N.h. Woman Who Killed Husband And 2 Kids In Murder-suicide Was Suspected Of Stealing Money From Employer, Police Say

A New Hampshire female who fatally changeable 2 of her children and her hubby this period before sidesplitting herself was nether investigation connected suspicion of stealing money from her employer, constabulary said.

The bodies of Emily Long, 34, Ryan Long, 48, Parker Long, 8, and Ryan Long, 6, were discovered wrong their location successful Madbury connected Aug. 18.

A 3rd child, a toddler, was recovered successful nan location unharmed, constabulary said.

Emily Long had worked astatine Wing-Itz, a chickenhearted helping concatenation successful New Hampshire, arsenic nan head of operations.

A title was revenge pinch nan Hampton Police Department accusing her of theft from Wing-Itz connected Aug. 11 — 7 days earlier nan murder-suicide, constabulary said.

“Our section was not capable to prosecute successful a meaningful investigation anterior to her untimely death,” Hampton Police Chief Alex Reno said, noting nan lawsuit remains unfastened but suspended.

Wing-Itz did not instantly respond to a petition for remark connected Saturday.

Its owner, Derek Fisher, was unavailable erstwhile reached by NBC News connected Saturday, but told The Boston Globe this week that Long was suspected of embezzling astir $660,000 from nan business complete 3 years since January 2023.

“She was fundamentally my number 2 successful my company. We worked very intimately together,” he told nan paper.

Fisher said he and his bookkeeper connected June 18 noticed that a ample number of checks from his business accounts had been written retired to Long and deposited into her individual slope account.

He said he confronted Long that time and asked her to supply 3 months of her anterior slope statements, which she returned connected Aug. 5. He reported that nan statements looked different and he took them to Long’s bank, which told him nan statements had been allegedly “doctored and manipulated,” according to Fisher.

He said he confronted Long again and asked her to travel him to nan slope and she declined. Fisher said that he decided to springiness her clip because he knew her hubby had been diagnosed pinch crab a fewer months prior.

They had agreed to meet astatine nan slope connected Aug. 11, but erstwhile nan time came, Long texted Fisher saying “she was resigning, aliases she could enactment successful immoderate benignant of distant capacity, aliases I could terminate her,” Fisher told nan Boston Globe.

He said he felt nary different action than to spell to constabulary and record nan complaint.

Fisher told nan newspaper he doesn’t activity to retrieve nan money anymore.

“I consciousness for illustration nan kid should get each those assets,” he said, referring to nan surviving toddler. “That’s nan only adjacent thing, aliases what I consciousness is right.”

The edifice wrote connected Facebook on Aug. 20: “Our hearts and prayers are pinch Emily Long’s family during this incredibly challenging time. We are profoundly grief-stricken to perceive of their loss. From each of america we nonstop our sincerest condolences.”

The grisly find of nan slain family 2 days earlier shocked nan community.

Ryan Long died from aggregate gunshots, and nan 2 children died from a azygous gunshot, officials said. Their deaths were ruled homicides.

Long’s hubby had been diagnosed pinch encephalon cancer, and she had posted astir nan test connected her TikTok account, which was made backstage aft nan shootings, nan New Hampshire Union Leader reported.

The lawyer general’s agency said a motive is still nether investigation.

“While investigators are becoming alert of various concerns/issues ongoing successful nan family astatine nan clip of nan arena successful question, group should debar speculating that this arena was caused by a azygous logic aliases stressor,” nan lawyer general's agency said.

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