Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Jailhouse Romance, or, Was She Kidnapped?

wvtm.com

A search is underway in north Alabama after a man charged with capital murder and a deputy transporting him to court went missing Friday morning. Learn more in the video above.



Inmate Casey Cole White and Lauderdale Co. Corrections Officer Vicki White

Lauderdale County Sheriff's Office employee Vicki White, who is the assistant director of corrections, and inmate Casey Cole White have not been seen since 9:30 a.m. Friday when they allegedly left for the county courthouse. The sheriff's office said the deputy and suspect are not related.

The marked vehicle that the two left the detention center in was located in the parking lot of a shopping center in Florence around 11 a.m. Friday. Their current direction of travel is unknown, and investigators are looking for video footage that may give more information.

In a news conference Friday evening, Lauderdale County Sheriff Rick Singleton said Officer White, an employee of 25 years, told the booking officer at the detention center that she was escorting inmate White to the courthouse for a mental health evaluation. After dropping the inmate off with other deputies, Officer White said she planned to seek medical attention for herself because she wasn't feeling well.

Around 3:30 p.m., the booking officer attempted to contact Officer White, but her phone was going straight to voicemail. It was also discovered that inmate White never returned to the jail. The sheriff said they began investigating "aggressively."

Officials said the officer and the inmate never showed up to the courthouse, and it has since been determined that the inmate did not have any evaluations scheduled. Local urgent care offices also have no record of Officer White visiting on Friday.



The sheriff noted it's a "strict violation of policy" for inmates with those types of charges to be escorted anywhere by one deputy. Still, they believe Officer White wasn't questioned because she is the head of operations and coordinates all transports.

"Knowing the inmate, I think [Officer White] is in danger whatever the circumstances," Singleton said. "He was in jail for capital murder. He has nothing to lose."

According to court documents, Casey White's capital murder charge stems from the "brutal death" of Connie Ridgeway at her Rogersville home in 2015. The capital murder charge also includes first-degree burglary.

"Did she assist him in escaping? That's obviously a possibility," Singleton said. "So we're looking into that as one angle of the investigation — was she kidnapped en route to the courthouse and, you know, taken against her will?"


"All of her co-workers, all the employees in the sheriff's office, the judges, all have the most utmost respect for her," Singleton said. "She has an unblemished record. She's an exemplary employee. So we're very concerned for her safety."

Casey White is 6-foot-9 and considered armed and dangerous. Vicki White "was armed with a 9mm handgun, which means we are assuming he is armed," Singleton added.

Play Video
If anyone sees the suspect or Officer White, do not approach them and contact 911 immediately.

FROM THE ARTICLE -

Uh oh.

L.W.

She helped him escape.

She'll be lucky if he doesn't kill her for it.

Dude looks like Aaron Rodgers.

6’-9”

affirmative

That’s funny shít.
Sad and true; but funny.

Hope I'm wrong, but my skeptic side says collusion.

She’s in on it, I’d bet.

But, but, she loves him.

Book it!

I’ve seen this movie before. 😉

And it doesn’t end well for her.

I'm sure that will end well....Said no one with any amount of common sense!

Mel Gibson made a movie on this subject, named Mrs. Soffel. A true story from 1902, in a big prison in Pennsylvania the warden, Mr. Soffel, lived in a house inside the prison complex. His wife fell in love with a convicted murderer, played by Mel Gibson. She helped Gibson escape and ran away with him. Did not end well.

I believe she's involved, it says she was taking him to a doctor for a mental health evaluation but he had no appointment to see the doctor, sounds fishy.

what are the odds of getting away with this? 1 in 10,000? 2 weeks of living until the cash runs out and then he is going to revert to doing whatever needs to happen to stay out of prison.

6’9” he sure as hell isn’t just going to blend in real well.

Years ago Idaho had a female serial killer named Lyda Southard. She poisoned 4 husbands and a couple other people for insurance money. In prison, the warden was known to take her outside the walls on 'picnics'. She escaped and was on the run for several years but not from one of those liaisons.

A pretty good argument against allowing women to work with male prisoners. She's been working for years with criminals and apparently doesn't understand what a sociopath or psychopath is.

What could go wrong? A fat lovelorn blonde in a pen full of male criminals?