GREENSBURG, Pa. -- An elected official told WTAE-TV that Tammy Felbaum shook up his office workers with her bizarre behavior at their initial meeting 20 years ago.

Felbaum, 42, is accused of murdering her sixth husband after attempting to castrate him at their home in Harrisville, about 50 miles north of Pittsburgh. Police said that they found bloodstains throughout the home and saw James John Felbaum vomiting a brown liquid when they responded to a call about a possible drug overdose on Feb. 25. The 40-year-old man later died at a Grove City hospital.

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Keim Remembers Meeting Felbaum

Westmoreland County Register of Wills Earl Keim told WTAE-TV's Marcie Cipriani that he had a bizarre encounter -- also involving genitals -- with Tammy Felbaum, then Tammy Wyda, at his Greensburg office in 1980.

Felbaum was attempting to obtain a license to marry her first husband, Tim Barner of Greensburg. Keim said that she entered the office of his marriage clerk and displayed a jar filled with formaldehyde and a set of male genitals, which she said were once hers.

"At that point, it became obvious that this individual was determined to make a scene," Keim said, so he brought her into his office to speak in private.

Keim said that Felbaum became upset when he denied her a license, going so far as exposing her breasts to prove that she was a woman.

Felbaum later returned with a document that listed her gender as female, Keim said. She was granted the license and went on to marry Barner -- a relationship that lasted two years, Cipriani reports.

Keim said that he never spoke to or heard from Felbaum again until Thursday. Felbaum allegedly called Keim from the Butler County Jail, irate that Keim had gone public with the story.

Felbaum has also, in unrelated cases, been accused of welfare fraud, molesting boys and harassment by throwing a jar of genitals, Cipriani reports.

Felbaum remains jailed without bond.