72: Serial Killer & Rapist: Bobby Joe Long

Southern Fried True Crime

Erica Kelley

True Crime, Society & Culture, History

4.6 • 10.5K Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2019

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

In 1984, a vicious sexual sadist was terrorizing the Tampa Bay Area of Florida. He preyed on sex workers, and other vulnerable women, murdering at least ten young women before he was caught. He oddly let one girl go in November and she would be the break law enforcement needed to unmask the Tampa Bay Serial Killer. Police didn’t realize when they arrested Bobby Joe Long that was he was also a brutal serial rapist who had attacked around 50 women over 4 states and was known all over Florida as the Classified Ads Rapist.

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0:00.0	Southern Fried True Crime covers cases that are not suitable for young listeners, and there
0:10.3	may also be some explicit language used.
0:13.3	Today's episode is especially grizzly, and it involves sexual assault, so I would like
0:18.0	to emphasize listener discretion.
0:24.0	Our culture is fascinated with serial killers.
0:27.9	At the point where now there is even some backlash for glamorizing monsters like Ted Bundy.
0:34.4	But killers like Bundy often get the most attention because of the victims they choose.
0:39.8	Edgar Allan Poe said it most eloquently.
0:42.9	The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.
0:49.4	Humanity loves the destruction of beauty, and we devour these stories seemingly without
0:53.8	shame.
0:56.0	The Poe said that almost 50 years before Jack the Ripper started murdering unforechanates,
1:01.2	the Victorian youthemism for prostitutes, and the impoverished, White Chapel District
1:06.0	of London.
1:08.2	Jack was operating almost 100 years before the term serial killer was coined, but he
1:13.1	shares a methodology common to many serial killers who go undetected.
1:18.0	They prey on the weak, the vulnerable, the truly unfortunate.
1:23.4	The women society looks away from, rather than gaze at with unabashed obsession.
1:30.3	Bobby Joe Long also fits this category.
1:33.3	He claimed to have raped some 50 women and was convicted of murdering Ted.
1:38.7	He also joins a long list of serial killers who suffered head injuries in childhood.
1:49.2	Welcome to episode 72, serial killer and rapist, Bobby Joe Long.
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