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World's Most Evil Killers S03E03
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00:00To be continued...
00:10Northern Tampa, Florida, 1984.
00:1317-year-old Lisa was abducted.
00:16The teenager was subjected to a terrifying 26-hour ordeal
00:20by a sadistic sexual predator.
00:23Unlike his other victims, she was the only one to survive.
00:29A sexual sadist, a man who thought nothing
00:32of abusing, mutilating, stabbing women.
00:36He was a man who had a ferocious hatred of women.
00:42At his peak, the bodies of the killer's victims
00:45were discovered at a rate of one every other week.
00:48The evidence revealed that a depraved serial killer
00:52was on the loose.
00:54Each crime scene was like somebody crazed,
00:57not even somebody, something, monster type.
01:02You know, it was just terrible.
01:04That monster was 31-year-old army veteran
01:07and divorced father of two, Bobby Joe Long.
01:11I don't know if I was blind or...
01:13You know, but I never imagined in a million years
01:16that he was capable of doing the things that he's done.
01:19He was an animal, you know?
01:21And, I mean, this is somebody that I loved.
01:25Long became one of the most notorious serial killers
01:29in U.S. history.
01:30During his eight-month sadistic killing spree,
01:33he murdered ten women in Florida,
01:35making Bobby Joe Long one of the world's most evil killers.
01:40TAMPA, FLORIDA, 23rd of September 1985,
01:54At the 13th Judicial Circuit Court,
02:09Bobby Joe Long only pleaded guilty to the murder and kidnap
02:13of eight women and seven counts of sexual battery
02:16in and around the Tampa Bay area
02:19and to the abduction and sexual battery of Lisa,
02:22his only surviving victim.
02:25Well, in a single spree,
02:27he killed ten young women
02:30and not only killed them, abducted them,
02:34subjected them to dreadful abuse.
02:37He was, without question,
02:40one of the most dreadful, depraved killers
02:45in recent times in the United States.
02:49During the months of March to November 1984 in Tampa Bay,
02:53young women were disappearing
02:55in and around an area called The Strip.
02:59Their bodies would later be found dumped in remote locations.
03:04Discarded and exposed to the elements,
03:07some were posed grotesquely in humiliating positions.
03:12They were all women who were out and about
03:14on Nebraska Avenue or around that vicinity.
03:18Now, this was quite a notorious area of the red light district,
03:21so this suggests that this is somebody who was targeting people
03:25who they believed to be sex workers.
03:28He would haunt the red light districts.
03:30He would target, focus on women
03:33whom he knew could be tempted into his career.
03:36with the offer of money.
03:39They were the classic serial killer victim.
03:44Anna Flowers recalls the impact the murders had
03:47on the local community at the time.
03:50When he started killing prostitutes,
03:52the flamboyant strip was full of fear.
03:57Prostitutes knew that they could be next,
04:00and they were very scared, and girls just out partying.
04:06They knew they could be next, and it was absolute terror.
04:11The first body was discovered in May 1984.
04:15She was 20-year-old exotic dancer Lana.
04:19What's happened to her is that Bobby Jolong has picked her up,
04:23driven her to a remote location, and killed her.
04:26Here's somebody who is literally just plucking women off the streets.
04:31He's identifying his victim as somebody he thinks he's entitled to,
04:36as somebody he thinks that he can just pick up and use and discard.
04:42On the 13th of May 1984, Lana's body was discovered.
04:48When police examined the crime scene,
04:50they immediately knew they were dealing
04:52with an extremely dangerous individual.
04:55It's almost impossible to imagine the terror
04:59that Lana must have suffered at the hands of Bobby Jolong.
05:04There's no suggestion that he raped her after her death.
05:07He raped her and then strangled her.
05:09He had tied her hands behind her back.
05:12I think that was Long trying to humiliate his victims,
05:18to humiliate women.
05:20This killer story begins in 1953.
05:24Bobby Jolong was born on October the 14th
05:28in Canova, West Virginia.
05:30His parents divorced when he was two years old.
05:33Bobby Jolong's teenage mother had dreamed
05:36of moving to Florida one day,
05:38and after her divorce, she left West Virginia with her son
05:42and headed for the Sunshine State,
05:44where she struggled financially to support them both.
05:47So, Bobby Jolong's mother used to work in bars.
05:51She was single. She was on her own with him.
05:54She had to go out and work. She was the breadwinner.
