He lured a young boy with the promise of giving him a puppy and took him to an abandoned house, where he assaulted him.

The boy survived the attack and Long was subsequently confined to Bridgewater State Hospital.

The judge overseeing the case was bribed by Long's mother, who gave him $30,000 to set up a trust.

[3] After his release, the judge bought Long a general store in Alton, New Hampshire.

Long left Belmont and moved to the state of New Hampshire where he worked as the storekeeper of the general store.

On November 12, 1936, Long abducted a 9-year-old boy named Armand Nadeau in Dover.

When Long attempted to molest Nadeau, he became scared and jumped from the moving car.

The body of Nadeau was found by hunters a month after the murder, in the cellar of an abandoned house in Rollinsford.

Long murdered and sexually assaulted a 10-year-old boy named Mark Neville Jensen from Laconia.

[6] Evidence linked Long to the murder of Jensen and police arrested him less than a week later.