Casey White, Vicky White possibly linked to truck found at Evansville, Indiana car wash: US Marshals

Casey White is in custody and Vicky White is in a hospital with a self-inflicted gunshot wound suffered during a police chase Monday afternoon in Evansville, Indiana, according to U.S. Marshal Marty Keely.

That’s about 219 miles from where the ordeal began on April 29 when the 56-year-old former Lauderdale County jailer calmly led the 38-year-old shackled capital murder suspect to freedom.

The couple was involved in a police chase with U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force in Evansville, Indiana nearly 11 days after they fled.

Here is full coverage of the search for Vicky White and Casey White

Lauderdale County Sheriff Rick Singleton said Casey White and Vicky White were in a black Ford F150, with Casey White behind the wheel.

However, Vanderburgh County, Sheriff Dave Wedding, at a press conference in Indiana, said the chase involved a Cadillac driven by Vicky White.

During the pursuit, Casey White wrecked and that is when Vicky White suffered a self-inflicted gunshot wound, said Keely, whose Gulf Coast Regional Fugitive Task Force spearheaded the hunt for the pair.

Casey White surrendered, and Vicky White was taken to an Indiana hospital.

The severity of her injuries wasn’t immediately available, Keely said. Wedding said she was seriously injured but he was not sure where the wound was.

The pursuit started after a tip was sent to law enforcement. The pair was found at an Indiana hotel and once the U.S. Marshals were spotted, the chase was on.

“This has ended a very stressful and challenging week and a half,’’ Singleton said. “It ended the way that we knew it would – they are in custody.”

“What I’m very thankful for tonight is that no one was hurt, no citizens were hurt, no law enforcement officers were hurt, as a result of this escape,’’ the sheriff said.

“Casey White is now back in custody, and I cannot express enough to the U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force for the assistance,’’ he said. “Their agents were actually the ones involved in the pursuit.”

“We got a dangerous man off the street today,’’ Singleton said. “He is never going to see the light of day again and that’s a good thing, not just for our community but that’s a good thing for this country.”

He said the pair will be returned to Alabama. When depends on if they waive extradition.

Casey White is now charged with escape, and Vicky White is charged with permitting/aiding an escape, identity theft and second-degree forgery.

Singleton said they’ve already made arrangements for Casey White to be returned immediately to the Alabama Department of Corrections after he is arraigned in Lauderdale County.

Vicky White, he said, will not be held in Lauderdale County. The sheriff has already made arrangement for her to be held at another jail, though he did not say which.

Those arrangements, he said, were made days ago.

Asked what he was say to Vicky White, Singleton said, “I hope she survives this. I don’t know the extent of her injuries, but I hope she survives it. We don’t wish any ill will on Vicky in terms of her health or her well- being, but she has some answers to give us. Hopefully we’ll have the opportunity to get those answers.”

Singleton said he doesn’t yet know what weapons, if any, were found in the vehicle.

The sheriff said he was committed to getting them off the streets.

“I was committed to every resource we had available to us, to use those resources to make this happen,’’ he said. “I’ve always expected this outcome. I knew we would catch them. It was just a matter of time.”

“What was so challenging about this escape was most escapes from a county jail, they’re not planned, they’re just sort of spontaneous,’’ Singleton said. “They are no resources available, no plan in place about ‘What am I going to do when I get out of here other than just run.”

“This escape was obviously well-planned and calculated,’’ he said. “A lot of preparation went into this. They had plenty of resources, had tags, had vehicles. They had everything they needed to pull this off.”

“We were starting from Ground Zero and not only that, they got a six-hour head start on us,’’ he said. “This just speaks volumes to effectiveness and efficiency of the U.S. Marshals service. This is what they do.”

“They track down fugitives,’’ he said, ‘’and obviously they do it well.”

Singleton said there is no evidence that the pair had help during their time on the run.

“The lesson I’ve learned, and I think everybody has learned, it you don’t know who you can trust,’’ he said. “I had every bit of trust in Vicky White. She has been an exemplary employee and what in the world provoked or prompted her to pull a stunt like this, I don’t know. I don’t know if we’ll ever know.”

“You just don’t know people sometimes. You think you do, and you really don’t know who they are,’’ the sheriff said.

Singleton said this September will mark the 50th anniversary of him being in law enforcement.

“I’ve never experienced a week like this in my career,’’ he said.

The nationwide manhunt began on the day Vicky White was set to retire day after an exemplary 17 years at the jail.

As co-workers who viewed Vicky White “as a mother figure” awaited her retirement party, she instructed another officer to prepare Casey Cole White for transport, explaining no one else was available to take him.

She explained to a colleague she would take him to the nearby courthouse for a mental health evaluation.

It was later learned no such evaluation was ever scheduled.

The 56-year-old divorcee who has no children and lived with her parents after selling her home and four acres of land months ago for only $95,000, explained she wasn’t feeling well and would go to the doctor afterwards.

There was no medical appointment.

Vicky White led Casey White, who was shackled, to her patrol car and in less than two minutes, the two were gone.

They left the jail on Seminary Street near downtown Florence at 9:41 a.m., allegedly heading to the courthouse, which is about half a mile away on Court Street.

Vicky White and Casey Cole White drove directly from the jail to Florence Square shopping center at Huntsville Road and Cox Creek Parkway.

Surveillance video shows White’s vehicle at the intersection of Cox Creek Parkway and Huntsville Road shortly at 9:49 a.m. Friday, about eight minutes after the two left the jail.

The patrol vehicle was left in the parking lot and Vicky White and Casey White left the scene in a different vehicle — a 2007 rust-colored Ford Edge with an unknown license plate and minor damage to the rear left bumper.

Williamson County, Tenn. sheriff’s officials said the vehicle was reported abandoned on Friday, April 29, the day the two made their getaway.

Sheriff’s officials in Tennessee also said there were no tags on the vehicle and it was locked.

It was taken to an impound lot and went unnoticed as the vehicle linked to the two until Thursday night.

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