A mother mocked her ex-husband and made her young son “say goodbye to dad” on camera before shooting him and herself in the head.
Savannah Kriger, 32, and her son Kaiden, 3, were reported missing Monday after she left work early to pick him up from daycare for a doctor’s appointment.
They were found dead early Tuesday morning, 19 hours later, in a drainage ditch at Tom Slick Park in San Antonio, Texas, with gunshot wounds.
Kriger was due to face her ex-husband Brian Kriger in a custody hearing the same day.
Investigators reconstructed the final hours of Kriger’s life as he destroyed two houses in a shootout, took his son and gloated to Brian on the phone that he would never see him again.
Savannah Kriger, 32, and her son Kaiden were reported missing Monday after she left work early to pick him up from daycare for a doctor’s appointment.
They were found dead early Tuesday morning in a drainage ditch at Tom Slick Park in San Antonio, Texas, with gunshot wounds.
Kriger left work at 12:49 p.m. in his white 2023 Lincoln Aviator and drove to Brian’s house, 7.9 miles away. while he was at work. and destroyed it.
At 1:14 p.m., she drove 44 kilometers to her house, where she cut holes in her wedding dress and two wedding portraits that she displayed on her bed.
Her next stop was Kaiden’s daycare, where she arrived at 2:32 pm and checked him out, which took 10 minutes.
Four minutes later, she left Brian an alarming two-minute, 13-second message on FaceTime while he was still at work.
‘You don’t have anything to come home to now, you really don’t. “You don’t have anything at the Dover’s Den house either, and you won’t have anything at the end of the day,” she said.
While Brian was rushing home and calling 911 to report a report of criminal damage to his home and discovering it was trashed, Kriger was making his last trip.
At 3:19 p.m., while Brian was taking photos of the damage she did to his house, Kriger tried to call him again but he didn’t answer.
She sent him one last text message: “Say goodbye to your son.”
Police tracked Kriger’s truck to Tom Slick Park after phone calls. On Tuesday, they located two bodies provisionally identified as the 32-year-old woman and her young son, as well as a weapon.
Kriger left work early Monday to pick up Kaiden from daycare for a doctor’s appointment, but instead shot them both to death.
Two minutes later, she tried again to talk to him on FaceTime, unsuccessfully, and instead recorded a 21-second video of her and Kaiden’s final moments.
‘She and Kaiden appear to be already sitting in the drainage ditch where their bodies would eventually be found. “Savannah orders Kaiden to say goodbye to dad,” said Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar.
After Kaiden said goodbye to Brian on camera, not knowing it would be the last time, Kriger kissed him and apologized because his father wasn’t there with him.
The last activity on Kriger’s phone was searching for children’s cartoons at 3:29 p.m.
Nothing graphic was recorded on the phone, but detectives believed the video showed the couple’s last moments alive.
As the hours passed, the family became concerned that they could not contact Kriger. All calls to voicemail and location services on his phone were disabled.
The Bexar County Sheriff’s Office was called to his home for a welfare check around 6 p.m., but they were unable to get inside.
The Bexar County Sheriff’s Office said deputies found evidence that created a “cause for concern” inside Kriger’s home when conducting a welfare check.
Officers eventually made contact with a family member who let them in.
“There they found evidence that created ’cause for concern for both the child and Savannah,’ according to Salazar.
An Amber Alert was issued that same day. Police suspected that Kriger, who was involved in a custody dispute with the boy’s father, had kidnapped him.
Authorities tracked Kriger’s car to Tom Slick Park off State Highway 151 East after phone calls.
The search in the park began on Monday night, but had to be called off as night fell.
On Tuesday morning, police continued to comb the area and found two bodies near a drainage easement. A firearm was also recovered from the scene.
Salazar said Kriger and Kaiden appeared to have left the truck and walked “a considerable distance” from the park to the ditch where the bodies were located.
One day before the bodies were discovered, an Amber Alert was issued for three-year-old Kaiden. In that alert, Kriger was identified as his alleged kidnapper.
