Vicky White news: 911 call reveals Alabama correction officer blamed Casey White for police chase

Dramatic police footage captured the moment capital murder suspect Casey Cole White was apprehended in Indiana and his prison guard lover Vicky White’s body was pulled from their crashed vehicle.

A 10-day nationwide manhunt for Ms White, a 56-year-old corrections officer from Alabama, and White, an inmate serving a 75-year sentence and awaiting trial for murder, ended on Monday evening with a car chase and crash in Evansville. Ms White died from what a coroner ruled to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound, and White was taken into custody.

As he was handcuffed, White allegedly told officers to help his “wife” and insisted he did not shoot her. The pair were said to have been in a romantic relationship for about two years but police say they were not married.

Meanwhile, Ms White’s last words were revealed in a chilling 911 call where she said “let’s get out and run” and blames White for wanting to stay “at a f****** motel” moments before apparently shooting herself in the head.

An investigation into the ordeal is still ongoing as police face mounting questions over how the fugitives evaded capture for over a week.

Key Points

• Dramatic police footage shows moment Casey White captured

• 911 audio captures Vicky White’s last moments alive

• Casey White returns to prison

• Escaped inmate showed ‘no remorse’, sheriff says

• Fugitives wanted to have shootout with police

• Fugitives were carrying $29,000 in cash on final day of escape

ICYMI: Casey White claimed he is innocent of Connie Ridgeway murder after capture

Friday 13 May 2022 22:30 , Graig Graziosi

Capital murder suspect Casey Cole White claimed that he was innocent of the brutal killing of 58-year-old mother-of-two Connie Ridgeway almost as soon as he was captured, according to a police report.

At the hospital, the report mentions that “Mr White also kept stating that he did not kill Connie Ridgeway.” Police said that White also continued to ask about the condition of his “wife” Vicky White.

Read the full story here:

Casey White claimed he didn’t kill Connie Ridgeway as he was captured, say police

Investigation into ex-girlfriend’s death reopened

Friday 13 May 2022 23:30 , Graig Graziosi

Police have reportedly reopened an investigation into the death of escaped Alabama inmate Casey Cole White’s former girlfriend, Christy Shelton.

The 31-year-old died on 1 February 2008 after she was shot in the chest by a sawed-off shotgun inside an Alabama home belonging to White’s mother.

White, who was in a relationship with Ms Shelton at the time, was cleared as a suspect and the case was closed after her death was ruled a suicide.

Her family have always doubted that finding however, and as Rachel Sharp reports, recent events have led to the investigation being reopened:

Police reopen probe into Casey White’s ex-girlfriend’s mysterious shooting suicide

Video showed officers pulling Ms White from car

Saturday 14 May 2022 00:30 , Graig Graziosi

Footage released by Evansville Police Department on Tuesday night showed the moments before the 56-year-old corrections officer’s death and arrest of her 38-year-old lover, who was sent back to Alabama.

Officers can be seen taking White into custody and putting the capital murder suspect in handcuffs. Another police body camera video shows officers removing the body of Ms White from the car.

As Rachel Sharp reports, a gun was also retrieved, and a corner later ruled her death to be of a self-inflcited wound.

Police footage of capture of fugitives Casey White and Vicky White

Casey White claims he was also shot in the head, say police report

Saturday 14 May 2022 01:30 , Graig Graziosi

Alabama capital murder suspect Casey Cole White claimed that he had also been shot in the head as he was pulled from the car wreck where his jailhouse lover Vicky White lay dying from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, according to a police report.

New documents, filed by Vanderburgh County Sheriff’s Office and seen by The Independent, reveal that the 38-year-old also had “a small amount of blood” on the back of his head when he was taken into police custody on Monday at the end of a 10-day manhunt, according to police.

Read the full story by Rachel Sharp here:

Casey White claims he was also shot in the head, says police report

Petitions circulate for ‘Car Wash James’ to receive award money offered for information on escaped fugitives

Saturday 14 May 2022 02:30 , Graig Graziosi

A petition has been started to pressure law enforcement and the Governor of Alabama to pay up on their reward offers to “Car Wash James,” the car wash owner who called police when he spotted capital murder suspect Casey White and corrections officer Vicky White in Indiana.

The US Marshal Service announced a total $15,000 reward for information leading to the arrest White and information on Ms White, and Alabama Governor Kay Ivey offered a total of $10,000 for the capture of the couple.

Amber Savallo, who started the petition, told WSILTV that the car wash owner, James Stinson, should be rewarded for his report.

“He said if you see something, say something and he did. I just really hope that James can get that from them because I feel like he deserves it 100%,” Ms Savallo said.

ICYMI: How Casey White and guard Vicky White stayed on the run

Saturday 14 May 2022 03:30 , Graig Graziosi

It didn’t help that fugitive lovers Casey White and Vicky White (no relation) had a six-hour headstart on law enforcement when they made their break from Lauderdale County jail. But no one could’ve predicted that the assistant director of corrections of the facility and the 38-year-old capital murder suspect would be on the lam for 11 days.

But the nationwide manhunt came to a dramatic end on Monday with a police chase, car crash and Ms White allegedly shooting herself dead.

Continue reading the full story that lays out some of the apparently missed opportunities that enabled the corrections officer and the inmate to slip through the net for more than a week.

