The escaped inmate hunt for Vicky and Casey White is over. They may not be related but apparently considered themselves married. At least, Casey called Vicky his wife when police pulled him out of their wrecked Cadillac. She wasn’t able to confirm or deny it. Either way, it’s “till death do you part” and they’ve parted. Casey’s on his way back to Alabama and he’s not real welcome there.
Inmate returned to custody
Escaped inmate Casey White is once again in shackles. Nobody is taking their eyes off the killer long enough to blink but they won’t talk to him either.
That’s because formerly well liked and respected corrections official Vicky White is dead at his hands, whether he actually killed her or not. It’s still a possibility but he claims she shot herself in the head. That may be true, too.
Police zeroed in on the pair Monday in Indiana, Sheriff Dave Wedding of Vanderburgh County relates. He’s the one who announced that Vicky “died from injuries after she and escaped inmate Casey White were arrested.”
They rushed her to a hospital but it was too late. Their flight from justice crashed “following a car chase in Evansville, Indiana.” The U.S. Marshals were on the scene and weren’t expecting Vicky to pull through. Her wounds were “very serious,” Sheriff Wedding adds.
Everyone was sure to point out that not a single law enforcement officer fired a shot. The inmate and his accomplice were spotted by a tipster which led to a pursuit and dramatic capture.
Undercover surveillance units “spotted Vicky White exiting a hotel with a wig on,” Marshal Marty Keely reports. “She and Casey White got into a car and drove away.” He was driving but they thought otherwise at the time.
Wrecked and rolled over
The trailing officers kept low key until they were spotted by the inmate, who took off. Police pursued them for a while until a “Marshal’s task force member drove a vehicle into the Cadillac the pair were in.”
“The car wrecked and rolled over.” That’s when they confirmed who was driving.
Officers “were able to remove the inmate from the wrecked car, but Vicky White was pinned inside with a gunshot wound to her head,” Keely explains. As they dragged him out, Casey allegedly “told officers to help ‘his wife’ who had shot herself in the head.” He made sure to mention “he didn’t do it.” Forensics will answer that question. As far as everyone knows, “Casey White and Vicky White are not married.” At least not legally. They acted like they were on a bizarre sort of honeymoon. “This escape was obviously well planned and calculated,” Singleton said.
“A lot of preparation went into this. They had plenty of resources, had cash, had vehicles, had everything they needed to pull this off,” Sheriff Singleton declares. “Investigators found footage of White shopping for men’s clothes at a department store and at an ‘adult store,’ Singleton said, adding she ‘obviously had a change of clothes‘ for the inmate.”
For a full 11 days, the pair caught the attention of everyone in America as a modern version of Bonnie and Clyde. There’s no way to escape today’s dragnet of social media and surveillance cameras. Hundreds of tips flooded in from all over, most of them wrong but a couple were totally correct. On Sunday night, the right tip on the escaped inmate and his moll came in.
They had been in Evansville since May 3. “Investigators were notified Sunday night that a 2006 Ford F-150 had been discovered at a car wash in Evansville, about 175 miles north of Williamson County, Tennessee, where the 2007 Ford Edge the pair had been traveling in was found abandoned.“
