Missing prison officer dies when caught by police
EVANSVILLE: An escaped Alabama inmate and a former corrections officer who aided his getaway hid out for days before a tip from a car wash led to their capture, the sheriff’s department said yesterday.
Former corrections officer Vicky White (56) shot herself and died, and inmate Casey White (38) surrendered after authorities briefly chased the couple on Tuesday afternoon, ending a multistate search that began when the pair fled from an Alabama jail last month.
Police said Vicky White and Casey White, who are not related, had a ‘‘jailhouse romance’’ but there were few clues as to why Vicky helped the man facing a murder charge and serving a 75year jail sentence on other violent offences.
After a tipoff, members of a fugitive task force pursued the two on Monday afternoon after they were spotted leaving a hotel.
Police rammed the pair’s car and flipped it, and Vicky White then shot herself. Casey White told detectives he was armed with several firearms and had intended to start shooting during the chase, but his car being flipped prevented him doing so. — TCA