Widow indicted in death of 4th spouse
Published: Thu, Jul. 24, 2008 12:30AM
Modified Thu, Jul. 24, 2008 01:21AM
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closeALBEMARLE -- Authorities in Stanly County say a grandmother with five dead spouses has been formally charged with trying to hire a hit man to kill her fourth husband.
Authorities had already charged Betty Neumar, 76, with a single count of solicitation to commit first-degree murder in the July 1986 death of Harold Gentry.
The indictment handed up Tuesday adds two more counts: Grand jurors allege that she tried to hire three different people to kill Gentry between May 1, 1986, and July 13, 1986 -- the day before his body was found in his rural North Carolina home.
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Neumar was arrested in May in Georgia.
Authorities in Ohio, Georgia and Florida are re-examining the deaths of her first child and four of the five men she married.
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