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Why Did Lisa McVey Write a Suicide Note Hours Before Bobby Joe Long Grabbed Her?
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- Jun 15, 2026
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Summary
Lisa McVey planned to die on November 3, 1984. She wrote the note before her shift at Krispy Kreme. She was seventeen, trapped in a home where her grandmother's boyfriend had been hurting her for three years. Then Bobby Joe Long grabbed her off her bicycle at two-thirty in the morning and threw her into a red Dodge Magnum. And somehow, in the back of a serial killer's car, the girl who wanted to die decided she wanted to live. What she did over the next twenty-six hours inside Long's apartment — the blindfold manipulation, the deliberate evidence planting, the psychological strategy — reads like the work of a trained investigator, not a terrified teenager. Sergeant Larry Pinkerton believed her when nobody else would and uncovered something about her home life that may have been worse than the abduction itself. This is the first episode of Surviving Serial Killers on History's Hidden Killers. Lisa McVey's intelligence under captivity didn't just save her life — it ended Bobby Joe Long's killing spree and put her on the path to a career in law enforcement. Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. #LisaMcVey #BobbyJoeLong #…