The US mother who police allege shot dead her husband and two of their children before dying by suicide made a series of worrying social media posts in the lead up to the horrifying event.
The bodies of Emery Long, 34, her husband Ryan, 48, and the two children – aged eight and six – were found at the family home in Madbury, New Hampshire, US. An unharmed three-year-old was also discovered at the property.
State troopers were called to the home on Monday, August 18. Autopsies were then carried out, with the New Hampshire attorney general’s office concluding that Long fatally shot her family members before turning the gun on herself.
In a statement, the New Hampshire Department of Justice said: “Based upon the information available at this time, it appears that in the early morning hours of Monday, 18 August, 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.”
New light has now been shed on a number of concerning social media posts Emily made over the course of the past few months.
They reportedly began in April, when Long announced her husband’s diagnosis of glioblastoma, an aggressive brain cancer. She recently admitted to her TikTok followers viewers that she felt herself “withering away,” acknowledging she needed help and hoped she would be ready to seek it before it was “too late.”
The mother-of-three discussed her husband’s cancer treatment in detail, including his surgery and chemotherapy. She also delved into the impact it was having on the mental health of her and her children.
In her final video, thought to have been posted shortly before the shootings, Long said: “Our kids are definitely struggling.”
She continued: “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.
“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.”
The attorney general, meanwhile, advised against reading too much into information circulating about the family.
“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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