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A mother facing challenges had been sharing her husband’s fight against terminal brain cancer through a number of increasingly troubling TikTok videos before both were tragically discovered dead within their residence, along with two of their children, in an appalling murder-suicide.
Within their beautiful New Hampshire home, Emily Long, 34, her husband Ryan Long, 48, and two of their children—eight-year-old Parker and six-year-old Ryan—were found with gunshot wounds on Monday evening.
Authorities had received a 911 call reporting multiple deaths inside the home. When they arrived, they found an unharmed three-year-old child.
The investigation remains ongoing, with the surviving child now under family custody. It remains unclear whether Emily or her husband with a terminal illness discharged the firearm.
On TikTok, Emily 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, Emily 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.
Emily Long, 34, her husband Ryan Long, 48 and two of their children, eight-year-old Parker and six-year-old Ryan, were found suffering gunshot wounds in their stunning New Hampshire home on Monday night
In her last video, shared just two days before their deaths, Emily explained that she and her children had been struggling with her husband’s diagnosis, but that she was committed to improving her mental health
‘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.’
In separate videos, she had spoken about the grief of having to tell her children that Long’s diagnosis was terminal.
She explained that her two eldest children understood the condition, and the outcome, more thoroughly than their youngest child.
On May 11, Emily uploaded a video captioned: ‘Want to watch someone actually fall apart before your very eyes? I swear, this cancer will be the thing that breaks me.’
Authorities are awaiting autopsy results to formally determine their cause of death, but it is being treated as a murder suicide.
Authorities had received a 911 call reporting multiple deaths inside the home. When they arrived, they found an unharmed three-year-old child
Authorities are awaiting autopsy results to formally determine their cause of death, but it is being treated as a murder suicide
On TikTok, Emily had been documenting her family’s journey after her husband was diagnosed with glioblastoma, an aggressive form of brain cancer. His diagnosis was terminal
‘One of the biggest questions they have right now is motive, why?’ Assistant Attorney General Ben Agati told WCAX.
‘And I think that’s probably one of the more difficult things that they are trying to grasp to understand how this came to be.’
Long was a psychologist at Oyster River Middle School in Durham, while Emily worked as director of operations at restaurant chain Wing-Itz.
