Overview
- In December 2001, two of the Longo children were found along the Oregon coast and, days later, MaryJane and the youngest child were recovered in luggage dumped at a nearby marina.
- Longo cultivated a facade of success despite mounting debts after a failed cleaning business and maintained an expensive lifestyle that masked financial collapse.
- Ahead of the killings, he committed nonviolent crimes including stealing a minivan during a test drive and forging checks worth about $30,000, resulting in probation.
- He fled to Mexico after the bodies were found, posed as a journalist, was recognized and arrested in January 2002, and was extradited to the United States.
- At trial he admitted killing his wife and youngest child but blamed his wife for the older children, a claim the jury rejected before convicting him on all counts and imposing death, later reduced in 2022 to life without parole.