Emily Long, 34, executed her son and daughter, each with a single bullet around 5:30am on August 18, at their home in Madbury, NH

She began her rampage police said, by first shooting her husband, cancer patient Ryan Long, 48, multiple times

After killing eight year-old Parker and Ryan, six, Emily then killed herself

Two days prior, she’d posted a video, explaining the toll on herself and her children, struggling with her husband Ryan’s terminal brain cancer diagnosis

She described the mental toll of operating solo in the circumstances, however according to one relative, she was receiving considerable support from her family at the time

Alleged killer mom, Emily Long, [photo,] around around 5:30am on Monday killed her cancer-stricken husband Ryan Long, their eight year-old son Parker and daughter Ryan, 6, before turning the gun on herself

A New Hampshire mom who killed her cancer-stricken husband and their two children before killing herself was receiving considerable support from her family at the time, a relative said.  
Emily Long, 34, executed eight year-old son Parker and six year-old daughter Ryan, each with a single shot around 5:30am at their $600,000 home in Madbury, killing both.
Authorities received a 911 call on Monday morning reporting multiple deaths inside the home. When they arrived about 8.21am, they found the three-year-old child inside the home, unharmed. The surviving child is now in the custody of family as the investigation continues. 

Emily Long, [right], gunned down her husband Ryan [left] and two older children Parker and Ryan, before shooting herself, inside their home in Madbury, New Hampshire, in the early hours of Monday, August 18

Authorities said Emily kicked off the task of obliterating her family by shooting husband Ryan, 48, multiple times, before shooting her kids. Finally she turned the gun on herself. 
The couple’s youngest child, aged three, was found wandering around the property unharmed by state troopers who arrived at the scene within three hours of the murders.
Long had posted social media videos sharing her fears about losing Ryan, who had brain cancer, and raising three children alone.

Emily Long fired multiple shots into her husband, while killing her two kids with single fatal shots to the head inside the family’s home in Madbury, New Hampshire – police said. She spared their youngest child, aged 3

According to one relative speaking with The Boston Globe a day after the tragedy, Emily was receiving the full support and care of the larger family as they journeyed through her husband’s illness.
Commenting anonymously the family source said: ‘This is why we’re just all so in shock. We have a lot of family, a lot of friends, that would do anything for them because, you know, they would do it, too.’
Ryan, a psychologist employed by the New Hampshire state school system was battling glioblastoma, an aggressive form of brain cancer with a median survival rate of just 12 to 15 months post-diagnosis. 
Assistant Attorney General Ben Agati said that investigators are probing the circumstances of the shooting and conceded finances and health had likely been playing on the murderess’s mind. 
He said: ‘Some that involved the idea of what was going on with the money situation, with the health situation, I think the big thing is to not speculate one reason why something like this would happen, ‘Homicide and suicide is usually much, much more complex than just one reason. There’s still more information we’re trying to gather to narrow down different things.’ 

Ryan Long had been diagnosed with glioblastoma, an aggressive form of brain cancer. His wife was chronicling the family’s journey with the disease on social media. Her last appearance online was two days prior shooting and killing everyone seen in this photo

In the family’s final days, Emily was on her TikTok channel, projecting a sense of being overwhelmed and stressed, having to cope solo with the situation which was rapidly deteriorating. She also admitted to the realization that she needed to seek therapy.
‘I feel very, very lonely. I feel so anxious… I know that I need to see a therapist, I know that I need to ask for help… but I’m not ready to acknowledge that, I think,’ she confessed in a video shared just two weeks ago.
‘I feel so guilty that I’m not ready to get help yet, but… it is what it is, right? I know that I will one day, and I hope that I make the decision before I feel that it’s too late.’ 
She went further to admit that she could ‘feel [herself] withering away’ with the knowledge that ‘this isn’t going away, this is only going to get worse.’

Investigators announced Monday that they are probing the circumstances of the apparent murders of the four oldest members of the family of five, leaving the toddler as the lone survivor at the scene

And as her husband’s condition worsened, Long opened up about the realization that she could one day become a single parent to three traumatized children. 
‘I’m doing all the bed times and by the time I’m saying goodnight to my third kid it hits me that this is going to be every single night at some point for the rest of my life,’ she said. 
‘Where I’m doing all three bedtimes alone, and then I shut the door to the final kid and I’m totally by myself and I have no one to talk about my day with.’
Emily said despite trying to remain positive, she also had to ‘plan to be a widow, and plan to support your family on one income and to be a single parent of three kids and juggle all the things that come with that.
‘I’m mourning my husband, I’m mourning my marriage and it’s still there. It’s very confusing and it’s very overwhelming.’

‘I’m mourning my husband, I’m mourning my marriage and it’s still there. It’s very confusing and it’s very overwhelming.’ In her last video Emily explained that she and her children had been struggling with Ryan’s brain cancer diagnosis

Ryan Long was employed as a psychologist at Oyster River Middle School in Durham, while Emily worked as director of operations at restaurant chain Wing-Itz, undoubtedly financial uncertainty was becoming an issue along with the mental toll.
In her last video, shared just two days before their deaths, Long explained that she and her children were struggling with her husband’s diagnosis, but that she was committed to improving her mental health. 

Emily Long [image] on her TikTok page had been chronicling the family’s journey living with her husband’s terminal cancer diagnosis. Ryan was diagnosed with glioblastoma, an aggressive form of brain cancer

‘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,’ she said.
‘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, she said.