How Did a Teenage Kidnapping Survivor Catch Serial Killer Bobby Joe Long?

Bobby Joe Long killed at least eight women in Tampa Bay in 1984. He was caught because a seventeen-year-old girl he kidnapped was smarter than he was. Lisa McVey spent twenty-six hours in Long's apartment — blindfolded, bound, enduring the unimaginable — and used every one of those hours to build a case against him. She loosened her blindfold to see his car interior. She left fingerprints deliberately. She planted a barrette with her hair attached. She invented a story about a dying father that convinced Long to let her go.

The first detective who interviewed her didn't believe her. Her own grandmother called police to say she was lying. But Sergeant Larry Pinkerton believed her — and in the process of investigating the abduction, discovered that Lisa had been enduring something almost as terrible inside her own home for three years.

Lisa McVey is now a master deputy with the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office. She watched Bobby Joe Long die by lethal injection in 2019 from the front row. This is Surviving Serial Killers on History's Hidden Killers — and this is the story of the girl who outsmarted a serial killer while blindfolded.

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