Stay Away from this Woman!

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http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/06/16/cold.cases.ap/index.html

CHARLOTTE, North Carolina (AP) -- Police may have ignored a warning years ago that a woman with five dead spouses was trying to hire a hit man to kill one of the men, investigators in North Carolina said Monday.

Betty Johnson Neumar is shown at her booking. She is charged with hiring a hit man to kill her husband.

Authorities charged 76-year-old Betty Neumar last month with one count of solicitation of murder in the July 1986 death of Harold Gentry.

Gentry's brother had begged investigators for two decades to take another look at the case.

Stanly County sheriff's investigators believe Neumar tried to hire several people to kill Gentry.

Lead detective Scott Williams said Monday his office is looking into the possibility that one of those would-be hit men went to authorities before Gentry's death, but no one took him seriously.

"That's another aspect we're looking into," Williams said, declining to elaborate.

Neumar has been married five times since the 1950s, but each union ended with the death of her husband. Investigators are urging police elsewhere to look into those deaths.

Alex

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Fiction outsmarted. By adding paranormal phenomenons in the story, this should be submitted to Lincoln Child & Douglas Preston for a next book starring Special Agent Pendergast