In June 2020, he wrote to Lauderdale County requesting a meeting with the sheriffs office, and confessed to killing Connie Ridgeway, 58 - providing a detailed description of the crime scene. He was sentenced to 75 years in prison in April 2019. Other charges included first degree robbery, first degree burglary, third degree burglary, breaking and entering a vehicle, animal cruelty for shooting a dog and attempting to elude. It ended with his stolen car stuck in a field south of Huntsville, Alabama.Ĭasey was found guilty of a total of nine charges, including trying to kill his ex-girlfriend and kidnapping her two roommates. He then led police on a 100 mile-per-hour chase. In one night, he staged a home invasion, two carjackings and multiple shootings that left a dog dead and a woman injured. He was first arrested in 2015 after he engaged in a crime spree across Tennessee and Alabama. is, well did she do that willingly or was someone from outside threatening her?'īut Vicky's family continues to insists she is a 'sweet person' who never even spoke about Casey White.Ĭasey White, 38, is 6'9 and weighs 260 pounds. Lauderdale Sheriff Rick Singleton told NBC's Today Show: 'All indications are that she assisted him escape. Her mother says Vicky had sold her house weeks earlier. The sheriff's office has since revealed that Vicky - who had a clean record and had been named 'employee of the year' four times - filed for retirement a day before she went missing. She also said she was going to a medical appointment for herself, which was confirmed by the doctors' office, but for which she never showed.Īn hour and a half later, they were both missing and her patrol car was found abandoned at a nearby shopping center. She told a booking officer she was taking him to the county courthouse for a mental health evaluation, but no such evaluation was scheduled that day. He previously tried to escape and was supposed to always have two guards on him when Assistant Director of Corrections Vicky White, 56, picked him up from the jail at 9.41am on Friday.
He was serving a 75-year sentence and facing the death penalty for a 2015 murder. In the pictures, Casey is seen tucking something under his right sleeve and looking around as he is followed by a prison guard. The Lauderdale County Sheriff's Office on Sunday released pictures of inmate Casey White, 38, as he walked the halls of the Lauderdale County Jail. The Alabama guard who escorted a murder suspect out of jail on Friday had sold her home weeks earlier and filed for retirement just a day before the pair vanished, as the woman's family insists that she would never help a 'killer' escape.