Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
Framed for His Wife's Murder: Russ Faria’s Shocking True Story
03 Mar 2025
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I walked in the door and was confronted with the scene that I don't recommend anybody ever see. I saw my wife brutally stabbed to death on the floor. Well, over 24 hours at that point, they asked me if I wanted to take a lie detector test. Well, having nothing to hide, I agreed to that.
In retrospect, and to anybody listening to this, I would recommend never, ever, ever in your life, if somebody asks you to take a lie detector test, to take one. To go out there and tell people that what happened to me. isn't the one-off thing. It happens to people all over our country all the time. So you're found guilty.
In my mind, I'm going to be here the rest of my life, so I might as well, you know, get used to it.
You know, when I was locked up in prison and I was writing guys' stories, you would hear one thing from the FBI or the investigators, and then I would order the Freedom of Information Act. And what I realized right away... is that one, you know, the left hand doesn't know what the right hand's doing.
And so I would get stuff, you'd have the Freedom of Information Act would give me documents that the FBI said didn't exist.
In my particular case, I had perfect storm of somebody trying to set me up. I had a bad prosecutor. I had a bad judge. I had a whole bunch of crooked cops. Does that happen all the time? No. Do people get wrongfully convicted all the time?
Yes. My whole thing is all of the things that happened afterward is just as bizarre. Like every single aspect of this story is just pure insanity. Hey, this is Matt Cox. I am here with Russ Faria, and he has a very interesting story. He has just an absolutely bizarre kind of murder mystery, just straight insanity, just based on what I've looked at. And
And, you know, I had never heard about this story and I've been looking into it. I mean, it's, it's, it's fascinating.
Uh, well, I was raised in a small suburb of St. Louis, Missouri, uh, called Florissant and grew up in a large Italian family there on my mother's side, uh, with frequent trips to Florida, uh, throughout my life, because it's where my father's side of the family is from. And, uh, just. basic middle class, uh, lifestyle growing up. And then, uh, we moved out to rural St.
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