The role of a father is to raise his children, provide and nurture them but what this father in Missouri did to his family is clearly not a father's role. As an act of revenge to his wife for wanting to end their nine-year marriage, Christopher Cadenbach kidnapped his young boys, Ethan and Owen. He shot them and killed himself after.
According to a news article on PEOPLE, authorities are now in search of Christopher Cadenbachfor being charged with domestic violence following two alleged attacks on his wife and for killing his two sons.
As what Ken Cox, the deputy chief St. Louis County Police Department described the event as a tragic ending as cited on Washington Post. He told the reporters that the children; Ethan aged 5 and Owen aged 4, own died after being fatally shot inside Cliff Cave County Park in Oakville, Missouri. By mother.
Cadenbach made alarming statements while they were in a park with his mother and his two sons causing his mother to report him of domestic violence. The authorities then initiated a statewide AMBER alert.
After arriving at Cliff Cave County Park, the authorities saw a car matching the vehicle described in the AMBER alert. A police helicopter hovering above the area recorded a video footage of a man approaching the car and firing two shots.
The number of shots was not clearly determined because as the police was nearing Cadenbach, the area was pitch black and shots rang out. Ethan and Owen were both dead when they finally reached the vehicle.
Elisa Sartorius-Cadenbach, the mother of the two boys, wanted to end her nine-year marriagewith Cadenbach. She thinks that Cadenbach just snapped and as a revenge for pressing charges against him, he did the most hurtful way possible .
To help the family for the boys' burial, a GoFundMe account was created.
