NH Tragedy: Emily Long Allegedly Kills Husband (Battling Brain Cancer) and 2 Kids in Murder-Suicide – Aug 2025”

[rsteen]

My mom died of glioblastoma. I...kind of get it? It was Hell. Absolute hell. And you can't do anything, because that's murder. And you don't want to sit in jail if you have kids.

F cancer.

If she had sent the 3 kids to grandma's first, I could get it.

 

[lonetraveler]

You did a great job! I saw this on social media yesterday, very sad story - all the way around.

Why do you think she didn't kill the youngest child?

I'm wonder that as well.

 

[DBLG]

I watched the video she filmed of herself several days prior to the incident. I strongly believe she was under the influence of drugs (legal and/or otherwise). I have not seen anyone else make this observation which surprises me. It’s possible she was recently prescribed medication that altered her personality and/or she was self medicating. Her mannerisms and speech patterns in that video were red flags to me. There is a lot more to this story. All JMO.

 

[theonewithallthequestions]

This adds a whole new layer. I had seen rumors of this floating around on Reddit, but now the owner himself is confirming.

Business owner says mom in NH murder-suicide stole over $600K from company

The New Hampshire woman who killed her husband and two children before committing suicide is being accused of embezzling over $600,000 from the company she worked for, her employer confirmed.

www.wcvb.com

 

[squareandrabbet]

If she had sent the 3 kids to grandma's first, I could get it.

Or even the one kid... I mean, I know we don't know the whole situation, but how do we know that she didn't intend to kill the 3-year-old?... I guess if the child is unharmed, that's one answer; but how and why do you leave a 3-y-o alive and then assume that such a child can get themselves to safety/to a surviving grownup?... I'd be keeping an eye out for information that she alerted a third party she was going to kill herself before she did it and to come look for the toddler, because otherwise you're coming close to sentencing the 3-year-old to a leisurely death of abandonment.

 

[Inthedetails]

Or even the one kid... I mean, I know we don't know the whole situation, but how do we know that she didn't intend to kill the 3-year-old?... I guess if the child is unharmed, that's one answer; but how and why do you leave a 3-y-o alive and then assume that such a child can get themselves to safety/to a surviving grownup?... I'd be keeping an eye out for information that she alerted a third party she was going to kill herself before she did it and to come look for the toddler, because otherwise you're coming close to sentencing the 3-year-old to a leisurely death of abandonment.

What an excellent observation (and eerie). I assumed she intended to save the youngest, but I didn't think through the logistics of it.

jmopinion

 

[squareandrabbet]

What an excellent observation (and eerie). I assumed she intended to save the youngest, but I didn't think through the logistics of it.

jmopinion

Well we (I) should also keep in mind that I'm lavishly assuming they lived someplace rural in New Hampshire, with neighbors few and far between; which as I personally have friends in Dover and Portsmouth, I should know better than to do... if the toddler can just yell out the window, or if Emily knew there was someone scheduled to come over, there might not be that much risk... but either way, it leaves a 3 year old alone, and means that Emily has to decide for at least a split second that this seems good and logical.

 

[nighttimesleuth]

This adds a whole new layer. I had seen rumors of this floating around on Reddit, but now the owner himself is confirming.

Business owner says mom in NH murder-suicide stole over $600K from company

The New Hampshire woman who killed her husband and two children before committing suicide is being accused of embezzling over $600,000 from the company she worked for, her employer confirmed.

www.wcvb.com

I was thinking her motives were similar to male family annihilators - money issues. I wasn't buying the mercy killing idea.

 

[jillolantern]

Interested to see if she tried to claim "mercy killing" since her husband was battling cancer.

How would she do this since she committed suicide?

 

[theonewithallthequestions]

Per reports, she shot her husband multiple times. I’d be curious to know how many bullets she had. As horrifying as it is, it’s possible she ran out of bullets and that was the reason the toddler was spared

Also, Emily said they had a nanny in her videos. Was it the nanny’s day off? Who made the 911 call?

 

[Coppertop15]

Oops, there's the money, I guess. That's on me for extending the smallest bit of grace, I guess.

 

[Knox]

This adds a whole new layer. I had seen rumors of this floating around on Reddit, but now the owner himself is confirming.

