LINCOLN COUNTY, Mo. – Former Lincoln County Sheriff’s Captain Mike Merkel was taken into custody Tuesday after a hearing where he pleaded not guilty and had his bond set at $50,000 cash only. Merkel ...

LINCOLN COUNTY, Mo. – Former Lincoln County Sheriff’s Captain Mike Merkel was taken into custody Tuesday after a hearing where he pleaded not guilty and had his bond set at $50,000 cash only. Merkel ...

LINCOLN COUNTY, Mo. — Another twist in a Lincoln County murder case that's garnered national attention. In 2011, Betsy Faria was brutally murdered in her home and her husband Russ took the fall. After ...

TROY, Mo. — A lot has happened in Russ Faria’s life in the past 13 years. He was convicted of his wife Betsy Faria’s 2011 murder and spent about three years in prison before his conviction was ...

TROY, Mo. • When a judge in Lincoln County acquitted a man Friday in his wife’s murder, it answered one question — whether Russell Faria would spend the rest of his life in prison. But many more ...

Michael Merkel, a former sheriff’s deputy in Lincoln County, Missouri, was charged Tuesday with two counts of perjury for allegedly giving false testimony during Russ Faria’s 2013 murder trial. It’s ...

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