How Alabama inmate and guard stayed on the run for 10 days amid nationwide manhunt

Vicky White voted ‘employee of the year’ five times, set to receive award again this week

Saturday 14 May 2022 04:59 , Graig Graziosi

Before prison guard Vicky White was accused of helping orchestrate the escape of her jail lover Casey White, she was not only well-liked among her Lauderdale County colleagues, but also well respected enough to earn the award “employee of the year” five times – including as recently as this year.

The 56-year-old correctional officer was tracked down on Monday alongside 38-year-old capital murder suspect Casey White, who she was reportedly in a “special relationship” with for the past two years, bringing the 11-day manhunt to a close.

White surrendered to authorities and was taken into custody while Ms White was found suffering a gunshot wound to the head. She was rushed to hospital where she died from her injuries hours later.

Ms White had earned the award, voted on by her peers, five times in the past eight years, The New York Post reported.

“I think it just shows the kind of person that we thought she was. No one that worked with her and knows her ever saw anything like this coming,” said Lauderdale County Sheriff Rick Singleton in an interview with The Post on Wednesday.

Who is Vicky White?

Saturday 14 May 2022 16:32 , Josh Marcus

An attempted murder. An alleged secret relationship. A multi-state manhunt.

The Independent’s Rachel Sharp has all the details on the wild story of Vicky White and Casey White, a jail official and inmate who broke out of prison in Alabama and went on the run.

Read more here.

Employee of the year to fugitive: Unanswered questions Vicky White takes to the grave

What Casey White’s tattoos reveal about links to neo-Nazi prison gang

Saturday 14 May 2022 17:02 , Josh Marcus

Captured fugitive Casey White may be a part of a white supremacist prison gang called the Southern Brotherhood, according to the US Marshals Service.

During the hunt for the rogue couple, officials released prison photos of Mr White’s tattoos, which were filled with Confederate and neo-Nazi imagery.

The group, according to the Anti-Defamation League, is a “large, Alabama-based white supremacist prison gang.”

Vicky White’s funeral set for Saturday in Alabama

Saturday 14 May 2022 17:32 , Josh Marcus

Vicky White, the corrections official who allegedly aided in the escape of Alabama inmate Casey White, before taking her own life during a police manhunt, will be buried on Saturday at 1pm CT at a cemetery in Lexington, Alabama.

In addition to a small number of family members at the service, anonymous members of the public appear to be offering support on an online memorial wall.

“I pray for all of you to have the peace that passes all understanding,” wrote one commenter. “I am so sorry for the loss of your daughter, sister, friend, loved one. I did not know Vicky but I am sure she’s in heaven resting in the arms of God now.”

Twitter wonders: Who will play Vicky White in the TV version?

Saturday 14 May 2022 18:02 , Josh Marcus

It seems hardly a day goes by without a true crime story being given the premium TV treatment, from HBOMax’s The Staircase, to Hulu’s The Dropout.

Officials are still unraveling the story of how corrections official Vicky White helped break out alleged lover Casey White from an Alabama prison, but that hasn’t stopped some rather macabre speculation online about who might play Ms White in the glossy TV dramatisation.

Some suggested Charlize Theron and Adam Driver to play the pair of fugitives, while another commenter joked it should be Patricia Arquette.

WATCH: Dramatic police footage shows moment Casey White is captured and Vicky White is pulled from car gun in hand

Saturday 14 May 2022 18:31 , Josh Marcus

Dramatic police footage has been released of the moment that capital murder suspect Casey Cole White was captured and his prison guard lover Vicky White’s body was pulled from their vehicle with a gun still in her hand.

Evansville Police Department shared the footage on Tuesday night as the coroner ruled the 56-year-old corrections officer’s death a suicide and the 38-year-old career criminal was sent back to Alabama to face charges.

Shocking 911 audio also revealed that Ms White was on the phone to a 911 dispatcher at the time of the crash and urged her lover of two years “let’s get out and run” moments before apparently shooting herself in the head.

Ms White and White, who was serving a 75-year sentence and awaiting a murder trial for the slaying of a 58-year-old woman, were finally tracked down to Evansville, Indiana, on Monday after spending 10 days on the run.

Catch up on the dramatic footage here with this story from Rachel Sharp.

Police footage of capture of fugitives Casey White and Vicky White

Vicky White funeral under way

Saturday 14 May 2022 19:27 , Josh Marcus

A funeral is under way for Vicky White, an Alabama corrections official who helped inmate and lover Casey White escape a county jail, leading police on an 11-day manhunt where Ms White died by suicide as police closed in, according to officials.

The service is taking place at Center Hill Cemetery in Lexington, Alabama, about 24 miles away from the jail where the couple made their dramatic escape.

Stockings, sex toys, and a conversation with an old acquaintance: Vicky White’s days before jailbreak revealed

Saturday 14 May 2022 20:29 , Josh Marcus

In the days leading up to her daring jailbreak of alleged boyfriend Casey White, Vicky White browsed the selection at an Alabama sex shop, according to an employee.

Anna Jackson, an employee at Florence, Alabama, adult shop Sugar & Spice, said she knew Vicky from a stint in prison and saw the corrections official in the store in late April.

