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What does desperation look like?

For us, it was a 12-foot by 40-foot long billboard

that we rented on a highway just outside of Marion, Arkansas.

By the spring of 2019, we were frustrated.

Just like everyone else who had looked into Isodore's case over the years,

this family, civil rights lawyers, the NAACP, we'd hit a wall,

and it was time to shake things up.

So we put up a billboard.

In a deep black background, we wrote a simple question in huge white letters,

who lynched Isodore banks.

And below the question, we added a phone number, a tip line.

Thank you for calling the Isodore bank's tip line.

Banks was a farmer and a father, a businessman, and a veteran of World War I.

At one point, he owned nearly a thousand acres in Cretanton County.

And then, if you have any information about what happened to him,

please leave us a message here.

We waited.

I'm Taylor Homme.

And I'm Neil Shea.

This is unfinished, deep south.

Episode eight.

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