Vicky White news update: Recordings of jailhouse phone calls prove guard’s relationship with Casey White

The US Marshals Service captured Casey White on Monday last week after receiving a tip on the Indiana location of the couple — Casey White and prison guard Vicky White.

In the aftermath of Casey White’s 10-day prison break — made possible with the help of the correctional officer, who died by suicide during a police chase — more details have emerged about how the couple managed to stay under the radar for so long.

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Former mother-in-law Frances White and longtime colleague Lauderdale County District Attorney Chris Connolly tell Rachel Sharp why the community is struggling to reconcile the model employee and “really nice person” they knew with the Vicky White who was at the centre of a dramatic – and fatal – manhunt.

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Casey White is devastated over the loss of his prison “wife,” after Vicky White shot herself on Monday as police closed in on the couple during a car chase.

“I spoke to him yesterday and he was crying and saying he couldn’t believe she was gone,” Connie Moore, Mr White’s mother said, adding that Ms White was “really, really good to him–just being there for him, talking with him. They had a real thing.”

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Recorded jailhouse phone calls between Vicky White and Casey White help prove the prison guard was having a relationship with the Alabama inmate before the two went on the run, according to police.

Lauderdale County sheriff, Rick Singleton said: “You think you know someone. And it turns out you really don’t know them at all.”

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Vicky White’s former mother-in-law has said that she “can’t understand” why the “really nice” person she knew for almost her entire life would have gone on the run with a dangerous inmate before shooting herself dead.

Frances White told The Independent that “it just makes you sick” knowing that the 56-year-old corrections officer who was once married to her son wound up at the centre of a well-planned prison escape and nationwide manhunt with a convict accused of stabbing a 58-year-old mother-of-two to death.

“This just makes you sick. I can’t understand why she did this,” she said.

The audio, released on Tuesday night, reveals the 56-year-old’s final moments and the last words she said to Casey Cole White, the 38-year-old convict who she allegedly helped break out of jail and went on the run with for 10 days.

The Whites, who are not related or married and are said to have been in a relationship for the last two years, were finally tracked down to Evansville, Indiana, on Monday following a huge, national manhunt.

Dramatic police footage has been released of the moment that capital murder suspect Casey Cole White was captured and his prison guard lover Vicky White’s body was pulled from their vehicle with a gun still in her hand.

Evansville Police Department shared the footage on Tuesday night as the coroner ruled the 56-year-old corrections officer’s death a suicide and the 38-year-old career criminal was sent back to Alabama to face charges.

Shocking 911 audio also revealed that Ms White was on the phone to a 911 dispatcher at the time of the crash and urged her lover of two years “let’s get out and run” moments before apparently shooting herself in the head.

For more context on the footage, here’s our story.

Prosecutors have not ruled out the possibility that Alabama escapee Casey White will face charges over the death of his jailhouse lover Vicky White.

“I intend to prosecute him both for the capital murder and the escape and other related charges that we are looking at,” he said.

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The escape of Casey White and Vicky White from an Alabama county jail has brought attention back to a nearly decade-old stabbing.

In 2015, 58-year-old mother of two Connie Ridgeway was found stabbed in her apartment in Rogersville, Alabama.

The case went unsolved for five years until White sent a letter to the Lauderdale County Sheriff’s Office confessing to the crime in 2020.

During a subsequent interview with authorities, he allegedly gave details about the crime that had not been made public and which only the killer could have known.

He was charged with two counts of capital murder in 2020.

Prosecutors say he was paid to carry out the hit on his victim. It is not clear how much money he made.

After confessing to the murder, White initially pleaded guilty before changing his plea to not guilty by reason of mental illness.

His trial is scheduled to begin in June and, if convicted, he faces the death penalty.

Rachel Sharp had this story on all the details of the 2015 case.