November 1, 1931 - Betty Neumar
Five husbands, multiple suspicious deaths, and decades without prosecution defined a case that drew attention less for any single act than for its prolonged pattern and the persistence of one family's pursuit of answers. Neumar was ultimately charged in connection with the 1986 death of her fourth husband, though she died before the case reached trial.
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Betty Lafon Neumar (November 27, 1931 – June 13, 2011) was an American woman charged with arranging the murder of her fourth husband, Harold Gentry, who died in 1986. The dead man's brother, Al Gentry, had, for 22 years prior to Neumar's arrest in 2007, urged police to investigate his death. 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 on the part of the news media in the United States, who dubbed Neumar the "Black Widow". On June 13, 2011, Neumar died in an Alexandria, Louisiana hospital of cancer prior to her trial.
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