![]() She bursts into her house telling her grandmother what happened to her, but she and Morris refuse to believe her. Lisa memorizes her surroundings and then makes her way home. After hearing her plead for her life, Bobby lets her go and flees the scene in his car. He takes her to a secluded wooded area and holds a gun to her head. She also memorizes as much as she can about Bobby and his apartment when she temporarily removes her blindfold when he is sleeping.Īfter 26 hours, Bobby tells Lisa he must get rid of her. Meanwhile, she leaves her fingerprints on surfaces in his bathroom and strands of her hair under his bed. When it is revealed that Bobby has been hurt by many women in the past, Lisa uses reverse psychology to gain his trust. Diane reports her missing, but casually assumes she has run away.īobby holds Lisa captive in his apartment, keeping her bound and blindfolded while he continually rapes her. He rapes her in his car before taking her back to his studio apartment. One night on her way home from her job at a doughnut shop, Lisa is kidnapped by Bobby Joe Long ( Rossif Sutherland). Morris regularly sexually assaults Lisa and her grandmother ignores it. Plot ġ7-year-old Lisa McVey ( Katie Douglas) lives with her neglectful grandmother Diane (Kim Horsman) and Diane's boyfriend Morris Elwood (Bruno Verdoni) in Tampa Bay, Florida. The screening of this movie was attended by the real Lisa McVey Noland. In addition to its television broadcast, the film also received a special theatrical screening in Tampa, at the very same theater where Bobby Joe Long was arrested in 1984. The film recounts the true story of Lisa McVey who was abducted and raped for 26 hours by serial killer Bobby Joe Long in 1984. The film stars Katie Douglas, Rossif Sutherland, and David James Elliott. On June 4, 2021, it was released worldwide by Netflix. The film was released on September 30, 2018, by Lifetime in United States and by Showcase in Canada. Although he was eventually sentenced to death, a series of reversals delayed his execution by the state of Florida until May 19, 2019.Believe Me: The Abduction of Lisa McVey is a 2018 Canadian-American crime drama film, directed by Jim Donovan. After murdering at least 10 women, he pled guilty and was sentenced to numerous life sentences in 1985. Note that the perpetrator was caught based on McVey's invaluable help. Lisa wasn't sure she'd survive, but she planted her fingerprints, hair samples, and blood all around the perpetrator's apartment and car in the hopes that if she didn't live at least her efforts might help the police catch the guy. The horrors of Lisa's attacks, however difficult to watch, set up the rest of the action for an informative police procedural. Larry Pinkerton (James Elliott), head of sex crimes, takes her at her word and sees the connection between her story and the recent rape-murders of numerous local women. The abuse continued as even the police didn't believe her report of her ordeal, partly because her descriptions seemed too detailed to be credible. McVey had also been abused by an alcoholic mother and a grandmother (Kim Horsman) who allowed her boyfriend (Bruno Verdoni) to rape the underage girl. BELIEVE ME: THE ABDUCTION OF LISA MCVEY is a brutal account of a 1984 kidnapping and sexual assault of a 17-year-old Florida girl named Lisa McVey (Katie Douglas).
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