Cold Case Files - I SURVIVED A SERIAL KILLER: Tampa Terror

Episode Date: March 7, 2026

In November of 1984, 17-year-old Lisa McVey Noland was biking home from her job working the night shift at a local Tampa donut shop when she was suddenly snatched off her bike and abducted. Her assailant, 31-year-old Bobby Joe Long, had already killed at least ten women before holding Lisa hostage in his apartment. Lisa recounts in her own words her resilience and the keen insights that helped her outwit her would-be murderer.This Episode is sponsored by BetterHelpApartments.com - To find whatever you’re searching for and more visit apartments.com the place to find a place.BetterHelp: Visit BetterHelp.com/SURVIVED to get 10% off your first month!Mint - To get the new customer offer and your new 3-month premium wireless plan for just $15 a month, go to Mintmobile.com/survivedProgressive - Multitask right now. Quote your car insurance at Progressive.com to join the over 28 million drivers who trust Progressive.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

This program contains subject matter that may be disturbing to some listeners. Listener discretion is advised. Bobby Joel Long has been convicted of raping and brutally murdering Tampa Bay women. I have had sex women. And then I stabbed it with the night, then that. We're dealing with a sick, sick person. The problem is how many more women would die before we got a break in that case. out of nowhere, I felt someone just yanked me off my bicycle.

I see a black revolver in his left hand, and I just know I'm going to die. He hated women and enjoyed exercising power over women. This guy was the worst demon you'd ever want to know. I took my blindfold off, and then I turn around and I just start running. Real people who faced death and lived to tell how. This is I survived, a serial killer. I am Lisa McVeigh-Nolan, and I survived a serial killer. Back in 1984, I was 17-year-old little girl.

I was living in Tampa, and I worked at a donut shop. It was number of second. I had went to work like any other day, and at 2 o'clock in the morning into November 3rd, and I started running my bicycle home from work. As I'm peddling my bicycle, I'd come to an intersection of a church, and I noticed in the church parking lot was a car parked. It just struck me odd.

The road was dark. It was frightening, but I had to get home. So I just keep peddling. Then out of nowhere, and I felt someone just yanked me off my bicycle. A man put his arm around my neck, and the next thing I know, I felt the cold steel barrel of a gun to my left temple. He drugged me to the car. He threw me into the car.

I noticed it was maroon-colored car, white seats. He orders me to take all my clothes off. And at that moment, I knew this guy was the worst demon you'd ever want to know. Randy Latimer is a retired sergeant from the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office. Six months before Lisa was abducted, we found a victim that had been murdered next to the interstate. Lana Long was a dancer. A cold night.

She started fighting and screaming. And I was just tied her up. Lana Long had a ligature around her neck. And she had been raped. That told me that we're dealing with a sick, sick person. Two weeks after we discovered Lana Long, We found the body of 22-year-old Michelle Sims. This is the voice of Bobby Joe Long.

The same thing with Long. I tired of. I had sex with him. I tried to strand a little bit. It didn't work. And then I stabbed it with the knife, the neck. We sent the evidence off to the FBI lab. And Lanh Long and Michelle Sims both had this red,

carpet fiber on their bodies. The fiber came from a car. At this point, we felt that the two cases were similar enough to where we needed to keep them together. Larry Pinkerton is a retired sergeant from the Tampa Police Department. They had some physical evidence, but no suspects, no person of interest. After my abduction, he decides to tie Marissa up. my legs and blindfolded me.

I was scared, but at the same time, I was going to do whatever it took to survive. I'm thinking if he blindfolds me, how am I going to see anything? So I would tighten my jaw to make the blindfold loose, and it worked. At any given moment, I was able to peek beneath a blindfold. I had to try to see if I can identify anything in the car. that would help me recognize the car again if I was to go to the police. And then I saw the word Magnum on the dashboard. I just categorize it in my mind, Magnum PI.

So I can remember to the T of what type of car I might have been in. And that's when he ordered me to perform an oral act on him. When there's a person that has a gun to your head, you tend to do what they say. they say because at any given moment you risking your own life afterwards we went on about a 20-minute drive eventually he pulls over he orders me to get dressed and then he gets out of the car and I'm praying the Lord's Prayer because I'm thinking he's going to rape me he's gonna shoot and kill me next to know he grabs my arm and we

walk up to a door he opens the door we enter the I'm still blindfold, but all my senses were extremely heightened. I can hear the sound of a box fan. He removes my ligatures, my blindfold, insisting and demanding that keep my eye shut. And he escorts me into the bathroom. He puts me into the shower. Then he climbs in the shower with me.

Then he bathed me. It was almost like he was... He was living out of fantasy as if we were just two lovers in the shower. It was just odd. But then he orders me out of the shower, and that's when the first attack happened. He got enraged. He threw me down the back floor and just brutally raped me. It was horrible.

When Lisa was abducted, she knew that she was in trouble. But I really don't think she knew just how close she was coming to die. From June of 1984 for the next six months, law enforcement was involved in four more fines of bodies of women. It's basically the same thing as with the other two girls. Tire up, took her out, took her out, took her up, took her clothes off, had sex women. Of those four women, one of them was shot, and the other thing, three were strangled. There was also red carpet fibers found on three of the four women.

We felt without a doubt that these additional four murders also joined the first two that we were working already. We knew them we were dealing with a serial killer. But they had no suspect, no witnesses. The city was on edge with this murderer in their midst. Authorities are urging everyone to be on the lookout for any suspicious activity. I had to believe that he would be caught. The problem was how many more women would die before we got a break in that case. After the attack in the bathroom,

he gets me up, walks me into the bedroom. He escorts me to the bed. He retires my wrists and my ankles, re-blindfolds me again. I lost count how many times he attacked me. I asked why he was doing this. He said he was getting back at women in general due to a recent bad breakup.

