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Post by Admin on May 5, 2022 18:42:39 GMT
An Alabama corrections officer accused of helping an inmate escape from jail is no longer employed with the sheriff’s office, the sheriff said Wednesday. Sheriff Rick Singleton confirmed to NBC News that Vicky White is no longer with the Lauderdale County Sheriff’s Office, but did not say if she had been fired. “Vicky White’s employment status is currently ‘No longer employed by the Lauderdale County Sheriff’s Office,’” Singleton said in a statement. “Friday was her last day to work, however, her retirement papers were not finalized. This is a personnel issue that will be discussed on a later date.” Vicky White, 56, is wanted on a charge of permitting or facilitating the escape of inmate Casey White from the Lauderdale County Detention Center in Florence, about 70 miles west of Huntsville. The escape happened on the same day she was set to retire from the department. Vicky and Casey White are not related. Singleton said in an interview with NBC News affiliate in Huntsville WAFF that he could not comment on whether the former corrections officer would lose her pension, but told the station that “she can’t access it right now.” A spokesperson for the sheriff’s office declined to provide further details. Authorities have been searching for Vicky and Casey White for since last week. The pair left the jail Friday morning for a purported mental health evaluation in court, but investigators have since learned that there was no such evaluation scheduled, Singleton said. As she was leaving, Vicky White told a booking officer that she was going to a medical appointment after she dropped off Casey White, who was jailed on a capital murder charge in the stabbing death of Connie Ridgeway. He confessed to the murder and was awaiting trial at the jail when he disappeared. The sheriff said investigators learned that Vicky White had no medical appointment scheduled. Singleton also said that she transported the inmate by herself, which violates department policy that requires two sworn deputies to be present with an inmate facing those charges.
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Post by Admin on May 6, 2022 21:16:32 GMT
LANSING, Kan. (WDAF) – The search for a missing inmate in Alabama and the corrections officer accused of helping him escape continues days after he fled the prison. While no one knows where Casey White and Vicky White, no relation, are, Toby Dorr said she knows exactly what that corrections officer is going through. “People were saying we really don’t know what happened, and I thought, ‘I know exactly what happened,’” Dorr said. That’s because Dorr did the very same thing in 2006. She was married and running a volunteer dog-training program at Lansing Correctional Institution when she met John Manard, who was serving a life sentence for a deadly carjacking. “When you create a situation having female officers or volunteers with male inmates, all it takes is for that one officer or volunteer to just be a little bit nicer at that moment to an inmate and things just take off from there,” Dorr explained. Dorr got Manard out of the prison in a dog crate and they went on the run, hoping to create a life together. “I fell in love with John and I know he was in love with me, but we didn’t really know each other,” Dorr said. Dorr said red flags — regarding Manard’s temper — started to pop up, but she never considered turning the inmate in. She said she now fears for Vicky White’s safety. “When you are living on the run like that, it’s kind of a powder keg. You’re always just looking over your shoulder expecting something to happen every minute, so you are on edge all the time.” Dorr and Manard lived in a cabin in Tennessee for most of their 12 days on the run. She wasn’t ready for their time together to be over when it came to a dramatic end. “When we came up over a hill, the whole interstate was just filled with police vehicles,” Dorr recalled. A chase ensued, at times topping 100 miles per hour, and ended with the couple smashing into a tree. Dorr was sentenced to 27 months in prison for aiding the escape. She spent most of her time in the area after her release, only recently moving out of the state. She’s remarried, and both she and her husband have visited her former lover in prison, where he’s serving a life sentence — plus an additional 10 years for the escape.
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Post by Admin on May 7, 2022 21:48:00 GMT
Video shows former Alabama jailer Vicky White hours before Casey White's escape 4,023 views May 8, 2022 The Lauderdale County Sheriff’s Office on Saturday released video of former Alabama jailer Vicky White checking out of the Quality Inn hours before helping capital murder suspect Casey White escape the Florence jail.
Alabama jailer Vicky White spent the night in a Florence hotel before she helped capital murder suspect Casey White escape.
The Lauderdale County Sheriff’s Office on Saturday released video of Vicky White, 56, checking out of the Quality Inn about 6:30 a.m. on Friday, April 29. The time stamp on the video shows her leaving just before 5:30 a.m. but authorities said the video’s time was off one hour and 10 minutes.
The hotel is located near where authorities say Vicky White had recently purchased a 2007 rust-colored Ford Edge. Authorities have not said why she spent the night there, but she had recently sold her home and had been living with her mother.
Lauderdale County Sheriff Rick Singleton said he can only speculated. “I think it was just to avoid having to see her family,’' he said Saturday.
After leaving the hotel, Vicky White reported to work at the Lauderdale County Jail, where she was second-in-command and had earned an “exemplary” reputation.
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Post by Admin on May 9, 2022 20:04:11 GMT
Surveillance video footage of missing former Alabama corrections officer Vicky White taken before her getaway with an inmate facing murder charges shows the level of preparation that went into the escape, Lauderdale County Sheriff Rick Singleton said. 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, Casey White. "It just tells us that it was very well planned and calculated," Singleton told CNN's Bianna Golodryga Monday. "Obviously she well-planned this escape down to a T." Investigators earlier released video footage showing Vicky White at a Quality Inn in Florence, where she stayed the night before the escape more than a week ago. Vicky White, who was an assistant director of corrections for Lauderdale County, took Casey White from the county jail on April 29, saying she was taking him for a mental health evaluation, which authorities learned later had never been scheduled. She then said she was going to get medical care after dropping the inmate off because she wasn't feeling well. The two have not been seen since. The patrol car the officer and inmate took from the jail was found abandoned in a shopping center parking lot. Vicky White's jail keys, radio and handcuffs were found inside. Authorities believe the pair left the lot in a different vehicle: Vicky White's 2007 Ford SUV she parked in the lot the night before. The vehicle was then spotted on May 6 at a Tennessee tow lot. The car had been abandoned in the woods without any identifying information on the same day the duo escaped, indicating they drove about two hours north from the jail in Florence, Alabama, to Williamson County, Tennessee. "We know now where the car is, we know what direction they went," the sheriff said. "We're trying to canvass the area for any witnesses, also trying to research, see if any stolen vehicles were reported in that area during that time."
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Post by Admin on May 9, 2022 22:00:45 GMT
New Clues Released Of Missing Alabama Inmate And Prison Officer 160,851 views May 9, 2022 The vehicle used by escaped murder suspect Casey White and former corrections officer Vicky White was found in Tennessee over the weekend. Investigators have also learned more about the preparations made for the escape, including Vickey White buying men’s clothes and visiting an adult toy store. NBC’s Sam Brock reports for TODAY.
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