I didn't want to kill all indies, genius, I wanted to kill Dr_Professor83 specifically
Look at it this way. There were two possibilities. 1. He was lying about being indie, which means he's scum and scum dies. 2. He's telling the truth, and someone who outright said he isn't interested in taking down scum dies
If the choice is between lynching someone who might be mafia, might be town, or lynching someone who might be mafia but definitely isn't town, any townie should go for the latter, because we're not losing anything there
And guess what? Assuming he's not lying, he solved the murder mystery, so he still doesn't have a reason to help us. Helping us would just put a pointless target on his back