05:57As a child, Long suffered many accidents,
06:01head injuries that caused several periods of unconsciousness.
06:04Some were minor, like falling from a swing.
06:08Others were more serious, falling downstairs
06:10and being thrown from a horse.
06:13One of his most serious injuries occurred at the age of seven,
06:17when he was hit by a car.
06:19The accident left him with a deformed jaw and teeth.
06:23And the kids would worry him to death about that,
06:26and he finally had an operation on that as well.
06:30He wore those scars, you know, all of his life.
06:35With money scarce, they live frugally in a one-bedroom apartment,
06:40even sharing a single bed until Bobby Joe was a teenager.
06:45Bobby Joe confided in his ex-wife Cindy
06:48about his relationship with his mother.
06:51He would tell me that certain nights
06:54that she would come home with a boyfriend
06:57that he would get woke up and put on the couch
06:59while the boyfriend spent the night with her.
07:01Long slept with his mother,
07:04which often angered him when she brought home a man
07:08of which there are a string.
07:10And I think it's in there somewhere
07:13that the genesis of Long's loathing for women began.
07:19When you look at how he speaks about his mother
07:22and what he thought about her,
07:24he held her in quite a lot of contempt and disdain.
07:27He said some very offensive things about her.
07:30He criticised the fact that she worked as a barmaid,
07:32that she wore revealing outfits.
07:34And that, for me, says that he's got some incredibly fixed
07:37and very conservative views about women,
07:40who they are, how they should behave.
07:42They should look after their husbands,
07:44look after their children.
07:46He's got a very fixed idea of men as breadwinners
07:49and women as caregivers.
07:51Long harboured a grudge against his mother
07:54for not looking after him or paying him enough attention.
07:58He had a horrible resentment towards his mother.
08:01And, to be very honest with you,
08:03had I ever heard that he, you know,
08:06had harmed his mom, I probably wouldn't have been surprised
08:09because he really did have a hate for his mother.
08:12And as time went on, the more time she paid to men,
08:16the more he resented it.
08:18And psychiatrists have said that that's part of his problem,
08:22that he was actually killing his mother.
08:25Again and again, he hated women.
08:27Long had also been born with a condition
08:30that would later in life prove a challenge to his masculinity.
08:35He had Klinefelter syndrome,
08:37which meant that he had two X chromosomes and one Y.
08:41Now, one of the symptoms of that is it gives a young boy,
08:47as he grows into adolescence, significant extra estrogen.
08:52High levels of the female hormone can result in men developing
08:57enlarged breast tissue called gynecomastia.
09:00This happened to Bobby Joe Long, to his great embarrassment.
09:05And I think also heightened the fact that he loathed women.
09:09Age 13, Bobby Joe Long underwent surgery to remove his breasts,
09:15leaving ugly scars that made the young man very self-conscious about his body.
09:20When we were kids, you know, we were always swimming down in the keys and everything.
09:25He would always keep a shirt on because he was embarrassed of the scars from the surgery.
09:29By his early teens, this cocktail of anger at his mother and his own physical self-loathing
09:37was already beginning to turn Bobby Joe Long into an angry young man.
09:42Bobby Joe Long's mother had moved to Miami, Florida with her young son.
09:51By waiting on tables in bars and restaurants,
09:54she was eventually able to provide them with a better life in the Miami suburbs.
09:59Age 13, Bobby Joe was a student at Highley High High School in Miami-Dade County,
10:06where he became close friends with a young girl called Cindy.
10:09Our childhood was great.
10:12You know, we used to go to the movies.
10:14We'd go fishing.
10:15We'd go hunting.
10:16We'd go to the Keys scuba diving.
10:18It was a very normal childhood for the South Florida area.
10:22Long didn't excel in high school.
10:25When he left, he got a job as an electrician's assistant at a firm.
10:29Age 19, he used his newly acquired trade and joined the Army.
10:34On January the 25th, 1974, he married Cindy, his childhood sweetheart.
10:41So, yeah, he swept me off my feet really hard.
10:45And, um, I don't know.
10:46I just, I guess I just fell madly in love with him, you know,
10:49and thought that in the fairytale world that this was going to be my husband
10:53and we were going to live together forever.
10:56But Cindy's fairytale marriage was short-lived.
11:00Not long after the wedding, alarm bells began to ring about her husband's temperament.
