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Red Collar

The Female Family Annihilator: TikTok "Brain Cancer Wife" Killer

Red Collar

Catherine Townsend

Red Collar Diaries, Red Collar, Love Detective, Blood Money, Red Collar Crime, Documentary, Catherine Townsend, Hell And Gone, White Collar, Society & Culture, American Greed, Murder, True Crime, White Collar Crime, History, Fraud, Investigation, Con Artist

4.6604 Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Mother of three Emily Long was known as "brain cancer wife" on TikTok, where she posted moving videos about taking care of her husband, Ryan, as he battled terminal cancer. What was going on behind closed doors to cause a loving mother and caretaker to murder two of her children, and her husband, before taking her own life, and could financial fraud have played a role?

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0:00.0

10th, 2025, friends of the Long family, 34-year-old Emily Long, her husband, 48-year-old Ryan Long,

0:13.1

and their three children, a son, eight-year-old Parker, a daughter, six-year-old Ryan,

0:17.9

and another three-year-old child were getting concerned.

0:22.7

They let themselves into the Longhouse in Madbury, New Hampshire.

0:27.7

Since this case is recent, it's not clear exactly what the relationship was between the people

0:34.8

who came into the house and the Long family. All investigators have said

0:40.2

publicly is that these people knew the family. Once they got into that house, they found a horrific

0:47.9

sight. Emily, her husband Ryan, and two of their three children, all dead. All of them had been fatally shot.

0:57.1

The third child, a three-year-old, was safe. The two family dogs were also in the home.

1:04.0

The friends of the family called 911, and the New Hampshire Attorney General's office

1:09.0

said when state troopers got to that scene at 8.21 p.m.,

1:13.6

they began their investigation.

1:16.8

And they began forensic testing on the four bodies.

1:21.5

This was a massacre, and it happened in a very safe and quiet neighborhood.

1:26.7

And it wasn't long before police figured out that all four family members had been

1:32.1

fatally shot and that this was a murder suicide.

1:36.0

And the killer was Emily Long.

1:39.5

The caring cancer mom who had posted online on TikTok about her struggles, caring for her husband

1:45.9

Ryan while he battled a terminal illness. This was the woman who people in the community knew

1:51.8

as a loving wife and mother. A lot of people interviewed for this case have described the

1:58.2

long family as, quote, the perfect family. And I'm putting that word

2:02.9

perfect in quotes, because as we're going to see, not everything in this family was what it

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