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  2. Apr 16, 2015 · No date has currently been set of his execution. James Franco portrays Longo in True Story, the film about the murders and the trial — but primarily about his interaction with Finkel, who is ...

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  3. Aug 8, 2012 · PORTLAND, Ore. - Christian Longo is on death row for one of the most notorious crimes in Oregon history, killing his wife and three children along the coast then fleeing to Mexico.

    • Who Is Christian Longo?
    • Early Years
    • Debts and Downfall
    • Disappearance and Murders
    • Trial and Sentence
    • Book and Film Adaptations

    Christian Longo was raised by strict Jehovah's Witness parents. Soon after he got married at age 19, Longo began experiencing financial problems that would plague him and his family for years. 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. Lo...

    Longo was born on January 23, 1974, in Michigan, and was raised by strict Jehovah's Witness parents. 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. Part of the same congregation, Longo and MaryJane Baker met in the church parking lot, and they were married w...

    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. Finkel would ultimately play a prominent, and bizarre, role in Longo’s story. Longo next launched a construction subcontracting business, but in a continuation ...

    When authorities went to the Toledo warehouse looking for Longo, they found the premises abandoned. When MaryJane’s cell phone was cut off soon after, her sisters filed a missing persons report. 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 sou...

    Taken back to the U.S. 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. 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. (B...

    The book Finkel wrote, True Story: Murder, Memoir, Mea Culpa (2005), has since been turned into a 2015 movie starring James Franco as Longo and Jonah Hillas Michael Finkel and also featuring Felicity Jones. Finkel has continued to remain in contact with Longo on a monthly basis during the latter's incarceration. MaryJane's sister, Penny Dupuie, has...

  4. Apr 17, 2003 · The Lincoln County jury of eight women and four men deliberated more than six hours before recommending that Longo be executed by lethal injection. MaryJane's sister, Penny Dupuie, also...

  5. Nov 10, 2006 · BRAD CAIN. The Oregon Supreme Court upheld the death sentence Thursday against Christian Longo, once one of the most wanted fugitives in America after...

  6. Jun 17, 2020 · They were identified as 27-year-old Christian Longo’s two oldest children—Zachery, 4, and Sadie, 3. ... with the purpose of changing execution methods to enable harvesting of organs.

  7. Aug 9, 2015 · Two days before, Penny's brother-in-law, Christian Longo, had killed his entire family: Penny's sister, MaryJane, was 34 years old. Her three small children, Zachery, Sadie and Madison, were four ...

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