Lamar Reviews - "Jailbreak - Love on the Run" (Airdate 10/4/2024)
This is another Netflix documentary that will blow your mind.
This is the story of Vicky White, 56, from Alabama. She was assistant director of corrections at Lauderdale County Detention Center. Over 17 years of employment, she had risen through the ranks and had a great reputation. The people she worked with seemed to really like her. The inmates that were interviewed said that she treated them as if they mattered and they respected her. Some inmates described her as kind, generous, and even go so far as call her a “mother figure”.
In 2020, Casey White, 38, was transferred to Lauderdale. He was already serving 75 years for attempted murder and other charges. He had also confessed to a murder charge and was waiting on the trial. This guy is 6 ft 9 inches, around 300 lbs.
Vicky was divorced, and her last boyfriend died in a car wreck.
Tyler Purser, a former police officer, was in jail at Lauderdale with Casey White, said Casey was an ok guy if he liked you, but if you crossed him, he was very dangerous.
On day as Vicky walked past his cell, Casey made a remark about how attractive a part of her body was. Instead of writing him up, or taking away some privileges, or any kind of punishment, she talked to him. And that is where it started.
What makes this such a good documentary is that the story is told through interviews with co-workers, and inmates. But what really drives it home is the video that is pared with the recorded conversations between Vicky and Casey. The words that give you a glimpse inside the minds of both of these people are pared with the actual physical actions shown on the video.
They have over a 1000 recorded conversations between them. Yes, they do listen to these conversations, but only if there is a reason to based on an investigation.
These phone calls will blow your mind!
The show is 1 hour and 28 minutes, Rated TV-MA for language, and sexual content.
This takes you all the way from the start of the romance, and the way he convinced her to fall in love with him, their intimacy, and their planning on the escape. The manhunt, and the capture.
His cellmate claims that he was a true romantic that fell in love with her and wanted to live a magical life in the woods, off the grid. Other people say that he was a smooth-talking conman that took advantage of a lonely woman that he never loved, but was using for an escape plan. You will have to watch it and make up your own mind.
My Score: 5 Budweisers