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Christian Longo To Be Featured On "AMERICA'S MOST WANTED"

Aired January 03, 2002 - 08:36   ET

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LEON HARRIS, CNN ANCHOR: Moving on now to another case. A man accused of killing his wife and three children will be featured on the television show "AMERICA'S MOST WANTED." Authorities are hoping that this is going to lead to some new clues coming in, in a search for Christian Longo.

Joining us now, live from Los Angeles, with more on the Longo case, the host of "AMERICA'S MOST WANTED" and frequent guest here on CNN, John Walsh. Good to see you. Good morning and Happy New Year to you.

JOHN WALSH, HOST "AMERICA'S MOST WANTED": Same to you, Leon. Good morning.

HARRIS: Tell us about this Longo case.

WALSH: Yes. This is a very disturbing case. Here's a guy who's accused of killing his wife and three small children. He's been at large for almost a week now. Very dangerous guy. I'm surprised he hasn't been caught by now. But he's capable of doing anything. So we're going to be featuring him on the next "AMERICA'S MOST WANTED."

I'm praying he doesn't kill anybody between that time, and, you know, this is a guy who's crossed the line, and, you know, he needs to be taken off the streets.

HARRIS: What is it that he's suspected -- do you know when he is suspected of actually having done this? As I understand it, the bodies of his wife and three children were found sometime, like a week before Christmas?

WALSH: Well, no. It was just a little bit after Christmas that they found the bodies. And you know, he's accused of killing his own wife, three of his small children, two, I think a 5 and a 4-year-old children. And, you know, this guy applied for a job -- I'm sorry.

He did kill them just before Christmas, but he was sighted in San Francisco December 26th applying for a job at a Starbucks in San Francisco. So, it's very disturbing that this guy could think he could get away with this and apply for a job in San Francisco. But right now, he could be anywhere, and everybody agrees on one thing.

He's crossed the line. He's a very dangerous individual and, you know, this hearkens back, if you remember the case in Sacramento, Nicholas Soltese.

HARRIS: Right.

WALSH: The guy who killed his family and killed his own children. He stayed out there for a long time. But this guy's a little bit different. This guy's very cunning, very -- he's a con artist, very smart, and we're very worried that he's going to, you know, if he gets cornered, he's going to do something dangerous and kill somebody else.

HARRIS: Yeah. I remember that Soltese case very well.

WALSH: Yeah.

HARRIS: As a matter of fact, we had -- we covered it live right here. As a matter of fact, Daryn Kagan and I had the live coverage of the actual apprehension of Soltese. And I guess, he was hiding in the back of his mother's house, I believe it was.

In this case, though, what are you hearing from this -- from Longo's -- Christian Longo's parents? I understand that they've -- they've been talking to police. What are they saying?

WALSH: They have been talking to police. They're wonderful people. As a matter of fact, they're very concerned about their son. They've been estranged from him for about a year. The father and son work together. The dad was the accountant in their business. And he said you know, they were doing very, very well, and he was writing checks and depositing money for the business, but then the money was disappearing, and he was starting to wonder what his son was doing. What was his son getting into?

Then, all of a sudden, his son took off from Michigan to Oregon, and, you know, the father is very, very concerned. He says something is very wrong with his son. They're estranged, but the Longos are making a plea. They're going to talk on "AMERICA'S MOST WANTED." They're going to ask their son, say, "Look, you've done something horrible. You know, something's very, very wrong here and you need to turn yourself in."

But the thing that really bothers me, is this guy would apply for a job in at a Starbucks. He worked in -- when he left Michigan to go to Oregon, he worked at a Starbucks in Oregon, and for him to, after being alleged to have murdered his wife and his own small children -- three small children -- that he would apply for a job at a store in San Francisco. This says to me, "Very sick, very deranged guy, capable of anything."

HARRIS: That is -- that is very troubling. John Walsh, we wish you luck. Good luck. And here's hoping you have as positive an outcome in this case as they did in the Soltese case. Good luck to you on the show.

WALSH: Thank you, Leon.

HARRIS: That's going to be this -- is that this weekend that show is going to be airing?

WALSH: No, it'll be on next week. It will be on next week.

HARRIS: Gotcha. Good luck. John Walsh, appreciate it.

WALSH: Thank you.

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