He Told Tourists He Was a New York Times Reporter: The Christian Longo Case
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He Told Tourists He Was a New York Times Reporter: The Christian Longo Case
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In nine days of December 2001, divers on the Oregon coast recovered four bodies from the water: MaryJane Longo, 34, and her children Zachery, 4, Sadie, 3, and Madison, 2. While they searched, husband and father Christian Longo was in a cabana in Tulum, Mexico, on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list, introducing himself to strangers as Michael Finkel of The New York Times, a real journalist who had just been fired for fabricating a story. How does a Starbucks employee drowning in fraud end up impersonating a disgraced reporter on a Mexican beach?
In this episode, we follow the counterfeit life of Christian Longo from a Kingdom Hall parking lot in Michigan to an upscale condo on Yaquina Bay he could never afford: the forged checks and stolen trailers, the congregation that shunned him, the pawned wedding ring, the twelve-hundred-dollar rent that equaled his entire monthly pay, and the mid-December night when the performance ran out of money. Then the strangest chapter in modern true crime: the real Michael Finkel writing to the man who stole his name, a correspondence that became the book and film True Story, and a trial where Longo tried to hand his own crime to his murdered wife.
Person: MaryJane Longo, 34; Zachery, 4; Sadie, 3; Madison, 2
Date: Mid-December 2001, bodies recovered December 19 to 27, 2001
Location: Newport and Waldport, Lincoln County, Oregon
Case: Family murder; suitcases in Yaquina Bay, children in Lint Slough
Legal status: Longo pleaded guilty to two murders and was convicted of the other two in April 2003 and sentenced to death; in December 2022 Oregon commuted all 17 death row sentences, and he now serves life without the possibility of parole
- The fraud spiral that funded a picture-perfect image
- Nine days of divers during Christmas week in a small coastal town
- The Tulum arrest, 80 miles south of Cancun, in January 2002
- The Finkel letters: two fabricators studying each other
- The 2022 commutation and a family's second wound
The Christian Longo case is the story of an impostor whose last stolen identity made him famous, and of the four real people he erased.
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