It was a clue for me to be able to get inside his head. I can cuddle him at all times to basically keep myself alive. About 3 o'clock the next morning, he says, what am I going to do with you? And I said, listen,

we can stay together. We don't have to tell people how we met. You seem like a really nice guy. and I'll take good care of you. I had to use basically reverse psychology. Like he finally got someone to care about him. But then he told me he couldn't keep me. It wouldn't work out.

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slash survived. That's better help.com slash survived. After I asked if we can be boyfriend and girlfriend, he told me it wouldn't work out. We get to the car and he said he had to go to the the bank. When he pulled up to the building, he told me to sit tight, don't run. It was 26 hours that this monster had me in captivity. I've come this far. I'm going to do exactly what he says. I was blindfolded, but I could see beneath my blindfolded and I knew exactly where we were. After we leave the ATM machine, he pulls into his side of a business and parks the car, and then he gets me out of the car. He goes, I need you to stand over five minutes.

Is he going to shoot me now in the back? Is he going to kill me? But just as quick as he took me, he drove off. And I'm standing and I'm frozen. And I'm thinking to myself, what does this happen? I was a shock that I was still alive. I took my blindfold off. And then I turn around and I just start running.

I just was so afraid of him. I'm back. It's kill me. It was a half a mile to run home. And it seemed like the house was getting further and further away. But eventually, I made it back to my grandmother's house. My grandmother calls the police. I had to go to the hospital.

I had to have a rape kit done. It was almost like being violated all over again. It was horrible. But I did it. I had to do it. And that's when they decided to take my clothes for evidence. I took Lisa's statement, her story of what happened was in such detail that it was like a plot for a movie. I said to myself, this man could be the serial killer of all six women.

We made sure that the evidence from all these cases were compared to the evidence from Lisa. November 14th, we got the results back on the analysis of Lisa's clothing. clothing. The FBI lab told us that we had a match with the red carpet fiber with hers and the other murder victims. And so we knew now that she had been abducted by our serial killer. Now, we not only have evidence, we have a live witness. Lisa is the key to everything. But after Lisa reported her abduction to the police department, we found two to more bodies. Authorities are responding to skeletal remains found in a pasture in Pascoe County.

We've got eight women murdered. Now we're racing against time because we've got to find him and stop him before he kills again. We don't need any more evidence. We need him. Lisa had so many pieces of good information. She knew they were at an ATM machine, so that led us directly to the bank. We subpoenaed their ATM records from the night that she was abducted.

Because of the description that Lisa gave us of a car, everyone was looking for the Dodge Magnum. We were able to get a printout from the Department of Motor Vehicle of all Dodge Magnums in Hillsborough County, and then we were able to compare the two lists. One name was the only name that showed up on each list. That name was Robert Joe Long. November 16th, about two weeks after Lisa was abducted,

we were able to find his car in the parking garage of the movie theater, and when he came out of the movies, he was taken down and arrested. The task force announced the arrest of Long at 11 o'clock this evening, and here he is, 31-year-old Robert J. Long. Larry Pinkerton told me about Robert J. Long's arrest. I was relieved that he'd finally been caught, and that he couldn't do this to women

anymore. He's covering his face with his manacled arms. He's now in the car. The car now pulling away. Robert J. Long, charged here in Hillsborough County tonight. We were able to get a search warrant for his automobile and a searching Long's car. We were able to find the red carpet fibers. It was the same fibers in Lisa's case and the murder cases. We took Long to the sheriff's office. to ask him if he was involved in the rape and abduction of Lisa. And after a period of time, he admitted that he did abduct her. So then I threw out the pictures of all the homicide victims and asked him if he knew any of them.

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I killed all of them. I just tie her up. Did the same thing. It was with the other girls. Once we got through discussing the murder victims, we asked me if there was anything else that he had done. And he said that he had been dubbed the classified ad rapist. What were the rapists did you do, Bob?

He was signed down Miami and Lauder Deal. He terrorized this area for a long time. They were on high alert and they were scared. How long ago was this? He was back for the only time. How did you get from the center? He used the newspaper. He would read a classified ad.

He'd go to their house and if it was a woman by herself, then he would rape her. How many, two, five, twenty, He said that he probably raped more than 50 women. It's when he said, and I knew when I took Lisa and let her go, that I was going to get caught. I had a pretty good idea she could see underneath the blindfalls. And it was a real problem we were trying to decide if I should let her go or not. I didn't want to hurt.

This guy, he knew what he was doing. He had me. I could have been dead. I could have been lying down in some ditch or somewhere. I think the reason why I was the only one that made it out was because I did what I had to do to get him to listen with his heart instead of just his evilness he had in his mind. And it worked. He killed 10 women. We've only found 10, but I think he killed more than 10.

September 24, 1985, long pled guilty to the murder of eight women and the abduction of Lisa. long received more than two dozen life sentences and one death sentence for the murders. After 34 years, Bobby Jolong, the man convicted of raping and brutally murdering Tampa Bay Women is scheduled to be executed. I chose to go to Robert Jolong's execution

because I'm stronger than ever and I needed to close that chapter of my life. Bobby Jolong, thank you. Thank you for choosing me instead of another 17-year-old little girl. The reason why I say thank you now is because I have forgiven you for what you have done to me. Lisa is now a deputy for the Hilderburg County Sheriff's Office, and she is now and always will be my hero.

I became a deputy because what I've been through my life. Those times I get victims of rape, and I tell them my story to show them. This doesn't mean you can't make something of yourself. I'm just proud of myself that I stood up and I worked towards my goals to get to where I'm at today. Finding the one can feel impossible. And in today's world, it's even harder. False profiles, inaccurate pictures, incompatibilities, ghosting on dates. Is this sounding familiar?

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