Longo was convicted of killing his wife and three children on the Oregon coast. The bodies of the four were recovered from two coastal inlets around Christmas 2001. Longo went on the lam, landing on the FBI’s 10 Most Wanted list before he was captured in Mexico posing as travel writer Michael Finkel. Sentenced to death 16 April 2003. Commuted by Governor to LWOP in 2022.
“I sent them to a better place.”
Christian M. Longo. ALS. PMK: 03/14/2007. UNOPENED. Contents unknown. Pristine.
Classification: Mass murderer
Characteristics: Parricide
Number of victims: 4
Date of murders: December 16, 2001
Date of arrest: January 12, 2002 (in Mexico)
Date of birth: January 23, 1974
Victims profile: His wife Mary Jane, 34, and the couple's three children: Madison, 2, Sadie, 3 and Zachary, 4
Method of murder: Strangulation - Drowning
Location: Lincoln County, Oregon, USA
Status: Sentenced to death on April 16, 2003
UPDATE: Commuted to LWOP in 2022i
The Story
Christian Michael Longo became wanted in the murder of his wife and children in Oregon after the body of his 4-year-old son was found on December 19, 2001 floating several feet from shore in the Lint Slough, a waterway off the Pacific Ocean, in Waldport, Oregon. Divers searching the same area where his son's body had been earlier found also located the body of his 3-year-old sister on December 22, 2001. The bodies of the children's mother and 2-year-old sister were found five days later. After leaving the United States, Longo had been recognized in Cancún on December 27, 2001 at a hostel. The next day he was charged December 28, 2001 in Lincoln County, Oregon with multiple counts of aggravated murder in the death of his family; and with unlawful flight by a federal arrest warrant issued in the United States District Court for the District of Oregon. After leaving the hostel on January 7, 2002 he was captured six days later without incident in the small town of Tulum, Quintana Roo, about 60 miles south of Cancún. He was taken into US custody at the Houston, Texas airport January 14, 2002.ii
VIDEO: in memoria Mary Jane, Zachary, Sadie and Madison Longo (a film by LongfellowSerenade) | https://youtu.be/z09fNJQgBSY
VIDEO: Monsters: S04 E11: Christian Longo | https://youtu.be/yoJB0VudwaA
VIDEO: The HORRIFYING Longo Family Case | https://youtu.be/iJmJM0poIMU
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i Blanco, J. (2023) Christian Longo | Murderpedia, the encyclopedia of murderers, Murderpedia.org. Available at: https://murderpedia.org/male.L/l/longo-christian.htm (Accessed: 25 February 2023).
ii FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives, 2000s - Wikipedia (2023). Available at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI_Ten_Most_Wanted_Fugitives,_2000s (Accessed: 25 February 2023).