![]() ![]() Unfortunately the movie was made before Lorna Anderson was convicted of her husband's death or before Tom Bird re-married. I have seen many docu-dramas depend on sensationalism, but this one played it close to the vest, and really did get the point across about the relationship between the two. I suppose this did much to explain my high marks for the movie. The actors that played Tom Bird's parents were uncanny in their looks and actions as well. They would visit their father for 5 days in a row since they were so far away. I remember one time feeling especially bad when the children flew in from another state to visit their father, I was working the visiting room at the time, and saw that the movie was playing on a local channel about the time the kids probably got to their motel. However, the children, especially the youngest girl could have been related. The resemblance between the real Tom Bird and the actor was amazing. Lorna was transferred when the female inmates were all sent to Topeka, but Tom Bird remained at Lansing Correctional Facility for his entire incarceration. ![]() I spent ten years working at the correctional facility where both Tom Bird and Lorna Anderson did their time. ![]()
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