Police invesigations into the murder of Bettie Jenifer, wife of Ghanian actor, Chris Attoh, has revealed that she was married to two men, one of whom is a notorious drug lord.

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Bettie was shot dead in Greenbelt, Maryland while leaving her office in Maryland in the United States of America.

She was shot in the head by the gunman on Friday evening around 5pm and was pronounced dead when police arrived at the scene of the crime. May 10, 2019.

Police confirmed at the weekend, that the deceased was married to Chris Attoh, following Attoh’s divorce from his first wife, she was also married to 47-year-old Kedrick Jenifer, who is currently serving a 20-year prison sentence for importing large amounts of cocaine into Baltimore from Texas.

The Greenbelt Police Department said in a statement, on May 11, that Jenifer had been chased through the parking lot of her office building at around 5:00 p.m. before being shot in the head in a targeted and not a random incident.

The U.S. District Attorney’s Office said the kingpin’s drug trafficking organisation distributed at least 450kg of cocaine in Baltimore and Woodbridge, Virginia.

“Kedrick lived large as a major Baltimore drug dealer, but now he will lose all of his toys and live for two decades in federal prison,” U.S. Attorney Rod Rosenstein has said after his sentencing.

However, Kedrick filed for a divorce from Jenifer, on April 9, 2019, while she followed suit by filing hers, six days later.