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Bobby Joe Long

Bobby Joe Long

1953–2019

Nationality
United States
Occupation
serial killer

Bobby Joe Long (October 14, 1953 – May 23, 2019) was an American serial killer and rapist.

Incarceration history

Biography

Bobby Joe Long (October 14, 1953 – May 23, 2019) was an American serial killer and rapist. During an eight-month period in 1984, Long abducted, sexually assaulted, and murdered at least ten women in the Tampa Bay area in Florida. At trial, Long was sentenced to death for one of the murders and life for seven others. He was sentenced to death in 1986 by the state of Florida for the murder of Michelle Denise Simms. He was executed by lethal injection on May 23, 2019.