Police have arrested Benjamin Morris, a 32-year-old Liberian seminary graduate, whom authorities said confessed to the murder of Southern Baptist missionary Libby Tarlton Senter and her 10-year-old daughter, Rachel. The two were found stabbed to death in their home in Yekepa, Liberia.
Before Morris’s confession, Mrs. Senter’s husband, George, told the suspect he forgave him. “Looking face-to-face in Ben Morris’s eyes, George expressed his forgiveness and asked Ben to make a confession,” said Bradley Brown, administrator of the 67 Southern Baptist missionaries assigned to Liberia. George Senter and his son were away from their home at the time of the murders.
Brown said Morris had been doing odd jobs for George Senter and another missionary. “There obviously was some resentment that he [Morris] wasn’t able to come in and … be assistant pastor or something of this sort,” I Brown said.
Morris, who is not ordained, had taught at Ricks Institute, a Baptist school run by Liberians. He is a graduate of the Liberia Baptist Theological Seminary.
