The US Marshals Service has released new footage of Casey White and Vicky White as the nationwide manhunt continues for the prime murder suspect and veteran Alabama prosecutor who authorities say helped him escape.
Inmate Casey White, 38, and Officer Vicky White, 56, who are not related, were last seen on April 29, when she said she was transporting him from the Lauderdale County Jail to a courthouse for a scheduled mental health assessment. . According to investigators, the evaluation was never planned, nor was the medical appointment she scheduled for herself after she dropped him off.
Surveillance video shows that Vicky White was alone when she left prison with Casey White, a violation of a department policy that requires at least two sworn officers to participate in the transportation of a person under those charges.
Lauderdale County Sheriff’s Office investigators now believe the two developed a “special” relationship that began about two years ago.
The images released Thursday by the US Marshals Service included renderings of what Vicky White — who was blonde when she was last seen — would look if she changed her hair color and style, as well as photos of her signature tattoos. Casey White.
The suspect has a tattoo of the Confederate flag on his back and others “associated with the white supremacist Southern Brotherhood prison gang,” the US Marshals Service said.
Authorities have also released images of a 2007 orange or copper-colored Ford Edge in which the couple could be traveling.
Officials have received tips from all over the country since their disappearance, but Lauderdale County Sheriff Rick Singleton said Friday the fugitives could be anywhere.
“Right now we don’t know where they are,” he said in an interview with CNN.
But Singleton said he was “sure” they would be captured.
“It’s always the same,” he said. “We always get them, and we’ll get these two.”
According to Singleton, a widow with no children, Vicky White has worked with the Lauderdale County Sheriff’s Office for 17 years and was named Employee of the Year four times.
He said she filed her retirement papers the day before she went missing. Investigators later found her patrol car abandoned at a nearby shopping center.
According to ABC’s Huntsville, Ala. affiliate, Vicky White sold her Lexington, Ala. home for $95,550 — less than market value — just 12 days before she and Casey White disappeared.
Casey White, who served a 75-year sentence in 2015 for a 2015 house robbery and a carjacking conviction, was charged in 2020 on two counts of manslaughter after confessing to the 2015 stabbing of 58-year-old Connie Ridgeway. He later pleaded innocent.
The US Marshals Service also revealed that Casey White would have threatened to kill his ex-girlfriend and her sister if he ever got out of prison, saying he wanted the police to kill him.
Meanwhile, police are also investigating the death in 2008 of 31-year-old Christy Shelton, Casey White’s then-girlfriend. Her death was considered suicide, but her family wants authorities to reopen the case.
The US Marshals Service is offering up to $10,000 for information leading to Casey White’s arrest and $5,000 for information leading to Vicky White’s capture.
“The subjects should be considered dangerous and may be armed with an AR-15 rifle, handguns and a shotgun,” the US Marshals Service said.
