Alabama murder suspect vanishes with corrections officer *CAPTURED IN INDIANA*

Alabama sheriff's office issues alert after inmate and corrections official go missing

Authorities said the inmate, who was being held on capital murder charges, should be considered "armed and extremely dangerous."

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A sheriff's office in Alabama issued an alert Friday night after an inmate and the assistant director of corrections went missing earlier in the day. Authorities said the inmate, who was being held on capital murder charges, should be considered "armed and extremely dangerous."

Lauderdale County Sheriff Rick Singleton told reporters Friday night that Vicki White, a 25-year veteran at the department, left the local detention center with Casey Cole White at 9:41 a.m. He said she told other officials she was going to drop him off at the courthouse for a mental health evaluation and then was going to seek medical attention because she wasn't feeling well. Despite having the same last name, the two are not related.

Shortly after 11 a.m., someone found her patrol vehicle in a parking lot of a shopping center. At 3:30 p.m., officials became aware that no one had been able to contact her, and that the inmate had not been returned to custody.

 

[Kimster]

Escaped Alabama prisoner Casey White indicted on gun charges in Indiana

Casey White, 38, and assistant corrections director Vicky White were found in Evansville 11 days after the jailbreak in Alabama.

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Escaped Alabama prisoner Casey White indicted on gun charges in Indiana​

A federal grand jury indicted Alabama prisoner Casey White, who escaped prison and was found in southern Indiana May 9, Thursday on charges of having a gun as a felon and fugitive.

On July 12, a grand jury indicted Casey with murder in Vicky's death, alleging that during the jailbreak — while committing the crime of escape in the first degree — Casey caused Vicky's death, who authorities said shot herself in the head right before they were captured.

According to the United States Attorney's Office Southern District of Indiana, Casey had four handguns and an AR-15 rifle when Vicky and he were found in Evansville. Casey was prohibited from possessing guns because he was a fugitive, as well as his 2019 felony convictions for attempted murder and kidnapping in Limestone County, Alabama.

Casey is currently in custody at an Alabama jail on separate charges and will make his initial appearance in southern Indiana at a later date.

If convicted, Casey faces an additional 10 years in federal prison for each count.

Boy they’re gonna make sure he doesn’t get out on any technicality, aren’t they?

 

[GrandmaBear]

Boy they’re gonna make sure he doesn’t get out on any technicality, aren’t they?

I think he will play the game, why wouldn't he? Claiming she busted him out and was in a position of authority. I doubt though he probably is very concerned about conviction as he was already facing or in for a very long time. Jmo.

 

[SheWhoMustNotBeNamed]

People are WEIRD!
And people were wondering how she could have wanted to be with him. There's more like her than we like to think.

Long Wait for Casey, Vicky White’s Former Motel Room: Report

The fugitive lovebirds stayed in Room 150 for 14 days after fleeing Alabama’s Lauderdale County Jail.

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On the surface, little distinguishes Room 150 at Motel 41 in Evansville, Indiana. Like all of the other rooms at the motel, it has a queen-sized bed, a flat-screen cable television, and a microwave. Yet according to a clerk at Motel 41, who spoke with AL.com, the room has a 60-person waiting list. Its tremendous popularity is linked to its former inhabitants: Casey White and Vicky White, the prisoner-and-officer fugitives whose story captured national attention when Vicky busted her secret boyfriend out of prison and went on the lam. The two reportedly rented ground-floor Room 150 for 14 days after escaping Alabama’s Lauderdale County Jail together and checked out on May 9, the same day authorities found them. (After a car chase and crash, Vicky died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head as police closed in, and Casey was taken back into custody.) According to the motel clerk, the normal price per room at Motel 41 is around $63 per night, and she is unsure of whether Room 150 is fetching a different rate.

 

[GrandmaBear]

People are WEIRD!
And people were wondering how she could have wanted to be with him. There's more like her than we like to think.

Long Wait for Casey, Vicky White’s Former Motel Room: Report

The fugitive lovebirds stayed in Room 150 for 14 days after fleeing Alabama’s Lauderdale County Jail.