Ms White bought a pair of sexy stockings, and browsed the sex toy selection, Ms Jackson told The Daily Mail.

“I knew Vicky from when I spent four months in Lauderdale County Jail a while back,” she said.

Vicky White also visited a Kohl’s store around that time to buy men’s clothes for Casey, the Mail reports.

The store worker said Vicky White had previously been supportive of her while in prison and struggling with addiction.

“I was in active addiction then and Vicky was the one who transported me for my court dates and what not, so we had an opportunity to talk to each other,” she told the Mail, adding, “One of my court dates I was having a hard time coping and seeing what my life was going to be like and Vicky was the one who said, ‘You got this.’”

However, on the day of their encounter, Ms Jackson said White seemed rushed and distracted.

Large crowd attends Vicky White’s funeral in Alabama

Sunday 15 May 2022 16:46 , Josh Marcus

An estimated 200 or so people were in attendance for Vicky White’s funeral in Alabama, including law enforcement officials who the corrections officer stunned by helping inmate and boyfriend Casey White bust out from prison last month.

The service, on a sunny afternoon afternoon in the town of Lexington, took place about 25 miles away from the county jail where Mr White made his escape.

Multiple members of the Lauderdale County Sheriff’s Department, which runs the jail, were there for the funeral, though Sheriff Rick Singleton was not, the Daily Mail reports.

“I think everyone is just tired and numb at this point,” Jason Butler, director of the Lauderdale County Correctional Facility, told the publication. “I choose to focus on the Vicky I know – she was a good friend and a good colleague for 16 years.”

The eulogy reportedly made no mention of the dramatic manhunt for the couple.

Police have calls proving relationship between Vicky and Casey White

Sunday 15 May 2022 17:05 , Josh Marcus

Recorded jailhouse phone calls between Vicky White and Casey White help prove the prison guard was having a relationship with the Alabama inmate, according to police.

The pair met in 2020 at the Lauderdale County Correctional Facility, and kept in touch when White was transferred temporarily to state prison.

Once the pair went missing in late April, police spoke with detainees who said the two had been in a romantic relationship, a fact confirmed by records of calls made between the two, Lauderdale County sheriff Rick Singleton told The Guardian.

GoFundMe page raises over $3,300 for #CarWashJames who spotted Vicky White

Sunday 15 May 2022 17:26 , Josh Marcus

Indiana car wash employee James Stinson noticed something funny about a truck left at the business days on end.

“I noticed the car hanging out of the bay, which was unusual. It kept sitting there … Every time I left and came back, the truck was still there,” Mr Stinson told News Nation.

Stranger still, the truck had Tennessee license plates, which struck him as odd.

“I walked up to the truck and went, ‘Oh my God, it’s probably this guy from Alabama,’” he added.

He called police, and the tip eventually worked its way up to the US Marshals service, helping lead to the Vicky and Casey White’s capture in the town of Evansville, Indiana, following a car chase.

Now, a GoFundMe page for Mr Stinson, known to some as #CarWashJames has raised $3,316 out of a total $25,000 goal.

The page was organised by Mark White, who says he is a “friend and advocte” of the family of Connie Ridgeway, a woman Casey White confessed to murdering in 2015.

“We have sought justice for Connie since that day,” Mr White wrote. “After speaking with Connie’s son, Austin, we decided that we would create our own fundraiser.”

Another inside job in jail, this time in Louisiana?

Sunday 15 May 2022 18:07 , Josh Marcus

A security guard at a Louisiana youth prison is suspected of helping three teens escape custody on Saturday.

“Oncoming day shift employees discovered that three male juvenile residents, with help from a female WYC [Ware Youth Detention Center] security guard, had escaped the juvenile detention facility approximately four hours earlier,” the Red River Parish Sheriff’s Office posted on Facebook.

Surveillance video captured guard Victoria Tune, 21, driving three boys away from the facility in a 2010 Pontiac.

Police later caught up with the foursome after a multi-agency investigation tracked them to a Houston, Texas, motel, and arrested the entire group.

How guard Vicky White broke her boyfriend out Alabama prison

Sunday 15 May 2022 18:27 , Josh Marcus

In the days since Casey White’s capture, a clearer picture has emerged of how prison guard Vicky White broke him out of Alabama in the first place.

Using her position as a senior official, she sent 12 inmates and five deputies to court on the day of the escape in late April, leaving her as the last remaining police official in the prison with transport privileges.

From there, she said she was taking Casey White to a mental health evaluation in court, though no such appointment existed.

The jail official then ditched her patrol cruiser and drove off in a 2007 Ford Edge she bought with a false name.

Police phone call recordings show relationship between guard Vicky White and Alabama inmate Casey White

Sunday 15 May 2022 21:14 , Josh Marcus

Recorded jailhouse phone calls between Vicky White and Casey White help prove the prison guard was having a relationship with the Alabama inmate before the two went on the run, according to police.

“You think you know someone,” Lauderdale County sheriff, Rick Singleton, whose office oversees the Lauderdale County correctional center where the couple made their daring escape, told The Guardian. “And it turns out you really don’t know them at all.”

Correctional officer Vicky White met Casey White in 2020 at the Lauderdale County Correctional Facility, and kept in touch when he was transferred temporarily to state prison, before returning.

