
"I truly believe that all the abuse I'd been through in my life helped me get out of that situation." "Another 17-year-old girl probably wouldn't have been able to handle it the way that I have," she told the Naples Daily News in 2019. Noland was bound with ropes, blindfolded, and raped over the course of 26 hours before Long released her.Ī victim of past abuse, Noland was poised and, despite the blindfold, recalled minute details of the ordeal for law enforcement, even doing her best to leave behind evidence in case she didn’t survive. Then 17, Noland was kidnapped by Long as she rode her bike home late at night from her job at a local Krispy Kreme on Nov.
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In the fall of 1984, one of Long’s survivors - Lisa McVey Noland - was able to lead police straight to the serial killer. I’m so sorry.’ Then the next words were, ‘When you drive yourself to get your stitches, if you tell them what really happened, I’ll kill you when you get home,'” Brown said. In one instance, Brown claimed that Long approached her, choked her, and hit her head into the television set until she fell unconscious, reported the Associated Press. They divorced in 1980, and Brown recalled that over the course of their relationship, Long grew increasingly more violent. Long later wed his high school girlfriend, Cindy Brown, and the couple had two children. 14, 1953, Long lived in West Virginia with his parents Joe and Louella prior to their divorce in 1955. He then bounced between West Virginia and Florida, where his mother had relocated. His offenses, which are explored in Oxygen's " Mark of a Killer," were so heinous that his 2019 death warrant was one of the first duties carried out by newly elected Florida Gov. Bobby Joe Long was one of Florida's most prolific serial killers and rapists throughout the early 1980s.
