Bobby Long, the serial killer who will die Thursday "Diario La Capitale de Mar del Plata

By FdR

Robert Joseph Long was known as Bobby Joe Long, and in 1974, at the age of 21, he was the worst expression of his troubles in children, adolescents, and youth. He began publishing notices in which he offered items for sale and, when he had agreed with the buyers to bring them home, if it was women, he was violating them. . He was baptized as "the rapist of the announcer".

Next Thursday, the state of Florida will enforce Long's only death sentence and, of course, it will halt the other 28 life sentences, but not just the violations that are calculated in more than 50, but for 8 of the 35 murders attributed to him.

After the Florida Supreme Court dismissed Bobby Long's appeal, only Governor Ron DeSantis could stop the execution, but that does not appear to be a conceivable prospect: DeSantis himself allowed the conviction to dead once and for all. that a court ordered in 1986.

The story of Bobby Long was built from the conflict because this child born in Wester Virginia in 1953 presented clinical problems. An alteration of his genetics made him grow up in adolescence and during those years, it isolated him from permanent harbadment.

Her relationship with the Oedipal mother, who is sharing the bed beyond her legal age, is lodged to her – according to psychiatry experts – a violent rejection of women and perhaps the chain of violations around Miami, whose facts were deemed unsuccessful in 1981.

A few years later, already based in Hillsborough (Tampa Bay), Bobby Long coincided with an increase in homicides. The victims were young prostitutes who appeared in unusual positions, badually abused, beaten or beheaded. Some had been strangled. The first case was that of Lana Long, whose body was face down, legs apart and a rope still attached to her neck.

The murders continued in Tampa until the day when a 14-year-old cyclist was arrested by a man who took her to her vehicle and forced her to go to an apartment where she was held for 26 hours. This man was Long and the youngest, who was still blindfolded even after his rape, could see some details of the car, the apartment and the face of his kidnapper.

The police succeeded in uniting 8 files, by characteristics and similarities on the scene of the crime and by evidence, in this year 1984. Nothing suggested that the minor had been raped by the same murderer of all the women.

In her statement, the teenager gave details on the Orange Dodge Magnum, the condominium she lived in, and on Long, which she recognized in a wheel of suspects.

But there was more: a textile fiber recovered from the teenager's body coincided with the evidence found in the 8 murders of prostitutes and Long was arrested on November 16, 1984. When police caught him, he claimed that he had killed 10. prostitutes, but the badysts understood that other crimes would have had the same author.

On July 25, 1986, Long was sentenced to life imprisonment and death for the crimes of Ngeun Thi Long (20 years); Michelle Denise Simms (22) Elizabeth B. Loudenback (22); Chanel Devon Williams (18 years old); Karen Beth Dinsfriend (28); Kimberly Kyle Hopps (22); Virginia Lee Johnson (18 years old); Kim Marie Swann (21 years old); and Vicki Elliott.

As soon as he understood that he would live forever in a prison, but that he would also die, he was executed, said Long: "What kills me is that most of the girls that I am I have raped were addicts and prostitutes, I do not mean that they deserved to die, but they were not saints either.I am sick.I am not a murderer, not like the other guys here in the hallway (of death) But that does not count for either the court or the governor.That damn Bob Graham needs to kill me to re-elect, just like he did with Ted Bundy . "

He is 66 years old and will be performing on Thursday, May 23rd at 6 pm in the afternoon.