Biography: Macy Lamar, film cast/crew member

Macy Lynn Lamar was born at Baptist Memorial Hospital in Oxford, Mississippi on April 6, 1980 to Caroline Blanchard Lamar and Charles James Lamar. Macy's father, Yoknapatawpha County Sheriff Charles James Lamar, was murdered in 1998. Her mother, Caroline Allen Blanchard is a nursing supervisor at Baptist Memorial Hospital.

In 1997, Lamar was abducted from the Oxford Mall parking lot and held hostage in Biloxi by a real estate developer attempting to cover up a toxic waste dumping scheme found out by Lamar’s father, the late sheriff Charles Lamar.

She graduated from Lafayette High School in May of 1998 and enrolled in summer school classes at the University of Mississippi. Her grades were mediocre, and her mother did not want her moving into the dormitory on campus. Lamar was adamant about moving out, so her mother agreed, hoping it would help her overcome her sadness. However, she began skipping classes and hanging out with no-counts.

Eventually, Lamar cut back on her class load and got a part-time job at Square Books to earn some money and to give her something to do that would let her interact with friends and classmates without having to be in school full time.

Lamar met Corwin Fitz in the spring of 2004 and the two soon became inseparable. Lamar helped Fitz recruit both financing and cast/crew members for his film, Bacchanals' Destruction. In May of 2004, she announced to her mother that she was dropping out of school entirely to working on the movie for several months. Her mother only heard from Macy by telephone occasionally during the shoot.