Jeff Carstensen was spooked when he learned his grandmother planned to buy him a $100,000 life insurance policy — and name herself the beneficiary. “She told me that people of our stature have insurance policies on each other,” he said. “That way, if something happens to you, you take care of me, and if something happens to me, I take care of you. It was all too suspicious. So I got out of there any way I could, as soon as I could.”
The 76-year-old Georgia woman sits in a North Carolina jail, accused of hiring a hit man to kill fourth husband Harold Gentry.Authorities are re-examining the deaths of her first child and four of the five men she married, including Gentry.
She collected at least $20,000 in 1986 when Harold Gentry was shot to death in his home. A year earlier, she had collected $10,000 in life insurance when her son died.
She also had a life insurance policy on husband No. 5, John Neumar, who died in October. The official cause of death was listed as sepsis, but authorities are investigating whether he was poisoned.
And the tale goes on and on – back into a life that defies statistics. How many close relatives can you have who meet violent ends?
Thanks, K B
A testament to the incompetence of police. You’d think by the time she collected the insurance money for the fourth relative she murdered someone would have caught on.
# 1 – You
I agree. You look at a series of events like that and who needs evidence? Shoot her in the back of the head, twice, I sez. It’s called ‘street justice’.
Oh, wait a minute, we don’t like that kind of justice around this blog!
I guess the cops are damned if they do and damned if they don’t go around casually shooting obviously guilty people.
>#1 said, on July 15th, 2008 at 7:13 am
>A testament to the incompetence of police. You’d think
>by the time she collected the insurance money for the
>fourth relative she murdered someone would have caught
>on.
The wackos at the ACLU probably prevent that type of data from being collected as would compromise her right to privacy.
This sounds like a perfect spin off of little red riding hood.
#3 – you should probably change your name back to “ignoranus”
#5 – Go f yourself
It doesn’t surprise me that people like this can function for years before being found out. That’s the problem with psychopaths. They can look and behave ‘normally’ but we project onto them our own feelings of empathy that they totally lack.
Here’s a good exercise: just look at our politicians and think about psychopathy – separate their actions and the consequences from how they speak and appear to behave. I think there are more of these kinds of people out there than we would like to admit.
#7, Bingo jackpot!! You’re right on target. Psychopaths, sociopaths, antisocial personality disorder.
#8 – It’s all in your head.
#3 The insurance companies should of picked up on the abnormalities concerning multiple deaths.
Eideard, it’s ok if you have a stiff dick for law enforcement. Google was not around back in the days when it was not thought of that a person who shot a gun would of had gun powder on their hands.
“Here dearie, have some cookies.” ~ Grandma
People “of our stature”? Future victims of serial killers should get insurance. I bet being related to this lady would make your premiums prohibitively expensive.
#6, lmj3325
Gee, I wonder why someone thinks you’re an ignoramus? I would have called you an asshat.
#13 – you missed my neologism. It’s “ignoranus” – combines the two.
#14, moss,
My bad, yes I missed that. Would you accept dirty glasses as an excuse? Besides, maybe the asshat knows her.