Alabama inmate Vicki White spent the night in a hotel in Florence before helping the murder suspect Casey White escape.
Lauderdale County Sheriff’s Office released a video of Vicki White, 56, leaving the Quality Inn on Saturday around 6:30 a.m. Friday, April 29. The video stamp shows that he left shortly before 5:30 a.m., but authorities said the video was off for an hour and 10 minutes.
The hotel is near where authorities say Vicki White recently bought a rusty-colored Ford Edge since 2007. Authorities say they did not spend the night there, but she recently sold her home and lived with her mother.
Lauderdale County Sheriff Rick Singleton said he could only speculate. “I think it was just so I didn’t have to see her family,” he said Saturday.
After leaving the hotel, Vicki White reportedly worked at Lauderdale County Jail, where she was a second commander and had earned a “model” reputation.
But just three hours later, Vicki White was about to leave prison with Casey White, telling colleagues she was taking him for a mental health assessment that investigators will find was never planned.
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The two drove straight to the Florence Square mall, where they abandoned the patrol car and drove away in a Ford. The keys to Vicki White’s patrol cruiser, police radio and handcuffs were left in her sheriff’s car.
The jailer had recently sold her home for $ 95,500 – much less than the estimated value – and had also bought an AR-15 and a rifle, which investigators believe still owns the couple.
Authorities said she withdrew approximately $ 90,000 from local banks before the escape, which they suspect was from the sale of the house.
Singleton said Vicki White and Casey White, who are not relatives, had a “prison romance” that included making sure he had extra food on his plate and communicating with him while he was in prison. the state prison.
White was arrested in December 2015 after authorities said he organized a home raid, two car thefts and multiple shootings in North Alabama and South Tennessee overnight, killing a dog and injuring a woman.
In 2019, he was found guilty of a total of nine charges, including attempted murder of his ex-girlfriend and kidnapping of her two roommates. Other charges include first-degree robbery, first-degree burglary, third-degree burglary, breaking into and entering a vehicle, cruelty to animals to shoot a dog, and attempted escape.
In June 2020, Casey White sent a prison letter to an investigator from the Lauderdale County Sheriff’s Office confessing to the brutal murder of Connie Jane Ridgeway on October 23, 2015. He said he was hired to kill 59-year-old Ridgeway who was found dead in her apartment in Rodgersville.
With that confession, Casey White was returned to Lauderdale County Jail earlier this year.
Singleton describes the escape as well thought out and calculated.
After nearly a week of searching for a Ford Edge, he was found in a tow truck in Tennessee on Thursday night.
Williamson County Sheriff’s Office officials said the vehicle was reported abandoned on Friday, April 29, the day the two fled.
Tennessee sheriff’s officials also said there were no vehicle labels and it was locked. A search of the area where he was found took place on Friday morning.
Singleton said investigators had learned that the wanted vehicle had been abandoned on a rural county road just before 2pm that Friday and was towed at 2:37pm.
The two escaped from prison around 9:30 a.m. on April 29 and have not been reported missing until this afternoon.
“They found the car before we even knew they weren’t there,” Singleton said.
The U.S. Marshals Service is leading the hunt with more than 100 investigators tasked with finding the elusive couple.
U.S. marshals issue $ 10,000 reward for information leading to Casey White, and the agency later added a $ 5,000 reward for capturing Vicki White, who is accused of allowing or facilitating first-degree escape, a class crime C, punishable by up to 10 years in prison.
On Friday, Gov. Kay Ivey issued a $ 5,000 reward for information leading to the couple’s arrest. The total reward of $ 10,000 was demanded by Lauderdale County Attorney Chris Connelly, who received a report that it was presented on Friday afternoon.
Casey White is now accused of fleeing first instance, at Connelly’s request to the governor.
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