(September 24, 1985) Bobby Joe Long[a] (October 14, 1953 – May 23, 2019) was an American serial killer and rapist who was executed by the state of Florida for the murder of Michelle Denise Simms.

Long abducted, sexually assaulted, and murdered at least ten women in the Tampa Bay area in Florida during an eight-month period in 1984.

[5] Long had a dysfunctional relationship with his mother, sleeping in her bed until he was a teenager, and reportedly resented the multiple short-term boyfriends she brought with her when returning home late at night from her job.

In 1984, while on probation for assault, Long raped and strangled 20-year-old Artiss "Ann" Wick in March;[7] her body was discovered in a rural area on November 22, 1984.

Aware of the danger she was in, the blindfolded McVey reported leaving as many fingerprints in Long's home as she could to aid any future police investigation.

[9] At the time of his capture, Long was wanted in three Tampa Bay area jurisdictions where investigators had collected multiple forms of forensic evidence, including clothing, carpet fibers, semen, ligature marks, and rope knots.

After the detectives procured a confession for the McVey case, their questioning focused on a series of unsolved sexual battery homicides in the Tampa Bay area.

[14] On appeal, Long's death sentence was vacated, his conviction reversed, and his case remanded back to the trial court with directions to enter an order of acquittal for the murder of Virginia Johnson.

The victims were Nguen "Lana" Long, 20, Michelle Simms, 22, Elizabeth Loudenback, 22, Chanel Williams, 18, Karen Dinsfriend, 28, Kimberly Hopps, who was somewhere in her 20's, Virginia Johnson, 18, Kim Swann, 21, Vicki Elliot, 21 and Artiss Wick, 20.