Sandy MaloneLauderdale County, AL – Former Lauderdale County Sheriff’s Office (LCSO) Assistant Director of Corrections Vicky White and inmate Casey White talked on the phone almost 1,000 times before she helped him escape and many of those chats were phone sex.
Investigators determined that the two spoke to each other 949 times between August of 2021 and Feb. 22 when Casey White was in the William Donaldson Correctional Facility in Jefferson County, AL.com reported.
“We’re in the process of listening to those calls to see if there’s any information there that might help us,’’ Lauderdale County Sheriff Rick Singleton said.
“The only thing I know for a fact was that they had some phone sex,” Sheriff Singleton added.
The sheriff said they didn’t know yet if any of the calls took place while Vicky White was on duty as the supervisor at the Lauderdale County Jail, AL.com reported.
“I’d be shocked if some of them weren’t,’’ he said.
“That’s a lot of phone calls,’’ Sheriff Singleton said. “I think what it tells us is they were definitely in a relationship.”
The sheriff didn’t say if any of the recordings captured the pair planning Casey White’s escape, AL.com reported.
“They’re still listening to the tapes to see what was on them,’’ he said.
Sheriff Singleton said they haven’t found any calls prior to August of 2021.
“He was here in 2020 and that’s when he planned an escape the first time,’’ he explained. “Apparently, this relationship was established in 2021 when he was here.”
Casey White was already serving 75 years for a 2015 crime spree during which he tried to kill his ex-girlfriend and kidnapped her roommates.
During that time, Casey White confessed to the 2015 murder of 58-year-old Connie Ridgeway and so he was moved to the Lauderdale County Jail to await trial on the new murder charges in that county, AL.com reported.
Investigators now believe the confession was planned so he would be relocated to a facility where Vicky White could help him escape.
Authorities believe Casey White and Vicky White swapped the sheriff’s patrol vehicle that they left the jail in on April 29 for the Ford SUV at a shopping plaza located about eight minutes away before fleeing the area, WHNT reported.
Vicky White was supposedly transporting the capital murder defendant to the courthouse for a hearing when they both disappeared, the sheriff’s office said in a press release on the afternoon of April 29.
The Lauderdale County district attorney told ABC News that investigators had determined that Vicky White withdrew about $90,000 in cash from area banks prior to helping Casey White escape.
Vicky White had filed her retirement papers with the sheriff’s department a day before she disappeared with Casey White.
Court records showed she sold her house far below market value on April 18, NBC News reported.
The 11-day manhunt for the fugitives came to an end in Indiana after a U.S. marshal rammed the pair’s Cadillac and flipped it into a ditch.
Bodycam video showed officers spotted a gun in Vicky White’s hand when they cut her from the wrecked sedan.
Casey White told authorities that Vicky White shot herself in the head just before they were captured.
“Please help my wife. She just shot herself in the head, and I didn’t do it,” Casey White told responding officers, according to the U.S. Marshals Service.
Authorities have said they do not believe Vicky White and Casey White were ever married.
Vicky White died from the self-inflicted gunshot wound and Casey White was indicted for the death of his former girlfriend in July.
The indictment alleged that 38-year-old Casey White caused Vicky White’s death in furtherance of his escape.
Prosecutors said the Whites – who were not related – had a suicide pact in the event they were captured, WHNT reported.
The plan was for Vicky White to shoot herself and for Casey White to die in a shootout with law enforcement officers.
Authorities say Vicky White shot herself just before she would have been captured and Casey White surrendered to authorities without incident, WHNT reported.
Holly Matkin
