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Prayers before SC woman killed family!

Hours before she killed her two sons, her ex-husband and her stepmother and tried to frame it on one of the slain children, Susan Hendricks gathered her family together to pray. She said she was worried about her older son, Matthew, because he seemed so down after several people forgot his birthday the day before.

"I know it sounds pretty fricking bizarre, but we pray a lot as a family," Hendricks told investigators in a room at the Pickens County Sheriff's Office, just hours after authorities discovered the bodies.

They all got on their knees and held hands, Hendricks said. Less than 12 hours later, she said, she found Matthew, 23, dead from a gunshot wound to the head. When paramedics who rushed to the home found the bodies of her other family members, Hendricks claimed Matthew had first killed them before turning the gun on himself.

In April, Hendricks pleaded guilty but mentally ill to all four of the Oct. 14, 2011, slayings and will spend the rest of her life in prison with no possibility of parole. The audio of her three-hour interview with investigators, as well as 324 pages of documents and more than 600 crime scene photos, were released for the first time in response to a Freedom of Information Act request from The Associated Press.

The documents include details on Hendricks' suicide attempt behind bars nine months after her arrest, as well as the fact that her younger son, 20-year-old Marshall, had just moved back home two days before the shootings. They also revealed that Hendricks had papers from insurance policies and wills spread throughout her motel room at the time she was taken into custody.

Hendricks' acquaintances, whose statements are contained in the documents, said she kept large insurance policies on all the victims, fired gunshots at her sons' feet when she was angry, and would often remind people that she shot and killed a man who broke into her home in 2006. She claimed self-defense and was never charged in that killing.

The ballistics and other crime scene reports contained in the documents detail a quick, brutal ambush. Matthew and Hendricks' 64-year-old stepmother, Linda Burns, were killed in the Liberty home they shared with Hendricks, while Marshall and Hendricks' 52-year-old ex-husband and the father of her sons, Mark Hendricks, were killed in their own home next door.

Blood stains and three cartridge cases show Hendricks cornered Marshall in a hallway between his bedroom and a bathroom. He eventually got around her but she managed to fire one more shot that took him down. He died on the front porch, where he was covered with a sheet. Mark Hendricks was killed lying on the couch.

A report from the crime scene said Burns' body was covered up in her bed as if she were sleeping. Five cartridge cases were found in and around a closet in her room. Matthew Hendricks was found in his bed with one gunshot wound to his head. His body had also been covered up.

Hendricks' sister Evelyn Burns told police it was she who dialed 911 after Hendricks called her and casually remarked during what started as a routine chat that her son had shot himself. In her interview at the sheriff's office, when she still was claiming Matthew committed suicide, Hendricks explained why she didn't call authorities immediately.

"I didn't want to call EMS," she said. "I didn't want to call anybody because I didn't want them to come take him. I know it sounds crazy. I just thought, well, if I can sit here with him, it will all be OK."

She didn't speak much about Marshall, Mark Hendricks or Linda Burns during the three hours of questioning, but instead repeatedly turned the conversation back to Matthew. She told investigators she heard nothing during the night and had walked to the kitchen — past a trail of blood in the living room — to make coffee when she found a note from Matthew. She said when she read it, she became alarmed he had harmed himself.

In the note, which reads more like a kind Mother's Day letter, Matthew thanked his "mama" for making him the man he has become and said he couldn't ask for a better mother. "I don't really know what else to say, but I know we have our differences, but I will always love you unconditionally," he wrote at the end.

Although handwriting experts confirmed the note was written by Matthew, authorities said they believe it had been written at a previous time, and that Susan Hendricks saved it, then retrieved it at the time of the killings.

In the audiotaped interview, Hendricks doesn't cry much and her voice sounds flat, emotionless and tired much of the time. Most of the sobs come at the end of the questioning when she says she can't give a written statement and wants to go home.

"I'll have to help you another time, OK. I need to go. I need to see my family," Hendricks said. "I need to see somebody that I know. I haven't seen anybody I know. I don't know what's going on. I don't know where my kids' bodies are at. I need to get out of here, OK? Please?"

Detectives fanning out across Pickens County gathered dozens of statements detailing a fractious relationship between Hendricks, her sons and her ex-husband. Mark Hendricks' sister, Rhonda "Suzy" Chappell, told deputies that Marshall lived with her for two months after his mother kicked him out, and that at his father's request, he had moved back two days before he was killed.