Once the pair went missing in late April, police spoke with detainees who said the two had been in a romantic relationship, a fact confirmed by recordings of calls made between the two, Mr Singleton said.

Josh Marcus has the full story.

Police call recordings show relationship between guard Vicky White and Alabama inmate

Prosecutors, coworkers mourn death of Vicky White online

Sunday 15 May 2022 21:44 , Josh Marcus

Vicky White, the Alabama prison guard who led authorities on an 11-day manhunt, was buried on Saturday, and her colleagues have taken to social media to mourn the corrections officer.

Officials in Indiana ruled that she died by suicide while fleeing police along with boyfriend Casey White, a county inmate she helped break out of prison.

“I choose to not judge her on the worst decision she ever made in her life,” the Lauderdale County District Attorney’s Office wrote on Facebook on Saturday.

The sentiment echoes the famous words of civil rights lawyer Bryan Stevenson, whose adage, “I believe that each person is more than the worst thing they’ve ever done,” is popular in criminal justice reform circles.

“Those of you that did not have the pleasure of knowing this amazing woman I don’t expect you to understand the hurt we feel,” Billy Risner, a coworker of White’s at the Lauderdale County Sheriffs Department, added on Facebook. “Only thing you know is what you have seen on the news.”

He described how White was an effective police officer and supportive friend, offering her support when his brother was shot.

What happened in the Connie Ridgeway murder, the 2015 case tied to the Casey White jailbreak?

Sunday 15 May 2022 22:13 , Josh Marcus

The escape of Casey White and Vicky White from an Alabama county jail has brought attention back to a nearly decade-old stabbing.

In 2015, 58-year-old mother of two Connie Ridgeway was found stabbed in her apartment in Rogersville, Alabama.

The case went unsolved for five years until White sent a letter to the Lauderdale County Sheriff’s Office confessing to the crime in 2020.

During a subsequent interview with authorities, he allegedly gave details about the crime that had not been made public and which only the killer could have known.

He was charged with two counts of capital murder in 2020.

Prosecutors say he was paid to carry out the hit on his victim. It is not clear how much money he made.

After confessing to the murder, White initially pleaded guilty before changing his plea to not guilty by reason of mental illness.

His trial is scheduled to begin in June and, if convicted, he faces the death penalty.

Rachel Sharp had this story on all the details of the 2015 case.

Casey White claimed he didn’t kill Connie Ridgeway as he was captured, say police

ICYMI: Everything we know about dead Alabama prison officer and murder suspect she disappeared with

Monday 16 May 2022 00:28 , Josh Marcus

Want the whole story on how Vicky White and Casey White met in prison, ran from the law, and got caught?

Here’s a great place to start.

Everything we know about dead Alabama prison officer and murder suspect

What’s next for Casey White after re-arrest?

Monday 16 May 2022 01:30 , Josh Marcus

Prosecutors have not ruled out the possibility that Alabama escapee Casey White will face charges over the death of his jailhouse lover Vicky White.

Lauderdale County District Attorney Chris Connolly told The Independent that White, 38, could face fresh charges over the doomed prison escape and 10-day manhunt as the investigation continues.

“I intend to prosecute him both for the capital murder and the escape and other related charges that we are looking at,” he said.

Rachel Sharp has more.

Casey White could face further charges over doomed prison escape, says prosecutor

WATCH: The moment police caught up with Casey and Vicky White

Monday 16 May 2022 02:30 , Josh Marcus

Dramatic police footage has been released of the moment that capital murder suspect Casey Cole White was captured and his prison guard lover Vicky White’s body was pulled from their vehicle with a gun still in her hand.

Evansville Police Department shared the footage on Tuesday night as the coroner ruled the 56-year-old corrections officer’s death a suicide and the 38-year-old career criminal was sent back to Alabama to face charges.

Shocking 911 audio also revealed that Ms White was on the phone to a 911 dispatcher at the time of the crash and urged her lover of two years “let’s get out and run” moments before apparently shooting herself in the head.

For more context on the footage, here’s our story.

Police footage of capture of fugitives Casey White and Vicky White

What a 911 call reveals about Vicky White’s final moments

Monday 16 May 2022 03:30 , Josh Marcus

Chilling 911 audio has captured the moment that Alabama corrections officer Vicky White told her jailhouse lover “let’s get out and run” moments before investigators say she fatally shot herself in the head.

The audio, released on Tuesday night, reveals the 56-year-old’s final moments and the last words she said to Casey Cole White, the 38-year-old convict who she allegedly helped break out of jail and went on the run with for 10 days.

The Whites, who are not related or married and are said to have been in a relationship for the last two years, were finally tracked down to Evansville, Indiana, on Monday following a huge, national manhunt.

Rachel Sharp has more.

Chilling 911 call captures Vicky White’s last words before her death

Vicky White’s family still in disbelief over prison escape

Monday 16 May 2022 04:30 , Josh Marcus

Vicky White’s former mother-in-law has said that she “can’t understand” why the “really nice” person she knew for almost her entire life would have gone on the run with a dangerous inmate before shooting herself dead.

Frances White told The Independent that “it just makes you sick” knowing that the 56-year-old corrections officer who was once married to her son wound up at the centre of a well-planned prison escape and nationwide manhunt with a convict accused of stabbing a 58-year-old mother-of-two to death.

