In November 1984, 17-year-old Lisa McVey was riding her bike home after a double shift at a donut shop in Tampa, Florida. Out of nowhere, a man dragged her off the bike and forced her into his car. He blindfolded Lisa, pressed a gun to her head and drove to his apartment. For the next 26 hours, he raped and tortured her. The girl believed she was going to die. But she was determined that if she did, police would catch the man who killed her. So she paid attention to everything. She peeked under her blindfold whenever she could, counted the steps up to his apartment and pressed her fingerprints onto every surface she could reach in his bathroom. She also kept him talking and promised to be his girlfriend. She even made up a story that her father was seriously ill and depended on her. Slowly, it worked. After 26 hours, he drove her back toward her grandmother's house and apologized. Then he told her “Tell your father he's the reason why I didn't kill you." Every detail she had memorized, from his car to his apartment to the ATM he had stopped at, led police straight to him. His name was Bobby Joe Long. That year, he killed at least 10 women in the Tampa area. He was arrested on November 16, 1984, and later sentenced to death. Years later, Lisa joined the same sheriff's office that caught him and became a deputy who helps survivors of sexual violence. In 2019, when Long was executed, she sat in the front row.