Bernadine Pruessner: Missouri Mom Set Mattress on Fire Killing Her Four Kids and Herself Hours After Leaving Haunting Final Facebook Post [Video]

A Missouri teacher took her own life and that of her four young children by setting a mattress on fire shortly after she posted online that the kids were “peacefully sleeping” in her bed. Bernadine Pruessner and her children—twins Ellie and Ivy Pruessner, 9, Jackson Spader, 5, and Millie Spader, 2 — all perished in the fire at their home in Ferguson on Monday morning.

Preliminary investigations indicate that it was a murder-suicide, according to St. Louis County Police Department spokesperson Sergeant Tracy Panus, DailyMail.com reported. “It is believed that Bernadine intentionally set a mattress on fire as that was the point of origin for the fire,” the office announced.

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“A note was also left stating Bernadine’s intentions to take her life and the lives of her children,” the statement read, without elaborating on the contents of the note.

Pruessner’s last Facebook post was on the evening of February 19, …