A Missouri educator and her four young children have been killed in a house fire – which has been labeled “suspicious” after evidence of criminal activity was uncovered.
Family, neighbors and public records say Bernadine Pruessner lived with her four children in the home, at 510 North Clay Ave., north of Hereford Avenue.
Police are investigating a “suspicious” fire near St. Louis that killed a woman and four children. St. Louis Regional Bomb and Arson detectives are assisting in the investigation. Police hadn't named the victims as of Tuesday morning but did describe them as a woman and four children.