Texas mom murdered her 3-year-old son after recording a FaceTime video for her ex-husband in which she says to the boy, “Say goodbye to daddy”
A San Antonio mother fired a gun at her wedding photos and made her son say “goodbye to daddy” before fatally shooting the child and turning the weapon on herself.
Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar said that when officers responded to the woman’s house during the March incident they found her wedding dresses laid out on the bed and bullet holes in her wedding portraits.
The Bexar County Medical Examiner ruled the deaths of Savannah Kriger, 32, and her son Kaiden, three, a suicide and homicide.
The sheriff’s office says that the woman left her job around 1pm CT on 18 March in a 2023 Lincoln Navigator and went to her ex-husband’s residence in southeast San Antonio. Sheriff Salazar said that the woman entered the home and damaged various items of personal clothing, furniture items and miscellaneous items inside the residence.
The ex-husband, who was not identified by officials, was believed to be at his place of employment at the time of the incident. The woman then left the man’s residence and went to her home.
The couple were in the process of getting divorced and a custody hearing was scheduled for the day the mother and son died. The woman later left that residence to pick up her child from daycare.
She then FaceTimed her ex-husband around 2.46pm CT and told him “You don’t have anything to go home to now. You really don’t.. and you won’t have anything at all at the end of the day”. The man then contacted the sheriff’s office to make a criminal mischief report.
Investigators say that the woman then took her son to the Tom Slick Park in San Antonio.
Kriger then attempted to FaceTime her ex-husband again. She then sent a text message stating “Say goodbye to your son”, according to the sheriff’s office.
Kriger made another attempt to call her ex-husband minutes later. When the man did not pick up the phone, she recorded a video from a drainage ditch with her son in which she told the child to “say goodbye to daddy” and apologised to the child for his father not being there.
Authorities found the bodies of both Kriger and her child 19 hours later at the drainage ditch.
Both of the bodies had gunshot wounds. Sheriff Salazar said he could not speculate on what he thought the outcome of the custody hearing would be but noted that the mother “could’ve lost custody of the child”.
City watchdog to lift ban on some crypto-linked investments for consumers
The City watchdog is set to lift a ban on some cryptocurrency-linked investments for individual consumers despite warning people could “lose all their money” from the “high-risk” asset.
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) said it was proposing to allow retail investors to access crypto exchange-traded notes (ETNs).
Like stocks and shares, crypto ETNs can be bought and sold and work by tracking the performance of cryptoassets such as Bitcoin and Ethereum.
It means people are exposed to its changing value without needing to hold the asset themselves.
Currently, just professional investors are allowed to buy and sell the investment product after the FCA granted access last year.
At the time, the regulator said it still believed crypto ETNs to be “ill-suited for retail consumers due to the harm they pose”.
On Friday, David Geale, the FCA’s executive director of payments and digital assets, said the proposals reflect its “commitment to supporting the growth and competitiveness of the UK’s crypto industry”.
“We want to rebalance our approach to risk and lifting the ban would allow people to make the choice on whether such a high-risk investment is right for them given they could lose all their money.”
Access to crypto derivatives would still be banned for retail investors – but the FCA said it would continue to consider its approach to high-risk investments.
In April, Chancellor Rachel Reeves said she wanted the UK to be a “world leader in digital assets” and announced plans to make crypto firms subject to regulation in the same way as traditional finance companies.
“While the UK will always be committed to high international standards, I am determined that our regulatory framework supports economic growth,” she said at the time.
But the FCA’s chairman Nikhil Rathi recently warned that the number of young people turning to crypto as their first taste of investment was “not great”, adding that it was “very high risk and you could potentially lose all your money”.
The price of Bitcoin hit a fresh all-time high last month, topping about 111,000 dollars (£82,000) as the crypto market rallies amid support from Donald Trump’s administration in the US.
Crypto: XRP Rebounds But Trading Volume Drops By Nearly 49%!
While markets scrutinize upcoming regulatory decisions, XRP experiences an unexpected surge. Having become the fourth largest market cap in the sector, the asset saw a strong rebound after two sessions of decline, sparking a brief wave of optimism. However, behind this technical signal lies a more nuanced reality: trading volume has collapsed by nearly 49% in 24 hours. In a tense environment where every movement fuels speculation, XRP once again becomes a barometer of the crypto market’s contradictions.
A technical rebound, but apparent market disinterest?
After two consecutive days of decline on Wednesday and Thursday, XRP experienced a bullish surge this Friday. Indeed, Ripple’s crypto regained ground to reach $2.192 after finding solid support at $2.08.
This slight recovery of +2.18% over 24 hours temporarily reassured asset holders, relieved to see the crypto initiate a turnaround after a volatile week.
However, this improvement is contradicted by a major data point that tempers the optimism. Trading volume sharply dropped by 48.96%, settling at only $1.76 billion, according to CoinMarketCap figures.
Technical data confirms a mixed recovery, marked by several contradictory signals:
- Volume decline: -48.96% over 24 hours, falling from nearly $3.5 billion to $1.76 billion, signaling operator disinterest despite the price increase;
- A persistent resistance zone: the XRP price still faces a technical barrier between $2.50 and $2.60, which the current rebound fails to cross;
- Moving averages under watch: the 50-day and 200-day indicators, at $2.26 and $2.34 respectively, are key thresholds to confirm a lasting reversal;
- A neutral chart structure: XRP continues to evolve within a symmetrical triangle pattern, typical of a consolidation phase where the outcome depends on volume resurgence.
Analysis shows the market remains extremely cautious. Thus, the gap between price recovery and volume collapse causes legitimate doubt. The current rise may not be supported by genuine investor conviction but rather by an isolated technical rebound.
To exit this zone of uncertainty, XRP will need to validate stronger signals, beginning with a significant volume increase and the overcoming of major technical resistances.
Fundamentals in motion: from stablecoin to ETF, XRP reshapes its ambitions
While the market monitors on-chain data, major announcements are emerging. According to a SEC filing, the Chinese company Webus International announced the creation of a corporate treasury of $300 million based on XRP, an ambitious initiative that could strengthen the asset’s credibility as a liquidity tool.
At the same time, Ripple obtained approval from Dubai regulators for the launch of its RLUSD stablecoin, a crypto pegged to the US dollar designed to streamline payments on the XRP Ledger ecosystem. These developments reflect an international expansion strategy, both in regulatory and technological adoption terms.
However, it is primarily the highly anticipated decision by the US regulator on Franklin Templeton’s spot XRP ETF, scheduled for June 17, that could serve as a decisive catalyst. Approval of such a product would potentially open the doors to massive institutional inflows into XRP by offering a regulated exposure avenue to the asset.
ETF approval could alter liquidity dynamics and reposition XRP as a cornerstone of the institutional ecosystem.
In this context, the implications of a favorable outcome are considerable. If Franklin Templeton’s ETF were approved, combined with structural efforts surrounding RLUSD and the Webus treasury, XRP could regain a more organic momentum, driven both by adoption and institutional demand. Conversely, a SEC rejection and prolonged stagnation in trading volume would reinforce the idea that the current rebound is merely an illusion.
