Wife Charged in Man’s ‘86 Death; What About Her 4 Other Husbands?

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Wife Charged in Man’s ‘86 Death; What About Her 4 Other Husbands?

Posted Jun 13, 2008, 05:39 pm CDT
By Martha Neil

After years of nagging by nagging by Al Gentry, authorities in North Carolina agreed to take another look at the 1986 cold-case shooting death of his brother, Harold.

And when they did, they arrested the person Al Gentry had suspected all along: Harold's wife, Betty Neumar, who is now 76, reports the Associated Press. She is charged with having allegedly solicited his murder.

Returning after a trip out of town to discover police outside her home that night, Neumar seemed suspiciously unconcerned, Al Gentry says. "If she had gotten out of that car with tears in her eyes and asked me why would anybody kill Harold, I would never have suspected her at all," he says. "That's where she slipped up."

Meanwhile, as officials investigated Harold Gentry's death, they realized that four other marriages for Betty Neumar had also ended in the death of her husband, the news agency reports.

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