More on Betty Neumar, the alleged serial husband murderess

Earlier on this blog, I reported about Betty Neumar who may have been killing off her husbands for fifty years.  Five times since the 1950s, she has been married and each marriage has ended with the death of the husband.  Recently, she was charged with hiring a professional to kill one of her husbands (Gentry) back in 1986.

Here are some recent developments from Police investigate wife for five dead husbands, CNN.com, June 16, 2008:

Stanly County sheriff’s investigators believe Neumar tried to hire several people to kill Gentry. Lead detective Scott Williams said Monday his office is looking into the possibility that one of those would-be hit men went to authorities before Gentry’s death, but no one took him seriously. * * *

Williams said investigators have uncovered a common link among the victims: They all had military experience.

Williams said that detectives believe Harold Gentry was Neumar’s fourth husband. She and her third husband, Richard “Dick” Sills, were living in the Florida Keys when he was shot to death in 1965, Williams said. At the time, police said his death was the result of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. But Williams said Neumar was the only person in the room when he died. * * *

Williams said he’s still working to uncover as much as he can about Neumar’s first two husbands, both of whom he said were from Ohio. One died in 1952, the other in 1955. He’s also trying to piece together her life between her second husband’s death and when she married Sills.

“Keep in mind that it appears that after each husband, she moved on. So she could just tell any story she wanted to tell,” Williams said. “That’s just what happened. She would come up with some pretty wild stories that she told about herself or what happened to her husbands.”