The inmate, Casey Cole White, and Lauderdale County Sheriff’s Assistant Director of Corrections, Vicky White, were released from prison at about 9:41 p.m. local time, but never appeared in court and did not return to the detention center, Sheriff Rick Singleton told reporters. the manufacture. The investigators confirmed that there was no mental health assessment or any appearance in court. Authorities said it was not yet clear if Vicky White, who is not related to Casey White, was helping him escape or if she had been abducted. “We look at it from all angles,” Singleton said. “Did she help him escape? This is obviously a possibility. She was abducted on the way to the courthouse and taken against her will. This is obviously another point of view we are considering.” Singleton said the correctional officer had told the detention officer that he was going to take the detainee to the courthouse and then seek medical help because he was not feeling well. Her patrol car was found parked in a local mall shortly after 11 a.m. local time. Then, at about 3:30 p.m., the bookmaker told another administrator that they had failed to apprehend Vicky White on her phone and realized that neither she nor the inmate had returned, prompting them to begin an investigation. said Singleton. . The sheriff said Vicky White had worked for the department for 25 years and was considered an “exemplary employee”, adding that she had been voted Supervisor of the Year and Correctional Officer several times a year. “Every employee in this office is shocked that he is missing and that this happened,” he said. “She is very well respected and liked by her colleagues.” The transfer of the murder suspect alone, as White did, was a “grave violation” of the sheriff’s office policy, which requires two lawmakers to accompany such detainees to court, Singleton said. She noted that since she was overseeing the operations of the detention center, it was possible that her subordinates “did not interrogate her” when she said that she was going to court alone with the detainee. When asked if the two interacted a lot or had some kind of relationship, Singleton said researchers were looking at it “to see if something else was going on there” that they did not know. According to WHNT, Casey White was arrested on murder charges in connection with the death of 58-year-old Connie Ridgeway in 2015. White confessed to killing Ridgeway in 2020 while in prison for other crimes, the station said. On Saturday, Singleton said his office had contacted the FBI, U.S. Army and other law enforcement agencies to assist with the investigation. Investigators are looking for videos from the detention center, the courthouse and the mall where the patrol car was located, he said. Whether Vicky White helped the detainee or not, Singleton said they believed the correctional officer, who was armed with a 9mm gun, was in danger. Casey White “is considered armed and extremely dangerous,” the sheriff warned. “Our hope and prayer is to get him before someone gets hurt,” the sheriff said.
