U.S. Missionary, Daughter Found Slain in Liberia
An American missionary and her young daughter were found murdered today at their home in the African mining town of Yekepa, Liberia, the Southern Baptist Convention said.
A knife that appeared to be the murder weapon was found near bodies of Libby Senter, 47, a native of Cliffside, N.C., and Rachel Senter, 10, said Robert O’Brien, a spokesman for the Southern Baptists’ Foreign Mission Board in Richmond, Va.
Senter’s husband, George, and teen-age son, Philip, were in the Liberian capital of Monrovia, which is about four hours away, when the bodies were discovered, O’Brien said.
O’Brien said he was not aware of a motive in the slayings.
Church records said the family moved to Liberia in 1980. Senter’s husband is an “evangelist and church-starter” in Yekepa, a mining town in eastern Liberia, O’Brien said.
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