A New Hampshire woman who fatally shot two of her children and her husband this month before suicide was under investigation on suspicion of stealing money from her employer, police said.
Emily Long’s bodies, 34, Ryan Long, 48, Parker Long, 8, and Ryan Long, 6, were discovered inside her home in Madbury on August 18.
A third boy, a small child, was found in the unharmed house, police said.
Emily Long had worked in Wing-Itez, a chicken wings chain in New Hampshire, as operations director.
A complaint that accused her of Wing-IDZ robbery was presented to the Hampton Police Department on August 11, seven days before the murder-suicide, police said.
“Our department could not participate in a significant investigation before his premature death,” said Hampton police chief Alex Reno, and pointed out that the case remains open but suspended.
Wing-IDZ did not immediately respond to a request for comments on Saturday.
Its owner, Derek Fisher, was not available when he was contacted by NBC News on Saturday, but told Boston Globe this week that Long was suspected of embezzlement of $ 660,000 of the business for three years since January 2023.
“She was essentially my number two in my company. We worked very closely,” he told the newspaper.
Fisher said that on June 18, he and his accounting noticed that a large number of checks from his commercial accounts had been written in the long time and deposited in his personal bank account.
He said he faced that day a lot and asked him to provide three months of his previous bank statements, which she returned on August 5. He informed that the statements seemed unusual and led them to Long’s Bank, which told him that the statements had been “manipulated and manipulated,” according to Fisher.
He said he faced a long time and asked him to accompany him to the bank and she refused. Fisher said she decided to give her time because she knew that her husband had been diagnosed with cancer a few months before.
They had agreed to meet at the bank on August 11, but when the day arrived, Fisher for a long time said that “he was renouncing, or could remain in some kind of remote capacity, or he could finish it,” Fisher told Boston Globe.
He said he felt he had no choice but to go to the police and file the complaint.
Fisher told the newspaper that he no longer seeks to recover the money.
“I feel that the child should obtain all those assets,” he said, referring to the surviving child. “That’s the only thing, or what I feel is correct.”
The restaurant wrote on Facebook on August 20: “Our hearts and prayers are with Emily Long’s family during this incredibly challenging moment. We are deeply affected by their loss. Of all of us we send our most sincere condolences.”
The spooky discovery of the murdered family two days before surprised the community.
Ryan Long died of multiple shots, and the two children died of a single shot, authorities said. Their deaths were governed homicides.
Long’s husband had been diagnosed with brain cancer, and she had published about the diagnosis in her Tiktok account, which became deprived after the shootings, said the leader of the New Hampshire union.
The Office of the Attorney General said that a reason is still being investigated.
“While investigators are becoming aware of several concerns/problems in progress at home at the time of the event in question, people should avoid speculating that this event was caused by a single reason or stressful factor,” said the prosecutor’s office.
If you or someone you know is in crisis, call or send a text message to 988, or go to 988lifeline.orgto achieve the suicide and crisis life line. You can also call the network, previously known as the National Life of Suicide Prevention, to 800-273-8255or visit Speakingofsuicide.com/resources.
