Palm Coast, Fla. – Two former financial planners who faced complaints that they steered clients into high-risk investments were found dead Saturday, along with their 12-year-old daughter, in an apparent double murder-suicide, authorities said.
Preliminary investigations indicate that Kevin and Belinda Henderson and their daughter, Cori, died of strangulation on Thursday, Flagler County Sheriff Donald Fleming said. Investigators have not said which family member was responsible.
The bodies were found by Belinda Henderson’s elder daughter, authorities said.
Kevin and Belinda Henderson worked as financial planners for American Express Financial Advisors until several clients complained to the company and regulators that the couple had steered them into high-risk, money-losing investments.
The company, which later became Ameriprise Financial, has paid more than $350,000 to settle nine complaints, according to the National Association of Securities Dealers, a trade association that helps regulate sales of investment products. Other claims were pending.
