Toddler Witnesses Two Siblings and Both Parents Shot to Death | Crime Alert 1PM 08.20.25

Four members of a family are found shot to death in their Madbury, New Hampshire, home while a toddler is left alive to witness the scene. A former gymnastics coach is in jail after the FBI raided his Iowa home and found child pornography, years after athletes first accused him of abuse. Drew Nelson reports.

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Crime Alert, hourly update, breaking crime news Now. I'm Drew Nelson.
Four members of a family are shot to death in
their Madbury, New Hampshire home, while a toddler is left
alive to witness the scene. Police say the victims are
Emily Long, age thirty four, Ryan Long forty eight, their
son Parker eight, and daughter Ryan six. State troopers entered

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the home on moharra Met Drive at eight twenty one
pm on Monday after nine to one one calls. They
found all four shot to death. A toddler was in
the house but had no injuries. The child is now
staying with other family members. At first, police treated it
as a suspicious death investigation. Autopsies were set for today
to confirm the cause of death, presumed to be murder suicide.

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No word which person fired the deadly shots. Right now,
I think investigators are. They still have probably more questions
than they have answers. One of the biggest questions they
have right now is motive why. That's Assistant Attorney General
Benegatti on WCVB. The father, Ryan Long, worked as a
school psychologist at Oyster River Middle School. He also taught

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at Plymouth State University. The New Hampshire Center for Public
Interest Journalism reported that he had been battling brain cancer.
Emily Long studied hospitality management at the University of New
Hampshire and had been looking for a new work. Her
TikTok posts described the toll of her husband's illness on
the family. Neighbors said the family appeared to be close
and active in the community. Here is Beverly Kettle on WCVB.

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None of us saw this coming. They were outside selling
lemonade and having fun and inviting the community to buy
the lemonade. Yeah, you just want to. You just never know.
The case remains under investigation. Authorities are stressing that there
is no known danger to the public. More crime Mean
Justice news after this. A former gymnastics coach is in

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jail after the FBI raided his Iowa home and found
child pornography years after athletes first accused him of abuse.
Shawn Gardner, thirty eight, was arrested last week and appeared
in court on Friday on a federal charge of producing
child porn. Authorities say the charge carries up to a
thirty year prison sentence. According to the Associated Press, FBI

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agents seized computers, phones, and handwritten notes. During a May
twenty twenty four search, they found hundreds of photos and
videos of girls as young as six. Many of the
images came from a hidden camera placed in a bathroom
at Jumpin Gymnastics in Purvis, Mississippi, where Gardner once worked.
One video showed him entering the bathroom and turning off

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the device. Court filing showed Gardner also faced years of
sexual abuse claims in Iowa. In twenty twenty two, a
gymnast at Chow's Gymnastics in West Des Moines told the
nonprofit watchdog Safe Sport that Gardner used quote inappropriate spawning
techniques and touched her genitals during training. She later named
six other girls she said were abused. That same year,

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another gymnast told Safe Sport Gardner fondled her and dragged
her across a carpet so hard it burned her skin.
Safe Sports investigation led to him being suspended in July
of twenty twenty two four allegations of misconduct, but the
investigation stalled when victims declined to pursue charges. It resumed
in April of last year, when another gymnast came forward.

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She said she began lessons with Gardner when she was eleven.
She called him a father figure, but accused him of
fondling her, making her do stretches that exposed herself, and
discussing his sex life with her. She also suspected he
filmed her on his phone. Gardner began coaching at Chows
in twenty eighteen. The gym is known for producing Olympic
champions Sean Johnson and Gabby Douglas. According to CNN, Leung

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Chow trusted Gardner with top students and made him director
of the Winter Classic, which draws more than one thousand
gymnasts each year. The AP found Gardener was able to
leave coaching and get a job in twenty twenty four
as a surgical technologist at Mercy I West and Wines
Medical Center, even while suspended for misconduct. The hospital says
he is no longer employed there. The FBI believes Gardner

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primarily targeted children at Jim's in Iowa, Mississippi, and Louisiana,
where he worked. The bureau is asking other possible victims
to come forward. Gardner remains detained and will face further
proceedings in Mississippi. Dwayne Bryan Murphy was thirty nine when
he vanished in Laredo, Texas, on June second of twenty seventeen.

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The Georgia man had traveled there for work and was
staying in a hotel with coworkers. That morning, his crew
could not find him. They went into his room and
found his phone, wallet, and keys, but no sign of him.
They called the cops. The night before, officers had detained
Murphy after reports of a man running naked and screaming downtown.
He was held overnight and given a psychiatric evaluation. Doctors

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found he was not a danger to himself or others,
so he was released in the morning. After that, he
was never seen again. Witnesses later claimed they saw him
enter the Rio Grande River and crossing De Nuevo Laredo, Mexico.
Police in both Texas and Mexico were alerted. His family,
who traveled from Georgia to search, said Dwayne had never
shown signs of mental illness or drug use. They described

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him as a kind and giving father with a little
girl at home and another on the way. His fiance
started a fundraiser to stay in Laredo to help look
for him. Murphy's case remains unsolved. He was black, six
foot two two hundred and ten pounds. He had black hair,
brown eyes, a tattoo of a cross on his right
upper arm. Today he'd be forty seven. Anyone with information

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has urged to contact the Laredo Police Department at nine
five six seven nine five twenty nine oh four. For
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I'm Drew Nelson.