Authorities in northwestern Alabama are searching for a sheriff’s official and a capital murder suspect after both went missing Friday, the Lauderdale County Sheriff’s Office said.
Vicki White, assistant director of corrections for the sheriff’s office, and the suspect, Casey Cole White, left a detention center to go to a courthouse Friday morning but never arrived, the sheriff’s office said.
The two are not related, despite the last name.
Investigators are trying to determine whether Vicki White assisted Casey White, but are acting as if she was taken against her will until they know otherwise, Lauderdale County Sheriff Rick Singleton told reporters.
“I do think this, knowing the inmate: I think she’s in danger, whatever the circumstances,” Singleton told reporters. "He was in jail for capital murder."
Vicki White took Casey White from the detention center around 9:40 a.m., purportedly for a mental health evaluation at court, Singleton said.
But investigators have confirmed there was no evaluation scheduled, Singleton said.
She also transported the suspect by herself, which would be a strict violation of the policy requiring two sworn deputies for someone under those charges, the sheriff said.
The marked 2013 Ford Taurus patrol car that they were in was later found at a shopping center, Singleton said.
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