XJW MURDERER LONGO IS SON OF INDIANAPOLIS ELDER

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MadApostate

FBI WANTED POSTER:
- http://www.katu.com/news/story.asp?ID=38050
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Newport, OR - The hunt for Christian Longo is going on national television. America's Most Wanted is sending crew members to Newport this week to prepare for the segment taht could air as early as January 12.
Longo, 27, is charged with aggravated murder in the deaths of his wife and three children.
The parents of Christian Longo, a former Michigan resident charged in Oregon with killing his wife and three children, have issued a plea for him to surrender.
"Our plea to Chris is to turn himself in so that we can get to the bottom of this horrible situation," said Eric Eaton, a family friend and spokesman for Joe and Joy Longo of Indianapolis.
"The whole family is extremely distraught over the events that are occurring in Oregon and deeply grieved over the loss of four dear family members," according to a statement from the parents reported in The Ann Arbor News on Tuesday. "This has certainly been a tragic event, and there are still many things to be determined."
On Thursday, 35-year-old Mary Jane Longo and 2-year-old Madison were found dead in a bay near Newport, Ore. Four-year-old Zachary and 3-year-old Sadie Ann were found a week earlier in an inlet about 14 miles away.
The Longos lived in the Ypsilanti area for several years until moving to Oregon recently.
Police say Christian Logo was sighted in San Francisco on Wednesday. The Lincoln County, Ore., district attorney's office said Monday that there was no new information about the investigation to report.
Longo is thought to be driving a Dodge Durango with Michigan plates that read "KIDVAN." Authorities received tips last week about a sport utility vehicle traveling east from San Francisco on Interstate 80 and spotted later in Reno.
That vehicle, however, turned out to belong to Oregon couple Bob and Linda Wiener who were visiting family in Reno, said Sgt Kelly Dead of the Reno Police Department. The vehicle was a Ford Explorer and had an Oregon license plate that read "KID VAN," Dean said.
Christian Longo was wanted as a witness until Friday, when he was charged with murder in the slayings of his wife and children. Because he is believed to have crossed state lines, the FBI has joined the search and issued a nationwide alert.
A Lincoln County arrest warrant sets bail for Longo at $2.5 million if he is caught.
Christian Longo was in debt, facing five civil suits from creditors and was wanted on warrants for forgery, bad check-writing and larceny by conversion in Washtenaw County and in the Toledo, Ohio, area.
About a year ago, he was asked to leave the Golfside Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses.
"Christian Longo was excluded from fellowship with the congregation in the summer of 2000," the congregation said Monday in a statement. "The reason for this was that he chose to stop living in accord with the tenets of our faith."
The statement did not elaborate.
. http://www.katu.com/news/story.asp?ID=38031
MadApostate

