Betty Neumar

Infobox Criminal
subject_name = Betty Neumar


image_size = 200px
image_caption =Augusta Police Department mugshot
date_of_birth = November 1931
place_of_birth = Ironton, Ohio
date_of_death =
place_of_death =
charge = solicitation of murder
penalty = pending conviction
status = in court
occupation = retired
spouse = Clarence Malone (1950-1952; d. 1970)
James Flynn (? - 1955)
Richard Sills (? -1965)
Thomas Harold Gentry (1968-1986)
John Neumar (1991-2007)
parents =
children = Gary Flynn (d. 1985), Peggy Flynn Sanders

Betty Neumar (born 1931) is an American woman accused of arranging the murder of her fourth husband. She is suspected of hiring contract killers.

Biography

Betty Johnson was born in November 1931 in Ironton, Ohio to Odis and Elizabeth Walden Johnson. She graduated from South Point High School in 1949. [cite news |first=Benita |last=Heath |title=Brother: Neumar didn’t murder first husband |url=http://www.irontontribune.com/articles/2008/06/27/news/local001.txt |work=The Ironton Tribune |date=2008-06-27 ]

She was married five times:
#Clarence Malone (1950-1952) remarried twice after the couple split and died November 27, 1970 in Medina, Ohio [cite news |first=Mitch |last=Weiss |title=5-time widow's 1st spouse died long after breakup |url=http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gHG3MzunhA7wcxcqqxhtTf4tUfzQD91IN3VO1 |publisher=Associated Press |date=2008-06-27 ] ;
#James Flynn (? - 1955) was shot to death 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 [cite news |first=Johnny |last=Edwards |title=Suspect's past holds other dead husbands |url=http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/052408/met_399169.shtml |work=Augusta Chronicle |date=2008-05-24 ] ; and
#John Neumar (?-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, Jr., who told authorities was he was not informed of the death until reading about it in a newspaper. When he contacted the widow about his father, he was told that he had already been cremated despite having previously bought a burial plot. [cite news |first=Adam |last=Folk |title=Police search woman's home |url=http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/053108/met_460627.shtml |work=Augusta Chronicle |date=2008-05-31 ]

Neumar was extradited to Albemarle, North Carolina in June 2008, a month after her arrest. She was charged with the murder of her fourth husband, Harold Gentry, by North Carolina officials after receiving a tip pointing to her involvement. [cite news |first=Adam |last=Folk |title=Suspect to return to North Carolina |url=http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/052908/met_460327.shtml |work=Augusta Chronicle |date=2008-05-29 ]

To date (July 16, 2008), the deaths of four of her five dead husbands are being reinvestigated, as well as the death of her first child, Gary Flynn. [ [http://www.newsweek.com/id/141263 Newsweek/AP article] , July16, 2008]

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