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- Emily Long is accused of having stolen hundreds of thousands from at least two of her employers in the last decade
- She killed her husband, Ryan Long, and two of their children in a murder-suicide in August
- A recent report claims Emily talked about being a shopping addict on her TikTok
A New Hampshire woman accused of embezzling more than $660,000 from her employer before she killed her family members in a murder-suicide had a shopping addiction, she once said on social media.
Emily Long, 34, killed her husband Ryan Long and their kids Parker and Ryan in August before fatally shooting herself.
As the local community was mourning the tragic murder-suicide, Emily’s employer came forward with allegations that she had stolen $660,000 from him in the last two years.
Derek Fisher, who owns a restaurant where Emily worked, was supposed to meet with her to discuss finances on Aug. 11, he told The Boston Globe, adding that he wanted to avoid going to authorities.
Emily did not show up. A week later, Ryan, the kids and Emily herself were found deceased in their home.
Following Fisher’s allegations, an investigation by the Globe uncovered that Emily had been accused of theft before.
In 2016, she was under investigation in connection with $11,000 that went missing from a previous employer of her’s on Nantucket. Forgery charges for that case were dropped after the establishment shut down, per the Globe.
The Globe reports that despite the allegations she had faced, Emily had said she had a shopping “addiction.” She also joked that “being on a budget should be a crime against humanity.”
Fisher, Emily’s employer, says that in hindsight, he believes there were signs Emily shopped excessively.
“She did shop a lot,” he told the Globe. “There was probably not a time that I didn’t come into my restaurant and have Amazon packages with her name on it. There was definitely that going on.”
Leading up to the murders, Emily had amassed a large following on her TikTok, where she shared about her family’s journey processing her husband’s recent brain cancer diagnosis.
She appeared distraught in some videos, and claimed she was in a depressive “rut.”
Days prior to the killings, she posted on TikTok about selling her possessions on Facebook, indicating she may have been experiencing financial problems, the Globe reported.
“You can’t keep ignoring everything and hoping that it disappears,” she said in an Aug. 7 video.
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The couple’s toddler son was left behind, and found unharmed at the murder scene. A GoFundMe has been set up to assist the child.
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