Suspect's parents ask for surrender
From Staff, AP Reports
The parents of a former Michigan man charged in Oregon with killing his wife and three children have issued a plea for him to surrender, according to The Associated Press.
Christian Longo, 27, is charged with aggravated murder in the deaths of MaryJane Baker Longo, 34, and their children, Madison, 2, Sadie Ann, 3, and Zachery Michael, 4.
Mrs. Longo's mother, Susan Lowery, formerly of Michigan, lives with her husband, James, on Lawrence County 358 in Trinity.
A family spokesman for Christian Longo's parents, Joe and Joy Longo of Indianapolis, said their "plea to Chris is to turn himself in so that we can get to the bottom of this horrible situation."
Divers pulled the corpses of MaryJane Longo and Madison from Yaquina Bay along the Central Oregon coast near the resort community of Newport on Dec. 27. A search of the bay began after the body of Zachery was found Dec. 19, and Sadie Ann, who was pulled from a Waldport, Ore., slough three days later.
According to a story in The Los Angeles Times, local pastors arranged a memorial service for the first two children even before the bodies were identified.
The service was held on Christmas Eve and 150 people attended. After nightfall on Christmas, a candlelight vigil drew at least 200, many carrying young children in their arms.
Mrs. Lowery, who has been in Ann Arbor since Saturday with other family members, said today that a memorial service is Saturday at 3 p.m. at the Jehovah's Witnesses Golfside Congregation in Ypsilanti.
The family will receive friends Friday from 4 to 8 p.m. and from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday at Nie Funeral Home in Ann Arbor.
Meanwhile, authorities said a nationwide search Saturday for Christian Longo turned up several tips but no hard leads. He was last seen Dec. 26 in San Francisco.
Police said citizens called to report seeing a green Dodge sport utility vehicle with Michigan license plates. A later report indicates that Longo is driving a Dodge Durango with Michigan plates that read "KIDVAN."
Because he is believed to have crossed state lines, the FBI has joined the search and placed Longo on its wanted list.
The Lincoln County, Ore., district attorney's office said Monday that there was no new information about the investigation. Bail for Longo is set at $2.5 million.
Authorities said the Longos lived in the Ypsilanti area for several years until moving to Oregon recently. They said Longo is in debt, facing five civil suits from creditors, and is wanted on warrants for forgery, bad check writing and larceny by conversion in Washtenaw County and in the Toldeo, Ohio, area.
Longo, about 6-feet tall and blond, had a clean-cut appearance and typically dressed in slacks, a dress shirt and leather jacket, according to neighbors in Newport.
They say he appears to be a successful young man. They said Longo told them he held a high-paying job with the Qwest telephone company, surveying clients for high-speed DSL lines on the coast.
In fact, they say, he worked at a Starbucks shop inside a Newport Fred Myer grocery store.
. http://www.decaturdaily.com/decaturdaily/news/020102/parents.shtml
. http://www.freep.com/news/mich/date2_20020102.htm
MadApostate

Warrant issued for suspect in Oregon killings
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The mystery began less than a week before Christmas, when residents of a trailer park spotted a child's body, small and pale, floating about two feet from shore in a coastal inlet near Waldport.
No one claimed the child, a 5-year-old with blond hair and hazel eyes, so the Lincoln County Sheriff's Department released a retouched photograph and a plea for the public's help.
Within a week, divers would find three more bodies -- the boy's sisters and mother. By Christmas, police had launched a nationwide search for the children's father, a longtime Michigan resident with a history of financial trouble and a record of petty crime.
On Friday, police issued a warrant for the man's arrest on four counts of aggravated murder. Autopsy reports showed the children were victims of violence, and Lincoln County District Attorney Bernice Barnett said their father had been seen Dec. 26 in the San Francisco area.
The discovery of the children's bodies shocked Waldport, a town of about 2,000 that relies on logging, fishing, crabbing and tourism to get by. Residents set up an impromptu memorial on a bridge spanning Alsea Bay, where the first two children were found.
On Christmas Eve, a tip led investigators to Michigan, where family members identified the children as Zachary Michael Longo, 5, and 3-year-old Sadie Ann Longo.
Their parents, Mary Jane and Christian Longo, had moved to the coastal city of Newport from Ypsilanti, Mich., about three months earlier, police said. They also had another child, Madison, age 2.
That same day, police in a Portland suburb found the family's empty van outside a car dealership. Then, on Dec. 27, divers found the bodies of Mary Jane Longo, 35, and Madison in a bay about 14 miles north of Waldport.
Christian Longo, 27, was still missing Friday. Authorities say autopsies revealed his wife and three children all died of homicidal violence, and the FBI has obtained a federal fugitive warrant, because Longo is believed to have crossed state lines.
Longo, who owned a construction cleaning company in Michigan, has been named in six lawsuits seeking more than $30,000 and is wanted on two warrants in Michigan for probation violation and a larceny charge.
He was convicted in October 2000 for forging $30,000 in checks from builders in Michigan. And he is also wanted on at least two warrants in Toledo, Ohio, for passing bad checks and forgery, as well as stealing construction equipment, police said.
In Newport, neighbors said Christian Longo lived alone -- though he was visited by his wife and children -- in a condominium near the resort where the bodies of his wife and youngest daughter were found.
He told acquaintances he worked for Qwest Communications as a surveyor, but police say he actually worked for a grocery chain. He told friends he had two children instead of three, neighbors said. "He kept his story pretty good," said Newport resident Sarah Johnson.
MadApostate

