Christian Michael Longo (born January 23, 1974) is a
convicted murderer who committed his crimes in the U.S. state of Oregon.
Originating from Ypsilanti Township, Michigan, he married
Mary Jane Baker at age 19 and they had three children together. He and his
family often encountered financial difficulties due to his reckless spending
habits.
Murders
After the body of Longo's four-year-old son, Zachery, was
found on December 19, 2001, divers located that of his three-year-old daughter,
Sadie. Those of Mary Jane and their two-year-old daughter, Madison, were found
five days later. By that time, Longo was wanted in connection with the murder
of Mary Jane and their three children.
After he fled the United States, he was recognized at a
hotel in CancĂșn on December 27, 2001. The next day, in Lincoln County, Oregon,
a federal arrest warrant issued in the United States District Court for the
District of Oregon charged him with multiple counts of aggravated murder and
unlawful flight. He left the hotel on January 7, 2002, and was captured six
days later without incident in the small town of Tulum, Quintana Roo, about 80
miles south of CancĂșn. He was taken into U.S. custody at George Bush
Intercontinental Airport on January 14, 2002. He was sentenced to death in
2003.
Years later, Longo admitted to being a narcissist in a
letter he wrote to KATU-TV, a Portland, Oregon, television station. He wrote
that he eventually began "studying what a psychologist said I was and came
to terms with it, almost totally agreeing that he was right...his conclusion
was the narcissistic personality disorder which he called 'compensatory' –
basically self-centeredness related to a damaged core sense of self."
When in Mexico, Longo used the name of Michael Finkel, the
former New York Times reporter who later chronicled their experiences in his
memoir True Story, later adapted into a 2015 film.
Longo is currently incarcerated on death row at Oregon State
Penitentiary. Capital punishment is still legal in Oregon, but there has been a
moratorium on executions since 2011.
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