“This just makes you sick. I can’t understand why she did this,” she said.

The full story is here.

Vicky White’s mother-in-law ‘can’t understand’ why she went on run with inmate

Police phone call recordings show relationship between guard Vicky White and Alabama inmate Casey White

Monday 16 May 2022 05:30 , Maroosha Muzaffar

Recorded jailhouse phone calls between Vicky White and Casey White help prove the prison guard was having a relationship with the Alabama inmate before the two went on the run, according to police.

Lauderdale County sheriff, Rick Singleton said: “You think you know someone. And it turns out you really don’t know them at all.”

Read the full story by Josh Marcus here:

Police call recordings show relationship between guard Vicky White and Alabama inmate

Casey White devastated as prison guard ‘wife’ Vicky White is buried

Monday 16 May 2022 06:30 , Maroosha Muzaffar

Casey White is devastated over the loss of his prison “wife,” after Vicky White shot herself on Monday as police closed in on the couple during a car chase.

“I spoke to him yesterday and he was crying and saying he couldn’t believe she was gone,” Connie Moore, Mr White’s mother said, adding that Ms White was “really, really good to him–just being there for him, talking with him. They had a real thing.”

Read the full story here:

Casey White ‘crying’ as guard ‘wife’ Vicky White who engineered escape is buried

From employee of the year to fugitive: Unanswered questions Vicky White takes to the grave

Monday 16 May 2022 07:30 , Maroosha Muzaffar

Former mother-in-law Frances White and longtime colleague Lauderdale County District Attorney Chris Connolly tell Rachel Sharp why the community is struggling to reconcile the model employee and “really nice person” they knew with the Vicky White who was at the centre of a dramatic – and fatal – manhunt.

Read the full story here:

Employee of the year to fugitive: Unanswered questions Vicky White takes to the grave

Everything we know about dead Alabama prison officer and murder suspect she disappeared with

Monday 16 May 2022 08:30 , Maroosha Muzaffar

The US Marshals Service captured Casey White on Monday last week after receiving a tip on the Indiana location of the couple — Casey White and prison guard Vicky White.

In the aftermath of Casey White’s 10-day prison break — made possible with the help of the correctional officer, who died by suicide during a police chase — more details have emerged about how the couple managed to stay under the radar for so long.

Read more on what we know about the case so far:

Everything we know about dead Alabama prison officer and murder suspect

Vicky White’s ex-husband died just three months before prison break

Monday 16 May 2022 14:10 , Rachel Sharp

Vicky White’s first and only husband died just three months before she staged a dramatic prison break that ended with her death.

Ms White, 56, was married to Tommy White for around five years until they divorces in 2006.

Tommy’s mother Frances White told The Independent that the marriage came to an end due to Tommy’s issues with alcohol and drug addiction.

Frances, 88, said she couldn’t fault Ms White for ending the relationship saying that she “had a hard time” with her son.

Despite the divorce, Frances said she stayed close to her former daughter-in-law.

Ms White and her ex-husband also remained friends right up until his death at the age of 62 after a battle with Parkinson’s Disease in January.

“They stayed friends after the divorce and would talk to each other on the telephone until he couldn’t talk anymore because of the Parkinson’s,” she said.

It was just three months after his death that Ms White helped her jailhouse lover escape.

According to Sheriff Singleton, the corrections officer and the inmate had been in a romantic relationship for the last two years.

Frances said that, if her son was still alive, he would not have believed her capable of doing something like this.

“He wouldn’t have thought she would do anything like this,” she said.

Fugitives had ‘no long-term plan'

Monday 16 May 2022 14:55 , Rachel Sharp

Despite the extensive planning that went into the initial escape, Lauderdale County District Attorney Chris Connolly told The Independent that the fugitive couple appeared to have no long-term plan for their future together.

DA Connolly, who worked closely with Ms White for the last 17 years, said he was shocked to discover a lack of planning in the aftermath of the 29 April escape.

“It’s a little surprising to me that she didn’t have any long-term plan about what they were going to do after they got out,” he said.

“It doesn’t seem like there was any long-term plan.”

After 10 days on the run and a headstart on law enforcement, he said it was “shocking” to find them just four hours away from Florence, Alabama, in Evansville, Indiana.

The couple had spent most of their time on the run at a motel in the town where they had paid a homeless man to check them in for a 14-night stay back on 3 May.

Vanderburgh County Sheriff told reporters after their arrest that the Whites were “just trying to find a place to hide out and lay low”.

“They thought [they] had driven long enough that they wanted to stop for a while, get their bearings straight and then figure out their next place to travel,” he said.

The couple appeared to have already burned through most of their cash, with just $29,000 cash found inside the couple’s car – out of the $90,000 Ms White had withdrawn from her bank accounts before going on the run.

Casey White claimed he was also shot in the head

Monday 16 May 2022 16:23 , Rachel Sharp

Casey White claimed that he was also shot in the head when he was pulled from the car wreck where his jailhouse lover Vicky White lay dying from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, according to a police report.

Several law enforcement officers on the scene of Monday’s capture filed supplemental reports with Vanderburgh County Sheriff’s Office about the capture of the fugitives.

