On the evening of November 3, 1984, 17-year-old Lisa McVey prepared to cycle home after finishing her part-time job.
Unlike in the past, the day meant a lot to Lisa, who spent a day saying goodbye to friends and colleagues and then leaving a suicide note ready to carry out her suicide plan.
However, fate changed her decision in a terrible way and gave her the motivation to live.
On her way home, Lisa is kidnapped by serial killer Bobby Joe Long and held in an apartment for 26 hours, during which time she is repeatedly sexually assaulted by Bobby blindfolded.
In order to survive, Lisa calmly and calmly deals with the outlaws, tries her best to leave clues when she is imprisoned, remembers the gangster's appearance and environmental characteristics, and finally successfully escapes by herself.
It was because of this ordeal that Lisa aspired to become a policeman, dedicated to protecting children and fighting sexual crimes, and even many years later, she became a deputy sheriff and personally executed Bobby.
Her story was also adapted into the movie "Believe Me" by Netflix in 2021, which became popular on the Internet after it was launched, after all, what attracted people to discuss more than the revenge movie was "based on real people and real events".
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Lisa's childhood can be described as tragic, her mother was an alcoholic and drug addict, and she had to turn to her grandmother.
At the age of 13, Lisa's grandmother had a new boyfriend, and the arrival of this person also plunged Lisa into a new hell.
Grandma's boyfriend extended his black hand to Lisa, as long as Lisa dared to resist, he would threaten her with a gun, at first, Lisa also asked Grandma for help, but the answer she got made her extremely cold:
"Grandma said she acquiesced to what her boyfriend had done to me, and sometimes when I was violated, she would even watch from the sidelines and do nothing."
It wasn't until she was 17 that Lisa had no idea how many times she had been sexually assaulted, and one day she decided to end it all.
At two o'clock in the morning, Lisa rode home from work at the donut shop, and according to the original plan, she planned to swallow a gun when she got home.
As Lisa passed a church, a man trotted up to her from behind and dragged her off her bike.
Lisa screamed subconsciously, and suddenly, the attacker pointed a gun at Lisa's head and said, "Shut up, or I'll shoot you!" ”
Such a threat, Lisa has heard countless times in the past few years, and it is this sentence that makes her, who originally wanted to commit suicide, clearly realize that she does not want to die.
In order to survive, Lisa said to the person who attacked her, "You can do whatever you want, as long as you don't kill me." ”
At that time, Lisa was desperately trying to calm herself down, and many of the crime shows she had watched before began to play back in her mind, and if she couldn't escape, she would write down every detail as much as possible, and if she had a chance to survive in the future, these could be provided to the police.
In the darkness, the man silently tied Lisa up, blindfolded her, and threw her into a side car.
Through the gap in the blindfold, she saw herself cucked into a red Dodge car with white seats and a crimson carpet with the word "Magnum" written on the dashboard.
After that, the man drove north with Lisa, and through the wind blowing through the window, Lisa sensed that they were driving on the highway, and after about 20 minutes (and possibly longer), the car stopped, and Lisa saw a large leaf under the blindfold.
The man dragged Lisa's arm out of the car and entered a building, where Lisa struggled to jot down more details.
"I could see that the carpet was green with yellow-red specks, and I walked up the stairs up a total of 19 steps, then turned left, then turned right, and I realized it was an apartment."
Lisa could feel that the room was neat, freshly painted, and the room was very empty.
As everyone knows, she will be greeted by 26 hours of hellish torture. Except for the middle of her bath, the man was so cautious that he never let Lisa take off the blindfold.
The man tied Lisa to a bed of water and repeatedly assaulted her, not only that, but also slapped her and punched her in the face with his fists.
In order to make the man let down his guard, Lisa endured the insult and cooperated 100% throughout the process:
"He told me to do whatever I wanted; he asked me what my name was, and I made up individual names; he asked me how old I was, and I lied that I was 19... I thought, anyway, I've been violated for so many years, and if I survive this time, I'll never let anyone do that to me again. ”
It wasn't until both were exhausted that the man let Go of Lisa and ordered her to go to sleep. When he woke up, the man took Lisa to another room, gave her some food and water, and turned on the radio for her to listen to.
Just then, the radio was interrupted by an urgent news item that said: A 17-year-old girl named Lisa is missing...
Hearing this news, Lisa began to cry and scream involuntarily, and the man who heard the news rushed to turn his gun on Lisa again, shouting: "Don't force me to kill you!" ”
It was this sentence that made Lisa see the hope of life, and from the tone of the man,she vaguely felt that this person might not want to kill her.
Immediately after, the angry man took Lisa back to the bedroom and began a second round of sexual assault. In the process, Lisa gently placed her hand on the man's face, and she touched the man with a beard, a pox on his face, a high nose bridge, some fat, but not particularly fat...
When it was over, the man threw Lisa into the bathroom and ordered her to take a shower, and at the moment of removing the blindfold, she caught a quick glimpse of the man with short brown hair.
In the bathroom, Lisa suddenly thought that she had to leave more evidence, and she began to grope the wall, leaving as much fingerprints and saliva as possible.
After coming out, Lisa already had a general plan in mind.
During the years she lived with her grandmother's boyfriend, Lisa knew that to deal with such irritable people, she had to follow them, and she had to be flattered inside and out.
She asked why men kidnapped her? The man said he was dumped, so he wanted to get revenge on the woman.
