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He was arrested outside a movie theatre on 16 November. Here I am.”Īfter she escaped him, McVey gave evidence to police detectives that was instrumental in helping the officers capture Long shortly after. A 37-page Extensive Viewing guide to the crime drama film Believe Me: The Abduction of Lisa McVey starring Katie Douglas, Rossif Sutherland and David James. Speaking to Fox News in 2018 when the film was originally released on the Lifetime Channel in the US, McVey said: “I had to take all of the abuse I had incurred as a child and just reach down one more time, into the pit of my stomach, and tap into those survivor skills in order to overcome him psychologically. She manages to talk her attacker into releasing her, but when she returns home, no one believes her story except for one detective, who suspects she was abducted by a serial. McVey – who had suffered abuse previously from her grandmother’s boyfriend at the time – was able to free herself from Long. On the night she plans on taking her own life, 17-year-old 'Lisa McVey' is kidnapped and finds herself fighting to stay alive and manages to be a victim of rape. He abducted her for a 26-hour period during which he raped her multiple times.


On 3 November 1984, Long knocked McVey off her bicycle on her way home from work. Last week, the 2018 drama shot up to become the UK’s current No 1 film on the streaming service with many people praising it as “disturbing” and “mind-blowing”, especially given the fact that it is based on real events.īelieve Me is based on the real-life case of Lisa McVey, a 17-year-old girl (played by Katie Douglas) in Tampa Bay, Florida, who was abducted and raped by serial killer Bobby Joe Long (Rossif Sutherland) in the Eighties. The true crime film Believe Me: The Abduction of Lisa McVey is captivating Netflix viewers.