Business owner says mom in NH murder-suicide stole over $600K from company

The New Hampshire woman who killed her husband and two children before committing suicide is being accused of embezzling over $600,000 from the company she worked for, her employer confirmed.

www.wcvb.com

Wow, that’s an unexpected twist! This isn’t what I thought it was at all.

 

[Inthedetails]

Wow, that’s an unexpected twist! This isn’t what I thought it was at all.

Yes, I am suprised too.

Just like other family annihilators, it now seems financial humiliation was the trigger in this case, with the terminally-ill spouse used to make it look like a mercy killing. imo


jmopinion

 

[Sarahlou]

Per reports, she shot her husband multiple times. I’d be curious to know how many bullets she had. As horrifying as it is, it’s possible she ran out of bullets and that was the reason the toddler was spared

Also, Emily said they had a nanny in her videos. Was it the nanny’s day off? Who made the 911 call?

When I first read that I thought it sounded like she was taking her anger out on him especially.
I did wonder if she knew she didn't have enough bullets for her and the toddler too.

The whole thing is awful.

I agree with others, the latest details just reinforce my belief that she's exactly the same as the male family annihilators.

 

[starlightstarbright]

This adds a whole new layer. I had seen rumors of this floating around on Reddit, but now the owner himself is confirming.

Business owner says mom in NH murder-suicide stole over $600K from company

The New Hampshire woman who killed her husband and two children before committing suicide is being accused of embezzling over $600,000 from the company she worked for, her employer confirmed.

www.wcvb.com

Edited to say: I couldn’t access this article, but here is one I could.

Mom in NH murder-suicide had embezzled more than $600,000 from workplace: report

The New Hampshire woman at the center of a devastating murder-suicide that happened last week in Madbury had recently been accused of embezzling from her workplace, the Boston Globe reports.

www.nbcboston.com

 

[Elley Mae]

The mom-of-three worked as the Director of Operations of the Hampton location of Wing-Itz, a chicken wing restaurant company.

Derek Fisher, the owner of the chain's location, told WCVB that Long stole $660,000 from the company over two years before he finally reported it to police.

'I felt I had no other option than to go to law enforcement,' Fisher said.

'We noticed there were a lot of handwritten checks being deposited into her bank account.'

Mom who killed husband, kids and herself 'stole 600k from employer'

Emily Long, 34, was found dead alongside her husband Ryan Long, 48, and two of their children, eight-year-old Parker and six-year-old Ryan, in their stunning New Hampshire home earlier this month.

www.dailymail.co.uk

Fisher said he had initially tried getting answers from Long after he discovered the accounting discrepancies.

He told the Boston Globe he confronted Long on June 18 and asked her to provide three months of her most recent bank statements.

Long did not send the bank statements until August 5, and the documents were missing pages and looked 'unusual,' according to Fisher.

Fisher then took the documents to the bank and was informed they had been doctored, he said.

 

[Gators North]

That’s a lot of money to embezzle in two years. I wonder if she was putting the money toward her husband’s medical expenses. MOO

 

[Warwick1991]

That’s a lot of money to embezzle in two years. I wonder if she was putting the money toward her husband’s medical expenses. MOO

I think the embezzlement started before her husband's diagnosis, which was said in one of the linked articles to be "recent."

 

[Judy Sleuth]

I think the embezzlement started before her husband's diagnosis, which was said in one of the linked articles to be "recent."

The article below states that he was diagnosed in April (2025).

Loved ones remember Ryan Long as a true friend, devoted dad and passionate school psychologist

Ryan was shot and killed last week by his wife, Emily Long, who also killed herself and two of their children, 8-year-old son Parker and 6-year-old daughter Ryan, in their Madbury home.

www.wmur.com

I imagine he was experiencing symptoms and trying to GET a diagnosis of what was wrong prior to April, so perhaps there were medical expenses earlier than that. But it seems really unlikely to me that the search for a diagnosis would have begun in January 2023 yet wasn't sussed out until April 2025 for what's been described in MSM as a very fast-growing cancer.

So I'm thinking the embezzlement was not prompted by a need to cover his emergent medical crisis.

 

[Cedars]

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