A woman who kiled her cancer-stricken husband and two kids before turning the gun on herself was accused of embezzling over $600,000 from her 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. Their youngest child, aged 3, was unharmed.
Long 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 for two years before he went 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.’
Fisher filed the initial police report on August 11 – a week before the bodies of Long and her family were found.
Fisher said he tried getting answers from Long after he discovered the accounting discrepancies on June 18 but eventually turned to police.
After learning of the family’s fate, Fisher is not interested in getting the stolen money back.
‘Anything that’s left should go to that child; he deserves all of it. It’s not fair to him; he didn’t make this happen, and he didn’t deserve this,’ he said.
Before the murder-suicide, Long had been documenting her husband’s battle with terminal brain cancer in a series of increasingly distressing TikTok videos in which she confessed her mental health was in tatters and that she’d been in a deep state of depression.
On TikTok, Long had been documenting her family’s journey after her husband was diagnosed with glioblastoma, an aggressive form of brain cancer. His diagnosis was terminal.
In her last video, shared just two days before their deaths, Long explained that she and her children had been struggling with her husband’s diagnosis, but that she was committed to improving her mental health.
‘All I want to do is hide under a blanket with my kids, but that isn’t healthy for them and it’s not healthy for me,’ she said.
‘Today I decided I need to make a conscious effort to shift my mindset. I’m getting out of this depression whether I want to or not.’
‘I am determined to create normalcy.’
Autopsy findings confirmed that Emily died by a single gunshot wound to the head, determined to be suicide.
Her two children each died as a result of a single gunshot wound to the head, ruled by the medical examiner as homicides.
Emily’s husband suffered multiple gunshot wounds, and his death has also been ruled a homicide.
The medical examiner told the Daily Mail ‘based upon the information available at this time, it appears that in the early morning hours of Monday, August 18, 2025, Ms. Long took a handgun from the home and caused the deaths of Ryan Long and her two children, Parker and Ryan, and then took her own life immediately thereafter.
‘While investigators are becoming aware of various concerns/issues ongoing in the household at the time of the event in question, people should avoid speculating that this event was caused by a single reason or stressor.’
Ryan, a psychologist and professor husband was battling glioblastoma, an aggressive form of brain cancer with a median survival rate of just 12 to 15 months post-diagnosis.