LAUDERDALE COUNTY, Ala. (WHNT) – Up to $10,000 will be rewarded for information leading to the arrest of missing Lauderdale County inmate Casey Cole White and Sheriff’s Office employee Vicki White.
The U.S. Marshals announced the reward in a tweet Sunday morning.
The pair, who are unrelated, were reported missing after leaving the jail Friday morning. White is charged with the 2015 death of Connie Ridgeway. White confessed to the murder in 2020 while in state prison for other crimes.
Vicki was the Assistant Director of Corrections for the Lauderdale County Sheriff’s Office and had worked for the department for 16 years. During a press conference Friday evening, Sheriff Singleton said Vicki was highly thought of among her coworkers.
According to Singleton, Vicki left the detention center with Casey around 9:41 a.m. to go to the courthouse (a short half-mile drive) for a mental health evaluation for the nearly 7-foot-tall inmate. Though armed with a 9mm, Vicki was now alone with Casey, a “direct violation of policy,” Singleton said.
Saturday afternoon, Lauderdale County Sheriff Rick Singleton released a timeline of the events leading up to, during, and after Casey’s escape, telling News 19 “Indications are, since no court appearance was scheduled, that [Vicki] White assisted in the escape.”
Regardless of Vicki’s involvement, Singleton said she could very well be in danger.
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