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On the surface, little distinguishes Room 150 at Motel 41 in Evansville, Indiana. Like all of the other rooms at the motel, it has a queen-sized bed, a flat-screen cable television, and a microwave. Yet according to a clerk at Motel 41, who spoke with AL.com, the room has a 60-person waiting list. Its tremendous popularity is linked to its former inhabitants: Casey White and Vicky White, the prisoner-and-officer fugitives whose story captured national attention when Vicky busted her secret boyfriend out of prison and went on the lam. The two reportedly rented ground-floor Room 150 for 14 days after escaping Alabama’s Lauderdale County Jail together and checked out on May 9, the same day authorities found them. (After a car chase and crash, Vicky died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head as police closed in, and Casey was taken back into custody.) According to the motel clerk, the normal price per room at Motel 41 is around $63 per night, and she is unsure of whether Room 150 is fetching a different rate.

So they are likely price gouging due to its popularity...

People are weird, no doubt. No way would I want to stay there. From what I understood, it's a flea bag type of motel too...

What to they want to do in this room, sleep in the bed the two slept in. Eeewww. NO.

 

[Cousin Dupree]

So they are likely price gouging due to its popularity...

People are weird, no doubt. No way would I want to stay there. From what I understood, it's a flea bag type of motel too...

What to they want to do in this room, sleep in the bed the two slept in. Eeewww. NO.

If I owned the place I'd do that too. Why not take the money of some really messed up people.

 

[Kimster]

If I owned the place I'd do that too. Why not take the money of some really messed up people.

That’s what I was thinking too! I’d raise the room cost to $100 a night. At least. And I would let them know that that was the highest priced room in the motel so I wouldn’t be gouging them, I would be making sure they knew they were paying more than everybody else.

 

[GrandmaBear]

I guess yeah.

What does anyone staying there expect to get out of it or find or enjoy about it. Pretty dumb.

 

[SheWhoMustNotBeNamed]

Lauderdale County Jail makes changes following Casey White escape

Nearly four months after an escape from the Lauderdale County Jail led to a nationwide manhunt, new policies have been put in place to make sure it doesn’t happen again.

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Lauderdale County Jail makes changes following Casey White escape​

Nearly four months after an escape from the Lauderdale County Jail led to a nationwide manhunt, new policies have been put in place to make sure it doesn’t happen again.


News 19 sat down with Lauderdale County Sheriff Rick Singleton to discuss the changes to the jail’s transportation system so that an escape like this never happens again.

“Our big mistake was we put too much control and authority in a single person,” Singleton said.

Singleton says when Vicky White helped Casey White escape from the jail, policies were strong, but their execution was not. The sheriff’s office has now implemented a new system for any inmate leaving the jail.

Under the previous policy, Vicky should not have been able to take Casey from the jail on her own.

The sheriff says part of the reason she could do this was her title. As Assistant Director of Corrections, Vicky was the only person in the jail with access to the list of inmates who were being transported to and from the jail.

Under the new policy, the list of inmates who need to be taken from the jail will go to multiple team members, rather than just one jail employee.

Singleton says this will make sure there are multiple sets of eyes on every transport the jail makes.

“When the transport team arrives at the detention center, they check their list against what the detention center’s got,” Singleton explained. “If an inmate’s name is not on that list, they do not leave this facility.”

Singleton also said they were lax in how they handled judge’s orders to retrieve single inmates. In the case of Casey White, Vicky was able to use that to her advantage.

“We would get inmates to the courthouse and get them in court, and the judge would, on the spur of the moment, decide they want to see another inmate,” Singleton said. “Before we would simply make a phone call to the jail [saying], ‘hey, we need this inmate.’ Now that has to be done in writing.”

Singleton says they implemented the new policies just after the manhunt for Casey White ended.

 

[SheWhoMustNotBeNamed]

Lawyers for Casey White seek his transfer from state prison to county jail

The move is needed to help prepare for trial, White's attorney says.

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Lawyers for Casey White seek his transfer from state prison to county jail​

Casey White, the hulking capital murder suspect who escaped from the Lauderdale County jail earlier this year, will be transferred from a state prison to a county jail if a judge signs off on the move.

Attorneys for White on Friday filed a motion to transfer White – whose escape from the Florence jail in April with the help of a jail official led to an 11-day manhunt before his capture in Indiana – from Donaldson Correctional Facility in Bessemer to the Cullman County jail.

The motion said Lauderdale County District Attorney Chris Connolly as well as Lauderdale County Sheriff Rick Singleton and Cullman County Sheriff Matt Gentry raised no objections to the transfer. Lauderdale County Circuit Judge Benjamin Graves must approve the transfer before it can take place.

One of White’s attorneys, Mark McDaniel, said the move was necessary to help the Huntsville-based defense team prepare for trial. White is scheduled for trial in December in Lauderdale County on the capital murder charge.

