A New Hampshire mum is believed to have killed her husband and children in a suspected murder-suicide, and a chilling final TikTok video she posted reveals how “depressed” she was feeling. Her husband was battling an aggressive brain cancer.
Emily Long, 34, appears to have shot her husband with a handgun before killing her two children, Parker, 8, and Ryan, 6. She then “took her own life immediately thereafter,” the N.H. Department of Justice said. A third child, a toddler, was found alive with “no physical injuries”.
The family was found dead in their Madbury home on Monday, 18th August. In the weeks leading up to the tragic incident, Emily had been posting TikTok videos documenting how much she and the kids were struggling. She called herself “Brain Cancer Wife” in her bio.
Her account has now been made private, but in a final video she posted three days before the incident, titled “Making a change,” Emily spoke about being “depressed”. She said she wanted to hide away and be a “recluse,” but was determined to change the way she felt.
Credit: @emilylong41/TikTok
“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, as revealed by the Daily Mail. “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.
“I have been struggling so much and really depressed, and just have really become reclusive, and just wanted to be with my kids and my husband. That being said, I’m making a change and it is starting today.”
In an earlier video, Emily said: “Want to watch someone actually fall apart before your very eyes? I swear, this cancer will be the thing that breaks me.” Her husband was battling an aggressive brain tumour called glioblastoma.
“One of the biggest questions they have right now is motive, why? 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,” New Hampshire Assistant Attorney General Ben Agati told WCAX.
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Featured image by: @emilylong41/TikTok and Emily Long/Facebook
