A warrant has been issued for the arrest of Lauderdale County Assistant Director of Corrections Vicky White. In an update, the Sheriff reluctantly announced that they had no choice. There’s a $10,000 reward for information in the case.
Fugitive corrections officer
Vicky White is still in danger, whether she willingly helped Casey White escape, or not. Just because they have the same last name doesn’t mean that they are kin and everyone involved is clarifying that they are NOT related.
The Alabama corrections official was last seen with a man already being held on murder charges for the next 75 years. He’s a dangerous animal with nothing to lose. “She’s definitely in danger — willingly or not. This guy’s no one to mess with.”
Lauderdale County Sheriff Rick Singleton was not happy to break the news that a warrant had been issued for Vicky, a long term career corrections officer with an exemplary record. The sheriff admits that nobody can argue with the video evidence which indicates that Vicky White acted of her own free will. The paperwork charges her with “permitting or facilitating escape in the first degree.”
There is no “evidence” of a romantic relationship but “it’s a possibility.” Vicky “is a widow with no children.” She turned in her retirement papers last week and Friday was supposed to be her last day at work. She also reportedly had some cash from “the recent sale of her house,” the sheriff admits, adding “her retirement fund paperwork had not yet been processed.”
The last time anyone saw either one of them was when the corrections official uncharacteristically broke the rules to announce that she alone would transport Casey White for his mental health evaluation at the the county courthouse. She told co-workers she was going to drop him off and go to a specific clinic because she “wasn’t feeling well.”
In hindsight, it looks like a ruse to buy time. Who’s idea that was will be a question at the top of everyone’s mind as this unwinds. It would be a real big help if they knew what vehicle the pair transferred into at a shopping mall. “The biggest obstacle we have right now is we still do not have a vehicle description for whatever vehicle they may have transferred into.”
No appearance was set
Nobody seems to have been bothered that she was breaking the rule requiring two deputies with the inmate at all times because he previously planned a hostage escape. Because her job was setting up the corrections department transports, she was well aware of the procedure and why it was needed.
Another thing that everybody missed on the day of the jailbreak was the fact Casey White wasn’t scheduled to appear anywhere for anything. Until the fateful day, Vicky White was considered an “exemplary employee” with “an unblemished record.”
The corrections department has video from shopping mall security, timestamped eight minutes after they left, which shows the patrol car they left in on Friday morning.
“What that tells us is that the patrol car left the detention center and went straight to the parking lot.” The parking lot was a shopping mall where the cruiser was abandoned. “There was not enough time for them to even attempt to try to come to the courthouse.”
That’s pretty incriminating for Vicky because it “now looks likely Vicky White acted of her own free will. If she did this willingly, and all indications are that she did, I guess we’re trying to hold on to that last straw of hope that maybe for some reason she was threatened and did this under coercion… but absolutely you’d feel betrayed.”
All her corrections department co-workers “are devastated.” The sheriff relates “We’ve never had any situation like this with Vicky White. She was a model employee.“