"This has been a very dysfunctional home for many years and she saw that the boys were working their way out and she was losing her grip," Chappell wrote in a statement to investigators. Mark Hendricks' second ex-wife, Barbara Hendricks, told investigators Susan Hendricks followed the couple to Myrtle Beach and had told people she wanted to kill them.

An ex-boyfriend of Susan Hendricks, Rudy Parra, told deputies that Hendricks told him she had shot a man who came into her house uninvited in 2006. She then showed him three guns she kept in a safe in her closet.

In that same safe, detectives later found insurance policies for each victim, payable to Susan Hendricks and with a combined value of more than $680,000. A Pickens County printing shop owner told detectives Hendricks came to his shop six days after the killings and asked him to notarize her changing the executor of her will from her sister to one of her brothers.

When she was arrested 10 days after the shooting, an officer noted numerous wills and financial documents on the floor. Nine months after her arrest, Hendricks tried to commit suicide, according to a police report included in the cache of released documents. A female cellmate told authorities Hendricks squirreled away 40 pills she was given for her mental problems and tried to overdose. Hendricks left a note to her family telling them not to fight.

"I'll be okay with Mark and the boys," she wrote. "See ya another day." During her plea hearing, a psychiatrist identified as David Price testified that she was abused by both of her parents, and that her parents also let others abuse her. Hendricks declined to speak at the hearing.

Price said Hendricks developed several personalities as a coping mechanism during the abuse. While the dominant one knew right from wrong, the one in charge the night of the killings didn't, he said. Included in the crime scene photos are images of Hendricks' home, including her bedroom, which was clean and tidy and equipped with a disco ball that she said she used when she danced as part of a weight-loss program.

Other photos show the rest of the house in disarray. And then there is image No. 84, a photo of a photo, tacked with a push pin next to a fly swatter, on a wall of what looks to be a kitchen. It shows a smiling Hendricks in a dress standing next to her ex-husband in coat and tie, their two well-dressed sons flanking them on either side.

Jolie joins Pitt at 'World War Z' London premiere!

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie stepped out together Sunday at the premiere of zombie thriller "World War Z" — Jolie's first public appearance since announcing last month that she had undergone a double mastectomy.

The couple said they had been moved by the outpouring of public support that followed Jolie's disclosure. Jolie told reporters she felt great, and had "been very happy to see the discussion about women's health expanded" by her announcement.

Salvadoran woman denied abortion has C-section!

The health ministry in El Salvador says a seriously ill woman denied a medical abortion has had a successful cesarean section to deliver a fetus that doctors have given no chance of surviving for long.

The ministry says the 22-year-old woman known only as Beatriz for privacy reasons was operated on Monday afternoon.

Her baby girl, who only developed a brain stem, was born alive, but doctors don't know how long the child will live.

Beatriz suffers from lupus and kidney failure. Her bid to end what her lawyers said was a life-threatening pregnancy in a country with some of the world's strictest abortion laws drew international attention.

Plateau unrest: Four killed in renewed violence!

The relative peace being experienced in Plateau State was on Saturday night punctured, as four people were said to have lost their lives, when gunmen suspected to be Fulani herdsmen invaded Gwande village in Manguna district of Bokkos Local Government Area of the State- Nigeria.

It was reliably gathered that the suspects had invaded the village and attacked a house, killing two people.

After which residents of the community mobilised and launched a counter attack and in the process killed two of the attackers.

Mr. Arut Bulus, a former Councillor representing the area, who spoke with our correspondent said the herdsmen have vowed to avenge the killing of two of the attackers, saying they are regrouping to launch another attack. He decried that the villagers had abandoned their homes for fear of being attacked.

“Right now the villagers have all fled their homes because a report came to us that some armed Fulani herdsmen are coming through the forest to attack our people”.

Reacting to this development, Police Public Relations Officer, Felicia Anselm, said she was yet to get the report, but assured that the police will mobilize to repel any further attack.

According to her, “I will call my boss now to inform him of the development and I’m sure we will do everything to prevent any further attack”.

Man begs court to dissolve his marriage over suspicion of witchcraft!

