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CHARLOTTE, N.C. — An elderly grandmother who left a trail of five dead husbands in five states over decades has died in Louisiana after an illness, her son-in-law said Monday.
Terry Sanders said Betty Neumar, 79, died in a hospital in Louisiana. Stanly County, N.C., Sheriff Rick Burris said authorities are looking into her death.
She 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 1986 death.
Investigators in three other states reopened several of the cases of her spouses’ deaths but have since closed them.