Moving this News Article to this thread.
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Longo's psyche probed
Suspect in family's murder still missing
Wednesday, January 2, 2002
By PERI STONE-PALMQUIST and TRACY DAVIS
NEWS STAFF REPORTERS
He's been described as a clean-cut, polite man, a former Jehovah's Witness. Fellow tradesmen say he did good work when he installed fireplaces and spas. Former neighbors say his family seemed loving and pleasant.
Now, 27-year-old Christian Longo is being sought by the FBI, charged with seven counts of aggravated murder. The former Ypsilanti-area resident is accused of killing his wife and three children and dumping their bodies into two Pacific Ocean inlets last month.
Despite outward appearances, Christian Longo and his family may have demonstrated what a local expert considers risk factors for domestic homicide: Longo had a criminal past and his family was estranged.
Daniel Saunders, associate professor at the University of Michigan School of Social Work, said with no known history of domestic violence and with investigators releasing few details in the case, it's hard to draw any conclusions of what may have driven Longo to do what he is accused of doing.
Saunders, who co-authored a chapter in a book about family violence, said that in about half of domestic homicides, the assailant has a criminal history, although it is not always violent. Longo fits that description.
He is wanted on warrants on a larceny by conversion charge and for probation violation on a forgery conviction in Washtenaw County. He forged about $30,000 worth of checks from a local builder roughly a year ago.
In addition, the family's van was reported stolen in Ohio almost two years ago. It was abandoned at an Oregon car dealership Dec. 19 - the same day a green Dodge Durango was stolen from the dealership and police believe two Longo children were killed.
The family lived in this area for nearly 10 years, the last four in Ypsilanti Township, and Washtenaw County records show no history of domestic violence.
Longo's mother-in-law, Susan Lowery of Trinity, Ala., said her daughter never hinted of any difficulties in the couple's marriage or finances and never said anything negative about him.
But Saunders said domestic violence is often not reported and even family members aren't aware of the situation. Sometimes family members see jealousy - a common motive in domestic homicide - as a sign of love, not a sign of control, he said.
Killing the children, Saunders said, can be a way - "the most horrendous way" - to hurt one's spouse. "Most mothers would rather die themselves than have their children die," he said. The risk of homicide is heightened when a woman wants to end a relationship or the spouses are living apart, Saunders said. About half of the homicides during separation occur within two months of separation, he said.
The status of the Longo marriage is unclear, but he was apparently living apart from his family for the past month in Newport, Ore., renting a condominium near the marina where, on Thursday, police divers found the bodies of his wife, MaryJane Longo, 34, and his daughter, Madison, 2. A week earlier, the bodies of his other two children - Zachary, 4, and 3-year-old Sadie Ann - were found in a coastal inlet in Waldport, 14 miles south of Newport.
Sarah Johnson, who works at the condo complex's front desk, said she talked to Longo several times but never saw his family during his month-long stay. The room was being rented only to Christian Longo, she said. And the condo's manager told staff that Longo's wife and three children only stayed a few days at the beginning of the month to see where he lived, Johnson said, adding she was unsure where the rest of the family resided.
For the past several months, the family has moved around quite a bit. This past spring, they moved from Ypsilanti Township to Toledo. In September, one of MaryJane Longo's four sisters reported her missing. But the report was withdrawn after MaryJane sent a letter in November from North Dakota saying the family was traveling the countryside.
Now, just Longo is left to travel. He was last seen Dec. 26 in San Francisco, where authorities are papering the area with his picture. When asked whether there is more than one suspect, Lincoln County District Attorney Bernice Barnett replied that a warrant has been issued only for Christian Longo.
Anyone with information about the location of Christian Longo is asked to call the Lincoln County Sheriff's Office tipline at (541) 265-4949.
. http://aa.mlive.com/news/index.ssf?/news/stories/20020102a750wedlongo02.frm
anewperson

So despite a past record of violence he was urged to go door-to-door as a JW and did. America, people in other nations, do you KNOW who it is knocking at your doors? Really know? Some include child molestors. Joe Public, who's knocking at your wife's door? You can't just go by how clean-shaven someone is or how nice their magazine pictures or even their beliefs appear. You must bo as Christ said by knowing their past fruitage. Shame on the Watchtower Society for putting people at risk from such dangerous characters.
Naeblis