A lot of people go to court to seek divorce for a number of reasons, ranging from infidelity, battery and assault to neglect, but it becomes very interesting when the reason for divorce is witchcraft. This was the case between Peter Imabong and his wife, Eginma Imabong.

The case came up for hearing recently at the Gurku Upper Area Court, Mararaba, Nassarawa State- Nigeria.

Mr Peter took his wife to court and demanded that the court grants him divorce. He explained that he was no longer in love with his wife and that
there was no reason to remain married to her. He claimed that his wife was a witch.

On her part, his wife, Eginma told the court that she does not want to divorce her husband, “my faith tells me that marriage is a covenant and not a contract so I do not want to divorce him. If he is tired of the marriage, he should take me back to my parents who gave me to him in marriage.”

When Mr Peter was asked why he wanted to divorce, he said that he was no longer interested in the marriage. He told the court that they had been married since 2007 and they have had no children and that recently his wife has been asking him to sleep behind her on their matrimonial bed.

“Where I come from, it is wrong for a man to lie behind a woman. So I always refuse to do it and then the next morning, I will wake up to find myself on the floor. If I ask her why I am on the floor, she will retort, ‘did I not tell you to sleep behind me?’,” this has happened more than once and I cannot take it anymore”, Peter said.

He also stated that although they are of Christian faith, he does not attend the same church with his wife as he does not believe in the practice of her church.

He spoke of another instance where he was sitting in his parlour when an unseen object came to hit him on the left shoulder. He had to go to the hospital because of the pain and the hospital could not do anything about it.

Then he had to resort to herbal medicine. He brought the herbal medicine home and was using it but when his wife saw it, she took it to her church and defiled it. She then returned home and told him that his medicine will not work again.

In her defense, Eginma told the court that it was not true. She said that she did not know what took him to the floor, “I told him that we need to pray about the situation, I just said that he should stay behind me so that I will see that spirit that will come and carry him across me and put him on the floor.”

Eginma told the court that her husband had moved out of the house since February 27, 2013 and has refused to come back.

After hearing the testimony of the wife, the presiding Judge W.V. Ghahemba adjourned the case to June 25, 2013 for judgment.

Dangote Now Richer Than Russia’s Richest Man!

The President, Chief Executive of the Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote, has become the first African entrepreneur to lay claim to a $20 billion fortune, thus becoming one of the 25 richest men in the world.



Dangote Cement becomes the first Nigerian company to achieve a market capitalisation of over $20 billion. Dangote’s 93 percent stake in the cement company is now worth $19.5 billion, according to Forbes magazine.

Added to this are his controlling stakes in other publicly-listed companies like Dangote Sugar and National Salt Company of Nigeria, and his significant shareholdings in other blue-chip companies like Zenith Bank Plc, UBA Group and Dangote Flour; his extensive real estate portfolio, jets, yachts and current cash position, which includes more than $300 million in recently-awarded Dangote Cement.

Forbes reported that the Nigerian billionaire was now richer than Russia’s richest man, Alisher Usmanov; India’s Lakshmi Mittal; and running neck and neck with India’s Mukesh Ambani.

According to the magazine, he is catching up to such Americans as Google’s billionaire founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin.

It will be recalled that Dangote Cement had recorded an unprecedented surge in its share price largely due to market response to the company’s impressive results in the first quarter of this year.

Forbes in its report reasoned that other companies might eventually achieve this, but it was going to take a bit of time.

Dangote Cement currently accounts for more than a quarter of the total market capitalisation of the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE). The second largest company on the NSE is currently Nigerian Breweries Plc, West Africa’s largest manufacturer of alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages, which has a market capitalisation of $8.5 billion.

Dangote made a debut on the Forbes billionaires list in 2008 with a fortune pegged at $3.3 billion. His fortune dropped to $2.5 billion in 2009 and plunged further to $2.1 billion in 2010.

His fortune surged 557 percent in 2011 to $13.8 billion after he took Dangote Cement public. Dangote dropped to $11.2 billion in last year’s rankings, but rebounded at $16.1 billion this year. Since March, his fortune has jumped another 30 percent.

Dangote started building his fortune over three decades ago after taking a loan from Sanusi Dantata and started trading in commodities like flour, sugar and cement.