Captured Inmate Casey White Distraught Over Jail Guard Lover’s Demise, Mother Says

The convicted felon whose time on the run ended together with his prison-guard girlfriend capturing herself within the head on Monday evening was distraught by the demise of his lover, his mom mentioned.

Casey White, 38, escaped jail with the previous assistant director of corrections Vicki White late final month. The 2 spent 11 days collectively on the run from authorities till a police chase ended with Vicki fatally capturing herself.

White’s mom, Connie Moore, instructed the Every day Mail that her son was deeply in love with the jail guard, with whom he had a secret telephone relationship for at the least two years, and had even began referring to her as his spouse.

“I spoke to him yesterday and he was crying and saying he could not consider she was gone,” Moore mentioned. She mentioned she believed Vicki was “actually, actually good to him–simply being there for him, speaking with him. That they had an actual factor.”

White is incarcerated in a Lauderdale County, Alabama jail awaiting trial on prices of capital homicide after confessing to killing 59-year-old Connie Ridgeway. He was beforehand convicted of tried homicide and theft after making an attempt to kill his ex-girlfriend and kidnapping her roommates in 2015.

However his mom mentioned her son was “an excellent individual” who was merely misunderstood.

“Casey isn't the monster that they've posted him to be,” she mentioned, including that his bother stemmed largely from medication and dangerous selections in girls.

“The entire girls he’s been with have emotional issues and Casey has an enormous coronary heart and simply desires to assist individuals,” she mentioned.

Investigators in Limestone County, Alabama, are at the moment re-examining the case of one other of White’s ex-girlfriends, whom authorities beforehand dominated had killed herself in Feb. 2008. Now, her household is questioning whether or not her demise was actually a suicide, or whether or not White had one thing to do with it.

The girl, Christy Lynn Shelton McKee, had been relationship White for a couple of yr when she died from a gunshot to the chest at age 31 whereas staying in White’s trailer. Investigators on the time mentioned they discovered no blood on White’s clothes and that he appeared upset over her demise.

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McKee suffered from drug dependancy and was distraught at having her kids taken from her by little one protecting providers. However her brother, Tyler Rolin, instructed AL.com he by no means believed his sister had killed herself.

“It was simply all an excessive amount of–a girl killing herself with a sawed-off shotgun?’’ Rolin mentioned, including that his sister was considering ending issues with White across the time of her demise.

“The police mentioned he was crying and really hysterical and I don’t doubt that one bit as a result of I do know he can flip it on,’’ Rolin added. “He’s a grasp manipulator.”

Authorities additionally briefly questioned whether or not the felon had been the one to tug the set off in Vicki White’s demise. The 2 had been camped out in an inexpensive Indiana motel room when police discovered them Monday, setting off a high-speed chase that ended with the legal’s Cadillac flipped over in a ditch.

In a 911 recording of the incident, Vicki White could be heard saying “Oh my God,” and “Let’s get out and run!” earlier than shrieking a number of occasions and falling silent. Officers who approached the automotive could be heard saying, “She’s obtained a gun in her hand!” and “She’s obtained her finger on the set off!” earlier than noting that she didn't seem like acutely aware.

After the chase, Casey White was extradited again to Lauderdale County to face his present homicide prices, whereas Vicki White was taken to a hospital the place she later died. The Vanderburgh County, Indiana coroner’s workplace dominated her demise a suicide on Thursday.

Vicki was a 25-year-employee of the Lauderdale County corrections division who had a spotless file till she engineered White’s escape on April 29. Coworkers had been shocked to study she had carried on a years-long relationship with the inmate and snuck him out below the guise of a faux psychological well being analysis.

Requested if she had a message for Vicki’s grieving household, Casey’s mom instructed The Every day Mail, ‘I might simply say I am very sorry about it and from all that I've heard from Casey and from everybody she was an excellent individual.”

She added, “I simply hate it with all my coronary heart that it occurred.”

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