Alleged Killer of U.S. Missionary Goes on Trial
From Reuters
MONROVIA, Liberia —
A 32-year-old Liberian went on trial in the remote town of Saniquellie Monday, charged with the murder of an American Baptist missionary and her 10-year-old daughter, judicial sources said.
Elizabeth Senter, 46, and her daughter, Rachel, were stabbed to death last November in their villa in Yekepa, near Saniquellie, 280 miles northeast of Monrovia. The accused, Benjamin Morris, a graduate of the Monrovia Baptist Theological Seminary, was detained a few days later.
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