![]() ![]() During the trial and the period leading up to it, Longo was in touch with Finkel, whom Longo hoped would write about him and help in his exoneration. in January 2002, Longo stood trial in March 2003, during which he claimed to have only killed Madison and MaryJane, pinning the murders of his other two children on MaryJane. Now the lead suspect and on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list, Longo was found in Cancun, Mexico, where he had taken on the identity of travel writer Michael Finkel, among others, as needed. Then two suitcases were found: One held the body of two-year-old Madison Longo and the other the remains of MaryJane Longo. ![]() Three days later, divers searching nearby found the body of three-year-old Sadie Longo weighed down underwater. Then, a month later, on December 19, 2001, the body of four-year-old Zachery Longo was discovered floating in a marina in Waldport, a coastal community south of Newport, Oregon. When MaryJane’s cell phone was cut off soon after, her sisters filed a missing persons report. When authorities went to the Toledo warehouse looking for Longo, they found the premises abandoned. The move set off a probation violation, and Longo was now a wanted man. Two months later, claiming he wanted a new life for his family-which now included two daughters and a son, the oldest being four years old-Longo moved his wife and children to a warehouse in Toledo, Ohio. Longo wasn’t faring any better on personal fronts, as MaryJane Longo discovered email evidence of her husband’s infidelity and Longo was kicked out of his church for the laundry list of crimes piling up around him. Longo soon got caught, but he received a light sentence of probation and restitution. With debt overwhelming him, Longo turned to crime, setting up fake addresses to reroute bill collectors, creating a fake driver’s license for a test drive that would transition into grand theft auto and writing checks to himself in his clients’ names. Longo’s spending continued unabated, and soon his car was repossessed. Longo next launched a construction subcontracting business, but in a continuation of early financial woes, he and his family were drowning in debt. Finkel would ultimately play a prominent, and bizarre, role in Longo’s story. In a portentous moment a few years later, Longo became manager of a company that distributed The New York Times, and he would regularly read articles by Times feature writer Michael Finkel. Part of the same congregation, Longo and MaryJane Baker met in the church parking lot, and they were married when he was 19 and she was 25. Longo was active in the church at a young age and trained in the door-to-door ministry for which Jehovah's Witness members are well known. Longo was born on January 23, 1974, in Michigan, and was raised by strict Jehovah's Witness parents. A movie based on his sordid life hit theaters in April 2015. He was found guilty and is currently on death row. Longo was found hiding in Mexico under an assumed name and was brought back to the U.S. In December 2001, after Longo and his family had disappeared from their home in Ohio, the bodies of his wife and three children were discovered in Oregon. ![]() Soon after he got married at age 19, Longo began experiencing financial problems that would plague him and his family for years. Christian Longo was raised by strict Jehovah's Witness parents. ![]()
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