- CHARLOTTE, North Carolina: To the outside world, Betty Neumar was a diminutive Georgia grandmother with a shock of white hair who operated beauty shops, attended church and raised money for charity.
- No one asked questions when her last husband died.
It wasn’t until North Carolina investigators in 2008 reopened a 25-year-old murder case that the dark secrets of her past began to unravel. Police discovered that Neumar had left behind a decades-long trail of five dead husbands in five states.
Any hope of answering lingering questions of her husbands’ deaths — or the missing pieces of her life — faded Monday with word that the 79-year-old died of an illness in a Louisiana hospital.
Neumar’s son-in-law Terry Sanders tells The Associated Press she died late Sunday or early Monday.