11 July 2021 :
A Madison County jury recommends death penalty for Christopher Henderson, a bigamist found guilty of killing 5 people in 2015. WHNT is reporting that the jury voted 11-1 in favor of recommending the death penalty on all charges for Henderson, who was found guilty last Thursday. Henderson will be officially sentenced October 14. Henderson was accused of killing Kristen Smallwood Henderson, her unborn child, her mother and 2 children on Aug. 4, 2015. Kristin Smallwood Henderson, 35, was 9 months pregnant with Henderson’s child at the time of the killings. Her 8-year-old son, Clayton Daniel Chambers, her mother, Jean Smallwood, 67, and her 1-year-old nephew, Eli Sokolowski, were also killed. The bodies were inside a New Market house engulfed in flames when authorities arrived. Their bodies were found in a home that had been burned in August 2015 less than a week after Kristen Smallwood filed for a court order to keep Henderson away from the house. At the time, Henderson had married another woman, Rhonda Carlson, without divorcing Smallwood. Carlson, 47, admitted to helping plan the killings but denied participating in the slayings. She avoided a potential death penalty in a deal with prosecutors and provided testimony that helped lead to Henderson’s conviction.
