Captured prison escapee Casey White charged with murder of corrections officer lover Vicky White

Casey White (proper) has been charged with felony homicide within the loss of life of Vicky White (left) (Footage: AP)

Prisoner Casey White has been charged with murdering his lover and corrections officer Vicky White after she helped him escape and the pair led police on an 11-day hunt.

Authorities beforehand mentioned that Vicky, 56, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the top. However on Thursday, Lauderdale County District Legal professional Chris Connolly introduced that Casey has been indicted in Vicky’s homicide. The indictment doesn't say that he shot her. 

Vicky helped the convicted felon escape from a Florence, Alabama, jail on April 29, falsely claiming that he was going for a psychological analysis. The 2 then used disguises and swapped autos throughout three states earlier than being captured in Evansville, Indiana.

Physique digicam footage confirmed Casey being taken into custody and Vicky’s physique being dragged out from the automobile.

A 911 name from contained in the Cadillac that Casey and Vicky used to flee backs studies that she shot herself after the automotive crashed and partially rolled over.

‘She’s bought a gun in her hand, and she or he’s respiration,’ somebody is heard saying on the scene. ‘She’s bought her finger on the set off.’

A coroner later dominated the reason for her loss of life a suicide. In the meantime, Casey was taken again into the custody on the Lauderdale County Jail. 

Casey has been charged with first-degree escape ‘and within the course and furtherance of committing escape within the first diploma, precipitated the loss of life of Vicky White, who died from a gunshot wound to the top’, court docket paperwork state.

He was indicted on the fees on July 6. His trial date has not but been set.

Casey was beforehand convicted of tried homicide and theft after making an attempt to kill his ex-girlfriend and kidnapping her roommates, and was serving a 75-year jail sentence on the time of the jail break.

Alabama authorities mentioned that Casey and Vicky appeared to have a ‘jailhouse romance’. Casey ‘was not forcing her’ to assist him escape’, Vanderburgh County Sheriff Dave Marriage ceremony mentioned on the time.

‘It was a mutual relationship.’

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