Mother at center of murder-suicide accused of embezzling over $600,000 from employer
The woman's boss alleges she stole $660,000 from the company over a two-year time period.
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By WCVB/WMUR via CNN Newsource
Published: Sep. 1, 2025 at 4:32 AM CDT
MADBURY, N.H. (WCVB/WMUR) - A New Hampshire woman who investigators say killed her husband and two of their children before taking her own life is being accused of embezzling over $600,000 from the company she worked for.
One week before police found 34-year-old Emily Long, her husband and two of their children dead in their Madbury home, her boss, Derek Fisher, filed a police report detailing theft from his company.
“I felt like I had no other option but to go to law enforcement,” Fisher said. “We noticed that there was a lot of handwritten checks in her name, personally, that were being deposited into her bank account.”
Long was the director of operations for Wing-itz, a chicken wing restaurant company with several locations in New Hampshire. The company is owned by Fisher, who says earlier this summer, he started noticing significant accounting inconsistencies.
“What we came up with is it started in January 2023, and over a period of that time up until July this year, there was over $660,000 that were taken,” Fisher said.
Fisher says he tried to get answers from Long for weeks before turning to police, and he gave it time because he knew her husband, 48-year-old Ryan, was battling a brain cancer diagnosis.
Police found Emily Long (not pictured); her husband, 48-year-old Ryan, and two of their children – 8-year-old son Parker and 6-year-old daughter Ryan – shot dead in their home.(Source: Long Family, WCVB/WMUR via CNN)
“Given her circumstances with her husband, I was trying to be considerate and patient,” Fisher said.
On Aug. 18, Fisher woke up to unthinkable news: Long, her husband and two of their children – 8-year-old son Parker and 6-year-old daughter Ryan – were found shot dead in their home, with Long suspected of pulling the trigger.
“I was completely devastated and heartbroken. I cared deeply for her and her family. You know, I was around all of her children as they grew up,” Fisher said.
Long’s third child, a toddler, was found unhurt in the family’s home, and now, her boss can only focus on that little boy, not the financial loss his company has suffered. He says he is not planning legal action to recover the funds.
“Anything that’s left should go to that child. He deserves all of it. It’s not fair to him. He didn’t make this happen. He didn’t deserve this,” Fisher said.
It’s unclear if the suspected embezzlement played any role in the Long family’s deaths. Investigators say there is rarely one motivating factor in a tragedy like this.
