Mother asks 3-year-old to say goodbye to father, shoots son shortly afterwards in murder-suicide

“Say goodbye to dad,” she said. Her three-year-old son looked at his father on a cell phone camera. The mother then shot the child in a ditch before killing herself.

It happened in Texas, USA. It was a day before 32-year-old Savannah Kriger was scheduled to appear in court over a custody dispute with her ex-husband over their son Kaiden. Before the murder-suicide, Kriger told her ex-husband on FaceTime that he would have “nothing at all at the end of the day.”

The revelation came from police when the mother and son were found with gunshot wounds to the head. The incident occurred on March 19th. It took officials many weeks to investigate the final hours of the murder-suicide, the New York Post reported.

A 21-second video found on her phone showed Kriger and her son sitting in a park ditch. In the video, the woman asked the son to say goodbye to his father.

Then she apologized to him because his father wasn’t there for him. Then she kissed the child. According to authorities, the mother sat in the ditch looking for cartoon videos, where they were later found dead.

What happened?

The situation began on March 18 when Kriger left her job in the afternoon and went to her ex-partner’s house while he was at work, according to the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office. She reportedly damaged his furniture and some personal belongings before returning to her house.

There, police later discovered her wedding dress and pictures on the bed. Sheriff Javier Salazar reported that she took her wedding photos twice. Kriger then picked up her son from daycare and began sending disturbing messages to the boy’s father, authorities found.

“Say goodbye to your son,” was her last text message to her ex.