11:06If there was another guy that would talk to me or anything,
11:10he would just have a fit about it.
11:11A few times he accused me of, you know, messing around with people,
11:15which I had not.
11:16Um, controlling, he would tell me what I was going to eat.
11:21He hated the smell of popcorn for whatever reason.
11:24So, you know, that was always something that he would just have a fit about
11:29if I was eating popcorn or garlic.
11:32He didn't like garlic.
11:33And, you know, I mean, it was just like you were basically his puppet on the string,
11:39you know, and that should have been a red flag to me.
11:41But it, you know, I was young.
11:43I was in love.
11:44On March the 14th, 1974, Long sustained another serious head injury in a motorcycle accident,
11:53and his behaviour changed dramatically.
11:56I think that, if possible, the motorcycle accident just kind of knocked the screw loose
12:02that was holding everything together at the time.
12:05The long-term effects of a head injury, some people will be fine.
12:10Others, it can seriously affect personality.
12:15If your brain is damaged, particularly at the front, you can almost become a different person.
12:21Whilst in the hospital, the nursing staff noticed that he masturbated constantly.
12:27Long was released five months later.
12:30But when he returned, Cindy found that he became violent towards her.
12:35He also became obsessed with sex and demanded she have intercourse with him at least twice a day.
12:41There was no doubt that Long developed an overt, compulsive, dangerous sex drive.
12:52When he was a young man, turned him into this hypersexual being that flicked the switch, if you like.
12:58So, brain injuries, particularly to the frontal lobes, they can affect impulse control.
13:05They can make you sexually disinhibited.
13:08And I think in Long's case, we certainly can see some suggestions that that injury has changed who he was.
13:17Long was discharged from the army on medical grounds and retrained as a radiologist.
13:23The couple had two children together.
13:27My son was born in 1974.
13:29And then when he was six months old, we discovered I was pregnant with our daughter, who was born in 1975.
13:35So, it was almost like having twins around.
13:38But he was always a good father to them.
13:41He absolutely loved them.
13:42He was very strict with them.
13:44But, you know, he loved them.
13:46He would do things with them and everything.
13:49So, he was never violent towards our kids.
13:53Despite the abuse, Cindy stuck by her man.
13:57They always have the knack to turn it around to, you know, make it your fault.
14:03And you as the victim, you, you know, you believe it is your fault.
14:07So, you're constantly walking around on eggshells trying to please this person.
14:12And, you know, you can't please them.
14:15He used to have the habit of getting on top of me on the bed or the couch and he'd put his knees, like, right here, where I couldn't move my arms.
14:23And he would just sit there and, like, smack me in the face.
14:26Then that became a habit of when he was, you know, very upset with me.
14:30In the wake of the motorbike accident, something had definitely changed within him.
14:36And he had always been short-tempered.
14:40But then he became increasingly violent towards his wife.
14:44And by implication, she feared for her son and daughter.
14:49After the birth of their second child in 1975,
14:5422-year-old Bobby Joe started going out more often
14:58and refused to tell Cindy where he was going.
15:02He was leaving the house at nighttime telling me that he, you know,
15:07just needed to go out and clear his mind and get away from the kids and myself and everything.
15:12And, you know, in my heart, I felt like he was probably seeing somebody.
15:16Bobby Joe Long didn't have a lover.
15:19He had a secret, sadistic hobby, raping women.
15:23Well, when we look at serial killers, they very rarely go from being normal,
15:27average, non-criminal individuals to kill us overnight.
15:31He set out on a scheme by answering ads, classified ads, in the local paper.
15:39He specifically targeted bedroom furniture.
15:43But even if it was something in the kitchen or something in the front room,
15:46he went to the house.
15:48If he discovered that the woman was on her own, he would rape her and let leave her.
15:54At night, he was a rapist, sexually assaulting women he found in the classified ad section of the local paper.
16:02And when he returned home, his violent behavior continued.
16:07In June 1980, following a particularly severe beating, Cindy required urgent medical treatment.
16:15In the emergency room, Cindy lied about how she'd sustained her injuries.
16:21Staff believed she was a victim of domestic violence and called the police, but she continued to lie to them.
16:27I have walked around for the last 30-plus years regretting the fact that I never did have him arrested.
16:34On returning home, Cindy decided to take matters into her own hands.
16:40I came home that night and I loaded a double-barreled shotgun.
