Wherever the missing fugitives are, they aren’t in Alabama anymore. The car they switched into at a shopping mall, eight minutes after leaving the jail together, has been found in Tennessee. It has been sitting in a tow lot for the past week, so the trail isn’t exactly a hot one.
Alabama fugitives head north
Tennessee cops stumbled on the car “abandoned in the woods and without any identifying information” last Friday.
That’s the day Alabama corrections official Vicky White helped killer inmate Casey White escape. They aren’t related, everyone insists. She’s keeping him for a pet.
According to Lauderdale County Sheriff Rick Singleton, at an update briefing on Friday, May 6, it only took about two hours for the pair to make their way from Florence, Alabama to Williamson County, Tennessee.
That’s where their disposable ride crapped out on them.
Americans from coast-to-coast are glued to their devices for news about the manhunt. The more officials learn the more unanswered questions pop up with the clues.
“We know now where the car is, we know what direction they went.” The direction out of Alabama that is. They could have gone anywhere from Tennessee.
Canvass the area
The only thing that cops can do is “canvass the area for any witnesses.” They desperately want to know if anyone reported a vehicle stolen in the vicinity. They know the pair are looking for a ride because the car they left Alabama in has issues.
“Authorities believe the vehicle may have had mechanical problems which prompted the abrupt stop in the area.” Since they stopped in the middle of nowhere with no video surveillance, cops haven’t got a clue. “We’re sort of back to square one,” the sheriff admits.
They know that Vicky was using two aliases, and she’s smart enough to have abandoned both of them already.
Until she broke her secret boyfriend out of the hoosegow on her very last day of work upon retirement, she was a model employee. She worked her way up the ladder to assistant director of corrections for Lauderdale County, Alabama.
At least she was considerate enough to leave behind her jail keys, radio and handcuffs when she abandoned her county cruiser in a strip mall parking lot. She traded them for the standard AR-15 and shotgun which come with the patrol car.
It appears she spray painted the 2007 Ford SUV orange then parked it there the night before. Knowing the car was a throwaway with mechanical issues, she may have had another, better car parked in the Tennessee woods. If you spot them, Alabama has $10,000 up for a reward.
