State Troopers found Ryan Long, 48, his wife Emily, 34, on Friday at their home in New Hampshire

The couple’s son Parker, 8, and daughter also called Ryan, 6, were also found dead inside the home

The lone survivor, a three-year-old is now in the care of family

Days earlier Emily Long posted about her family’s journey navigating her husband’s cancer diagnosis

Glioblastoma, an aggressive and common type of brain cancer, has victims typically passing within six months

Investigators who found a gun at the scene, near the bodies, believe it is quadruple murder-suicide   

At 8.21pm on Friday State Troopers found Ryan Long, his wife Emily, their children Parker, 8, and daughter also called Ryan, 6, shot dead at home in Madbury, NH. Their three-year-old was unharmed. I’s being treated as quadruple murder-suicide

A toddler was the sole survivor in New Hampshire, after the older members of the family of five were wiped out in their New Hampshire home in what police suspect to be murder-suicide. 
Just after 8.21pm on Friday August 15, State Troopers discovered found four members of the Long family had been fatally shot in their home in Madbury, a small town in New Hampshire, an hour and half north of Boston.
Ryan Long, a 48-year-old psychologist with Oyster Middle School, his wife Emily, 34, their son Parker, 8, and 6-year-old daughter also named Ryan, were found dead with gunshot wounds inside their home.
Issuing a statement Tuesday, Hampshire Attorney General John Formella said the couple’s three-year-old toddler was found alive with no injuries and handed over to family for care.  

The family had been struggling over the summer after Ryan Long received a terminal brain cancer diagnosis of glioblastoma, according to a video diary posted by his wife Emily days earlier

Investigators also found a gun near the family at the scene, CBS News reported.  
‘It was shocking,’ neighbor Bevy Ketel told CBS affiliate WBZ-TV. ‘It was a perfect family as far as we knew.’
‘[Ryan] certainly touched a lot of lives. He was part of the fabric of the community and his family goes along with it… It’s just shocking. We didn’t see it coming.’
Emily had posted only days ago about her family’s journey navigating her husband’s cancer diagnosis.  
Ryan suffered from glioblastoma, one of the most aggressive and common types of brain cancer.
Typically patients with the diagnosis pass away within six months. 

The horror quadruple murder-suicide that took the lives of Ryan Long, his wife Emily, their son Parker and daughter Ryan, happened inside this home in Madbury, NH 

New Hampshire State Police officers seal off the crime scene in Madbury on Friday evening

‘One of the biggest questions they have right is motive… I think that’s probably one of the more difficult things that they are trying to grasp to understand,’ NH Assistant Attorney General Ben Agati said. 
The investigation into the deaths is ongoing with autopsies scheduled for Wednesday. 
Just on Saturday Emily Long reportedly updated her TikTok account, showing a collection of videos in which she addressed her family’s struggles navigating her husband’s diagnosis with terminal brain cancer. 
Emily’s first post about her husband’s diagnosis and her own mental struggle was uploaded on April 23. 
Earlier on May 11, she uploaded a video captioned: ‘Want to watch someone actually fall apart before your very eyes? I swear, this cancer will be the thing that breaks me.’
In her latest update, the mother-of-three said she would make changes to get herself out of a ‘rut.’ 
‘I put makeup on and real clothes for the first time… in god only knows how long. I’m trying to get myself out of this rut, I know I’ve said this before but our kids are definitely struggling.’ 

On Saturday Emily Long on her TikTok page showed a collection of videos in which she revealed her family’s struggles as her husband navigates a diagnosis of terminal brain cancer. Ryan Long was diagnosed with glioblastoma, one of the most aggressive types of brain cancer.

‘It’s important for my kids to be with their friends, and I have been struggling so much and really depressed and just have really become reclusive,’ Emily Long said in a video posted on TikTok declaring that she was trying to make changes to get herself out of a ‘rut’.

She had noticed that her youngest child was struggling to sleep and crying, a development she described as ‘devastating’. ‘It’s important for my kids to be with their friends, and I have been struggling so much and really depressed and just have really become reclusive,’ she continued. 
‘That being said I am making a change. It is starting today… I need to become more social again.
‘So hold me to it. Today I am adjusting my perspective and I’m making a point to get out of my depression and do this for my family.