16:45And I sat there until his alarm went off with it at his head, cocked, trying to get the nerve to pull the trigger.
16:52I was so humiliated from being at the hospital and the police officer knowing that I was lying,
16:59and the doctor knowing I was lying, and I was tired of being in his punching bag.
17:03But she couldn't pull the trigger.
17:06The only reason that I never pulled the trigger that night, I'm sorry, was because of my kids.
17:16And I kept thinking, you know, who will raise them?
17:18He's going to be dead, I'm going to be in jail.
17:21But I mean, this is how demented he had my mind to.
17:25Over approximately ten years, Long sexually assaulted at least 50 women across Florida.
17:35These were completely random victims and were impossible to connect.
17:40The unknown offender became known as the classified ad rapist.
17:45With no evidence to link Long to the attacks,
17:48he was free to continue his assaults on unsuspecting women.
17:53It was a consistently dramatic way of discovering victims.
18:01He didn't go searching for them on the street.
18:04He wasn't hiding in the bushes or waiting in the park.
18:08He was a perfectly ordinary bloke answering a classified ad and saying,
18:14Oh, I'd like to see the item you've got for sale.
18:17Cindy had no knowledge of Bobby Joe's sadistic hobby.
18:22But in 1980, she plucked up the courage and filed for divorce.
18:27He was an animal, you know, and I mean, this is somebody that I loved.
18:33I mean, when I tell you I loved him, I loved him, you know, your first true love, you know.
18:39And how could I have been so blinded?
18:41Bobby Joe eventually left the family home and moved to the Tampa Bay area.
18:47When we first got divorced, we, you know, weren't very kind to each other because there was still so much animosity.
18:54But we still had to contact each other because we had the two children.
18:57So probably around 1982 or 83, we started where we could be civil to one another.
19:06And, you know, I had forgiven him for what he had done to me, just with the understanding that, you know, he's a sick individual.
19:14By the time they finally divorced, I think Long had decided that his only true satisfaction would be in a great many sexual partners.
19:27Bobby Joe Long had a fresh hunting ground of Tampa Bay where just raping and abusing women was no longer enough.
19:35He would go from being the classified ad rapist into a serial killer.
19:44Divorced from his wife, Bobby Joe Long began his sadistic murderous spree.
19:49Preying on vulnerable young women in the red light district, his need for sexual gratification was insatiable.
19:58On the 10th of May, 1984, exotic dancer Lana had arranged to meet her boyfriend after work and was walking along the strip.
20:07Lana was an Asian. She was a pole dancer in a bar on the strip.
20:12She had relocated from California and she had a boyfriend.
20:17She was often asked to go home, you know, to be taken home.
20:21But she didn't usually do that, even though that was extra money.
20:26Bobby Joe Long came along in the car and he stopped the car and asked her if she'd like a ride.
20:32She got into the car and that was his first known victim in that killing frenzied period.
20:42Lana's body was found three days later by two boys near East Bay Road, Tampa.
20:47She'd been brutally raped, strangled and her body grotesquely posed.
20:53She had the hangman's noose around her neck and she was cut while all that was going on.
20:58It was out of control.
21:00The, the, the lickagers showed signs of, of, of a knife.
21:05And he just left her in the field.
21:07This was, was one of those, those cases where you have this first murder and the, the individual who's been killed is associated with the sex work trade.
21:20Is, is somebody who's seen as, as less deserving.
21:23And very often these murders don't get the same attention, don't get the, the same kind of investigation as others.
21:30So, very often these first murders are real opportunities to apprehend a serial killer before they kill again.
21:37On the 26th of May, Long struck once again.
21:41He picked up 22 year old sex worker Michelle on the strip.
21:46Michelle was a beauty queen at one time and, and she was very pretty.
21:51But she was a drug addict and, uh, and so she did that to support her, uh, her habit.
21:56After she got in the car, Long drove to Park Road, known as the local lover's lane.
22:05He tied her up, beat her and viciously raped her and then threw her out of the car.
22:11But Michelle was still alive.
22:13This victim has got spirit and she puts up a fantastic fight which makes him extremely angry.
22:24So angry indeed that he not only does he try and strangle her, he then goes on to cut her throat viciously.
22:33So he cut the throat of one victim.
22:36He really didn't care.
22:37He wanted to, to get his pleasure, have his fun and then just simply dispose of these women.
22:42When you're getting to that level of brutality, we are beyond simply ending a life.
