Secrets of woman with 5 dead husbands die with her MITCH WEISS,Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — 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.