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| Alabama killer may have lured a correctional guard into a life of crime and possibly death. |
The search for a convicted killer and the correctional guard who made an authorized transport. Is this a kidnapping or a potential romantic affair between the killer and female correctional guard?
Capital murder in Alabama is an automatic DEATH card. Escape is 20 years. Aiding and abetting a suspect in escape or fleeing is punishable by 15 years. If you are a member of law enforcement and violate oath of office or participate in activities unbecoming of a peace officer, you could face up 10 years in the iron college. The federal charges are traveling across state lines which is 5-10 years.
The state of Alabama and the nation are on high alert for Casey White. He is considered armed and dangerous and possibly a flight risk. The FBI, ATF, U.S. Marshals, the Lauderdale Sheriff's Department, Florence Police, Alabama Bureau of Investigation and Alabama State Highway Patrol are involved.
The convict is 6 foot 6 inches tall. He weighs over 250 lbs. He is a white male and has black and gray hair. He is in his late 30s.
The correctional guard, Vicki White is a 25 year veteran with the Alabama Correctional Institution. She is a white woman, age 56, standing at 5 feet 4 inches. She was considered a good employee up until this situation. Many were noticing things that were suspicious.
The two are not related.
She was traveling with a high risk suspect without another deputy or correctional guard.
She took unauthorized sick leave. She left a path suggesting it was a deliberate attempt to aid in a prison break.
White, an assistant director of corrections at the county jail, and the convict, a man who was incarcerated on capital murder charges, have been missing since they left the jail Friday morning at 9:41 a.m.
Singleton has said the primary focus is finding the two.
Before they left the jail on Friday, Vicky White told jail employees to prepare Casey White for transport to the county courthouse for a mental health evaluation, the sheriff said, though no such court appearance was scheduled.
Vicky White told jail employees to prepare Casey White for transport to the Lauderdale County Courthouse for a mental health evaluation, the sheriff said, though no such court appearance was scheduled.
Vicky White also told colleagues that she was going to seek medical attention after dropping Casey White off at court because she wasn’t feeling well, but Singleton said there was no such medical appointment.
The two never arrived at the courthouse, which is located in downtown Florence, about a half mile from the county jail.
At 11:34 a.m., about two hours after the pair left the jail, a Florence police officer saw White’s patrol vehicle. It was parked among vehicles that were listed for sale. The officer, like other law enforcement, was unaware at the time that officer White and Casey White were missing.
At 3:30 p.m., a jail employee reported to the administration that she had been trying to contact deputy White but could not reach her. The employee also reported that Casey White had not returned to the jail.
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| Correctional guard may have aided in letting a killer loose. |
After law enforcement announced that the pair was missing, according to the sheriff’s office, a member of the public reported seeing the patrol vehicle in a shopping center parking lot. Deputies searched the vehicle but did not find any evidence.
By 5:30 p.m., about 20 local investigators were working on the case, reviewing surveillance video from the courthouse, jail, shopping center and other locations.
Singleton has said Vicky White had been “an exemplary employee” before violating sheriff’s office policy by traveling alone with a prisoner. Two sworn deputies are supposed to escort incarcerated people.
In 2020, Casey White was charged with two counts of capital murder for the Oct. 23, 2015 murder-for-hire slaying of Connie Jane Ridgeway. Rogersville police found Ridgeway’s body in the living room of her apartment after a neighbor requested a welfare check. The 59-year-old woman lived at Meadowland Apartments on Prince Drive in Rogersville, across the street from Lauderdale County High School’s football field.
Sheriff Singleton said his department was "aggressively investigating" the incident and would be looking into previous interaction between the two to "see if something else was going on."
Sheriff Singleton said his department was "shocked" and that it was obviously a possibility that the corrections officer helped him escape.
He told news outlets that Vicky White had turned in her retirement papers the day before she went missing.
Regardless of her involvement, the Sheriff acknowledged she could very well be in danger.
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