In one report, Evansville Police Officer Sam Shahine says that when White was taken into custody, he could see a small amount of blood on the back side of the fugitive’s head “to which he stated he had been shot also”.

Despite claiming he had also been shot, White allegedly urged officers to treat “his wife”.

“The offender was adamant that he was okay and that we needed to tend to his wife,” the officer said.

It is not clear if White was shot or if his injuries were caused when their getaway vehicle flipped and landed in a ditch.

It is also unclear if he was suggesting that he had shot himself or if Ms White had shot him and then herself or if he had been grazed by the bullet that killed Ms White.

Only one gunshot was heard by the officer.

Sgt Erik Nilssen also noted in his supplemental report about the incident that White had blood covering his shirt and coming from the back of his head when he was detained.

The 38-year-old was treated for a head injury on the scene and his bloodsoaked shirt taken as evidence, the report said.

ICYMI: Chilling audio captures Vicky White’s final words

Monday 16 May 2022 17:00 , Rachel Sharp

Chilling 911 audio has captured Vicky White’s final moments as she told her jailhouse lover “let’s get out and run” moments before investigators say she fatally shot herself in the head.

The audio, released on Tuesday night, reveals the 56-year-old’s last words she said to Casey Cole White, the 38-year-old convict who she allegedly helped break out of jail and went on the run with for 10 days.

“The airbags are going to go off and kill us,” she cries in the audio, sounding panicked.

“Airbags are going off. Let’s get out and run,” she says.

Listen to the audio here:

Series of missed opportunities enabled fugitives to stay on run for 10 days

Monday 16 May 2022 18:17 , Rachel Sharp

For 10 days, an inmate accused of capital murder and a female corrections officer with a previously unblemished record managed to dip under the radar of multiple law enforcement teams.

Armed with a trove of firearms, around $90,000 in cash and various coloured wigs as disguises, Casey Cole White and Vicky White travelled across at least four US states and switched getaway vehicles at least four times.

The couple, who are believed to have been in a romantic relationship for around two years, had finally been tracked down to a motel in Evansville, Indiana, last Monday.

The net closed in on the couple after surveillance footage captured White at a car wash in Evansville days earlier – where one of the getaway vehicles was also abandoned.

But, according to the car wash owner, authorities failed to act on his tip about the vehicle for almost a week all the while the fugitives were holed up in a motel opposite the local sheriff’s office.

Law enforcement officials were one step behind the fugitives from the get-go with a six-hour gap before they were even noticed missing and a getaway car taking a week to identify.

It seems there was a series of missed opportunities that enabled the corrections officer and the inmate to slip through the net for 10 days.

The Independent’s Rachel Sharp has the full story:

How Alabama inmate and guard stayed on the run for 10 days amid nationwide manhunt

Case reopened into mystery death of Casey White’s ex-girlfriend

Monday 16 May 2022 18:50 , Rachel Sharp

The case has been reopened into the mysterious death of Casey White’s former girlfriend in the aftermath of the dramatic prison escape and death of Vicky White.

Back on 1 February 2008, White’s then-girlfriend Christy Shelton was shot in the chest by a sawed-off shotgun inside an Alabama home belonging to White’s mother.

Ms Shelton, 31, died on the scene.

White was in the home with her at the time of the shooting but was ruled out as a suspect.

At the time, officials ruled the 31-year-old’s death as a suicide and the case was closed.

But Ms Shelton’s family has always doubted that version of events, with her daughter Somer Mitchell telling News 19 that “nothing was really done” to investigate her death at the time.

Limestone County Sheriff’s Office said it was reopening the investigation into her death.

Son of Casey White’s alleged victim launch GoFundMe for car wash owner

Monday 16 May 2022 19:35 , Rachel Sharp

The son of one of Casey White’s alleged victims has launched a GoFundMe to raise money for the car wash owner who helped track down the escaped fugitive and his jail guard lover.

Austin Williams, whose mother Connie Ridgeway was allegedly stabbed to death by White back in 2015, set up the campaign for James Stinson and have so far raised over $3,600 in donations.

“We’re not waiting around to see if Mr. Stinson receives reward money elsewhere,” reads the GoFundMe page.

“We’re going to do it right here, right now.”

Mr Stinson found the White’s pickup truck abandoned at his business back on 3 May and reported it to police.

The sighting ultimately led to the capture of the couple and calls have been growing for him to be given the reward money offered by authorities for information leading to their capture.

White is currently awaiting trial for the 2015 stabbing murder of 58-year-old mother-of-two Ms Ridgeway.

Ms Ridgeway was found stabbed to death in her apartment in Rogersville, Alabama, on 23 October 2015.

The case went unsolved for five years until White sent a letter to the Lauderdale County Sheriff’s Office confessing to the crime.

During a subsequent interview with authorities, he allegedly gave details about the crime that had not been made public and which only the killer could have known.

Prosecutors say he was paid to carry out the hit on his victim. He was charged in 2020 with two counts of capital murder.

After confessing to the murder, he initially pleaded guilty before changing his plea to not guilty by reason of mental illness.

His trial is slated to begin in June and, if convicted, he faces the death penalty.

What happens next?

Monday 16 May 2022 20:20 , Rachel Sharp

Casey White is now back behind bars at a high security prison in Alabama after he waived his right to extradition last Tuesday.

