**SPOILERS** Underground tabloid reporter Frank Nitzche, Aidan Quinn, has been working on the Kirstie Hammond murder/kidnap case for over a year corresponding with the person convicted of that heinous crime death row inmate Charlotte Cory, Connie Nielsen.
With her execution scheduled in ten days Frank is requested to be the last person besides her lawyer Susan Kennan, Kelly Preston, to be granted an interview by Charlotte. Very impressed with his letters Charlotte feels that Frank will understand what happened that evening some eight years ago. It was then on Thanksgiving Eve when one year-old Kirstie Hammond was kidnapped and eventually murdered.
As Frank hears Charlotte out he becomes very disturbed in what he's doing in trying to trick her into spilling her heart out just to get the exclusive story in the biggest kidnap case since the Baby Lindbergh kidnapping back in 1932. The case of Hall of Fame L.A Dodger baseball player Joe Hammond, Randy Calton, infant daughter's kidnapping and murder.
Frank, in talking with her, soon realizes that Charlotte is holding something back that may exonerate her of the crime and that has to do with her sister Stella, Sara-Marie Maltha. Stella who had completely disappeared from sight since Charlotte's arrest may be the key to why Charlotte's so meek, even eager, to meet her fate in the Oklahoma's McAllister State Prison's execution chamber! Is Charlotte somehow covering up Stella's involvement in the crime?
Slow in getting to the meat of the story the movie "Convicted" has sensation reporter and former defense attorney Frank Nitzche stick his neck out, and almost getting it broken, in not getting the big story by getting Charlotte to confess her crime to him but uncovering the real reasons behind it. Reasons that Charlotte had kept hidden from the police and the Hammond Family that are so shocking that if brought out would not only exonerate her but reveal just where the kidnapped and missing Kirstie final resting place really is!
The film goes into a race against time scenario with Frank now not caring about the big story, worth as much as $800,000.00 to his publishers, but trying to find Charlotte's missing sister Stella. Stella who's been blind since surviving a car accident that she holds Charlotte responsible for is eventually tracked down by Frank at the Oklahoma School for the Blind where shes'a a teacher using the name Julie Smith.
***SPOILER ALERT**** It's in his talking to Stella and later seeing a number of home video tapes, that Charlotte left to him, that Frank slowly puts all the pieces together in what really happened to Kirstie Hammond. The pressing problem that Frank is now facing in saving Charlott's life is two fold. Will he be able to get Stella to reveal the truth behind Kirstie's kidnapping! And even more disturbing can Frank get Charlotte to stop trying to be a martyr in taking the truth with her about Stella's, and what turned out to be her boyfriend, involvement in the crime to her grave!
With her execution scheduled in ten days Frank is requested to be the last person besides her lawyer Susan Kennan, Kelly Preston, to be granted an interview by Charlotte. Very impressed with his letters Charlotte feels that Frank will understand what happened that evening some eight years ago. It was then on Thanksgiving Eve when one year-old Kirstie Hammond was kidnapped and eventually murdered.
As Frank hears Charlotte out he becomes very disturbed in what he's doing in trying to trick her into spilling her heart out just to get the exclusive story in the biggest kidnap case since the Baby Lindbergh kidnapping back in 1932. The case of Hall of Fame L.A Dodger baseball player Joe Hammond, Randy Calton, infant daughter's kidnapping and murder.
Frank, in talking with her, soon realizes that Charlotte is holding something back that may exonerate her of the crime and that has to do with her sister Stella, Sara-Marie Maltha. Stella who had completely disappeared from sight since Charlotte's arrest may be the key to why Charlotte's so meek, even eager, to meet her fate in the Oklahoma's McAllister State Prison's execution chamber! Is Charlotte somehow covering up Stella's involvement in the crime?
Slow in getting to the meat of the story the movie "Convicted" has sensation reporter and former defense attorney Frank Nitzche stick his neck out, and almost getting it broken, in not getting the big story by getting Charlotte to confess her crime to him but uncovering the real reasons behind it. Reasons that Charlotte had kept hidden from the police and the Hammond Family that are so shocking that if brought out would not only exonerate her but reveal just where the kidnapped and missing Kirstie final resting place really is!
The film goes into a race against time scenario with Frank now not caring about the big story, worth as much as $800,000.00 to his publishers, but trying to find Charlotte's missing sister Stella. Stella who's been blind since surviving a car accident that she holds Charlotte responsible for is eventually tracked down by Frank at the Oklahoma School for the Blind where shes'a a teacher using the name Julie Smith.
***SPOILER ALERT**** It's in his talking to Stella and later seeing a number of home video tapes, that Charlotte left to him, that Frank slowly puts all the pieces together in what really happened to Kirstie Hammond. The pressing problem that Frank is now facing in saving Charlott's life is two fold. Will he be able to get Stella to reveal the truth behind Kirstie's kidnapping! And even more disturbing can Frank get Charlotte to stop trying to be a martyr in taking the truth with her about Stella's, and what turned out to be her boyfriend, involvement in the crime to her grave!