Lisa, who has been sexually assaulted for many years, knows that if she wants to survive, she must let the man see that he is a compassionate person, and make him realize that he is very sad about what happened to him.
So, Lisa hit the iron while it was hot and said, "Our encounters are similar, I especially understand you, I can be your girlfriend to take care of you, I will not tell others how we met, you can rest assured." ”
After a heart-to-heart conversation, the man's tone also eased a lot, and then Lisa made up some of her own family situation, saying that her father was seriously ill and that she was the only one who could take care of him.
After a moment of silence, the man suddenly threw Lisa a blouse, asked her to get dressed, and asked where her family lived, saying that he would take her home.
Lisa couldn't believe she had succeeded, and at one point she thought she was going to die here.
The man blindfolded Lisa again and led her to the car, and although she wore an eye mask all the way, Lisa saw him wearing a white T-shirt, jeans, and white sneakers.
I don't know how long it took the man to put her down at a certain intersection and said to Lisa's ear, "Tell your father that he is the reason you survived, and in five minutes you will be able to take off your blindfold." ”
After listening to the man's words, Lisa tried to restrain her inner excitement, and after 300 seconds of silent reading, she finally took off her blindfold.
What caught her eye was a beautiful oak tree, and Lisa knew she had survived.
She began to run desperately, running in the direction of home, and whenever there was a car passing in the middle, she was so nervous that she held her breath, afraid that the man would come to her and catch her.
Finally, at 4:30 a.m., Lisa knocked on the door of Her Grandmother's house.
It was Grandma's boyfriend who opened the door, and when he saw Lisa return, he grabbed her by the hair, threw Lisa to the ground, and interrogated her while beating her.
No matter how Lisa explained that she had been kidnapped and sexually assaulted, they did not believe it, and after 5 hours of fighting, Grandma spoke.
What Lisa did not expect was that grandma did not take her to the police, but instead picked up the phone and called the police, saying that the missing granddaughter had come home, ran out by herself, and "lied" that she had been kidnapped.
Fortunately, the police did not believe the family's one-sided words, and the next day, they summoned Lisa to the police station.
There, Lisa told a policeman about her experience, describing the details of the vehicle information she saw, the scene of the crime, the characteristics of the suspect, etc. to the police, and the calm appearance of the whole process once made the police think that she was lying.
Looking at the disbelief on the policeman's face, Lisa gave up and said to him, "Find someone smarter to ask me." ”
Finally, another police officer, Larry, stepped forward and said to Lisa, "I believe in you." It then turned around and reported it to the FBI.
A few days later, Lisa saw a new murder being broadcast on television, the eighth woman in the area to die since the fight against spring.
Seeing the host's broadcast, Lisa's frightened hair stood up, and her intuition told her that the person who kidnapped her was the serial killer who had always thrown everyone into fear, and she was the only survivor.
So Lisa hurried to call the police officer Larry and tell him what she thought.
The law stipulates that minors need to obtain the consent of their guardians to help the police solve the case, and when Larry comes to the door to ask For Grandma Lisa's opinion, Grandma's boyfriend jumps out and refuses this request, without any reason.
Looking at her grandmother's boyfriend's attitude, Lisa couldn't help but cry, and Larry, who felt something was wrong, rushed to ask Lisa what had happened.
In the end, Lisa revealed her experiences and interrogations of his sexual assault over the years, and the police arrested the scum.
Life's worst nightmare is solved, and Lisa devotes herself to helping the police catch the serial killer.
Looking at the photos of the suspects provided by the police, Lisa pointed to one of them, convinced that this was the person they had been looking for, "I am 110% sure." ”
The man also had a red Dodge car in his name, and at the vehicle registration center, police found his name Bobby Joe Long.
Police arrested Bobby outside a movie theater 12 days later and found the same carpet fibers on him as the other victims.
Shunto finds Bobby's apartment, where the police detect Lisa's fingerprints and DNA.
After investigation, Bobby murdered a total of ten women and sexually assaulted more than 50 people in 8 months.
Most of the victims are low-level women such as sex workers, factory women and students, and every time they kill people, Bobby will drag the body into the woods or fields, and when they are found, the time often passes a long time, when the bodies are basically highly decomposed, which also causes many difficulties in handling the case... Thanks to Lisa, the serial killer was brought to justice.
In 1985, Bobby confessed to his crimes and was sentenced to death.
The nightmare is over, and Lisa's life has ushered in a new transformation.
The police involved in Lisa's case were impressed by her calmness and composure, and advised her to apply for the police academy.
Finally, in 2004, Lisa lived up to expectations and was admitted to the police academy, and after graduation, she worked steadily and steadily, entering the Hillsborough County Police Department that rescued her and caught the serial killer, and was promoted to deputy sheriff with strong courage and professional means.
On May 23, 2019, Bobby was finally executed.
On the same day, Lisa, who is deputy sheriff, came to the prison wearing a specially customized T-shirt that reads "Long... Overdue is late", sitting in the first row to witness Bobby's execution, she said:
"I'm going to be the first person he's going to see."
Nowadays, whenever she meets women in desperate situations, she tells them her story.
"I don't shy away from telling them about my sexual assault, a girl who was abandoned by her family and kidnapped and sexually assaulted, do you think she will sink here?" No, she became a police officer and stood right in front of you. ”
Source: British Newspaper Sister