James A. Flynn, about 27 or 28, a man, died on June 6, 1955 in New York, New York, leaving behind a story that reads more like a rumor carried on waterfront wind than a case file neatly tied with string. In later accounts of the life of Betty Neumar—the woman who would eventually be nicknamed a “Black Widow” by the press—Flynn appears as her second husband, a figure who steps briefly into the light and then vanishes in violence. A widely repeated version says he was shot dead on a pier i
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