Emily Long murdered her dying husband and two of their children before taking her own life

Emily Long (34) shot and killed her husband Ryan (48) and two of their children – Parker (8) and Ryan (daughter who was 6) before taking her own life on August 18, 2025.   Emily left their youngest child, aged 3, alive.  Ryan had apparently been diagnosed with terminal brain cancer and Emily had been very public with her struggles in relation to Ryan’s illness.

No obituaries have been made public and we don’t know too much about Emily and Ryan’s relationship or background.  Based on the age of the children they had together, they had been together for at least 8 or 9 years – Emily would have been around 23, Ryan would have been around 36.

The family lived in Madbury, New Hampshire.

The estimated population of Madbury, New Hampshire is 2,432 as of 2021.

One of Ryan’s friends, Laura Boyce, spoke about his aspirations.  She said he wanted to become a doctor, find a perfect wife and start a family.

Ryan fulfilled his dreams.  He had worked as a psychologist in the Oyster River Cooperative School District, which serves the communities of Durham, Lee and Madbury.

Emily had been employed by ‘Wing-Itz’  which is a local chain of chicken restaurants.  She was working as their director of operations.

Ryan was diagnosed with glioblastoma in April 2025.  This is a fast-growing cancer that forms a tumor on the brain or spinal cord.

Glioblastoma has a poor prognosis and is often referred to as an aggressive, incurable brain tumor with challenging survival outcomes. The average survival time for adults is typically 12–18 months, with about 25% of patients surviving more than one year and only 5% living for more than five years.

After his diagnosis, Emily posted a lot about the situation on her social media.  Her TikTok was public directly after the murder/suicide but has since been made private.

In one clip, she said a lot of the content she posted was “woe is me” and that she had “forgotten the root reason of why it made her sad”.

“It really is more about why I am obsessed with my husband and how my fear of him passing is the cause of all these ‘woe is me, this is going to be hard for me, feel sorry for me’,” she said in the clip.

She said in the seven-minute clip that she and her husband, while they shared common interests, were each other’s complete opposite.

“While it might not show it here, I am very outspoken, very impulsive, emotionally driven. I have absolutely no filter in a good and a bad way,” she said.

“I don’t take boundaries very well. I fly off the cuff — not in a violent way, obviously, but if I feel something I am going to say it. Sometimes it gets me into trouble,” she said.