22:49We are into cruelty.
22:51We are into doing things for Long's own perverted pleasure.
22:58And that, to my mind, is evil.
23:01Strangulation and the use of ligatures became Long's killing trademarks.
23:07He used ropes and a series of knots to create a collar like a hangman's noose.
23:14With strangulation, you're very physically close and you have complete control.
23:20You have ownership of that other person while you're strangling them.
23:24And you know you have power of life and death literally in your hands.
23:31Michelle's body was found a day later in an isolated area of Hillsborough County by a construction worker.
23:39There was no indication that Long selected women of a physical type.
23:44But during his eight-month killing spree, all of his victims were young women and the majority were sex workers.
23:51They were the classic serial killer victim.
23:56How often have we talked about how vulnerable prostitute sex workers are to a serial killer?
24:03Bobby Joe Long falls into the stereotype.
24:06I think he made a conscious decision in early 1984 to start killing.
24:16And once he started, he simply could not stop.
24:20On the 8th of June, he picked up factory worker 22-year-old Elizabeth,
24:25who'd been in the red light area of Nebraska Avenue.
24:29He doesn't look like a monster.
24:31He's incredibly charming, he's incredibly charismatic and he's good-looking.
24:35So he's able to disarm you quite easily.
24:39Like his other victims, Elizabeth felt safe enough to accept a ride from him.
24:45But what he concealed was this volcanic temperament hiding beneath the surface
24:54that gave him this extraordinary drive to be incredibly violent towards women.
25:03She got in the car and went through the same MO, raped her violently on the front seat of his car,
25:11took her to a remote place, and continued to rape and torture her.
25:17Long strangled Elizabeth with rope, stole her cash card, and later emptied her account.
25:25Her body was found 16 days later in an orange grove in Brandon,
25:30approximately 10 miles from Nebraska Avenue.
25:34The line between rape and murder is extremely thin.
25:38This is a man who is now addicted, obsessed to rape and murder.
25:44In two months, law enforcement agencies had discovered three bodies,
25:50but they had no witnesses and no tangible leads that could help them identify a killer.
25:56When we look at Long's motivation for murder, I think here's somebody who felt that they were entitled to kill these women.
26:04He had a very black and white outlook. There were women who were respectable,
26:08and there were women who were not respectable.
26:10And he felt that he was the one who could decide which ones lived and which ones died.
26:16And I think if he was honest, and you asked him why did he commit these murders,
26:21because he wanted to, and it's as simple as that.
26:23It's not about simple killing. It's about the power and control over women.
26:28That was exactly what Bobby Jo Long was demonstrating.
26:32I have ultimate control.
26:35As the number of deaths rose, the community in Tampa were left terrified.
26:42The killer had a particular appetite for prostitutes,
26:51and they knew that they could be killed any time.
26:54And after the one girl that was not a prostitute was murdered,
26:57anyone could be a victim, and they knew that.
27:00And terror was prevalent all over the city.
27:03Long's lust for killing was insatiable.
27:07On the 7th of October, the body of 18-year-old sex worker Chanel
27:12was discovered lying by the entrance road of a cattle ranch
27:16near the Pasco Hillsborough County line in Florida.
27:19She'd been shot in the neck.
27:22Chanel was the only black girl that he killed.
27:26A troublesome teenager.
27:29But she wasn't particularly a professional hooker at that time,
27:34but she was just beginning to go back into the business.
27:38But this night, she just got in the car with the wrong man,
27:42and she was murdered in the same way, tortured, raped.
27:49Police were at a loss.
27:51They still had no evidence to lead them to the perpetrator.
27:54Bobby Jo Long was free to kill again.
27:58Just one week later, police made another grim discovery.
28:02On the 14th of October, 1984,
28:05the body of 28-year-old sex worker Karen
28:08was found in an orange grove in Hillsborough County.
28:11The victim's hands and feet were bound.
28:14She'd been struck on the forehead and strangled.
28:17Karen was from a very upper-middle-class family
28:21in St. Petersburg.
28:23An excellent student. She had it all.
28:25But in high school, she got hooked on drugs.
28:28And it just turned her whole life around
28:31because she lost her ambition to succeed at anything
28:34but just support her habit.
28:37By mid-October 1984, investigators had collected forensic evidence
28:43from the crime scenes and bodies of five victims.
28:47But the elements were working against them.
