Betty Neumar

November, 1931 (age 79)

Ironton, Lawrence County, United States of America

First Rate (at Lloyd's) Gentry, brother of Neumar"s fourth husband Harold, had urged police to investigate his death for 22 years, prior to her arrest in 2007. Following this arrest, and learning of the fact that Neumar had had five husbands in total who had all died, the case generated much media interest in the United States, who dubbed Neumar the "Black Widow". On June 13, 2011 Betty Neumar died in a Louisiana hospital of an undisclosed illness. Clarence Malone (1950–1952) remarried twice after the couple split and died November 27, 1970 in Medina, Ohio; James Flynn (? – 1955) was shot dead on a pier in New York in 1955; Richard Sills (? –1965) died from an allegedly self-inflicted gunshot wound sustained during an argument the couple was having in a closed room in their Big Coppitt Key, Florida home; Thomas Harold Gentry (1968–1986) was found dead in the couple"s Norwood, North Carolina home, shot multiple times. And John Neumar (1991–2007) was found dead from apparent natural causes. Mr. Neumar"s cause of death was listed as sepsis, ischemic bowel, and ileus - symptoms that could point to death by arsenic poisoning. Additional reasons his death were considered suspicious came from Neumar"s son, John Neumar, Junior., who told authorities he was not informed of the death until reading about it in a newspaper. When he contacted the widow about the death, he was told that his father had already been cremated despite having previously bought a burial plot. Neumar was extradited to Albemarle, North Carolina in June 2008, a month after her arrest. Neumar was released in October 2008 on a $300,000 bail bond. Charged with three counts of solicitation to commit first-degree murder, as of May 2009 Neumar remained free on bond while she waited for the trial. The results were negative. As of November 2009, no trial date had been set. The case of Betty Neumar was the subject of a British Broadcasting Corporation television documentary, Black Widow Granny?, first aired on British Broadcasting Corporation One on 3 November 2009. The film featured interviews with friends and relatives, as well as an interview with Neumar, who had otherwise avoided the media. On June 13, 2011 Betty Neumar died in a Louisiana hospital of an undisclosed illness. Police stated that they would look into her death. In the "Matriarchs of Murder" episode of Discovery"s anthology Deadly Women, writers claimed that Neumar"s death was caused by cancer.

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Betty Johnson was born in November 1931 in Ironton, Ohio to Odis and Elizabeth Walden Johnson.

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She graduated from South Point High School in 1949.

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First Rate (at Lloyd's) Gentry, brother of Neumar"s fourth husband Harold, had urged police to investigate his death for 22 years, prior to her arrest in 2007. Following this arrest, and learning of the fact that Neumar had had five husbands in total who had all died, the case generated much media interest in the United States, who dubbed Neumar the "Black Widow". On June 13, 2011 Betty Neumar died in a Louisiana hospital of an undisclosed illness.

Clarence Malone (1950–1952) remarried twice after the couple split and died November 27, 1970 in Medina, Ohio;

James Flynn (? – 1955) was shot dead on a pier in New York in 1955;

Richard Sills (? –1965) died from an allegedly self-inflicted gunshot wound sustained during an argument the couple was having in a closed room in their Big Coppitt Key, Florida home;

Thomas Harold Gentry (1968–1986) was found dead in the couple"s Norwood, North Carolina home, shot multiple times.

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John Neumar (1991–2007) was found dead from apparent natural causes. Mr. Neumar"s cause of death was listed as sepsis, ischemic bowel, and ileus - symptoms that could point to death by arsenic poisoning.

Additional reasons his death were considered suspicious came from Neumar"s son, John Neumar, Junior., who told authorities he was not informed of the death until reading about it in a newspaper. When he contacted the widow about the death, he was told that his father had already been cremated despite having previously bought a burial plot.

Neumar was extradited to Albemarle, North Carolina in June 2008, a month after her arrest.

Neumar was released in October 2008 on a $300,000 bail bond. Charged with three counts of solicitation to commit first-degree murder, as of May 2009 Neumar remained free on bond while she waited for the trial. The results were negative.

As of November 2009, no trial date had been set.

The case of Betty Neumar was the subject of a British Broadcasting Corporation television documentary, Black Widow Granny?, first aired on British Broadcasting Corporation One on 3 November 2009. The film featured interviews with friends and relatives, as well as an interview with Neumar, who had otherwise avoided the media.

On June 13, 2011 Betty Neumar died in a Louisiana hospital of an undisclosed illness. Police stated that they would look into her death.

In the "Matriarchs of Murder" episode of Discovery"s anthology Deadly Women, writers claimed that Neumar"s death was caused by cancer.

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