(November 1931 – June 13, 2011)
Husbands
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.[3]She was married five times:
- Clarence Malone (1950–1952) remarried twice after the couple split and died November 27, 1970 in Medina, Ohio;[4]
- 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;[5] and
- John Neumar (1991–2007) was found dead from apparent natural causes.
Investigation
In May 2008 Neumar was charged with hiring a hit man to kill her husband.[7]Investigators are taking a closer look at the deaths of her other husbands, three of whom had been shot dead.[8]
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.[9] The indictment alleges that Neumar "sought out a former police officer and her neighbor to kill her husband in the months before his death", with the motive allegedly being his $20,000 life insurance policy.[10]
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, whose 1985 death was ruled as suicide.[11]
Neumar was released in October 2008 on a $300,000 bail bond.[12]
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.[13] Investigators had the ashes of her fifth husband John Neumar seized, and analysed for traces of arsenic. The results were negative.[10] As of November 2009, no trial date had been set.[10]
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