Mom who killed herself after shooting dead her cancer-stricken husband and two kids accused of stealing $600K from employer

A mom-of-three who killed her cancer-stricken husband and two kids before turning the gun on herself has now been accused of embezzling more than $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 found unharmed.

Before the shocking murder-suicide, Long had been chronicling the family’s struggles dealing with Ryan’s terminal diagnosis online, posting several videos to her TikTok account.

The mom-of-three 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 over two years before he finally reported it 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 – one week before the bodies of Long and her family were found. 

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 

Long worked as the Director of Operations of the Hampton location of Wing-Itz, a chicken wing restaurant company. Her former boss said she embezzled over $600,000

Authorities received a 911 call reporting multiple deaths inside the New Hampshire home on August 18. When they arrived, they found an unharmed three-year-old child

Fisher said he had initially tried getting answers from Long after he discovered the accounting discrepancies. 

He told the Boston Globe he confronted Long on June 18 and asked her to provide three months of her most recent bank statements. 

Long did not send the bank statements until August 5, and the documents were missing pages and looked ‘unusual,’ according to Fisher. 

Fisher then took the documents to the bank and was informed they had been doctored, he said. 

On August 11, as Fisher and Long were supposed to meet at her bank to go through the documents, Long sent her boss a long text resigning from her job.

Long said ‘she was resigning, or she could stay in some sort of remote capacity, or I could terminate her,’ Fisher said. ‘She gave me three options, essentially of how we could proceed.’

Fisher said he never saw Long again. 

After learning of the family’s fate, Fisher said he is not interested in getting the stolen money back.

Long had shared incredibly candid videos of herself on TikTok, where she expressed her anguish over her husband’s impending death

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

‘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 of the couple’s sole surviving child. 

Long’s husband 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. 

He was diagnosed less than a year before he was gunned down, so Long’s alleged embezzlement predated his diagnosis.  

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. 

In her last video, shared just two days before their deaths, Long said 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 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.

Ryan was diagnosed less than a year before he was gunned down. Long’s alleged embezzlement predated his diagnosis

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.’

Assistant Attorney General Ben Agati said investigators are probing the circumstances of the shooting and conceded finances and health had likely been playing on Long’s mind. 

He said: ‘Some that involved the idea of what was going on with the money situation, with the health situation, I think the big thing is to not speculate one reason why something like this would happen 

‘Homicide and suicide is usually much, much more complex than just one reason. There’s still more information we’re trying to gather to narrow down different things.’