Alabama inmate Casey White has been charged with the murder of her prison guard lover Vicky White after she helped him escape from prison and the couple fled for 11 days before be trapped.
Casey, 38, and the prison guard organized a well-planned escape from a prison in Florence, Alabama, so he falsely claimed it was a mental health assessment on April 29th. The couple then exchanged vehicles and used costumes as they made their way through three states. .
The couple was on the run for 11 days when Vicky White, 56, was shot dead after a police chase in Evansville, Indiana. At that time, authorities said he was shot in the head. Casey was arrested immediately after the May 9 chase.
On Thursday, Lauderdale County District Attorney Chris Connolly announced that Casey had been charged with murder. He doesn’t say he shot Vicky in the head.
The indictment, seen by DailyMail.com, shows that the 6-foot-9 prisoner has been charged with first-degree evasion “and in the course and promotion of the first-degree escape, resulted in the death of Vicky White, who died of a gunshot wound to the head. ‘
Casey White has been charged with the murder of Vicky White, which helped him plan his escape across the country. Casey appears at the court in Florence, Alabama, with his hands handcuffed and his feet chained after his arrest.
A coroner ruled that Vicky had died as a result of self-inflicted gunshot wounds to the head after the two lovers spent 11 days fleeing.
On May 9, Vicky and Casey were traveling in the same car when Evansville police officers began chasing the couple.
Vicky spoke to 911 dispatchers in the moments before her death and could be heard saying, “The air cushions are going out.” We go out and run ‘.
Officers then arrived at the scene, claiming she was still breathing, but in an audio posted by Indiana authorities, the dispatcher states that they could hear her say “she had her finger on the trigger.”
In the initial confusion, they believed Casey White had fired, and then asked for a negotiator, before a second voice said no.
Images from the dashboard and Indiana’s body camera showed the dramatic moment when fugitive Casey White was arrested and Vicky’s body was dragged to death from her car.
Initial reports indicated that Vicky pulled the trigger after the couple fled the road by police.
The images show Casey being dragged by his hands out of the crumpled car, while officers kneel over him to handcuff him.
His denim shirt is torn, but he looks unharmed, with black sunglasses still on his face.
As police approach the car, an officer says, “We have to clear some of that shit to get to it.”
Another officer, kneeling next to the overturned car, says, “He still has the gun in his hand.”
One adds, “She’s still breathing. I can see her breast rising. Finger still on the trigger. She could press that trigger again.
A third video released by police showed them scouring a Ford truck, which the couple abandoned before changing into their Cadillac.
An agent searches the vehicle and then tells his partner, “There are no paperwork.” Some rubbish and a Glock magazine loader and magazine loader.
The runaway prisoner, 6 feet tall and 9 feet tall, stands on top of Indiana agents who arrested him after the car he was driving veered off the road.
Casey White, 38, is seen in dashboard camera footage released by Indiana police being arrested in May
Casey White can be seen looking over her shoulder while Vicky White was dying in the car
An Indiana sheriff said the couple were carrying $ 29,000 in cash, four pistols and an AR-15 rifle and were ready for a shootout when they were captured.
The end of the hunt left authorities trying to reconstruct what happened during the 11 days that passed after Vicky escorted Casey from Alabama prison.
According to Alabama authorities, the inmate and Vicky White appeared to have had a “love in prison.”
As for his role in the escape, the sheriff said, “I wasn’t forcing him. It was a mutual relationship.
Casey was awaiting trial in Florence prison for stabbing 58-year-old Connie Ridgeway during a 2015 robbery.
At the time of the outbreak, he was serving a 75-year prison sentence for attempted murder and other crimes.
He has confessed to the crime, alleging that he was paid to commit the heinous act. If convicted, he could receive the death penalty.
Vickey White was placed on the ground after being removed from the car. Officers said he still had a gun in his hand
Indiana sheriffs are seen investigating the wrinkled car wreck, in which Vicky White committed suicide.
