The story of Betty Neumar, aka, “The Black Widow,” continues

Earlier on this blog (here and here), 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:

• Betty told her grandson, Jeff Carstensen, that she was going to purchase a $100,000 life insurance policy on his life and name herself as the beneficiary.
• Police are reexamining the deaths of one of Betty’s children as well as four of her prior husbands.
• A North Carolina judge refused to lower her bail which had been previously set at $500,000.

See AP, Judge refuses to lower bond for ‘black widow’, CNN.com, July 14, 2008.

Special thanks to David S. Luber (Attorney at law, Florida Probate Attorney Wills and Estates Law Firm) for bringing this article to my attention.