28:49Long left his victims out in the Florida heat.
28:54You've got temperature degrading that body.
28:59You have predators. You have animals.
29:01If that body isn't found quickly,
29:04it is going to severely interfere
29:06with the forensic pathological investigation.
29:09It's almost like you're working against the clock.
29:12But what they did find suggested that the victims
29:16were likely linked to a single killer.
29:19Among the things they found were some distinctive red fibres
29:23and also some very distinctive tyre tracks.
29:26And they were tyre tracks that belonged to a specific type of tyre.
29:31It was custom-made for use on Cadillac.
29:34So that was quite unique.
29:36So those were some common denominators.
29:39Those were some pieces of the puzzle.
29:41And eventually, they would get put together.
29:44Deputies had begun patrolling the perpetrator's hunting ground,
29:48Nebraska Avenue and West Kennedy Boulevard.
29:51Investigators also created a profile of the murderer
29:55to help narrow down their search.
29:58He had the injuries from youth, head injuries, birth defects, all of it.
30:05They had about a dozen things that serial killers had in common.
30:10Bobby Joe Long had them all.
30:12He was a profile poster child of serial killing.
30:17On October the 31st, in an isolated area of Hillsborough County,
30:21police discovered their sixth body, that of sex worker Kimberley Hopps.
30:26The authorities hunting the unknown killer
30:29desperately needed a breakthrough in the investigation.
30:33Little did they know that Long himself was about to hand it to them.
30:39At around 2 a.m. on the night of November the 3rd,
30:4317-year-old Lisa was cycling home from her job
30:46at a doughnut shop in northern Tampa.
30:49Long pulled her from her bicycle at gunpoint,
30:52dragged her into a car and blindfolded her.
30:57She was made to remove all her clothes,
30:59and he bound her hands, wrists and feet.
31:03He then forced Lisa to perform oral sex on him.
31:07But this time, he doesn't drive her to some neglected field or other place.
31:14This time, unusually, he takes her to his apartment.
31:19In the apartment, he raped her,
31:21and then he took her into the shower and washed her hair.
31:25Lisa remained calm and complied with her tormentor.
31:30And then he shifted like lightning and dragged her out of the shower
31:37and raped her, and then he would talk to her, sweet talk.
31:41You know, I'm sorry apologizing.
31:43I'm sorry we had to meet like this.
31:45You seem like a nice girl.
31:47I really like you.
31:49And then a simple request from her might be denied violently.
31:55Now, until this point,
31:57Bobby Jo Long's victims have always been terrified.
32:01Killed.
32:03Raped, killed immediately.
32:06But this is not the case with Lisa.
32:08Lisa's survival instincts kicked in.
32:12In the apartment, she touched as many objects and surfaces as she could,
32:16especially in the bathroom.
32:21After hours in captivity, she had gained Long's trust.
32:27Still blindfolded, he allowed her to touch him intimately.
32:33He let her touch his face, and she would be able to say,
32:37oh, he's got pox marks, or he's got a little moustache,
32:41or this or that.
32:43And just enough of seeing under the blindfold would identify other things.
32:48Later that night in the dark, he removed Lisa's blindfold.
32:53She convinces him that she will do whatever he wants,
32:57that she is no threat to him.
33:00He can do whatever he wants to her.
33:02She is somehow malleable in his hands.
33:06I think Bobby Jo Long kind of fell for her in a sort of way.
33:15But I think something else was going on as well.
33:18Then Long did something unexpected.
33:21But the next morning, he said, it's time to go.
33:25And she thought, is he going to let me go?
33:28And he did.
33:31After driving for a short while, Long stopped to withdraw cash
33:35at an ATM near his apartment.
33:38With Long out of the car, Lisa adjusted her blindfold.
33:42She made a mental note of everything she could see.
33:45Lisa remembered several details about her ordeal.
33:50She remembered that she'd been picked up in a red car,
33:54which was a Dodge Magnum.
33:56She remembered the word Magnum being on the interior of the car
33:59and on the seats.
34:00She remembered what Bobby Jo Long looked like.
34:03She also recalled that they'd stopped at an ATM.
34:06At approximately 4am, Long dropped Lisa off
34:11in a parking lot in North Tampa.
34:13I think Long was beginning to think
34:20that this spree of killing women,
34:23this rape and murder spree in Tampa Bay,
34:26was probably coming to an end.
