Posted on 05/10/2022 3:44:50 AM PDT by sodpoodle
A former Alabama jail official on the run with a murder suspect she was accused of helping escape shot and killed herself Monday as authorities caught up with the pair after more than a week of searching, officials said. The man she fled with surrendered.
The death of Vicky White, 56, only deepened the mystery of why a respected jail official would leave everything to help free Casey White, 38, a hulking inmate with a violent and frightening history.
The two fugitives were caught — following a manhunt through three states — in Evansville, Indiana, when U.S. Marshals chasing them crashed into their vehicle, authorities said. Casey White gave himself up and Vicky White shot herself and was taken to a hospital, authorities said. Vanderburgh County Coroner Steve Lockyear said she died from her injuries.
Before Vicky White’s death, authorities celebrated the fugitives’ apprehension.
“We got a dangerous man off the street today. He is never going to see the light of day again. That is a good thing, for not just our community. That’s a good thing for our country,” Lauderdale County Sheriff Rick Singleton of Alabama said.
The manhunt began April 29 when Vicky White, the assistant director of corrections for the jail in Lauderdale County, allegedly helped engineer the escape of Casey White, who was awaiting trial in a capital murder case. Vicky White had told co-workers she was taking the inmate from the jail for a mental health evaluation at the courthouse, but the two, who are not related, instead fled the area.
Seems very weird.
Just some weird, stupid chick.
Such a tragic outcome. The guard was probably mentally weak and easily manipulated by a cunning inmate. Doesn’t make what she did right of course but I’ve heard stories of how convicts can manipulate and con guards pretty easily. I guess to be on the other side of the cuffs was too much to swallow for this woman.
Guns fault .
****but, but, but...she loved him.****
I think you are right - he did not love her though - he just used and manipulated her.
Time to have only male guards for male inmates!!!
Weirdest part was she was due to retire that day (she helped escape) with full benefits. What a waste.
Violent crazy female jailbirds don't seem to have many male penpals.
Why do you suppose that is?
That is sad, really! It shows that emotions can overcome common sense and lead to a sad ending! She’s not the first or the last!
You are right.
I heard she had sold her house and then immediately announced her retirement.
Manhunt? Shouldn’t it be a personhunt?
The real question for me is: “How did Vicky White ever become “assistant director of corrections”. Someone as unstable as she obviously was should never have gotten to such a high level of responsibility in a prison. Affirmative Action promotion, maybe??
Not that odd.
An unattractive, overweight, middle age woman finds a guy who makes her vagina tingle. She abandons everything to be with her Alpha Male, and then can’t face losing him and spending years in a women’s prison.
>>Time to have only male guards for male inmates!!!<<
And be sure to only hire HETEROSEXUAL male guards to guard male convicts.
Background checks?
I suspect she arranged her retirement, selling her house, etc., precisely as part of the plan to run off with him.
Indeed....and I’m betting there is an “unkown” who knew what was going on.
Check out the Biddle Brothers case in Pa about 1910
Sounds like the plot of a Lifetime Channel movie, up to the part where she dies. Trying to picture who the lead actors would be. Will Smith and Joy Behar?
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