This Wild Documentary Thriller Is Trending on Netflix Right Now (and I Can’t Wait to Watch)

“We considered Casey White a very dangerous person,” someone says in the trailer. And with good reason: He had already been convicted of multiple felonies when he arrived at Lauderdale County Detention Center, where he was serving a 75-year sentence. He was sent there to await trial after confessing to an unrelated homicide. Employees and inmates alike recall him as being charming, friendly and dangerously manipulative.

“Vicky devoted her life to her job,” says a woman in the trailer. “I said, ‘When are you gonna retire?’ She said, ‘soon, and when I go, I’m goin’ out with a bang.’”

“You got this older woman who’s lonely in the jail, you got this man…it’s a disgusting romance novel, is what it is,” she adds.

In addition to this being a shocking story about a secret affair, it’s gripping, heart-wrenching and sad too, namely due to Vicky’s alleged compassion for others and loneliness. In phone calls with Casey—she was 55 and he was 38 at the time—she would say that her life revolved around work and people-pleasing, and that she would drink daily once she was off the clock.

“What made Vicky’s story so surprising was how trapped she felt and how little her coworkers knew about her private life,” executive producer Rachel Stockman told Tudum.

“She treated everybody like they were somebody,” says former inmate Tyler Purser in the documentary. “She was like [the] mother…that everybody in there never had growing up.”

My suggestion? Don’t read about the case before watching the documentary—the ending is shocking, and you won’t want it to be spoiled. Trust.