US EditionNew Hampshire Town Grieves After Mother Kills Family, Spares Toddler in Murder-Suicide
Emily Long, overwhelmed by her husband's aggressive brain cancer and financial fears, fatally shot her husband and two children before taking her own life, leaving their youngest child as sole survivor.
- On Monday, August 18, 2025, Emily Long allegedly shot and killed her terminally ill husband Ryan Long and their two children in their Madbury, New Hampshire home before killing herself.
- Emily Long had openly shared her struggles coping with Ryan’s aggressive brain cancer diagnosis and her family's emotional and financial stress, while investigators warn against speculation about a single cause.
- Autopsies revealed Ryan Long was shot multiple times, each child received a single gunshot to the head, and Emily sustained a single gunshot wound, while their youngest child, aged three, was found alive and unharmed.
- Just two days prior to the tragedy, Emily shared videos revealing her feelings of anxiety and depression, expressing her intention to actively change her outlook and improve her mental state.
- The community mourned Ryan Long, a school psychologist, while authorities continue investigating and emphasize mental health support and caution against guessing motives behind the murder-suicide.
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Why did this TikTok influencer kill her husband and two children?
Online, she was known as the ‘brain cancer wife’, but Emily Long’s followers could see that she was starting to fall apart. As her neighbours and followers woke up to the shocking news that the young mother had taken the life of her family in a suspected murder-suicide, Zoë Beaty looks at the events that led to the tragedy
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TikTok Mom Murder-Suicide Latest: Authorities Release Potential Motives in Horrific Family Tragedy That Left 4 Members Dead — After Autopsy Confirms She Killed Cancer-Stricken Husband and Two Children Before Herself
Emily Long confessed to feeling 'really depressed' two days before she killed herself, two of her children and her husband, who was battling brain cancer.
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