Madbury murder-suicide: Dad psychologist & mom & 2 kids found dead at upscale New Hampshire residence. Victims identified as Ryan and Emily Long and their two kids, Parker and Ryan Long. Dad worked as school psychologist and mom was trying to hold it together after dad’s recent terminal cancer diagnoses.
A New Hampshire family of four were found dead at their Madbury residence, Monday night in what authorities now suspect was a murder-suicide.
Identified as the victims were Emily Long, 34, her husband, Ryan Long, 48, and the couple’s two children, son Parker, 8, and daughter Ryan, 6.
A third child, a toddler, was found alive and suffered no physical injuries, WCVB reported.
Madbury murder-suicide: what went wrong?
Each of the victims appears to have suffered gunshot wounds and was pronounced dead at the scene. Investigators also found a gun near the family. It remained who initiated the shooting.
Both youngsters were shot in the head, while the family’s patriarch – who was reportedly battling terminal cancer – sustained multiple gunshot wounds, the state’s chief medical examiner concluded.
All three deaths were ruled homicides, while the troubled mother’s was deemed a suicide.
Ryan Long worked as a school psychologist for the Oyster River Cooperative School District for the last nine years and as a part-time adjunct instructor in Plymouth State University Graduate Programs since 2022, according to his LinkedIn page.
The page described the husband and father as a licensed school psychologist and board certified behavioral analyst.
Emily Long who worked as director of operations at the restaurant chain Wing-Itz, according to her LinkedIn often posted on social media about her struggles and despair as she coped with her husband’s terminal cancer diagnosis.
Dealing with terminal cancer and depression
Ryan was reportedly diagnosed with glioblastoma, a highly aggressive form of brain cancer.
In a TikTok posted just two days before police found Monday’s carnage, Emily told her nearly 8,000 followers that her children were ‘definitely struggling’ and she herself had been ‘really depressed’ as she tried to restore healthy habits and normalcy in the home as her husband’s health declined.
‘I am determined to create normalcy,’ Emily said in the video.
‘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 … And I’m making a point to get out of my depression and do this for my family.’
The family moved to the five-bedroom house, now worth over $660,000, in the town of Madbury in southeastern New Hampshire in 2020, online property records show.
News of the blood letting shocked neighbors in the well to do community.
‘It was shocking,’ neighbor Bevy Ketel told WBZ-TV. ‘It was a perfect family as far as we knew.’
Ketel described the family as a ‘good house’ and ‘integrated with everybody else.’
Ketel said the children had recently set up a stand to sell lemonade to neighbors.
‘It’s just shocking. We didn’t see it coming,’ she said.
Investigators had yet to say what led up to the alleged murder-suicide.
Madbury is a small town with a population of 2000, two miles north of the University of New Hampshire in Durham and 15 miles west of Portsmouth.