Where do you see anything about a past record of violence?
waiting

Despite outward appearances, Christian Longo and his family may have demonstrated what a local expert considers risk factors for domestic homicide: Longo had a criminal past and his family was estranged.
Daniel Saunders, associate professor at the University of Michigan School of Social Work, said with no known history of domestic violence and with investigators releasing few details in the case, it's hard to draw any conclusions of what may have driven Longo to do what he is accused of doing.
Seems he had a criminal past......but "no known history of domestic violence."
A terrible situation for any family - no matter what their religious beliefs.
waiting
MadApostate

Naeb:
You are correct. The articles specifically point out the lack of any previous violence.
Of course, this DB is accustomed to ADipShit not only getting the facts wrong, but also missing the point.
Christian Longo was a poster-child JW until a few years ago, when he went into a head-long slide which eventually climaxed in mass-murder. His financial problems are not unique, and typically do not lead to this extreme. I speculate that being shunned by his JWElder parents may have pushed him over the edge, or at a minimum, the parents were not there to help him when he needed them most.
There's a good JW story here if the media can just be motivated sufficiently to investigate such.
sunscapes

no KNOWN history of domestic violence (i.e. the kind that would show on a police blotter or background check).
I lived through domestic violence toward my mother and myself for SIXTEEN YEARS and none of it was ever known (except to us). No record was ever generated and no reports were made to Children's Aid Societies or Child Protective Services.
Until the investigators RELEASE the DETAILS, we do better to watch what we say. We can only speculate. The professor only knows what we do in terms of the facts of this case. Perhaps less so, because we know what pressures we live with/have lived through in being Witnesses.
When we neither punish nor reproach evildoers ... we are ripping the foundations of justice from beneath future generations.
MadApostate

Longo mother, children were regulars at library
By Leslie O'Donnell
Of the News-Times
During their stay in Lincoln County, Mary Jane Longo, 35, and her three children, Zachary, 5; Sadie, 3; and Madison, 2, were almost daily visitors to the Newport Public Library.
Children's librarian Rebecca Cohen said the family visited the library often, and on occasion, Christian Michael Longo, 27, now wanted on seven counts of aggravated murder for the deaths of his wife and three children, would come to the library to pick them up.
Cohen said she did not have personal interaction with the Longos, but observed that Mary Jane appeared to be a loving parent who paid careful attention to her children. If the children were present during story times, they would attend the sessions as well.
She said the Newport Library is a comfortable, safe place for transient families, and noted that the Longo family appeared to be
transients.
"The children would play with the puzzles and the computers, and she would read to them," Cohen said.
"The baby would fall asleep."
She said Mary Jane Longo spent a lot of time visiting with and teaching the children as they played. She added that Mary Jane looked tired and and was quite shy and withdrawn, but was gradually becoming more outgoing.
"I would smile at them, and I learned the children's names," Cohen said. The family visited the library for about six weeks, and did not apply for library cards.
"(The mother) was so interactive with her babies," Cohen said. "This is almost too sad to bear."
Mary Jane Longo and her children also were occasional visitors to Contact Information and Referral Service in Newport.
Linda Cracknell, executive director of Contact, said Monday that the family stopped in to obtain clothes and to take showers.
"I found her really delightful," Cracknell said of Mary Jane. "The kids were delightful, and she really doted on them."
Cracknell said that Mary Jane and the children would come into the Contact warehouse, but Christian would usually remain in the car.
She said she would joke with Mary Jane, as she does with many women whose male partners remain outside while business is conducted, and suggest that he should come inside, also.
"She would tell me, `he´s my dreamer,´" Cracknell recalled.
A spokesperson for My Sisters' Place, formerly the Women's Violence Intervention Program, said she was not aware of any contacts the agency had with Mary Jane Longo.
. http://www.newportnewstimes.com/nt_news/general/nt_news-07.html

XJW MURDERER LONGO IS SON OF INDIANAPOLIS ELDER

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