He appeared in Lauderdale County court that night where he was charged with escape in the first degree.

Lauderdale County DA Chris Connolly told The Independent that he could face additional charges over the prison break and did not rule out bringing charges against him over Ms White’s death.

White’s trial for the capital murder of Ms Ridgeway is scheduled to begin in June.

If convicted, he faces the death penalty.

Vicky White remembered as a ‘solid employee'

Monday 16 May 2022 20:27 , Rachel Sharp

Vicky White has been remembered as a “solid employee” by people who knew her during her 17-year career in the local jail.

Ms White, 56, spent her whole life in the close-knit community of Lauderdale County and fell into a job in local law enforcement in 2006 when a role came up and she applied.

For the next 17 years, she rose up the ranks to become assistant director for the Lauderdale County Detention Center and was looked up to by her colleagues.

Lauderdale County District Attorney Chris Connolly, who worked closely with her for the last 17 years, told The Independent that she was quit but professional at work.

“She wasn’t a big talker but she was professional in her job and did it well. That’s why she was so well respected and trusted,” he said.

Lauderdale County Sheriff Rick Singleton also described her as an “exemplary employee” who had won the “employee of the year” award five times over the last eight years.

Ms White was due to be honoured in this year’s ceremony this week but it has now been put on hold.

Casey White’s long criminal past

Monday 16 May 2022 21:05 , Rachel Sharp

Casey White has a long rap sheet going back two decades long before he broke out of prison with his lover Vicky White and went on the run.

In 2006, when he was arrested over a domestic violence incident involving his own mother.

Four years later in 2010, he pleaded guilty to attacking a male relative with an ax handle and was sentenced to six years in prison.

At the time of his prison escape last month, he was serving a 75-year sentence for a 2015 crime spree where he tried to murder his ex-girlfriend, held victims at gunpoint and shot a dog dead.

He is also due to stand trial in June for the 2015 capital murder of a 58-year-old mother-of-two who was found stabbed to death in her apartment.

Officials in Alabama are now also taking a fresh look at the 2008 shooting death of another girlfriend, which was – at the time – ruled a suicide.

Read the full story here:

Jailhouse phone calls reveal relationship between inmate and prison guard

Monday 16 May 2022 21:56 , Rachel Sharp

Recorded jailhouse phone calls between Vicky White and Casey White help prove the prison guard was having a relationship with the Alabama inmate before the two went on the run, according to police.

“You think you know someone,” Lauderdale County sheriff, Rick Singleton, whose office oversees the Lauderdale County correctional center where the couple made their daring escape, told The Guardian. “And it turns out you really don’t know them at all.”

Correctional officer Vicky White met Casey White in 2020 at the Lauderdale County Correctional Facility, and kept in touch when he was transferred temporarily to state prison, before returning.

Once the pair went missing in late April, police spoke with detainees who said the two had been in a romantic relationship, a fact confirmed by recordings of calls made between the two, Mr Singleton said.

It is not clear when the phone calls came to light or when police and jail officials became aware the two were having a relationship.

Brother of murdered police officer describes Vicky White as ‘like a mom to me'

Monday 16 May 2022 22:30 , Rachel Sharp

The brother of a murdered police officer has described Vicky White as “like a mom to me” and told people that she was not the person that many believe her to be based on the events of the last few weeks.

Billy Risner is the brother of Sheffield Sgt. Nick Risner who was shot dead in Alabama last year.

Mr Risner paid tribute to Ms White in an emotional Facebook post calling her an “amazing woman” who was there for him after his brother’s death.

“Those of you that did not have the pleasure of knowing this amazing woman I don’t expect you to understand the hurt we feel. Only thing you know is what you have seen on the news,” he wrote.

“Back in October when my brother was shot she called me before I even made it to the hospital. She offered to carry us to Huntsville and to sit with us. She was there for me without me having to ask her to be.

“When I seen that she was missing and nobody had a clue what had happened I put my gear on and I offered my time to help hunt for her. After we figured out what had happened I didn’t give up on her.

“I sent her a text telling her that we really wanted her to just let someone know she was ok. I hope she at least read it because when she was at her worse I wanted her to know that I was still here for her. Vicky was like a mom to me and everyone else she mentored and I’m going to miss her so bad!”

Vicky White was laid to rest on Saturday

Monday 16 May 2022 23:30 , Rachel Sharp

Vicky White was laid to rest on Saturday in a funeral attended by hundreds, including former colleagues and inmates at the jail where she staged a prison break two weeks earlier.

The service took place at Center Hill Cemetery in Lexington, Alabama, about 24 miles away from Lauderdale County jail.

It was five days after she died from a gunshot wound to the head as police officers closed in on the fugitives’ vehicle.

The coroner ruled her death a suicide.

DA won’t rule out bringing charges against Casey White over Vicky White’s death

Tuesday 17 May 2022 00:30 , Rachel Sharp

Prosecutors have not ruled out the possibility that Casey White will face charges over the death of his jailhouse lover Vicky White.

Lauderdale County District Attorney Chris Connolly told The Independent that White, 38, could face fresh charges over the doomed prison escape and 10-day manhunt as the investigation continues.

“I intend to prosecute him both for the capital murder and the escape and other related charges that we are looking at,” he said.