Sheriffs are seen pulling 56-year-old Vicky White out of the car after the Cadillac veered off the road. They initially asked negotiators after believing Casey had a gun
Vicky White was taken out of the car and put on the grass next to the wreck
Investigators believe the couple spent about six days locked up in an Evansville motel after arriving on May 3, and discovered a variety of wigs as a way to dress up.
Dave Wedding, sheriff of Vandenburgh County, said investigators do not believe the two had relatives or other contacts in the city of 120,000 people.
Authorities approached after the car wash manager reported that a man who looked very much like a 6-foot, 260-pound Casey White had been recorded by a surveillance camera coming down from a van.
Investigators said they located the van and then learned that the couple may have switched to a Cadillac, which was later seen outside a nearby motel.
Speaking exclusively to DailyMail.com, Motel 41 manager Paul Shaw said: “They stayed in a room that didn’t have their name on it. Someone else rented the room and checked them in.
“A local man with a local ID document checked in and signed the heel. I never saw them, hopefully, but they stayed in the room.
‘People come and go here, we don’t follow up.’
These are all the weapons the couple had in their Cadillac when they were wrapped in a ditch by police, before Vicky died.
The couple only had $ 29,000 of the 90,000 Vicky had withdrawn when they were captured by officers
The motel rooms are accessed independently by exterior doors, which means guests do not have to walk around the small reception area, except to use the vending machine or check in.
Shaw, an electrical engineer by profession, said he works the morning shift and has never seen White or Vicky.
When the couple left the motel, police chased them, and Casey told investigators after his capture that “he would probably have a shooting at stake for both of them to lose their lives.”
The inmate appeared on video in May in an Indiana courtroom, where he waived extradition, before being sent back to Alabama.
Vicky, deputy director of corrections at the Lauderdale County Jail, had retired before the escape, and the day of the escape, April 29, was her last day of work.
Sherry Sylvester had worked alongside Vicky for 16 years, saying, “I know she hurt and made a terrible mistake, but she’s still your friend.”
He said Vicky often tried to help prisoners, especially those without families, but had never seen her do anything that crossed the line, claiming she was “for normalcy.”
Connie Moore, Casey White’s mother, said she last spoke to him on the phone the day before the escape.
She said, “Everything was as normal as it could be. I doubt she even knew she would leave when she came in to look for him.
The couple stayed in room 150 on the ground floor of the motel, where accommodation costs about $ 44 a night not including a $ 25 cash deposit required when booking.
On May 2, an order was issued for Vicky White accusing her of allowing or facilitating the escape.
Authorities said the plan appeared to be under construction for some time.
He sold his house for about half its market value and bought an SUV that he kept in a mall without license plates.
When asked where most of the money had gone, Sheriff Wedding told DailyMail.com: “They’ve spent it. They spent it on various vehicles, equipment, a gun, hotel, food, clothes.
“$ 60,000 can go pretty fast if you spend $ 6,000 per pop.”
Vicky used some of the cash and an alias to buy the 2007 bronze Ford Edge in which they initially fled before leaving it on a rural Tennessee road about two hours north of Florence, Alabama Prison. , from which White arose.
Casey White, who faces a possible death sentence if convicted of murder in 2015, added additional escape charges to his rap record, as well as the murder charge.
According to the U.S. Marshalls, the couple spent $ 6,000 on a Ford F-150 that was parked at a strange angle in an Evansville car wash where White was also photographed in surveillance footage.
U.S. Marshals Commander Chad Hunt said the couple is believed to have bought another vehicle.
Speaking earlier this year, Lauderdale County Sheriff Rick Singleton said she was the “certifier” of his logistics escape plan, but it’s unclear who had the idea to take Casey out.
He said: “To go from day one, thinking they had kidnapped her and maybe in danger, then finding out she took him out willingly, then trying to determine if they had threatened or coerced her in any way. and then discovered that it was basically the brain behind the whole plan.
“It’s been an emotional roller coaster. Obviously, I was behind bars; I couldn’t have planned too much behind bars.
“Personally, I think she was the one who drew up the plan.
‘She was in a position of knowledge. He made sure the other armed deputies were out, arranged to buy the car from the escape, sold his house got cash, went shopping.
Chronology of the escape of Vicky White and Casey White
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