 

[Kimster]

Lawyers for Casey White seek his transfer from state prison to county jail

The move is needed to help prepare for trial, White's attorney says.

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Lawyers for Casey White seek his transfer from state prison to county jail​

Casey White, the hulking capital murder suspect who escaped from the Lauderdale County jail earlier this year, will be transferred from a state prison to a county jail if a judge signs off on the move.

Attorneys for White on Friday filed a motion to transfer White – whose escape from the Florence jail in April with the help of a jail official led to an 11-day manhunt before his capture in Indiana – from Donaldson Correctional Facility in Bessemer to the Cullman County jail.

The motion said Lauderdale County District Attorney Chris Connolly as well as Lauderdale County Sheriff Rick Singleton and Cullman County Sheriff Matt Gentry raised no objections to the transfer. Lauderdale County Circuit Judge Benjamin Graves must approve the transfer before it can take place.

One of White’s attorneys, Mark McDaniel, said the move was necessary to help the Huntsville-based defense team prepare for trial. White is scheduled for trial in December in Lauderdale County on the capital murder charge.

This doesn’t surprise me. I’d be surprised if they don’t move him.

 

[Cousin Dupree]

This doesn’t surprise me. I’d be surprised if they don’t move him.

Just don't let one woman be the one to do it.

 

[SheWhoMustNotBeNamed]

Casey White and Vicky White had phone sex during nearly 1,000 calls before jailbreak, sheriff says

The calls were made while Casey White was locked up in state prison on a 75-year sentence in a 2015 crime spree.

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Casey White and Vicky White had phone sex during nearly 1,000 calls before jailbreak, sheriff says​

Capital murder suspect Casey White and his girlfriend, former Lauderdale County jailer Vicky White, spoke nearly 1,000 times by phone over a six-month period prior to their April escape.

Lauderdale County Sheriff Rick Singleton said investigators are in the process of listening to tapes of 949 phone calls made between the couple from August 2021 until Feb. 22, 2022.


“We’re in the process of listening to those calls to see if there’s any information there that might help us,’’ Singleton said.

“The only thing I know for a fact was that they had some phone sex.”

The sheriff said he did not yet know if some of the calls took place while Vicky White was on duty as the supervisor at the Lauderdale County Jail.

“I’d be shocked if some of them weren’t,’’ he said.

“That’s a lot of phone calls,’’ Singleton said. “I think what it tells us is they were definitely in a relationship.”

Singleton did not say whether investigators have yet heard any conversations planning the escape. “They’re still listening to the tapes to see what was on them,’’ he said.

 

[Cousin Dupree]

 

[GrandmaBear]

How is this possible? He was a prisoner, did he have that much freedom and that many times a day he could be on the phone? Having phone sex no less. Is there no bathroom cleaning or KP duty? I am serious, how could this possibly occur? Sounds to me like there were issues other than just Vicky White as someone had to allow him all this time to be on the phone on the other end...

 

[Kimster]

Casey White and Vicky White had phone sex during nearly 1,000 calls before jailbreak, sheriff says

The calls were made while Casey White was locked up in state prison on a 75-year sentence in a 2015 crime spree.

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Casey White and Vicky White had phone sex during nearly 1,000 calls before jailbreak, sheriff says​

Capital murder suspect Casey White and his girlfriend, former Lauderdale County jailer Vicky White, spoke nearly 1,000 times by phone over a six-month period prior to their April escape.

Lauderdale County Sheriff Rick Singleton said investigators are in the process of listening to tapes of 949 phone calls made between the couple from August 2021 until Feb. 22, 2022.


“We’re in the process of listening to those calls to see if there’s any information there that might help us,’’ Singleton said.

“The only thing I know for a fact was that they had some phone sex.”

The sheriff said he did not yet know if some of the calls took place while Vicky White was on duty as the supervisor at the Lauderdale County Jail.

“I’d be shocked if some of them weren’t,’’ he said.

“That’s a lot of phone calls,’’ Singleton said. “I think what it tells us is they were definitely in a relationship.”

Singleton did not say whether investigators have yet heard any conversations planning the escape. “They’re still listening to the tapes to see what was on them,’’ he said.

They never listened to any of his conversations at all? I guess that makes sense. For some reason I thought somebody listens to all of them.

