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<h6><span style="color:#0a0000;"><strong>Dad strangled infant and toddler sons, sets house on fire before hanging himself in the basement in Bloomington, Illinois, Tuesday</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color:#0a0000;"><strong>Surveillance cameras in the home captured Eric Ringenberg, hiding cellphones before setting the house on fire</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color:#0a0000;"><strong>Cops found Ringenberg, 33, and his infant son and older son aged 2, inside the basement of the smoke-filled home </strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color:#0a0000;"><strong>His 32-year-old wife, Pamela,awakened by smoke, couldn&#8217;t find her family members and had no means of calling emergency respond</strong>ers</span></h6>
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<img class="alignnone wp-image-259360" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/eric-ringenberg-2.jpg" alt="Eric Ringenberg 2.jpg" width="671" height="671" />Eric Ringenberg was captured hiding cellphones before setting the house on fire. He&#8217;d already killed his toddler and infant sons</h6>
<p>A 33-year-old father stashed away the family cellphones before smothering his young sons and setting their home on fire, police said.<br />
Eric Ringenberg, 33, then hanged himself in the basement as smoke filled their Bloomington, Illinois, home. His children, identified only as 2-year-old CR and infant RR, were with him in the basement when firefighters rushed into the house Tuesday morning, <a href="http://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/local-news/breaking-information-released-on-victims-from-brittany-court-house-fire/815266528" target="_blank" rel="noopener">WMBD reported</a>.<br />
The smoke eventually woke up Ringenberg’s 32-year-old wife, Pamela, who couldn’t find her cellphone. She searched the house for her loved ones, but couldn’t find anyone.</p>
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<strong><img class="alignnone wp-image-259363" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/eric-ringenberg-and-pamela-ringenberg-2.jpg" alt="Eric Ringenberg and Pamela Ringenberg 2" width="693" height="1040" />Pamela Ringenberg [right], was awakened by smoke, but the phones had been hidden by Eric [left] who had also killed their two sons in the basement before setting the home on fire and taking his own life</strong></h6>
<p>“Pamela Ringenberg frantically searched for her family members, but was unable to find them,” police said in a statement. She was treated at for smoke inhalation.<br />
Investigators later found home surveillance video showing Ringenberg hiding several phones, including Pamela’s, in a kitchen cabinet. He was also captured starting the basement fire after killing his sons, cops said.<br />
An autopsy conducted later Tuesday confirmed Ringenberg’s death was a suicide, cops Bloomington police said.</p>
<h6><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-259287" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/police-at-the-home-after-eric-ringenberg-killed-his-two-sons-and-set-the-home-on-fire.jpg" alt="Police at the home after Eric Ringenberg killed his two sons and set the home on fire" width="1200" height="800" />Investigators<strong> at the Ringenberg&#8217;s home after the multiple murder-suicide where Eric Ringenberg killed his two sons and set the house on fire</strong></h6>
<p>According to reports in the<a href="http://www.pantagraph.com/news/local/police-father-kills-his-children-himself/article_0d9e4331-fc3e-55b1-8869-e7bc496e46aa.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> Pantagraph newspaper</a>, the couple were both IT employees at State Farm Insurance in Bloomington, a company spokeswoman confirmed. Pamela is an IT analyst-governance risk compliance at State Farm and attended Illinois State University. Eric Ringenberg who attended Lincoln College in Normal, was also an IT analyst.<br />
Pamela posted to her a message to friends on her Facebook: “Friends and family. I do not have my phone so I could not reach you all directly nor will I be monitoring Facebook for quite some time….There will be some news coming out soon and I ask you just refrain from judgement and understand this is a very difficult time. Please just pray for all my family. Thank you,” she wrote.<br />
According to official police reports the outcome of the autopsy on the bodies show that the two children died from strangulation via ligature while Eric Ringenberg&#8217;s death was a suicide. Video from in-home surveillance cameras provides evidence of Eric&#8217;s sole role in the deaths of the children. Cameras also show the fire was intentionally set by Eric Ringenberg after the children were already dead.</p>
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Cameras captured Eric Ringenberg, hiding cellphones before strangling infant sons, setting home on fire and hanging himself in the basement
