{"id":666494,"date":"2017-11-03T12:11:43","date_gmt":"2017-11-03T17:11:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=666494"},"modified":"2017-11-05T14:40:38","modified_gmt":"2017-11-05T20:40:38","slug":"capital-murder-charges-filed-in-henderson-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=666494","title":{"rendered":"Investigation Continues in Murders of Henderson County Children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2017\/11\/Sarah-Nicole-Henderson.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2017\/11\/Sarah-Nicole-Henderson-150x150.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-666495\" \/><\/a>ATHENS &#8211; Henderson County authorities are continuing their probe into the deaths of two young girls. The mother of the seven and five year old girls, 29 year old Sarah Nicole Henderson, of Mabank, is charged with one count of capital murder. A second capital murder charge is pending. She remains in Henderson County Jail under suicide watch. Her bond is $2 million. Sheriff Botie Hillhouse said, during an interview with investigators, she confessed to shooting the girls. Investigators say the mother had planned the girls&#8217; deaths weeks in advance.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2017\/11\/mabank-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-666667\" \/>Sheriff Botie Hillhouse said  around 11:30 Wednesday night, EMS contacted the sheriff&#8217;s department asking for assistance regarding a possible suicidal female at a residence outside of Payne Springs. A man and a woman told deputies they were fine and no one was in danger or jeopardy. Shortly before 2:30 Thursday morning, a man called 911 to report at woman had shot her children. Deputies found the little girls dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Funeral services for the two girls will be Monday afternoon at 2:00 at Eubank Cedar Creek Memorial Chapel in Mabank. Visitation will be Sunday from 6:00 to 8:00pm at the funeral home. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ATHENS &#8211; Henderson County authorities are continuing their probe into the deaths of two young girls. The mother of the seven and five year old girls, 29 year old Sarah Nicole Henderson, of Mabank, is charged with one count of capital murder. A second capital murder charge is pending. She remains in Henderson County Jail &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=666494\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Investigation Continues in Murders of Henderson County Children<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":666495,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-666494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-15 13:22:32","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=666494"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":667125,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666494\/revisions\/667125"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/666495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=666494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=666494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=666494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}