34:29It is one of the most extraordinary facts of his case
34:34that he chose to let a victim go.
34:36And as he did so,
34:38he knew he was actually signing his own death warrant.
34:42Lisa walked home and woke her father,
34:44who immediately called Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office.
34:48She gave a detailed description of her abductor,
34:51his red Dodge Magnum car, and the ATM they'd stopped at.
34:56Her clothes were also submitted to the FBI forensic lab.
35:00Investigators quickly began circulating details
35:03of the suspect among law enforcement departments in Florida.
35:08So there were these really crucial pieces of the puzzle
35:11that investigators could put together,
35:13and they could narrow down a suspect list.
35:15They could find out who owned cars like this.
35:17They could find out who conducted transactions at ATMs.
35:21And that was a really valuable starting point.
35:24Lisa's testimony was effectively the break in the case.
35:28At that point, no-one knew, or even suspected,
35:32that Bobby Joe Long had indeed killed a number of women
35:36in the Tampa area.
35:38As Lisa's case was an abduction,
35:40it wasn't initially connected to the previous six murders.
35:44But in the following eight days,
35:46two more bodies were found,
35:48one in neighbouring Pasco County
35:50and the other in Hillsborough County.
35:52The first was 18-year-old waitress Virginia,
35:55and the second was 21-year-old student Kim Swan.
36:01Many of Bobby Joe's victims were decomposed,
36:05so it was more complicated for them to put together the details.
36:10They had six bodies, but now they have Lisa's testimony
36:14and they find Kim's body and Virginia.
36:17On the 13th of November, police finally received a breakthrough
36:22when the forensic test results came back from the lab.
36:26The authorities took considerable pains
36:30to examine the crime scenes.
36:32Among the things they found were some distinctive red fibres
36:35and also some very distinctive tyre tracks.
36:39The same red carpet fibres that had been found
36:42on the bodies of seven of the eight other victims
36:45matched the fibres that had been discovered
36:47on the clothing Lisa was wearing during her abduction.
36:51It was revealed that they had the red carpet fibres,
36:55they had all of these pieces of the puzzle coming together.
36:58With such strong evidence connecting Lisa's attacker
37:02to the other Florida murders,
37:04the police knew they had to identify the killer fast.
37:08So they started to put together the evidence
37:11that Lisa McVeigh had provided.
37:13They looked through records of ATM transactions,
37:16they looked through records of car ownership
37:19and they honed in on a range of suspects
37:23and one of them was Bobby Joe Long.
37:25With forensic evidence, the tyre marks
37:28and the make and model of the car,
37:30the net was closing in on Bobby Joe Long.
37:33On November the 14th, Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office
37:37formed a task force with four other law enforcement agencies,
37:41including the FBI in Florida, to catch the suspect.
37:46You have a full-scale task force at work,
37:50absolutely determined to nail the man
37:56who's been committing all these foul rapes and murders.
37:59A surveillance team is put on Bobby Joe Long.
38:03They follow him everywhere.
38:05The following day, on November the 15th,
38:08Long's red magnum was spotted driving down Nebraska Avenue.
38:12Now, they needed to make sure that this was their guy,
38:15so they pulled him over in his car one day
38:18under the guise of looking for a suspect in a robbery,
38:22and they took a photograph of him and then let him go.
38:26Lisa Long's only surviving victim was shown the photograph
38:31and was able to positively identify Bobby Joe Long
38:35as her abductor.
38:37On the same day, bank machine records for Hillsborough County
38:40confirmed Lisa's testimony.
38:43Long had used an ATM at approximately 3am near his apartment
38:48the morning he dropped her off.
38:50Still under surveillance and with a warrant for Long's arrest,
38:54the task force seized their chance.
38:57The net is closing very quickly around Long.
39:03They were not going to let this guy commit yet another murder,
39:07and they followed him to a movie theatre one day,
39:10and he went in and he watched a film,
39:13and the police waited outside for him to come out.
39:16On November the 16th, 1984,
39:19Long was arrested outside a movie theatre.
39:22His Dodge Magnum was seized,
39:24and a sample of the red carpet from the vehicle
39:27was immediately submitted to the Florida Department
39:30of Law Enforcement Crime Lab.
39:32When questioned about the abduction and rape of Lisa,
39:35he quickly confessed.
39:37You said something earlier, okay?
39:40About the reason you let go,
39:44and what would happen as a result of letting her go.
