted True Story of the Tragic Betsy Faria Murder Case.” He wrote the book with Charles Bosworth Jr. and it was published February 22, 2022 by Citadel Press. On December 27th, 2011, Russell Faria returned to his Troy, Missouri, home after his weekly game night with friends to an unthinkable, grisly scene: His wife, Betsy, lay dead, a knife still lodged in her neck. She’d been stabbed fifty-five times.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 prominen