The DA, who had worked closely with Ms White throughout her 17-year career as a corrections officer, did not elaborate on what the charges would be.

However he said that investigators had received information from their counterparts in Indiana, where the couple were finally captured.

When asked if the charges could relate to the death of Ms White, the DA said he “couldn’t comment on that”.

White has already been charged with escape in the first degree and is now back in Alabama being held in a maximum security prison.

This comes on top of the 75-year prison sentence he is currently serving and two counts of capital murder that he was already charged with over the 2015 stabbing death of 58-year-old Connie Ridgeway.

White’s trial will begin in June for the murder of Ms Ridgeway, who was found brutally stabbed to death in her apartment in Rogersville, Alabama, on 23 October 2015.

Fugitives paid homeless man to check them into motel

01:30 , Rachel Sharp

Fugitives Casey Cole White and Vicky White paid a local homeless man to check them into a motel as they tried to lay low during their time on the run, according to authorities.

The couple checked into Motel 41 in Evansville, Indiana, back on 3 May and paid cash upfront for a 14-night stay, said Vanderburgh County Sheriff Dave Wedding.

The sheriff said investigators believe the Whites, who are not married and not related, paid a homeless man to use his own ID to check into room 150 so that they did not have to reveal their own identities to the owner.

As a result, the motel owner said he had no idea that the two people at the centre of a nationwide manhunt were holed up inside his building until after law enforcement tracked down and apprehended the fugitives on Monday.

Motel 41 owner Paul Shah told ABC31 that the room was “under some local guy’s name” and that the couple “were not officially guests of the hotel”.

He did not provide details about the identity of the individual and suggested that the fugitives could have been visiting him.

The individual believed to have booked the motel on behalf of the fugitives is not facing any charges.

ICYMI: Police footage of the fugitives’ capture

02:30 , Rachel Sharp

Dramatic police footage has been released of the moment that capital murder suspect Casey Cole White was captured and his prison guard lover Vicky White’s body was pulled from their vehicle with a gun still in her hand.

Dashcam footage released last Tuesday shows a patrol car racing to the grassy bank where the couple’s Cadillac was rammed off the road by law enforcement officers following the brief chase.

A group of officers are already on the scene and are seen pulling the six foot nine inch tall fugitive away from the car and pinning him to the ground.

White is placed in cuffs and held there for a few moments before the officers pull him to his feet and lead him away.

Dressed in in black trousers, a white t-shirt with a blue shirt open over the top and dark sunglasses, the 38-year-old is seen glancing behind him back in the direction of the car where his lover remains trapped. The Cadillac is seen flipped on its side in a ditch by the side of the road with other officers gathered around it and no sign of Ms White.

Two officers push White down onto the bonnet of the patrol car before sitting him down on the ground.

Watch the footage here:

The tragic downfall of Vicky White

03:40 , Rachel Sharp

Last week, Vicky White should have been cheered on by her colleagues in a fun ceremony where she would have been awarded Lauderdale County’s Corrections Employee of the Year for the fifth time.

Instead, the 56-year-old she was laid to rest in a cemetery in Lexington, Alabama – her reputation in tatters.

Her spectacular downfall and death marks the tragic end of a 10-day manhunt that both captured the attention of the nation and shocked those closest to her.

From the day that she vanished with a man accused of stabbing a mother-of-two to death for money and convicted of a terrifying rampage where he tried to murder his ex-girlfriend, her family, friends and coworkers have struggled to reconcile her actions with the woman they thought they knew.

The question on everyone’s minds: why would a model employee who was seen as a mother figure to her colleagues risk her life and career to break a suspected killer free from prison and go on the run with him armed with a stash of weapons?

Read the full story on Vicky White’s tragic downfall:

Employee of the year to fugitive: Unanswered questions Vicky White takes to the grave

Son of Casey White’s alleged victim launch GoFundMe for car wash owner

05:00 , Rachel Sharp

The son of one of Casey White’s alleged victims has launched a GoFundMe to raise money for the car wash owner who helped track down the escaped fugitive and his jail guard lover.

Austin Williams, whose mother Connie Ridgeway was allegedly stabbed to death by White back in 2015, set up the campaign for James Stinson and have so far raised over $3,600 in donations.

“We’re not waiting around to see if Mr. Stinson receives reward money elsewhere,” reads the GoFundMe page.

“We’re going to do it right here, right now.”

Mr Stinson found the White’s pickup truck abandoned at his business back on 3 May and reported it to police.

The sighting ultimately led to the capture of the couple and calls have been growing for him to be given the reward money offered by authorities for information leading to their capture.

White is currently awaiting trial for the 2015 stabbing murder of 58-year-old mother-of-two Ms Ridgeway.

Ms Ridgeway was found stabbed to death in her apartment in Rogersville, Alabama, on 23 October 2015.

The case went unsolved for five years until White sent a letter to the Lauderdale County Sheriff’s Office confessing to the crime.

During a subsequent interview with authorities, he allegedly gave details about the crime that had not been made public and which only the killer could have known.

Prosecutors say he was paid to carry out the hit on his victim. He was charged in 2020 with two counts of capital murder.

After confessing to the murder, he initially pleaded guilty before changing his plea to not guilty by reason of mental illness.

His trial is slated to begin in June and, if convicted, he faces the death penalty.