39:47Do you want to say that again?
39:49I knew it would lead to me getting caught.
39:52Why did you learn what?
39:54I just knew it would.
39:56I knew she saw me,
39:57and I had a pretty good idea she could see underneath the blindfolds.
40:01And it was a real tug of war trying to decide if I should let her go or not.
40:07But I didn't want to hurt her.
40:10But when he was interviewed about the eight murders,
40:13he denied all knowledge of them.
40:15Within hours of sending the carpet sample from Long's car
40:19to the forensics lab, the results were back.
40:22The fibers were an exact match to the ones found on the victims
40:26and on Lisa's clothes.
40:28There is no doubt whatever that those red carpet fibers
40:33were the link among a number of the killings
40:36and identified Bobby Joe as a serial killer.
40:40So they tell him about the carpet fibers,
40:43and he realizes that the game is up.
40:45So what he's doing here is he's trying to get back in control.
40:49So he confesses to the murders.
40:52He said, yes, it was me.
40:53The areas that you dropped together,
40:55did you ever go out and scout him ahead of time or anything,
40:57and just trade around and found him?
40:59No, I never rushed to get out of there.
41:02While being interviewed, Long made another shocking admission.
41:06He revealed the location of another victim,
41:0821-year-old waitress Vicki, in Hillsborough County.
41:12But by that point, he was well aware
41:15that the scales of justice were certainly tipping against him,
41:18as if to dot the I's and cross the T's.
41:21Long drew them a map of where he dumped Vicki's body.
41:25If there was a final nail in his coffin,
41:27that was most certainly it.
41:30So he called me, and when I answered the phone,
41:34I could tell right away something was wrong in his voice,
41:37and he said, you know, the girls, I killed the girls in Tampa.
41:41And I said, you know, you're not funny,
41:43don't mess with me like that.
41:44And then Bob asked me, he said to call his parents
41:48and tell our children that he was killed in a car accident.
41:52And I said, I'm not going to lie to our kids, you know,
41:56and I couldn't lie to them.
41:59But just six days after his arrest,
42:01another body was found in rural southern Hillsborough County,
42:05that of 18-year-old Artis,
42:07a prostitute Long picked up in March 1984.
42:11He confessed to her murder,
42:13and it's believed that Artis was his first victim.
42:17Long had now claimed the lives of ten women.
42:21On April the 22nd, 1985,
42:24in Dade City, Pasco County, Florida,
42:27Long was tried for the murder of 18-year-old waitress
42:30and sex worker Virginia.
42:32He was found guilty and was sentenced to die by electric chair.
42:37I think he's accepted that basically
42:40he is facing the death penalty.
42:42Now, what brought about the change of heart?
42:45Probably the overwhelming weight of evidence
42:48that was being thrown at him.
42:52On September the 23rd, 1985,
42:55Long pleaded guilty to eight counts of first-degree murder,
42:59eight counts of kidnap and seven of sexual battery.
43:03He also pleaded guilty to the charges of sexual battery
43:07and kidnapping of Lisa.
43:09After several appeals, the death penalty he received
43:12for the murder of Virginia was revoked.
43:15He's currently incarcerated in a high-security prison,
43:18serving at least four 99-year sentences,
43:2228 life sentences,
43:24one five-year sentence for aggravated assault,
43:27and one death sentence for the murder of his third victim, Michelle.
43:31But more than 30 years after his brutal murderous spree,
43:36Bobby Joe Long has yet to be executed.
43:40There's quite a bit of to-ing and fro-ing after this,
43:43when you look at the trial, when you look at his appeals.
43:46So he wants to withdraw his guilty plea,
43:50then he wants to reinstate it.
43:52And what's happening here is he's enjoying
43:55pulling other people's strings.
43:56So when he's in prison, there's very, very little
43:59that he's got control over.
44:00But one of the things that he can control is his plea,
44:03and he's using that to his full advantage.
44:05He really is a puppet master.
44:07Convicted of nine brutal murders and the abduction and rape of one,
44:13Tampa Bay's mass murderer is suspected of taking more lives,
44:18and that makes Bobby Joe Long one of the world's most evil killers.
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44:54Now that is the end.
44:55Why do you think she's been to you?
44:56The end.
44:57They are the most evil.
44:58The end.
45:00The end.
45:01The end.
45:02The end.
45:03The end.
45:04The end.
45:05Of the end.