Fla. ends probe of 3rd husband's suspicious death

CHARLOTTE — Florida police say they've closed an investigation into the suspicious death of the third husband of a Georgia grandmother who has left a trail of five dead husbands.

A sheriff's spokeswoman in Monroe County, Fla., said Wednesday the case is too old and the investigation would cost too much.

Nelos Sills' 1965 death was ruled a suicide. Navy records obtained by AP show Sills may have been shot twice — not once as his widow told police. The number could help determine if the death was suicide or homicide. No autopsy was performed.

Since 76-year-old Betty Neumar's June arrest in North Carolina in the 1986 death of her fourth husband, police began to re-examine the deaths of her first child and three of her other husbands, though she faces no charges in those cases.

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