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Hello everybody and welcome to True Crime. Time for Friday, March 27, 2026. And I am Cindy Overton. Woody's still out of town. He's coming back today, but not until this evening and definitely not with enough time for me to get this edited and posted for tomorrow. So I am recording without him. I am flying solo and he will be back for Saturday's episode. And with that being said, I know lots of you have received your Big J's barbecue sauce and seasoning and it has become a major hit. People are truly enjoying it and using it on all sorts of things, posting their pictures on Facebook and in our app. And please, if you have some and you haven't posted your picture yet, please post it and share what you did with the barbecue sauce. If you are given the option with Etsy when you do purchase, please go to Etsy and leave a review and if you are looking for the link for the Etsy Store, if you go into our app, the carousel you can if you wait long enough or if you click through it, the carousel will eventually bring you to their Etsy store. Just click on it and then you can shop from there. You can purchase for multiple people in one transaction. So if you want to buy for Aunt Mary in Missouri and Uncle Tom and Wisconsin, you can do that all in one transaction. So please go and try it. Also if you live locally, check out the Facebook page to see all of the local local locations that they are in this part of Louisiana and deeper south. So with that being said, let's get started with true crime time for March 27th of 2026 and on this day in history, Bobby Joe Long claimed his first victim. This happened in the year 1984. His first victim, which was the clue that this is probably a serial killer. But his first victim was artist Wick and Wick was abducted, raped and strangled. Her body was not discovered until November 22nd of 1984. So going off of the thought process that this was a serial killer, I looked up Bobby Joe Long who was born on October 14, 1953 and he not only has the recognition of being an American serial killer, he's also known as being a serial rapist. And during an eight month period in 1984, long abducted, sexually assaulted and murdered at least 10 women in the Tampa Bay area in Florida. At trial, Long was sentenced to death for one of the murders and life for seven others. He was sentenced to death in 1986 by the state of Florida for the murder of Michelle Denise Sims. He ended up being executed by lethal injection in May of 2019. His convictions are as follows. First degree murder, eight counts of that armed burglary, aggravated assault, 11 counts of kidnapping, two counts of robbery and 10 counts of sexual battery. So Long moved to Tampa Bay in 1983. He moved to that area and in 1984 while on probation for assault, Long raped and strangled 20 year old artist Ann Wick on March 27th. And her body was discovered as I said earlier, on November 22nd. And she was found in a rural area. She was hitchhiking from Gas City, Indiana to Tampa and was engaged to be married. And Long also then attacked 33 year old Linda Nuttall in her home in the early hours of November 3rd of 1984. Long then abducted 17 year old Lisa McVeigh as she rode her bike home from work. She was blindfolded and taken to Long's home where he repeatedly raped her. 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. After 26 hours, Long released McVeigh, and she provided investigators with information on the home car and a time period in which she heard him use an atmosphere. This information led police to identifying Long and he was arrested on November 16th of 1984. And he was linked to the murders through red carpet fibers found on the bodies of several victims. So 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. Long was arrested outside of a movie theater on November 16, 1984 and charged with the sexual battery and kidnapping of Lisa McVeigh. Long signed a formal Miranda waiver and consented to questioning after the detectives procured a confession for the McVeigh case. Their questioning focused on a series of unsolved sexual battery homicides in the Tampa Bay area. And as the detectives questioned Long about the murders, he replied, I'd rather not answer that. So the detectives continued their interrogation and handed Long photographs of the various murder victims. And at this point, Long stated, the complexion of things sure have changed since you came back into the room. I think I need an attorney. No attorney was provided and Long eventually confessed to eight murders in Hillsborough county and one murder in Pasco County. Fiber evidence analysis by the FBI linked Long's vehicle to most of the victims. And for all of the victims and their families, we are happy that he had justice served swift and certain. Okay, that's what happened on March 27, 1984. So we started off with a bang, with a serial killer story, and now we are continuing with a cold case and for this one we're going to Houston. After almost 36 years, an arrest has been made in the 1990 Lovers Lane murders of a young man and woman in Houston. Harris County District Attorney Shawn Teer announced 64 year old Floyd William Parrott has been charged with capital murder for the deaths of Cheryl Henry, who was 22, and Andy Atkinson, who was 21, according to officials. Parrott was arrested in Lincoln, Nebraska on Wednesday by Houston police officers and the FBI. So here's the backstory. Henry and Atkinson were found dead in a wooded area near enclave Parkway on August 23, 1990. Police say they both had been stabbed in the throat. Atkinson was found tied to a tree about 100 yards away from Henry, and officials report that Henry had been sexually assaulted. They had last been seen the night before when Henry and her sister met Atkinson at a nightclub on Westheimer Road near South Gessner. A missing person's report was filed the next day when no one had seen Henry or Atkinson. Police say the security guard doing random patrols found them later that day. Speaking about this case, the District Attorney Shawn Teer has said one of Houston's most haunting and infamous cold cases has weighed on the Henry and Atkinson family as well as our community. For more than three decades, our prosecutors working with the HPD and FBI have pursued this investigation with relentless and dogged determination. They have worked hundreds of leads, facing dead ends and plenty of frustration. But they never gave up on Cheryl and Andy. Thank you to all investigators who have touched this case. You can imagine how Many have over 30 years. Your perseverance has delivered something two families long deserved progress and hope. And today is a good day and any day you solve a cold case is a good day day. So thank you to all of those investigators and anyone that supported that case. Getting it solved is awesome and much appreciated.
