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 Mrs. 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, Mrs. Neumar died in an Alexandria, Louisiana hospital of cancer prior to her trial. Husbands Betty Lafon Johnson was born in November 1931 in Ironton, Ohio to Odis and Elizabeth Walden Johnson. She graduated from South Point High School in 1949. She was married five times: (m. 11/25/1950 – div. 1952) Clarence Malone (b. 1931 - d. 1970) remarried twice after the couple split and was shot dead on November 27, 1970 in Medina, Ohio; (m. 02/09/1953 - his death in 1955) James A. Flynn (b. 1927 - d. 1955) was shot dead on a pier in New York; (m. abt. 1956 - his death in 1967) Nelos Richard Sills (b. 07/28/1930 - d. 04/18/1967) 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; (m. abt. 1968 - his death in 1986) Thomas Harold Gentry (b. 02/27/1938 – d. 07/13/1986) was found dead in the couple's Norwood, North Carolina home, shot multiple times; and (m. 1991 - his death in 2007) John Neumar (b. 05/22/1928 - d. 10/25/2007) was found dead from apparent natural causes. Mr. Neumar's cause of death was listed as sepsis, ischemic colitis, 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 he was not informed of the death until reading about it in a newspaper. When he contacted the widow about the death, he was told that his father had already been cremated despite having previously bought a burial plot. Investigation In May 2008 Neumar was charged with hiring a hit man to kill her husband. Investigators took a closer look at the deaths of her other husbands, three of