Two weeks after her arrest, 76-year-old murder-for-hire suspect Betty Neumar remained in the Richmond County jail Tuesday awaiting a return to North Carolina.

Stanly County Sheriff Rick Burris said on Tuesday the holdup is because his department is waiting on state officials to transport Ms. Neumar from Augusta.

North Carolina authorities say they're ready for court when she returns.

"We basically have our case made," Sheriff Burris said.

However, investigators are still hoping to identify the person Ms. Neumar is accused of hiring to kill her husband, Thomas Harold Gentry, more than 20 years ago.

"I hope we can, but it's nothing I can say that is definite," Sheriff Burris said.

Acting on a recent tip, investigators from North Carolina joined Richmond County sheriff's investigators in arresting Ms. Neumar at her Cambridge Court home on May 21.

Since the arrest, authorities have revealed that Ms. Neumar has been married five times and all of the men are dead. She is believed to have dead husbands in Georgia, North Carolina, Florida, Ohio and possibly New York.

The Richmond County Sheriff's Office opened its investigation into the death of Ms. Neumar's latest husband, John E. Neumar, 79, about a week ago.

On Friday, they served search warrants at her home and removed piles of documents and an urn containing Mr. Neumar's ashes. He died in October at the Downtown Division of the Augusta Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Centers.

Family members have said his cause of death was sepsis, an infection of the bloodstream or tissues, but investigators believe some of his symptoms could be indicative of arsenic poisoning.

Mr. Neumar's ashes have been sent to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation's Crime Lab in Atlanta and investigators are awaiting the results of the test.