It all started on Sunday, May 13, 1984. On Mother’s Day. That day, two boys walking in a forest found the body of a young woman whose arms were tied behind her back and her legs were cut off from the rest of her body.
Two weeks later, a second body is found in the area. Woman again. The nightmare had just begun. For the next period and almost every two weeks, the authorities found the bodies of women. They were all raped and tortured to death.
At the same time, as a form of avalanche one after the other, complaints about rapes arrived at the police offices by battered women. Dissolved. The police knew they had to act immediately if they wanted to stop this anthropomorphic beast. Unfortunately for the victims but also for them, however, the perpetrator of all these horrible crimes seemed to be extremely careful.
The only evidence left behind by the serial killer who had terrorized the city of Tampa, Florida, were some red fibers found in some of the victims and assumed to be from a blanket or a rug. Beyond that, however, nothing…
At first, police believed that the serial killer was following in the footsteps of Jack the Ripper. The victims were either prostitutes, strippers or drug addicts. The brutal murder of a little girl who had just gone out for a short walk showed everyone that no woman should feel safe.
The FBI involvement and a strange kidnapping case

All of these heinous crimes have shocked not only Florida but every corner of the United States. The FBI estimates that the situation has now gotten out of the control of the local police and is taking action.
It sends special agents who were specialized in the analysis and sketching of serial killers. They manage to make the profile of the perpetrator and find some additional information (such as that the car he is driving has three identical wheels and one different from the others). But until there. Investigations seem to have swamped.
And there comes another double strong shock for the prosecuting authorities. On October 7, 1984, another corpse was found near a farm. This is an 18-year-old girl who was raped, strangled and the perpetrator, before leaving her dead, shot her once in the head! One week later, another body, the fifth to date, was found on October 14. This time the victim was a 28-year-old prostitute who had been raped, beaten without mercy and in the end the perpetrator had strangled her.

On November 3, 1984, 17-year-old Lisa McVey was abducted on her way home from work. The perpetrator was hiding in some bushes, he suddenly threw himself in front of her, threw her down and put her in his car by force. There, with the threat of a gun, he forced her to have oral sex with him and told her that he would then let her go. The young girl was forced to do so. The perpetrator, however, did not let her go. He took her to his apartment, where he held her hostage for 26 hours. He raped her again and again. Lisa was sure he would kill her in the end but she wanted this man arrested. So she started leaving behind evidence that could lead the authorities to the perpetrator.
She left her fingerprints in his bathroom. He threw a hair bone, along with some of her hair under the bed, although with his eyes closed he calculated the area where his house was, counted the stairs that went up to reach his apartment, recognized the make of the car on the dashboard in front of the passenger seat, she bit one of her fingers and left a spot of blood on the passenger seat.
When, after 26 hours of real hell with her rapist, 17-year-old Lisa was forced to get in his car again, she knew the countdown had begun for her. She was sure that the perpetrator was taking her to an isolated location to execute her. Unexpectedly, however, he suddenly opened the passenger door and threw her out of the car. Then he disappeared…
“He raped me again and again and again, I lost count”

When Lisa recovered from the shock and realized that she had escaped, she went to the house where she lived with her grandmother and her partner. Neither of them believed her! The police officers to whom she went to testify about what she experienced did not believe her either. No one believed her until an experienced local police officer took over the case.
One of the first things she did was send her clothes to the FBI for analysis. He then asked the 17-year-old to describe every detail. She was shocked to hear what he was saying and especially that she had left behind all these incriminating facts about the perpetrator.
As Lisa explained to him from an early age, she had been sexually abused many times by her relatives and now she knew how to “command” such men. She tried to calm him down every time he threatened and insulted her. She pretended that she liked meeting him, she spoke to him sweetly and told him that the two of them could be a couple. Result; Towards the end of the hostage-taking, he called her his baby and showed a completely different behavior with only a few small violent outbursts.
With the completion of the deposit came the results from the FBI laboratories. Red carpet fibers were found in the young girl’s clothes. These fibers were identified with those found in most of its victims serial killer.
Now the police knew almost everything about him. The car he has, in what area he lives, what it looks like. All that remains is to reveal his name. This will happen on November 17 when two police officers on patrol located the red Dodge Magnum car and checked the driver’s details. His name was Robert Joe Long and his address was in the area where the police were looking for the killer’s apartment.

He was told that they were looking for a robbery suspect and so he cooperated with them. He even let them photograph him when they asked for a photo of him ostensibly to exclude him from the list of suspects. His arrest was now a matter of days.
When he was arrested and questioned in the face of all the overwhelming evidence the police had at their disposal, which was generously “offered” to them by 17-year-old Lisa, Long confessed that he wanted to avenge all the women because of his divorce. Within the 45 pages of his confession, he mentions in detail that in eight months he brutally murdered ten women and also reveals that before that he had raped about 50!
Long was sentenced to 99 years in prison and two death sentences. It was performed on May 23, 2019 with a lethal injection in a procedure that lasted 12 minutes. Next to the execution chamber was Lisa.
Today, Lisa is 55 years old and has become a police officer, serving in the police Florida, to the same police station that arrested her abductor and rapist. “I am alive and well. “I am not a victim,” he says characteristically.
Source: News Beast

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