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Person Of Interest Pamela Long Found, Not In Custody

Pamela Laverne Long, a person of interest in the Billings murders has been found.

Sheriff David Morgan said she was located in Orange Beach, Alabama, at a marina. Morgan said she is not in custody, but is driving back to Pensacola from Orange Beach, Alabama.

“We know that she was associated with Leonard Patrick Gonzalez Jr. up until the day of the murders,” Morgan said. “She is a person of interest because of her association with him.”

Morgan described Long as both a landlord and friend to Gonzalez Jr. She is considered both a suspect and a witness.

A second person of interest is being sought because of their involvement with the security system at the Billings home. The person was exterior to the home and not in the house.

There were two possibilities in shutting down the security system at the Billings home — either access from within the home or remotely via the Internet.

Below is an earlier NorthEscambia.com story on the Billings case.

Escambia County Sheriff David Morgan held a noon press conference on the Billings double murder to name an additional person of interest in the case.

Authorities have named another person of interest in the murder of Byrd and Melanie Billings.

Escambia County Sheriff David Morgan says that person of interest is Pamela Laverne Long, 48. She has several aliases, including Pamela Wiggins, Pamela Malden, Pamela Long Link and Pamela Laverne Long Coco. She has had no contact with the sheriff’s department for 48 hours.

Morgan said she rented property to one of the persons charged with murder in the case.

“Our intent is not to harass Ms. Long. We need to speak to Ms. Long,” Morgan said. She is well known in the Gulf Breeze area, Morgan said, but he would not provide her last known address.

Check back during the afternoon for developing updates on this story here on NorthEscambia.com

“She has not provided us any information. That is why we want to speak with her,” the sheriff said. He said she is wanted as a witness, not as a murder suspect.

Morgan also said it was someone’s job to disable the security system at the Billings’ compound, but that did not happen.

“Why was this system left on in an otherwise perfectly executed murder?” he said. “There may have been someone in this case who’s very duty was to disable the security system.”

“Obviously there is an eighth or ninth person,” he said. Morgan said the seven people charged in the case believed they were not under surveillance as they committed the crimes.

Video of the now infamous red van and other security system footage from the Billings home was the big break that allowed the sheriff’s department to quickly make arrests in the case.

Morgan ended the press conference with a question from a reporter who wanted comment on suspect Leonard Patrick Gonzalez Jr.’s request to be released without bond. Gonzalez made the request Tuesday afternoon, saying that there was a lack of evidence again him.

“And people in hell want ice water,” Morgan said.

Investigators are also looking for a second person of interest, according to the sheriff. He did not name that person.