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Dramatic police footage captured the moment capital murder suspect Casey 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.
Funeral arrangements announced for Vicky White
Family members of Vicky White, the assistant director of corrections at Lauderdale County jail and the supposed lover of escaped fugitive Casey White, announced that funeral arrangements had been made for the 56-year-old, who died Monday after authorities say they believe she fatally shot herself.
The Greenhill Funeral Home in Florence, Alabama shared Ms White’s obituary this week, which includes the names of the siblings, aunts, uncles and parents that the jail guard is survived by.
There service, according to her obituary, will be a graveside service on Saturday, 14 May 14 at 1pm at Center Hill Cemetery.
The funeral home provides links for sending flowers to the family or planting a tree in Ms White’s memory.
Johanna Chisholm12 May 2022 14:43
ICYMI: How Casey White and guard Vicky White stayed on the run
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.
Johanna Chisholm12 May 2022 13:45
Vicky White’s body back in Alabama
The body of Vicky White, the assistant director of corrections at the Lauderdale County Detention Center, a facility that she reportedly assisted jail lover Casey White to escape from last month, was returned to Alabama on Wednesday, authorities confirmed.
The Vanderburgh County Coroner’s Office confirmed that Ms White’s body was released early Wednesday morning for return to Alabama.
The search for the pair of fugitives came to a dramatic end Monday as a police chase in Indiana resulted in the inmate back in police custody and the corrections officer dead from what officials say was a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.
Johanna Chisholm12 May 2022 12:45