Absolutely stunned. I watched a tape of this episode tonight. Not a new episode. I believe it originally aired last spring. Saw no mention here. For all the occasions I've ranted against creative prosecutors, it's never played out even fractionally as blatant as in this case.

Somehow they twisted a conviction.

Every big picture variable points toward innocence and a remarkably solid timeline and alibi for the accused, Russell Faria. The mathematical burden of dismissing everything pointing in his behalf is staggering. Just the opposite in regard to another person within the case, Pamela Hupp. Somehow the authorities fixated on the husband, and a couple of aspects they considered strange, like his 911 call and a belief that his wife might have committed suicide despite a knife lodged in her neck, and completely undervalued all the factors pointing smack at Hupp.

Then the judge wouldn't allow the defense attorney to probe the Hupp connection at all, even though the prosecution anticipated it and had even prepped Hupp on what to expect on the stand, and how to respond.

Runaway incompetent and slanted toward a desired result. If the Dateline version is even 10% reliable an innocent person was convicted.

And another thing, how many times are investigators and prosecutors going to rely on the tired simplistic notion that high volume stab wounds or similar attacks indicates overkill, and that only someone very close to the victim did it? That's been repeated and emphasized so often in the past two decades that even braindead criminals have heard it, and know to use it in stranger cases to throw off the dimwit authorities. Besides, those survivors have an annoying habit of pointing in the correct direction if they aren't finished off.