A family member says an elderly grandmother who left a trail of five dead husbands in five states over decades has died after an illness.
Betty Neumar’s son-in-law Terry Sanders says she died in a hospital in Louisiana. Stanly County, N.C., Sheriff Rick Burris says authorities are looking into her death.
The 79-year-old was facing three counts of solicitation to commit first-degree murder. She was accused of trying to hire someone to kill her fourth husband, Harold Gentry, in the weeks before his death in 1986.
Neumar was arrested in 2008 and released on a $300,000 bond.
Authorities discovered Neumar had been married five times since the 1950s, and each union ended with her husband’s death. Investigators in three states reopened several of the cases, but have since closed them.
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