 

[Kimster]

How is this possible? He was a prisoner, did he have that much freedom and that many times a day he could be on the phone? Having phone sex no less. Is there no bathroom cleaning or KP duty? I am serious, how could this possibly occur? Sounds to me like there were issues other than just Vicky White as someone had to allow him all this time to be on the phone on the other end...

I thought the same thing as you at first, and then I thought that may be there just isn’t enough time in the day to listen to all the phone calls out there.

 

[Guess Who]

I thought the same thing as you at first, and then I thought that may be there just isn’t enough time in the day to listen to all the phone calls out there.

I don't think they "listen" to them, but they do record them so if they do need to investigate something, they can. I am sure some prisoners are constantly monitored, but I am also sure most are not.

 

[GrandmaBear]

Lawyers for Casey White seek his transfer from state prison to county jail

The move is needed to help prepare for trial, White's attorney says.

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Lawyers for Casey White seek his transfer from state prison to county jail​

Casey White, the hulking capital murder suspect who escaped from the Lauderdale County jail earlier this year, will be transferred from a state prison to a county jail if a judge signs off on the move.

Attorneys for White on Friday filed a motion to transfer White – whose escape from the Florence jail in April with the help of a jail official led to an 11-day manhunt before his capture in Indiana – from Donaldson Correctional Facility in Bessemer to the Cullman County jail.

The motion said Lauderdale County District Attorney Chris Connolly as well as Lauderdale County Sheriff Rick Singleton and Cullman County Sheriff Matt Gentry raised no objections to the transfer. Lauderdale County Circuit Judge Benjamin Graves must approve the transfer before it can take place.

One of White’s attorneys, Mark McDaniel, said the move was necessary to help the Huntsville-based defense team prepare for trial. White is scheduled for trial in December in Lauderdale County on the capital murder charge.

Hmmm. Put this man who escaped from a county facility back in a county facility?? Take him out of prison?? And the county sheriffs, etc. don't disagree? Well I do. And why aren't they arguing it??

There is Skype and Zoom and Casey is very familiar with phone calls and all else in handling things with his former honey. Or his attys. can travel if it is so important to see him very often.

Smh.

 

[SheWhoMustNotBeNamed]

Casey White should not be charged in Vicky White’s death, attorneys say

Vicky White killed herself as police closed in to capture Casey White in Indiana.

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Casey White should not be charged in Vicky White’s death, attorneys say​

Casey White should not be charged with felony murder in the death of Vicky White because the law is unconstitutional, his lawyers argue in a court filing.

Authorities in Indiana, where Casey White in May was captured after an 11-day manhunt, said Vicky White – the jail officer who authorities say facilitated Casey White’s escape – took her own life with a gunshot to her head as police closed in.

Under Alabama law, White has been charged with felony murder because a death occurred while he was committing a felony. A Lauderdale County grand jury indicted White on the charge in June.


Casey White’s team of attorneys said in the motion said police video of the capture is clear that Vicky White took her own life.

“Police dash cam and body cam recordings clearly show that at the conclusion of a car chase, the vehicle driven by White wrecked and rolled over in a roadside ditch or median,” the motion said. “Video clearly shows that the deceased shot herself in the head and continued holding the gun in her hand as police approached. The death in this case was clearly a suicide and the defendant can not be convicted for the death.”

The defense motion said the law is outdated.

“Alabama’s felony-murder doctrine is an anachronistic remnant of ancient legal fiction with no logical or practical basis for inclusion in modern law,” the defense motion said. “England, where the doctrine originated, abolished the felony-murder rule in 1957. The United States and Alabama remain virtually the only Western governments still recognizing a doctrine which makes it possible for a citizen accused to face the most serious sanctions in the law for an accidental death in which they did not directly participate or cause.”

 

[SheWhoMustNotBeNamed]

Prosecutors want Casey White murder trial in Vicky White’s death moved up

The trial on murder charges would begin Dec. 12, if prosecutors get their way.

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Prosecutors want Casey White murder trial in Vicky White’s death moved up​

Prosecutors want Casey Cole White tried in December for the murder of Vicky White, the Lauderdale County jailer who aided his escape earlier this year.

In court documents filed on Sept. 30, District Attorney Chris Connelly requested that an arraignment be moved to Oct. 11, and that the trial commence on Dec. 12.

Currently, a hearing is scheduled on Oct. 11 for several defense motions, including barring the imposition of the death penalty.

Casey White is already set to stand trial for capital murder on Dec. 12 for the 2015 slaying of Connie Ridgeway of Rogersville.