The 34-year-old Madbury woman who killed her husband and two of her three children before killing herself on Aug. 18 had been found to have taken hundreds of thousands of dollars from Wing-Itz, the small restaurant chain where she worked as the operations manager.

Hampton Police Chief Alex Reno confirmed his department received a complaint on Aug. 11 about theft and identified Emily Long as a suspect.

“Our department was not able to engage in a meaningful investigation prior to her untimely death,” the chief said Friday afternoon. “The case remains open, but suspended.”

Long’s death was ruled suicide while the deaths of her husband, Ryan Long, 48, and two of their children, son Parker, 8, and daughter Ryan, 6, were deemed homicide. A toddler survived.

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