Lindy Lou, Juror Number 2 2017

     Twenty-two years earlier Lindy Lou Isonhood was a juror member for a criminal trial in Mississippi and the ruling was for the death penalty.   Lindy Lou still has deep feelings of remorse over the verdict.  She sets out after all these years to talk to the other jurors.  All but one of the jurors agrees to meet with Lindy Lou and talk about the trial.  It is because she has lived with being one of 12 people that all said a man needed to die for what he had done.  She wanted to ask them if they had struggled with guilt over their decision? 

     This is a very different type of film.  It’s very compelling to watch since everything is a true story.  The details of the case are that one evening in 1982, Bobby Wilcher was 20 years old and he met Katie Belle Moore and Velma Noblin at a Scott County bar in Mississippi.  He talked them into giving him a ride him home.  Instead, he directed the women down a deserted service road in the Bienville National Forest.  He robbed the women and brutally murdered them by stabbing them a total of 46 times.  The police detained him later that night.  He was covered in blood and the murder weapon was in his back pocket.  The verdict was for the death penalty because there was a possibility that Bobby would be paroled after serving time.  A very interesting film.  3 ½* (I liked this movie)

85 min, Doc directed by Florent Vassault. 

Note:  Imdb 7 out of 10, 100% critic on Rotten Tomatoes, Pop Matters 7* out of 10*.

Special Note:  French director Vassault usually works as an editor on French comedies and other commercial materials.  He followed Lindy Lou on a long and winding road trip to visit her fellow jurors around the state.  They wanted to explore the moral and psychological consequences of a justice system with ordinary people determining if another person should live or die.  The one difference between Lindy Lou and the other juror members is that she befriended him while he was on death row.  There was a delay between his entering prison and the execution.  She was his only human contact with the outside world.  She also learned that Wilcher grew up in a world of poverty and abuse.