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Casey White is seen in his new mugshot after being taken into custody in Indiana yesterday, bringing an end to an 11 day manhunt
Casey White, the escaped Alabama inmate who went on the run with his prison guard lover for 11 days before being arrested last night, is now back in jail and can be seen for the first time in his new mugshot today.
White and his lover Vicky White were finally caught up with yesterday, bringing an end to a nationwide manhunt that began on April 29.
Vicky died after being shot in the head during a dramatic police chase last night in Evansville, Indiana.
Initially, police said she killed herself but now it is being suggested that Casey may have pulled the trigger.
NewsNation reporter Brian Entin reports that Lauderdale County Sheriff Rick Singleton said he wouldn’t be ‘surprised’ if it turned out Casey has shot her.
He was awaiting trial for the murder of a different woman when Vicky helped him escape on April 29.
Vicky White died of a gunshot wound that was at first thought to have been self-inflicted. Sheriffs now say they wouldn’t be surprised if Casey shot her
Now, he will be held in solitary confinement.
‘He will be in a cell by himself. He will stay in handcuffs and shackles while he’s in that cell and if he wants to sue me for violating his civil rights, so be it.
‘He’s not getting out of this jail again. I’ll assure you that,’ Lauderdale County Sheriff Rick Singleton said.
Vicky was driving the pair’s vehicle when it crashed after a police chase.
When officers surrounded the car, Casey told them to help his ‘wife’ who had been shot.
He then insisted that it wasn’t him who pulled the trigger.
The pair fled the Lauderdale County Jail then changed vehicles, driving to Tennessee before dumping that car and picking up another.
It’s unclear what their plan was before they were caught.
They were found in Indiana after a tip from James Stinson.
Stinson told NewsNation on Monday how he became suspicious last week when he saw a car sticking out of one of the bays in the motel.
The pair were caught Monday afternoon after leading US Marshals on a car chase that lasted ‘less than a few minutes’. They had been in Evansville, Indiana, since May 3
The two were found 219 miles away from the jail they left in Alabama on April 29. The manhunt spanned three different states
Vicky White, who was driving, was found pinned inside with a gunshot wound to the head, said US Marshal Matt Keely
‘I noticed the car hanging out of the bay, which was unusual. It kept sitting there … Every time I left and came back, the truck was still there.’
He said he notified the authorities last Wednesday but nothing was done.
‘I walked up to the truck and went, “Oh my God, it’s probably this guy from Alabama.’ I walked and looked in the truck because I think he could be dead, passed out, who knows? So I backed up. I opened the door, the keys are in it. I start it up. I Googled the local police department’s number because I didn’t want to call 911.
‘They send a cop out. The cop says, ‘Well there ain’t nothing I can do. It’s not reported stolen.’ He ran the plates. Then he left and came back. He looked in it again.
‘He found a gun lock in the seat and said, “Oh my God, there’s a gun lock but there ain’t no guns around.’ So he left. He just said, ‘Do what you’ve got to do.’ I towed it.’
Vicky had been seen entering and exiting the motel room in a wig.
She and Casey had been having a secret affair for more than two years.
In the months leading up to the escape, Vicky sold her home and withdrew $90,000 in cash from her bank account.
Video posted on Facebook by Joey Medicis shows local Evansville police cruisers speed into a business, followed by police SUVs and pickup trucks with emergency lights.
The footage was filmed moments after Vicky White crashed her gray Cadillac into a ditch.
Casey White is then led away in handcuffs.
‘He went through the gate at work where we’re usually at,’ says a voice behind the camera. ‘They spun him out into the grass.’
Regarding Vicky, another person says, ‘She’s probably dead.’
The jail guard was found in the car with a gunshot wound to the head. She died in the hospital a couple hours later.
Sheriff Singleton now believes that Casey and Vicky were in a ‘romantic relationship’ and that Vicky was ‘just as concerned about coming back and facing her family and her co-workers as she was the charges.’
Vicky was a widow and had no children.
Before she died, Singleton said of his employee, ‘I hope she survives this. She has some answers to give us.’
The capture comes after Casey White was spotted at a car wash in Evansville, where they abandoned a Ford F-150, on May 3
He continued: ‘You don’t know who you can trust. I had every bit of trust in Vicky White. She has been an exemplary employee. What in the world prompted her to pull off something like this, I don’t know. I don’t know if we’ll ever know.’
Vicky was set to be put in a different facility than the Lauderdale County jail where she worked for 17 years and helped Casey escape . Casey will be sent back to state prison.
On Monday afternoon, Singleton thanked investigators from the various national agencies that helped them capture the pair, along with the media for shedding light on the story.
‘Most escapes – from a county jail especially – they’re not planned. They’re just sort of spontaneous. There are no resources available, no plan in place,’ he said during a press conference Monday evening.
‘This escape was obviously well planned and calculated. A lot of preparation went into this. They had plenty of resources, had cash,’ he said, referring to the money that Vicky had on her from the recent sale of her home. ‘They had everything they needed to pull this off.
‘We were starting from ground zero, and not only that, we started – they got a six-hour head start on us.’
Singleton added: ‘We got a dangerous man off the streets today. He’s never gonna see the light of day again. That’s a good thing.’
‘I’ll probably hear from a civil rights attorney but I don’t care,’ Singleton said.
